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By Brett Baker
06/09/15
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As I sat and spoke to an old friend about God one evening, my thoughts drifted to a grievous sin I once committed. While it is true I had asked to be forgiven for this act countless times, I believe it had become a stumbling block of sorts. I just wouldn´t allow myself to move forward. I´m not saying more of God´s Word wasn´t being revealed to me, or that the tenets of man-made religion were not being stripped from me either. I am saying, there was something holding me back.

While we talked, I was thinking about how I really wanted to be forgiven for what I had done. Suddenly, my stomach felt like I ate something extremely bitter, much like some bitter almonds I ate days before, but this was rapidly getting worse. Much to my amazement, I saw and felt myself being sucked into a tunnel, although it was more like being pulled back in a slingshot and then let go. Suddenly I was somewhere else and I no longer had that bitter feeling in my stomach. I looked to my left and I thought, ¨That´s an angel.¨ He was a couple of feet taller than me and he was quite bright. I immediately looked forward and the exact words which came out of my mouth were, ¨Whoa, you´re Yeshua!¨

Instantly, I was on my knees and I was overwhelmed with the horrible feeling of my sins. The weight forced my face to the ground. I tried to push myself up, but it was too much for me. I struggled for some time, then I looked at the angel and I said, ¨Kill me, I´m not worthy to be in His presence.¨

The angel just stood there looking at me, but Yeshua said, ¨Brett, get up.¨ I stood and I was looking at Yeshua´s smiling face. I no longer had that horrible weight of my sins pulling me down. Light was emanating from Yeshua. His light appeared and felt like purity and it went right through me. The look on His face, Yeshua´s eyes and His smile, it was the most genuine, honest, caring and sincere look I have ever seen; more so than the look of a new mother´s face as she looks upon her baby for the first time after giving birth.

Yeshua said three more words to me, ¨I forgive you.¨ In that instant, for the first time in more than 50 years, I actually understood what the word love meant. I was raised in an unbroken home and I was told I was loved more times than I can count, but only now do I get it.

Then He reached out His hands as if to give me a push, but without touching me or saying anything more I was thrown back to where I was sitting a couple of feet from my friend. I was dumbfounded. My friend was looking at me in a curious manner, but I said nothing.

For days my thoughts were consumed with what I saw or what I thought I saw. How do you say to someone, ¨Hey, I just saw and spoke to Yeshua?¨ I was wondering if I was nuts or something, so I prayed and asked for some help in this matter. I didn´t want to get it wrong and I didn´t want to tell my old friend, or anyone else that I saw and spoke to Yeshua if I was delusional. I came to realize I was not. The stumbling block which I referred to is no longer present and I have a much greater understanding of Yeshua than I had before. The only way I am able to understand words like forgiveness and love, is because of Yeshua.

I state with absolute certainty, the best thing I ever did was to ask Yeshua to forgive me for my sins and to be my Lord and Savior because He is the Son of the Living God who died for our sins. He is the King of kings, the Lord of lords and He was resurrected by God Almighty where He now sits at His right hand. Praise God, for Yeshua lives!

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