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LITTLE ELLEN: The Girl Who Saw Heaven
4-SEEING
HEAVEN WITH JESUS When
she was 17 years old, she was praying with a group of young ladies in a prayer
meeting in a home. All at once she was given a vision by God. A vision is
something like a dream but the person is not asleep. There
are some wonderful things about real visions from God. The person having the
vision can see what God wants to show them, but the people who are there cannot
see it but they always know that something wonderful is happening. The
person having a real vision from God, does not breath the whole time they are
having the vision. Yes, you read right- they don’t breathe! And yet they may
talk and walk around but no breath is there. This is one of God’s signs that
the vision is from Him. Sometimes the vision takes many hours. You know that if
you stop breathing for even a few minutes you will die. Ellen had visions
lasting four hours or more, and one man, William Foy, had one in a church and it
lasted 12 hours! And yet the person is alive and his heart beats but he
doesn’t breathe! The
person having a vision doesn’t know what is going on around them, they seem to
be going places and seeing things somewhere else as God shows it to them.
We’ll learn more about real prophets and visions and some of Ellen’s visions
that she wrote down for us in the weeks to come. In
this first vision, Ellen saw the people of God going to heaven. As Ellen grew
older, she had many visions. Jesus
talked to her many times. He showed her many things. In one vision Jesus showed
her the new earth. She saw many shining angels. She saw harps of gold and
beautiful crowns. Some of the crowns had many stars. Others had only a few. All
the crowns were shining brightly. Jesus opened a beautiful gate. It was one of
the gates to the New Jerusalem. Inside, Ellen saw the throne of God. She saw the
river of life. By
the river stood the tree of life. It had many branches. These branches were full
of fruit. -There were twelve kinds of fruit on this tree. The fruit looked like
gold and silver. Ellen sat down under the tree. She touched one of the golden
harps. How wonderful! Outside
the city she saw a field with many kinds of flowers. -She picked some of them.
She said: "These flowers will never die." There were roses and lilies.
There were many other kinds of flowers in the field. The tall trees and the green grass made the new earth beautiful. The lion and the lamb walked side by side. All the animals were tame and peaceful. Jesus
said to Ellen: "In a little while you shall live here if you are
faithful." Many other people will live here, too. They will eat of the tree
of life. They will drink of the river of life. They will live with Jesus
forever. After
this vision everything seemed changed to Ellen. This earth no longer seemed
beautiful. In fact she felt it was
very dark here. She felt homesick for heaven.
She tried to tell others of the things she had seen. Then she said:
"Heaven is far more beautiful than words can tell. Soon we shall enjoy its
glories and be with Jesus." Think
about it boys and girls- if we really give our hearts to dear Jesus, that will
someday be our home! |
