Posted on 07/16/2005 6:08:35 PM PDT by Quix
THE MOST STARTLING DEVELOPMENT IN WORLD HISTORY
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
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Writer's note: You may have more trouble with this column than with anything you have ever read. I can't say I blame you. It took me a lot of research time before I fully accepted the now-well-attested fact that God has been bringing hundreds of people back from the dead in recent years.
By Jim Rutz
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© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
As I was leaving New Delhi in 2003, I called an Indian friend, Rodrick Gilbert, who leads a network of house churches with 26,000 former Hindus.
"Rod," I said, "I have a little credibility problem in the United States when I teach people about resurrections. Could you send somebody over to my hotel who has come back from the dead? I'd like to take a few snapshots."
Rod graciously brought someone over himself – 7-year-old Arjun Janki Dass, along with his mother Mina, and Savitri, the lady who prayed him back to life.
Arjun died at age 5. The gist of his story:
At six o'clock on an April evening in 2001, Arjun was accidentally electrocuted by 220-volt wires touching his head.
His parents took him to a medical clinic where they worked on his body for two hours without success. They tried CPR, electroshock paddles, adrenaline shots – all the usual. But they couldn't get him off flatline. So the doctor charged them 5,000 rupees (about $110) and told them to call an undertaker.
But they didn't. Instead they called Rod at the nearby Deliverance Church. He then called upon Savitri, one of his staff members.
Savitri brought two other Christians to Arjun's home, and the five of them began praying over the dead body about 10:00 p.m. They prayed their hearts out for six hours with pleading and tears. Then, at 4:00 a.m. the next morning, Arjun snapped back to life with no brain damage, no physical problems.
Today, he's a normal 9-year-old kid except for two nasty scar lines behind his left ear where the wire hit.
Savitri is a 62-year-old widow, a Dalit (formerly called "untouchable") from the lowly Dom class. She spent her life as a street sweeper, which made her, in the caste system, the lowest of the low. The broom was her livelihood. In 1992, she turned from Hinduism to Christ. She remains today a fine, humble lady, and among the more serious people I have ever met.
As she and the others were leaving, I asked her through an interpreter: "I understand you've been active in ministry for six years. In that time, how many resurrections have you been involved with?"
She answered quietly: "Sixteen."
My neatly-ordered, conventional world began to spin.
I would give you Savitri's e-mail address so you could check her out for yourself, but she doesn't have one. She can't read.
You can view a few photos at Megashift.com. (After the intro, click on "About Megashift," then on "Resurrections.")
This is the new reality
The most shocking aspect of the growing turn of the world toward Christ is this: People are coming back from death after being prayed for by ordinary folks like you and me. To be specific, my newest book, "MEGASHIFT: Igniting Spiritual Power," documents resurrections in 52 countries, mostly in the last 15 to 20 years. And these are not the well-known, "near-death" experiences where someone on an operating-room table passes out and goes down a long tunnel toward a light. These are stone-dead corpses.
The flood of solid new evidence is compelling. Two or three reports could be dismissed as faulty rumors or candidates for "Unsolved Mysteries." But hundreds of firsthand reports from 52 nations? Some with death certificates? No way. (Yet a few of the miracles in "Megashift" are even harder to believe than a resurrection!)
Here is what it all means: The lockdown of the common man has come to an abrupt end. Many of the limitations your ancestors endured for centuries are now fading into the bleak and brutal past. The resurrections are only the most obvious evidence of a megashift in the functioning of eager-hearted believers whom the book of Revelation calls "overcomers."
The recent changes in the quality of human life are profound. God is pouring His grace and power into people in ways not seen before. I don't expect that most Christians will be doing miracles on a daily basis, but a radically new Christian lifestyle now spreading around the globe will soon dramatically enable you to upgrade your own way of living.
We'll touch on that next Tuesday.
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James Rutz is chairman of Megashift Ministries and founder-chairman of Open Church Ministries. His recent book, "MEGASHIFT: Igniting Spiritual Power," announces major upgrades in human life and a coming transformation of society.
