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Saturday, August 2
Miracle in Egypt
Broadcast in CBS... A Muslim man in Egypt killed his wife because she was reading the Bible and then buried her with their infant baby and an 8-year old daughter.
The 2 girls were buried alive! He then reported to the police that an uncle killed the kids. 15 days later, another family member died. When they went to bury him, they found the 2 little girls under the sand - ALIVE!
The country is outraged over the incident, and the man will be executed at the end of July.
The older girl was asked how she had survived and she says:- 'A man wearing shiny white clothes, with bleeding wounds in his hands, came every day to feed us. He woke up my mom so she could nurse my sister,' she said. She was interviewed on Egyptian national TV, by a veiled Muslim woman news anchor. She said on public TV, 'This was none other than Jesus, because nobody else does things like this!'
Muslims believe Isa (Jesus) would do this, but the wounds mean He really was crucified, and it's clear also that He is alive! But, it's also clear that the child could not make up a story like this, and there is no way these children could have survived without a true miracle. Muslim leaders are going to have a hard time to figure out what to do with this, and the popularity of the Passion movie doesn't help! With Egypt at the centre of the media and education in the Middle East , you can be sure this story will spread. Christ is still controlling and turning the world. Please let this story be shared.
The Lord says, 'I will bless the person who puts his trust in me. (Jeremiah 17)
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2 comments:
This story and the alleged miracle has been refuted by Snopes (the Internet Myth Debunker). However, from the tenore of their article, I think that they would have been disparaging, even if they found the article to be true. Therefore, I am not removing it, as it is part of a genre that includes true stories of miracles in Egypt and Greece that have touched Muslim lives.
The world still refuses to acknowledge that Christianity is gaining members far more rapidly than Islam or any other world religion (except those that grow due to high birth rates).
+SYMEON
Dear Symeon, 5/2/11
If this were true, somewhere, >>The country is outraged over the incident, and the man will be executed<< someplace there should be an actual hands-on article from a legitimate news source. You will probably have to go back to 2004. Snopes article mentions that they began receiving copies of this letter in 2004 and yet in 2008 and now 2011 it is still reported as a new occurrence and someone made a PowerPoint presentation of it.
God does many miracles and appearing to two scared little girls and rescuing them is reasonable. But that he would nourish a child buried alive >>woke up my mom so she could nurse<< and wake up a dead woman to nurse the baby>>2 little girls under the sand<< rather than bringing someone to dig them out or bringing them out himself, is ludicrous. Remember, He just called to Lazarus and he walked out of his tomb. Feed them while buried in sand for two weeks? I don't think so. Did he stay with them and breathe for them too.
Now, the thing is, Christians repeating stories that are untrue hoaxes make us look like ignorant and superstitious fools. (The world already thinks that is what we are we shouldn't prove them right.) It makes us lose credibility. The Lord does many wonders in this world and many miracles, but when God does a miracle, He has the power to insure there are witnesses that can be verified.
Letters that try to get you to forward them by taking a shot at your conscience are insincere and cold that alone should make you question its veracity. The people who forward them, seem insincere and foolish. Are they sending it because they feel guilty, disloyal, concerned they might be found out (really, people are such fools about e-mail and what they think it will do) or if they are genuinely sincere and if they are why didn’t they check it out first?
When you forward or publish things like this no matter how lovely they seem on first review, you are acting the lemming: one following after another with no idea of where they are going; not a sheep: one who follows a good shepherd, the ‘Good Shepherd’ knowing that where they go is where they need to be.
We represent Jesus in this world, Jesus is not ignorant or a superstitious fool or UN-credible. We must take great care to not appear as such ourselves.
Satan really likes it when we misrepresent Jesus as a fool. The devil likes nothing better than dressing up a lie in 'pretty' and getting God’s children to pass it on like lemmings. God doesn’t need us to lie or embellish for him and doing so ruins our credibility as witnesses for him and I am really tired of seeing it happen.
I believe in Jesus that He is Lord God and I believe in miracles and the Bible, I don’t believe in lying or embellishing the truth for Him, I am very sure He doesn’t want us to or to advance any such falsities. The ends DO NOT justify the means.
Your heart is good Symeon, and I can tell you are very smart, but the Lord gave you a brain, in order that you might search out and discern the truth and confidence to tell your brothers and sisters in the faith that truth, even if it might make you unpopular.
I just read the Snopes article earlier today, it was last updated in 2008 but I did not read anything disparaging to Christianity aside from declaiming the story. In fact, the writer said the story was appealing.
God bless you in Jesus’Name!
CK O'Shea
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