Uganda: Christian brother murdered by Muslims

 

(curtesy Christian headlines.com)

NAIROBI, Kenya, January 11, 2023 (Morning Star News) – A 37-year-old father of four was killed on Jan. 2 after participating in a Christian-Muslim debate in eastern Uganda at which 13 Muslims put their faith in Christ, sources said.

This brother had been converted from the Muslim faith, and dedicated his life to bringing the truth of Christ to other Muslims.  Over 100 of them have converted to Christianity because of this brother's ministry, so this was the result.  

Consider the Word of God:

   10“See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven. 11[“For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.]

      12“What do you think? If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying? 13“If it turns out that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray. 14“So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish. - Matthew 18: 10-14 

This doesn't just apply to his referring to children as the ones brought to Christ for Him to bless but that the character of those in Heaven would be "such as these" (Matthew 19:14) (accepting, innocent, loving, joyful, peaceful, playful, etc.).  This is then compared to any one of these lost as sheep who Heaven rejoices over the others who are not lost. (another parallel: Luke 15:32 the prodigal son)

This brother, Ahamada Mafabi loved SO MUCH, he risked His life for the gospel of Christ.  He had a wife and four children.  He set out to find God's sheep, and found over 100 of them in a years time.  

Why?  Because there's nothing else but Christ that can bring true joy and peace.  When we feed off of the "Bread of life" and we drink from the "fountain of living water", there's no going back!  

The Apostle Peter said, "Where else can we go, you Lord have the words of eternal life!"  

How often don't we dispute and debate in religious circles in our country, here at home, without risk to our lives ... 

But in so many nations around the world, The Lord is bringing in souls CONSTANTLY to Him, in truth - and it's through people like Ahamada Matabi who The Holy Spirit indwells, and in love of the truth, obediently heralds The Gospel of the Kingdom.

"Repent, The Kingdom of Heaven

Is at hand" 

- Mark 1:15

Let's not be ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  For it is the power of God unto salvation for every one who believes (Romans 1:16)

Here's the rest of the article on our brother saint now in Heaven and support his family if you can.  

Radical Muslims kill Christian after religion debate

God bless.

Christian Evangelism: The world hates it!

 Since The Lord Jesus left, He commissioned The faithful to continue proclaiming the Good news to all who could hear, and thus The Gospel of Jesus Christ - The redemptive message of salvation, the power over sin and death has been proclaimed to all nations, and continues to do so.  The god of this world is bound from preventing the Gospel message from going out. Where it reaches, it restores lives but the world can only then threaten and try to stop the spread of the Gospel by force of persecution and death.  Today, there are more than 20 nations recorded as overtly persecuting and murdering God's elect around the world.  But the message is already out - until The Lord's return when He'll restore all things!  That time will be marked by the fullness of the world's hate over God's saints, and a global apostacy in order to fall into a deception ripe for God's final judgement upon the earth.  #maranatha   Revelation Chapt. 20:

"Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
2 And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;
3 and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time

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Culture of death presents...

 

All those who deny the wickedness of the heart that exists and continues to grow against life. They KNOW it's life and they just don't care.  When you legislate evil, evil increases.  It's just that plain and simple.  Here's to all those who continue to deny this reality.  We're back to those primitive pagan days in humanity where the sexual anarchy of human depravity just wants to do, what the trajectory of human depravity wants to do.  Welcome to Sodom and Gomorrah.  Welcome to Greco Roman paganism revisited.

Protect life, and you'll be called "disgusting" but deny life, belittle life, suck it through a tube or chop it up in the womb, and it's called, "Bodily Autonomy" and "ending pregnancy", "reproductive healthcare"... or even worse, "A woman's right".

But God is not mocked! This is all done because the world HATES the image of God in humanity:  "All those who hate me, love death"

They'll find whatever possible to equivocate against the truth of God.

"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!" - Isaiah 5:20

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The evil and inconsistency is outrageous.

Does she know her "friend" is prideful about this act for which she's unable to show her face? It's shameful for her but not for him? This is indeed shameful and I pray she'll come to know it is and repent truly before her and her dead baby's Creator soon.

She's still a mother... a mother of a murdered baby.

The man who's helping her destroy her baby doesn't care for her at all. He doesn't care about the repercussions that'll possibly come in full regret of what she's doing - because as a noticeably effeminate man, he's probably in rebellion against manhood as well as womanhood, in his cultural and biological confusion.

