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I have no way to verify the story behind the posting. I’ve seen other postings like it from ministries supposedly on the ground in the Mideast who are reporting these amazing miracles, dreams and visions, at the end is a announced need for funding to get 5 churches off the ground and that sort of thing. I confess I would like the stories to be true. Yet I feel a bit of a caution....

I do know this, if an individual known to me or can be verified by others to be muslim, but otherwise not very educated and would have no inkling of what the Bible was all about except that the local imam said the book was HARAM, told me a story like the thread posting then I would sit down and very carefully listen again to the facts. I would be inclined to believe him and further explain the way to salvation to him. The book of John in it’s first chapter speaks of God as the word. The first chapter says also something very significant...”and the word became flesh and dwelt amongst us”.

Why is that important in verifying the story? If we cross reference to 1John 4(yup a letter of John again) It describes the test that is to be put to doctrines of men, spirits and angels....does the spirit in question acknowledge Christ as coming in the flesh(?); if it doesn’t that doctrine was not to be listened to and the teachings disavowed. Yet we see that the man so described in the posting had a notebook with the complete book of John which includes the little ditty of the “the word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us”.

I know if an angel or Christ himself did that to me and then said...oh by the way underline the phrase “and the word was made flesh” and take the notebook to Pastor so and so who lives on Straight Street and he’ll tell you what to next”......I’ll tell you what I’d do!
I’m gonna get there as fast as possible, that’s what I’m gonna do for I would know from that time, on my life as I knew it before, was going to change in ways I could never imagine.