Below is an alleged prophecy made in the 1968 by an old woman in Norway. It concerns in particular Christianity and Scandinavia, as she was from Norway, but there is also comments about Europe and the world. Today most of it has happened, except the coming of Jesus as she framed it and a catastrophic war. While that may raise curiosity, what she then said about the future which is now our past allows for reflection on the development that society has been through and how the values of society have changed. At the end there is this:
The prophecy was first published in 2001, but the book is no longer available. After these excerpts there are comments about the source and references.
About the origin:
Emanuel Minos was a Norwegian theologian who worked with the Pentacostal movement. Once after a sermon in a rural district in the 1960'ies he was approached by an old woman who wanted to tell him about her vision and asked him to write it down and share it at his meetings. He did write it down but apparently not the name of the woman. What she said was too far out in his opinio,n and he decided never to publish it, but many years later, in 1993, the slip of paper dropped out of the piles, as he was looking for something else and he read the old notes again, now with much more appreciation, as many of the developments the woman had described, had happened in the meantime. Emanuel Minos passed away in 2014, but had before then shared the notes from the meeting both in his talks and in one of his books, Fra Reykjavik til Jerusalem from 2001. In Norwegian there are Youtubes from a church, and in an audio part 1, (introduction) part 2 (what the old lady said) with talks where he mentions the meeting with the old lady and what she had to say. Later people have tried to find out who it was and a journalist, Hilde Lundgaard at the well known Norwegian paper, Aftonbladet, did some research and the name was Gunhild Smelhus from Etnedal in Valdres in Norway, who died at the age of 98 in 1973. For the article that was published on February 28, they interviewed a grandson of the lady, Alf Smelhus, who said the lady never talked about her vision in the family, they interviewed the priest at the parish she lived in, and in addition a professor of theology in Osla besides a pastor in Oslo. From the family they found a picture of the old woman with a grandson:
The above details of the article in the Norwegian newspaper were found here, as I had no access to the original news paper article. Emanuel Minos believe the validity of prophecies should be tested but prophets should also be respected. Emanuel Minos is a preacher, and close to fundamentalism at least when it came to the Bible. I have listened to different retellings of Minos of this encounter with the old woman and he also explains his reaction to what she said as well as how she said it in terms of voice and how she used gestures to explain the many TV Stations. Minos explains in this video in Norwegian from 2001 that we acquire knowledge in fragments and that we prophesize in fragments, but that this does not prevent us from using prophecy as a map to make us aware of where we are.
Which may explain why this prophecy received media attention during the peak of the European refugee flow of 2015-2016. Actually, in the event of a new Ice Age rebound, people in Northern countries would be among the first to need a new home.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.
The prophecy was first published in 2001, but the book is no longer available. After these excerpts there are comments about the source and references.
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 unintelligible that he put it in a drawer. Now, almost 50 years later, he understands he has 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' return 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 takes place in a marriage." (I protested and said, "We have a paragraph that forbids this kind of thing." —E. Minos.) 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.
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About the origin:
Emanuel Minos was a Norwegian theologian who worked with the Pentacostal movement. Once after a sermon in a rural district in the 1960'ies he was approached by an old woman who wanted to tell him about her vision and asked him to write it down and share it at his meetings. He did write it down but apparently not the name of the woman. What she said was too far out in his opinio,n and he decided never to publish it, but many years later, in 1993, the slip of paper dropped out of the piles, as he was looking for something else and he read the old notes again, now with much more appreciation, as many of the developments the woman had described, had happened in the meantime. Emanuel Minos passed away in 2014, but had before then shared the notes from the meeting both in his talks and in one of his books, Fra Reykjavik til Jerusalem from 2001. In Norwegian there are Youtubes from a church, and in an audio part 1, (introduction) part 2 (what the old lady said) with talks where he mentions the meeting with the old lady and what she had to say. Later people have tried to find out who it was and a journalist, Hilde Lundgaard at the well known Norwegian paper, Aftonbladet, did some research and the name was Gunhild Smelhus from Etnedal in Valdres in Norway, who died at the age of 98 in 1973. For the article that was published on February 28, they interviewed a grandson of the lady, Alf Smelhus, who said the lady never talked about her vision in the family, they interviewed the priest at the parish she lived in, and in addition a professor of theology in Osla besides a pastor in Oslo. From the family they found a picture of the old woman with a grandson:
The above details of the article in the Norwegian newspaper were found here, as I had no access to the original news paper article. Emanuel Minos believe the validity of prophecies should be tested but prophets should also be respected. Emanuel Minos is a preacher, and close to fundamentalism at least when it came to the Bible. I have listened to different retellings of Minos of this encounter with the old woman and he also explains his reaction to what she said as well as how she said it in terms of voice and how she used gestures to explain the many TV Stations. Minos explains in this video in Norwegian from 2001 that we acquire knowledge in fragments and that we prophesize in fragments, but that this does not prevent us from using prophecy as a map to make us aware of where we are.