Blessings and may it increase your Faith in God's Love and Power.
I have often wondered how I got to be as old as I am. Or why. If I am supposed to be doing something it is still not clear what.
Am prayerfully pondering and sorting that issue out
AGAIN
at 58.
We shall see.
May all who Love God authentically earnestly endeavor to be about The Master's business.
PING
and to 2nd article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1444505/posts?page=2
Not really. I calmly read a bit, made a decision and calmly went on to more important things. Time to take the dog out.
Moonbat fruitcakes are entertaining. Love those cute inspirational stories they stay awake making up. And every one of them is true!
The variety of nutcases is truly breath-taking!
AHHHHHH,
So many words . . . without checking the facts out hardly at all.
Must be a sign of true wisdom.
--in some eyes.
I could have resisted pinging you to loved ones . . .
but I chose not to. Heh heh.
I could have resisted pinging you TWO as in 2! loved ones . . .
but I chose not to. Heh heh.
PING
ALSO TO 2ND ARTICLE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1444505/posts?page=2
Now, Quix...
I guess I'm like ol' Thomas on this one. Thanks for quoting this article in full, though. This is the one point that jumped out at me:
"SPECIAL OFFER! "MEGASHIFT: Igniting Spiritual Power," documents resurrections in 52 countries and is available today for a 25 percent discount."
I thought I cut all such invitations out. Sorry I missed that one.
I personally believe:
FREELY YOU HAVE RECEIVED, FREELY GIVE.
However, The Word also says:
A WORKMAN IS WORTHY HIS HIRE.
Certainly some overemphasize it and that stinks, imho.
That's one reason I no longer subscribe to the ELIJAH LIST.
The list owner rebuts that he supports many unwed mother/single mother families by doing so. Sigh.
Besides, folks are happy to spend more on an evening's dinner for 2--which will only end up in the sewer.
At least these researched stories have the potential of resulting in Eternal Life for those who read about them.
PING
And to 2nd article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1444505/posts?page=2
PING
And to 2nd article at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1444505/posts?page=2
PING
AND to 2nd article at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1444505/posts?page=2
I think it might be more appropriate to refer to these events either as healings or return of bodily life.
The Ressurrected body as referenced in Scripture regarding the Second Adam and His ressurrection, indicates that body will have some other aspects beyond our present bodies, such as being able to walk through walls, displace between remote physical points immediately, yet they remain physical. Jesus Christ after ressurection also asked a person for a little piece of meat for nourishment, so it wasn't an apparition, as also manifest in Thomas placing his hands on his wounds.
These reports don;t seem to be of ressurrected bodies, but of the soul being returned to the body within a 24 hour period.
An interesting and plausible distinction.
However, wasn't Lazarus considered to have had a kind of
. . . well . . . resurrection?
Thanks for your thoughtful post.
PING
TO, what is, to me, an exciting doc about present day 'resurrections' 'raisings-from-the-dead' --many hours or even a day or so after death.
Also to 2nd article at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1444505/posts?page=2
BTW, This is not to a ping list--though I'm trying to compile a new one on END TIMES; DREAMS, VISIONS . . . this is to folks I've gleaned from various posts of earlier threads of mine--whom I've guessed might be interested. Lost my old one in a crash before my MidWest trip. 3 different Hard Drives with full backups have not been recovered yet.
If you want OFF such a ping list, please let me know and I won't add you! Or, if you read this and want on, please let me know that, too.
Blessings,
PING
TO, what is, to me, an exciting doc about present day 'resurrections' 'raisings-from-the-dead' --many hours or even a day or so after death.
Also to 2nd article at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1444505/posts?page=2
BTW, This is from a backup ping list--though I'm trying to compile a new one on END TIMES; DREAMS, VISIONS . . . Lost my old one in a crash before my MidWest trip. 3 different Hard Drives with full backups have not been recovered yet.
If you want OFF such a ping list, please let me know and I won't add you! Or, if you read this and want on, please let me know that, too.
Blessings,
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