«165.000 followers of Jesus were killed in 2009»

80 per cent of followers of Jesus who are persecuted and killed live in Muslim nations.

This is a statement of Majed El Shafie, an Egyptian Muslim convert to Christianity and founder of the One Free World International advocacy group. He is heading a group of Christian leaders, human rights activists and Canadian parliamentarians to Israel this week to raise awareness about the plight of Christians living in Muslim countries.

The group reports that there are hundreds of millions of Christians in the world today who are persecuted for their faith, 80 per cent of whom live in Muslim countries. El Shafie also noted that in 2009, 165,000 Christians were killed because of their faith.

«Hamas digs up the bodies of Christians from Christian burial sites in the Gaza Strip claiming that they pollute the earth», he claimed in adv ance of a lecture Monday evening at the van Leer Institute in Jerusalem.

El Shafie has personal experience of Muslim persecution of Christians. Born in Cairo into a wealthy family of distinguished lawyers and judges, he converted to Evangelical Christianity and wrote a book about his experiences, as well as number of Gospel pamphlets. As a result of his publishing activities, he was arrested, imprisoned, tortured and condemned to death.

He managed to escape from an Egyptian prison and hid out in the Sinai with Bedouin before escaping to Israel on a jet ski rented in the Red Sea resort of Taba. Imprisoned for over a year in Beersheva, he learned Hebrew and was eventually released into the custody of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, which arranged asylum for him in Canada. He then founded «One World» in 2004 and has been active in defending individuals being persecuted and jailed in Muslim countries for their faith.

While in Jerusalem, the OFWI delegation will meet with Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon and Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat to try enlist Israel’s help in the effort to confront Muslim persecution of Christians.

Source: ICEJ.org

My comment:

Aston and I had a debate on this site this week about the persecuted church being the only true Church on Earth, and that tens of thousand of killed Jesus-followers is a part of the promised end time revival. But hardly anyone cares, in the lukewarm, «rich», naked and pitiful Westernized Church.

It the global media, including Christian-TV was not controlled by Satan, there would be coverage around the clock, of this massive genocide taking place.

If you do not realize that the Anti-Messiah have taken over the media, its time to take a look outside your TV-screen before its to late.

Most of the deception that creeps into Evangelical Churches World wide, is Americanized prosperity related messages. Talk about money, health and wealth. The Messiah demanded that his followers had to be willing to be crucified in regards to this World. 165.000 people in the Muslim world, China and India was willing to be just that. A living sacrifice for Him, telling the truth at any cost.

First Published: 17.12.2009.

Behold. Because I love you, I have to tell you the truth.

Written by Ivar

June 20, 2012 4

Jesus chose Israel and the Jewish people

The Messiah chose the Jews. They are His people, even those who refuse to accept His selection. He will judge them.

Israel — The Jews are the subject of Jesus the Messiah, either they like it or not.

The whole idea of Replacement theology is that God of the Bible is a complete failure. He chose the Jews as His chosen people, but has been so powerless that He have lost them all.

An angry God, has chosen to abandon His people, will be the logical conclusion of such false theology.

Because no one can doubt that God did select the Jews, and promised to be their God forever.

When did “god” give up?

Here are some words that proves the selection:

Exodus 19:6
you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

The Jews were not chosen because they were strong, mighty, or righteous. Nor were they powerful.

Deuteronomy 7:7-9

The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.

The question will arise:

Did God end His relationship with the Jews, because the majority of them failed to accept Jesus as the Messiah?

Let me use the words of Paul the Apostle to answer this question:

Romans 9:27-28

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved.  For the Lord will carry out  his sentence on earth with speed and finality.

Are you one of the men of Israel who fear God?

Are you one of the remnant that will be saved, when the Lords sentence will come to Earth with speed?

Romans 1:1-2
I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew.

If God of the Bible did reject His people based on their rejection of Jesus during the crucifixion in Jerusalem, how could Paul him self be saved?

Paul was not a student of Jesus, but came to faith after Jesus had returned to His throne in Heaven. Paul was saved by a mighty move of the Holy Spirit, sent back to Earth as the Fathers replacement of His Son.

How come the first century Church in Jerusalem, were a gathering of Jews only?

Why would Jesus restore Israel in 1948, If He has rejected the Jewish people?

