Encounter with Joel and Ruth Part 2
This encounter happened on Thursday, March 2, 2023 in my time with the Father.
…As my encounter with Joel was wrapping up…
I asked him a final question.
“Joel, there’s a woman next to you. Can you tell me her name?”
Her name is Ruth.
I checked with Father who was beside me.
Abba nodded and I understood, Yes, that’s Ruth.
She spoke to me, Hi Andrea.
Note: Before I continue, I need to say this is not ‘conjuring up the dead’ as some might be tempted to think. Please know that Father God always introduces me. I am not summoning the dead to come down to earth in order to ask them questions. That’s not what is happening here. Father God always takes me up to heaven and introduces me to them there. Each one that he introduces me to always has a specific prophetic message that The Lord wants all of his people to hear. I am only being obedient to relay the messages (don’t shoot the messenger. lol).
For further clarification, let’s review a couple of verses from the Bible for anyone not familiar with heavenly encounters, the third heaven or open heaven visions. And remember, the enemy always has a counterfeit to the truth. In other words, the enemy would love to get you to think that being taken up to the third heaven is the same thing as his own twisted version of trying to do the same thing (called necromancing). Remember, we have Biblical accounts of many being taken to heaven while still alive: Jacob (Jacobs ladder), Enoch, Yeshua, The Apostle Paul, John The Revelator just to name a few.
Let’s review a couple of verses from the Bible.
Joint heirs
Rom 8:17NLT And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory.
Caught up to the third heaven
2 Corinth 12:2NLT I was caught up to the third heaven fourteen years ago. Whether I was in my body or out of my body, I don’t know—only God knows.
Caught up in the spirit
Rev 4:1-3 1Then as I looked, I saw a door standing open in heaven, and the same voice I had heard before spoke to me like a trumpet blast. The voice said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after this.” 2And instantly I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne in heaven and someone sitting on it. 3The one sitting on the throne was as brilliant as gemstones—like jasper and carnelian. And the glow of an emerald circled his throne like a rainbow.
Seated in heavenly places
Eph 2:6 For he raised us from the dead along with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ Jesus.
Think about it: If spiritually speaking Yeshua is seated next to the Father in the heavenly realms, then we too who are in Christ Jesus are seated with him - spiritually. In other words, our spirit man is seated with Messiah Yeshua in the spiritual realms. This is why death cannot hold us down, we are already seated spiritually speaking in Heaven because we are joined to Yeshua! Hallelujah!
Jacobs Ladder
Genesis 28. Jacob found a stone to rest his head against and lay down to sleep. 12As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway.
13At the top of the stairway stood the Lord, and he said, “I am the Lord, the God of your grandfather Abraham, and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you…..16Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I wasn’t even aware of it!” 17But he was also afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! It is none other than the house of God, the very gateway to heaven!”
Great cloud of whitenesses
Hebrews 12:1 1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.
We can enter his heavenly courts
Psalm 100:4. 4Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and praise his name.
Think about it. Where are His Courts? It’s not talking about an earthly Court with an earthly Judge. It’s talking about a Heavenly Court and a Heavenly Judge. His courts are in the heavenly realms and we can go there!
On another side note: Often my encounters in heaven are not exactly audible. Some are some aren’t. Sometimes, it’s more like an understanding. It’s more like a listening and communicating with your spirit. It’s a hearing & an understanding with your “knower.” When I’m having the encounter, I am usually sitting comfortably in my prayer chair and recording what I hear and see and perceive by speaking into a voice recorder. So I am usually speaking. And when I hear from heaven, I repeat what I hear into the recorder. So, for the sake of clarity in this post, the communications of those who are in the Great Cloud of Witnesses will be marked by italics.
Last note: Father told me (after my first ascension to heaven in 2020 when he introduced me to The Council of The Lord) that each person I meet also represents a prophetic season that we will experience here on earth. And that I am to tell anyone who will hear it, the messages that I receive.
continuing on…
Ruth spoke to me, Hi Andrea.
“Hi Ruth,” I replied.
Does your season flow from 2023 and into 2024?
Yes
May I ask, what is your message?
My message is to bring hope & life back to the people. Many have felt so alone.
They have lost everything even their loved ones.
Many have faced tremendous devastation over the past few years.
If they follow God, as I did, they will find their kinsmen redeemer!
“Wow. That’s very special,” I said.
Yes! Their kinsman redeemer will bring them Abundant Life.
Their true kinsman redeemer is Yeshua!
There will be abundance for them.
Abundance of life.
Abundance in family.
Seeds.
Seeds sprouting of increase.
More. More. More. More life for them.
Tell them…
Even if it’s not ‘blood family,’ The Lord will bless you with HIS family.
He will place key people in your life that will assist to bring restoration.
Do not be afraid. Take it from me.
Do not be afraid to follow hard after him.
Keep following hard after God!
He will restore, renew, rejuvenate and bring new birth.
Just like He did for me.
He will bring new birth to things you can not even imagine!
And you will have such joy!
Joy in him.
Joy in your life.
He will bring you much happiness.
I had to leave my old life behind.
I had to leave my previous beliefs behind.
But when I gave my heart to The Lord,
I received so much more than I could ever imagine.
Tell them!
Tell God’s people…
You have to give your heart to Messiah Yeshua
in order to receive the benefits of the kinsmen redeemer and
the provision that he has for you!
My Boaz loved me. He loved me so much.
And just like that but even more…Yeshua is the true kinsman redeemer.
And he loves me! He loves me so much more than I could ever imagine!
Tell them all!
Yeshua loves you!!
He loves you so much!!
And he has so much more for you!!!
“Hallelujah! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I will!” I told her.
Ruth was lovely.
We chatted a bit more. Then it was time to leave and Father brought me back.
Thank you for letting me share this message with you. As we head into the weekend to celebrate Shavuot and Pentecost, I am so excited to meditate on these new seasons and messages of hope, restoration and renewal.
There are several themes embedded into Shavuot/Pentecost. Pentecost means 50th or 50 days or 7 weeks (49 days) since the resurrection of Messiah. Shavuot means litterally “weeks” in Hebrew. Yeshua was the ‘first fruits’ of the resurrected man. And so now this holiday of Shavuot is also about the harvest of the first fruits!
How amazing it is that he has introduced me to Joel and Ruth at this time and in this season leading into our Jewish holiday of Shavuot! Some may or may not know this, but the book of Ruth is traditionally read in synagogues during Shavuot. Shavuot is also known as the ‘Feast of Weeks’ and it is the celebration of the giving of the Torah. Did you know that the celebration of Shavuot happened in the same timing of the Upper Room of Pentecost?
Yes!
So, when all of Israel was celebrating the giving of the Torah that year, the disciples and brand new ecclesia were receiving the promised Holy Spirit in the Upper Room at Jerusalem (Acts 1:1-8, 2:1-4)! Pentecost/Shavuot both continue to empower us, his ecclesia, for the Great Commission!
So basically on the 50th day after the Resurrection of Messiah Yeshua, during the time of celebrating the giving of the Torah there was also the giving of the Ruach HaKodesh (The Holy Spirit)! So we now have the letter of the law and the Spirit of the Law available to us and written in our hearts! How exciting!
These are the things that only The Lord can do. What perfect timing he has!
And by his spirit, he is restoring all that was lost.
Next week, I will expound a bit more on what I have gleaned from Joel and Ruth.
Until then, God Bless.
Love + Light in Yeshua,
AndreaZ
P.S.
In case you missed it, here are the links to the last two week’s of Prophetic Art Friday’s