We are in the end of the age ... The apostacy is here, the persecution of the Saints is here, and there's enough antichrist to go around! We're not waiting on events to unfold in Israel, nor awaiting a "rapture" - escape plan.  We're waiting on The Lord Himself.  (Check out my Beast System series podcasts)

2 Peter 3:

Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, 4and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.” 5For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, 6through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water. 7But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

8But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. 9The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

10But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.

11Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat! 13But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

Attacks on American Churches Have Increased 174 Percent (article)

 

Attacks on American Churches Have Increased 174 Percent Since 2018: New Report

Michael Foust | ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | Monday, December 19, 2022

The number of documented attacks on churches has steadily increased in recent months and years, with a dramatic uptick in 2022 in abortion-related vandalism related to the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to a landmark new report.

The report by the D.C.-based Family Research Council uncovered a total of 420 documented acts of hostility against 397 individual churches between January 2018 and September 2022. There were 50 in 2018, but that quickly increased to 83 in 2019, 96 in 2021 and 137 in 2022 (through September). There were 54 documented incidents of hostility against churches in 2020 – a decrease from the previous year that the report's authors attributed to the pandemic when much of the country was on lockdown or not traveling much.

The number of attacks on churches from 2018 to 2022 represents a 174 percent increase.

The report examined vandalism, arson, arson attempts and shootings. Most of the "acts of hostility" – 342 of the 420 – involved vandalism, the report said.

The report's findings mirror similar data by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which found an increase in anti-Christian hate crimes: from 172 in 2018 to 217 in 2019, to 240 in 2021.

"Criminal acts of vandalism and destruction of church property are likely symptomatic of a collapse in societal reverence and respect for houses of worship and religion – in this case, churches and Christianity," the report said. "Americans appear increasingly comfortable lashing out against church buildings, pointing to a larger societal problem of marginalizing core Christian beliefs, including those that touch on hot-button political issues related to human dignity and sexuality."

Many of the acts of hostility in 2022 involved abortion-related violence. The report found 57 instances that "were directly tied to pro-abortion protests or contained pro-abortion messages" during that year. For example, four Catholic churches in Wisconsin this summer were vandalized with pro-choice graffiti. By contrast, there were only five incidents of abortion-related attacks on churches between 2019 and 2021.

Arielle Del Turco, the report's author and the assistant director of the Center for Religious Liberty at the Family Research Council, said the report's findings are troubling.

"The problem of acts of hostility against churches in the United States is widespread and growing," Del Turco said. "This is not a trend that should be shrugged off. When churches are targeted for acts of destruction, arson, or threatening messages, it has the potential to be intimidating – and sometimes, that's the intention. Within the past few years especially, outpourings of political anger have sometimes correlated with vandalism and other acts against churches. When faced with such blatant violence and disrespect against churches (and religion more broadly), our response must be to condemn these acts and reaffirm the right of all people to worship and live out their faith freely – including the freedom to live without fear that they will be the next target of such an attack."

(Taken from Christianheadlines.com)

https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/attacks-on-american-churches-have-increased-174-percent-since-2018-new-report.html

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Those who have the "Beast System" running on the inside of them will start getting sort of weird about others celebrating the incarnation of The Christ unto the world, and will display impulsive fits of anger, and hate.

This one guy couldn't help himself and had to take it out on a doll.  : /

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Nigeria: 'Christians Are Being Killed every week!

'Christians Are Being Killed': Critics Outraged at Biden Admin as Murder and Terror Rage in Nigeria

Dec 7, 2022

Religious freedom advocates are "outraged" and confounded after the Biden administration again declined to add Nigeria to the U.S. Department of State's Countries of Particular Concern list, a designation targeting nations restricting or complicit in religious freedom violations. 

Joel Veldkamp, head of international communications at persecution watchdog Christian Solidarity International (CSI), has been among those urging the State Department to reclassify Nigeria as a nation violating residents' religious liberty – but to no avail. Veldkamp told CBN's Faithwire the Biden administration's decision to ignore international outcry over the matter is stunning, particularly in light of the deadly assaults unfolding against Christians in Nigeria daily. 

"It's not an exaggeration," he said. "Every week, Christians are being killed in this country." Veldkamp shared how the release of the current Countries of Particular Concern was dropped on Friday afternoon, noting this is how "Washington killed news" by burying it at a time when fewer people are paying attention. Tragically, Veldkamp said he had spent the days before the release speaking with priests in Nigeria who witnessed and experienced the unthinkable. 