The good news is that Jesus loved and still loves the Jewish people. He Him self was a Jew, when He walked on the Earth in flesh. He died for the sins of both Jews and gentiles, when He shed his blood on the cross in Jerusalem, for the forgiveness of all sins.

But:

If you want Yeshua (Jesus) to save you, you have to be willing to surrender your life on Earth to Him. The Bible says that without faith, it is not possible to please God.

Written by Ivar

May 28, 2012 16

Canadian teen suspended for wearing Jesus’ T-shirt to school

His teachers wanted to stop William Swinimer from displaying “Life is wasted without Jesus.”.

A Nova Scotia student at the centre of a controversy about religion and public schools will have the right to wear a shirt with the message: “Life is wasted without Jesus.”

William Swinimer was suspended from the Forest Heights Community School in Chester Basin for five days on Monday, after he defied the principal’s instruction not to wear a yellow T-shirt sporting the phrase. It was his seventh T-shirt-related suspension in the space of a month.

Swinimer had received support from N.S. Progressive Conservative Leader Jamie Baillie, as well as a Bridgewater businessman who donated enough money to have 100 of the T-shirts made.

A facilitator was called to help bridge the divide between Swinimer and the high school, and the suspension was reversed on Friday.
After Swinimer’s story grabbed headlines across the country and beyond, Supt. Nancy Pynch-Worthylake told The Canadian Press that a forum was organized for Swinimer and his detractors to debate the issue.

Swinimer had worn the shirt to school several times without incident until, two weeks earlier, he was told another student had complained. That was when he was told to leave the shirt at home.

Swinimer said he never intended to be rude or disrespectful, but he wanted to keep wearing the shirt because he stands behind its message.

“That’s my opinion, but under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms I’m allowed to have my opinion and express my opinion,” the Grade 12 student told CTV’s Canada AM on Friday.

“The only reason I’m wearing the T-shirt continually now is because I’m standing up for my rights as a Canadian citizen.”

Source: Ottawa.ctv.ca

My comment:

Christians who do not take the words “Jesus” in their mouth do not have to “worry” about their life on Earth. They will not be persecuted for their faith.

Many of them will neither make it into the Kingdom of Heaven.

When Jesus set up His seat of judgment, he will spit lukewarm claimed to be “Christians” out of his mouth.

Revelation 3:15-19
I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.

It is true that life is wasted without Jesus. I will get my self one of these t-shirts, and wear it.

I will encourage you to do the same.

Written by Ivar

May 7, 2012 8

People on Haiti leaves witchcraft for faith in Jesus

Jesus wants all people to accept His Lordship. Also the people of Haiti. The earthquake made 300.000 people accept the gospel.

voodoo1 — A voodoo priest showns items used on Haiti during worship of witches and spirits.

Two years after a devastating earthquake killed an estimated 300,000 people in Haiti, Christianity is fast replacing Voodoo in the lives and practices of the people, a missionary has revealed.

According to the Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook, there is a fusion of beliefs in Haiti – 80 percent of people profess to be Catholic, and another 16 percent are Protestant yet roughly half of the population still practices Voodoo.

However, it is no secret that Christianity has been expanding as a religion in Haiti – and a host of Christian missionaries and charity organizations who flew to the Caribbean nation to help the millions in desperate need have also contributed to a large conversion movement.

One such group, the Haiti Foundation of Hope, a Christian organization addressing the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the people in the impoverished rural communities of northern Haiti, has built a number of community health programs in local villages and has seen firsthand people giving up their Voodoo beliefs and turning to Christ.

“The background of the religious belief in Haiti has been Voodoo. This came from Africa, and has been integrated into Catholicism.

Source: Christian Post

My comment:

The Bible says that God do not want anyone to perish, but that all might turn to Jesus and be saved.

In a population where the majority practiced a mix of Voodoo and Catholicism, God needed to give people a stern warning.

It is fantastic news that 300.000 people in Haiti has turned to Jesus the Messiah. It is a prove that tribulation can be a good medicine for getting people to wake up.

1 Timothy 2:1-5
I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.

As a Norwegian national I would like to pray for a similar revival in Norway:

I hope and pray that the people of Norway will take their own disasters as a warning from God. Like the massacre that left 69 youth dead by a single gunman on July 22nd 2011. The large majority of the people in Norway need to repent or perish.

Written by Ivar

January 30, 2012 1