An old woman of 90 from Valdres in Norway had a vision
from God in 1968. The evangelist Emanuel Minos had meetings
(services) where she lived. He had the opportunity to meet
her, and she told him what she had seen. He wrote it down,
but thought it to be so unbelievable that he put it in a
drawer. After 30 years, he understood he had to share the
vision with others.
The woman from Valdres was a very alert, reliable, awake and
credible Christian, with a good reputation among all who
knew her. This is what she saw:
"I saw the time just before the coming of Jesus and the
outbreak of the Third World War. I saw the events with my
natural eyes. I saw the world like a kind of a globe and saw
Europe, land by land. I saw Scandinavia. I saw Norway. I saw
certain things that would take place just before the return
of Jesus, and just before the last calamity happens, a
calamity the likes of which we have never before
experienced.
She mentioned four waves:
1. "First before Jesus comes and before the Third World War
breaks out there will be a 'détente' like we have
never had before. There will be peace between the super
powers in the east and the west, and there will be a long
peace. [Remember, that this was in 1968 when the cold war
was at its highest. -E. Minos]. In this period of peace
there will be disarmament in many countries, also in Norway
and we are not prepared when it (the war) comes. The Third
World War will begin in a way no one would have anticipated
- and from an unexpected place.
2. "A lukewarmness without parallel will take hold of the
Christians, a falling away from true, living Christianity.
Christians will not be open for penetrating preaching. They
will not, like in earlier times, want to hear of sin and
grace, law and gospel, repentance and restoration. There
will come a substitute instead: prosperity (happiness)
Christianity.
"The important thing will be to have success, to be
something; to have material things, things that God never
promised us in this way. Churches and prayer houses will be
emptier and emptier. Instead of the preaching we have been
used to for generations -like, to take your cross up and
follow Jesus, - entertainment, art and culture will invade
the churches where there should have been gatherings for
repentance and revival. This will increase markedly just
before the return of Jesus.
3. "There will be a moral disintegration that old Norway has
never experienced the likes of. People will live together
like married without being married. [I do not believe the
concept 'co-habitor' existed in 1968 - E. Minos.] Much
uncleanness before marriage, and much infidelity in marriage
will become the natural (the common), and it will be
justified from every angle. It will even enter Christian
circles and we pet it - even sin against nature. Just before
Jesus returns there will be TV- programs like we have never
experienced. [TV had just arrived in Norway in 1968. -E.
Minos]
"TV will be filled with such horrible violence that it
teaches people to murder and destroy each other, and it will
be unsafe in our streets. People will copy what they see.
There will not be only one 'station' on TV, it will be
filled with 'stations.' [She did not know the word 'channel'
which we use today. Therefore she called them stations. -E.
Minos.] TV will be just like the radio where we have many
'stations,' and it will be filled with violence. People will
use it for entertainment. We will see terrible scenes of
murder and destruction one of the other, and this will
spread in society. Sex scenes will also be shown on the
screen, the most intimate things that take place in a
marriage." I prote[sted and said, we have a paragraph that
forbids this kind of thing. -E. Minos.] There the old woman
said: "It will happen, and you will see it. All we have had
before will be broken down, and the most indecent things
will pass before our eyes."
4. "People from poor countries will stream to Europe. [In
1968 there was no such thing as immigration. -E. Minos.]
They will also come to Scandinavia - and Norway. There will
be so many of them that people will begin to dislike them
and become hard with them. They will be treated like the
Jews before the Second World War. Then the full measure of
our sins will have been reached [I protested at the issue of
immigration. I did not understand it at the time. -E.
Minos.]
The tears streamed from the old woman's eyes down her
cheeks. "I will not see it, but you will. Then suddenly,
Jesus will come and the Third World War breaks out. It will
be a short war." (She saw it in the vision.)
"All that I have seen of war before is only child's play
compared to this one, and it will be ended with a nuclear
atom bomb. The air will be so polluted that one cannot draw
one's breath. It will cover several continents, America,
Japan, Australia and the wealthy nations. The water will be
ruined (contaminated?). We can no longer till the soil. The
result will be that only a remnant will remain. The remnant
in the wealthy countries will try to flee to the poor
countries, but they will be as hard on us as we were on
them.
"I am so glad that I will not see it, but when the time
draws near, you must take courage and tell this. I have
received it from God, and nothing of it goes against what
the Bible tells.
"The one who has his sin forgiven and has Jesus as Savior
and Lord, is safe."
WHEN the OIL FLOWS
An elder in the Pentecostal Church at Moss, Norway, Martin
Andersen, heard the following prophecy in 1937, in Moss:
'When oil comes out of the North Sea and along the Norwegian
coast, things will begin to happen, and the return of Jesus
is approaching.'
When these words had been proclaimed, people stood up in the
congregation and asked the man to sit down and not speak
such nonsense. In 1937 it was indeed nonsense to talk about
oil being pumped along the Norwegian coast. Today all the
world's big oil companies are pumping oil along the coast of
Norway. Norway is the world's third greatest exporter of oil
- after Saudi Arabia.
Original source editor's note:
Because of my fear of transmitting false prophecy, I have
diligently inquired concerning the information in this
letter. Publication has been delayed until permission could
be secured from Ragna [Von Porat] in Israel. In my contact
with her, she has assured me that these accounts are true
and reliable. In fact, she relates that the first account
has already been published in one of Norway's Christian
newspapers.
I have found in my own research that the first account was
also published by the Christian Information Service in
Germany. The website of Dr. Emanuel Minos is active today
and can be accessed for verification. Although the language
on this site is Norwegian, the very similar story of the
woman and her vision is posted there in English. The above
accounts are transmitted just as they were received.
Ragna took it upon herself to verify as much of the above
information as she could... Ragna states, "I certainly have
no objection to your going ahead [with publishing]. It must
be now-if ever."