Posted on 05/13/2017 8:56:58 PM PDT by boycott
Most of us know the story of the 21 Coptic Christians from Egypt who held fast to their faith and were beheaded by ISIS in February, 2015. But did you know that only 20 of them were actually Copts from Egypt? Did you know that one of the martyrs was from Chad, and he had not been a Christian prior to the day of his beheading?
This story was previously reported. But I had not heard it before this week, when I attended the World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians hosted by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. A Coptic leader shared this remarkable story. It’s yet another tribute to the faith of these martyred Copts.
“Their God is My God”
All 21 men had been working in Libya when they were kidnapped by ISIS. But as can be seen in pictures where they are lined up on the beach to be killed, one of them had darker skin and different facial features. This was the man from Chad.
The Coptic Christians were given a choice to deny Jesus or die. They refused to deny Him, knowing it would cost them their heads.
When the terrorists ordered the man from Chad to deny Jesus or die, he answered, “Their God is my God,” thereby sealing his fate.
That’s how moved he was by the faith of these Christians. Their refusal to deny their Savior, even at the point of death — literally, at the point of a knife to their throats — moved him to make a profession of faith, one that would cost him his head as well. Can we grasp the intensity of this story?
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A heroic martyr ( as they ALL were )and his blood cries out unto God’s Holy Altar for Divine vengeance/justice/retribution!
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But hey, some goofball professor says the NRA is MUCH more dangerous than ISIS.
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”
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A sabbatine/Saturday-worshipping church group with 12 million members prophesies a peculiar end-times/eschatology: Little Pope Francis will engage in ecumenism with the head of the Lutheran World Federation and the Patriarch of Moscow, initiate a Diocletian-level persecution of the Saturday worshippers, and use decapitation as the means of execution—cutting off all their heads. In reality, an official Sabbatine group website acknowledges at total of 12 martyrs for their confession’s approximately 150 history. With an estimated 90,000 Christian martyrs in 2016, the peculiar Sabbatine end-times dystopia is seriously off the mark: The anti-Christians of the European Union are against anyone who worships God at all—that is, anyone who stands up for their faith.
The math for actual Christian martyrdom seems to be like this — corrections needed:
90,000 estimated martyrs in 2016
60............minutes per hour
24............hours per day
365..........days per year
525,600...minutes per year
0.17.........martyrs per minute
5.84.........minutes per martyr
6 minutes per martyr would seem to be about 16 martyrs per hour for Christianity worldwide in 2016, vs. 12 total martyrs in the approximately 150 year history history of the Sabbatine group.
246.5 Christians killed for their faith per day.
“When the terrorists ordered the man from Chad to deny Jesus or die, he answered, “Their God is my God,” thereby sealing his fate.”
Basically, here you have fanatical islamics aknowledging their alah is NOT the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Many would deceive us and say otherwise. Muslims worship the fallen one.
Yep. allah is pure evil. I believe satan.
Meanwhile, the Pope is beatifying kids that had visions 100 years ago...
Thank-you and God Bless.
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