"Earlier in the week. I had talked to two different priests from two different states in Nigeria. Really one is in the middle of the country, and one is in the deep south of the country," he said. "One priest... had just visited a village where 20 Christians were killed the week before. He met a father who saw four of his children killed in front of his eyes." This same priest met another mother and father who lost one of their children and saw homes being burned. One of those interview subjects said, "I stood on the ashes of human beings." Watch Veldkamp explain the ordeal. (Curtesy CBN YouTube).

Saints please pray for our brethren in Nigeria!

Religion and Politics: is like Coffee with Milk!

 

Christian! Who has bewitched you to be so intimidated to preach and proclaim truth in all halls of justice, the public square, including the court steps?

There is no place where the truth of God can not penetrate! Or what do you supposed The Lord truly meant concerning us being "Salt and Light"???

Where are we posting our lampstand, up high or somewhere hidden?

Contrary to what so many believe, politics IS law, and law is in religion. God has spoken about it all.  Are you going to let the world system drown out the Christian message in your generation or are you going to pave the way for society on behalf of your children and grandchildren?

Have courage and preach Christ in season and out of season, and from the roof tops!

Andrew Tate: Christianity is weak?

 I sometimes agree with this very opinionated social media sensation on various issues but on this, he's got a lot of problems in his underlying point.

First, he was identified as an "atheist" then a Christian, and now, a Muslim.

If I break down his comments on God and Christianity, I have to say that it sounds like he's coming from an atheistic understanding of religion being a force that if true, survives sort of like "the survival of the fittest".  

He makes a good point that unless you truly have something (a true faith) you're willing to fight for, then you don't have that belief at all.  

Sure, that makes sense but it's a pragmatic view of faith and a simplistic view of Christianity.

For one, his Christian theology is off:

Throughout the Bible - Old Testament and New Testament, what we see is that the Word of God separates people (EVERY ONE) into saved and not saved (Sheep and Goats, Elect and dogs, His Children, Children of Satan, etc.). EVEN AMONG THOSE who are part of the fold.

We see God always having "a remnant" in the OT and in the NT.

There are mixed multitudes in the OT and Pharisees in the NT. 

There are those who come from out of the churches in the NT by which heresies and divisions will bring strife to the true Church of God.

In fact, this is what we see continuing on from the first century - even until today.

Christianity despite what many understand isn't about HUGE NUMBERS but about a remnant, and a true people of God.  

The Bible speaks about the great "apostacy" in the last days;  It speaks about many there will be on the "wide road"; many will say in the last day, "Lord, Lord" but The Lord will reject them because of their "lawlessness" and a lack of faithfulness to His Word, etc.

So, it's not like Christianity is accepting or tolerating the immorality of the culture, those who tolerate immorality just aren't Christian.   And this is what Tate gets completely wrong.

His problem is that he's mis-identifying TRUE CHRISTIANITY.

True Christians will be few (by Biblical standards) and THOSE will be the ones who will fight because they always have!

They will be the ones persecuted by many identifying themselves as Christian and who give-in to the Beast System of the last days, immorality, and deception of the world, etc.

History shows us that many true Christians went to their death refusing to deny Christ and that hasn't stopped SINCE the first century.   Today, there are at least 18 major nations that are actively persecuting Christians around the world (as per Voice of the Martyrs) and persecution has always been the seed of the Christian church around the world. 

The vast majority of those who profess to be Christian sadly, are not Christian.  And that's what he's seeing.  In fact, what he's seeing is the death of Christianity in the western world and if Christianity is dying, it's because there are LESS Christians around... Get it??

He's not seeing Christians.

The Christians are the few that are so few, you can't hear them protest!   That's the point!

Tate uses the word, "Fight" a lot but if his concept of fighting is anything similar to that of the historical "violence" seen in Islam (or those calling themselves Christian in the Crusades), he's failing to see that Christianity historically grows by the blood of Christian martyrs not by wars in self defense.  

We saw that as early as John 18:36 --

"Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.”

Christians fight for truth by standing up for the truth and speaking up for truth and those who demonstrate that they're not Christian simply don't fight for truth... As in:  John 18:37 ---

 

"Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice."

Perhaps he's confused because he sees the reaction people have to the popular violent responses to critique with bombings and death threats even from the most conservative of the Islamic religion.  But Christianity isn't like that.  We don't force people to follow Christ and we don't react violently to critique.

We simply just testify to God's truth with the Gospel (Good news) of Christ's salvation, and leave it to The Holy Spirit to communicate to people's hearts.

Andrew Tate just doesn't understand what true Christianity is and sees weakness in non violence but he has yet to listen to The Holy Spirit which would teach Him supernatural strength in humility.

Thanks for stopping by!

God bless!

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