Christian Persecution and a Miracle

The concept of Christian persecution in North America is a mirage, an abstraction.  People wrongly believe that only happened in the ancient past.  A few senior citizens may remember it occurring under Communism, or Muslim countries.

We need to wake up to Christian persecution.

Alexander Ogorodnikov:   A Christian Dissident in the USSR

Alexander Ogorodnikov was a Russian citizen, an Atheist, a student at Moscow’s Institute of Cinematography who suddenly become Russian Orthodox Christian after watching Pasolini’s 1964 film “The Gospel According to St. Matthew”.  He set up a number of Christian groups all across the USSR called the Christian Seminar.  Eventually, the KGB finds him, threatens him, and persecutes him for his Christian beliefs.  The KGB finally gives him an ultimatum to leave the USSR, or be arrested and jailed forever.  He decided to stay in USSR, and be a martyr.  In 1978, the government sent him to Habarosk Prison, to a large cell of hardened criminals, hoping the hardened criminals will “take care of him”.  He remained in prison as a Christian martyr until 1987 (9 years in jail), then was released, and emigrated to the West.  The Berlin Wall came down in 1989.  The USSR collapsed in 1991.

The following is an excerpt from "Live Not By Lies: A manual for Christian dissidents", Rod Dreher, (c) 2020 Rod Dreher, Sentinal Penguin Random House, P. 160-161.

The Miracle of the Cigarettes

If you believe that God exists, then you must also believe that miracles are possible.  Christians live by faith, but sometimes, God sends a message to remind us that he exists and has not abandoned us.  Drinking tea in the lobby of a Moscow hotel, Alexander Ogorodnikov tells a story about an extremely improbable thing that happened to him upon entering a Soviet prison---something that signaled to him that God led him to that vault of human misery for a higher purpose.

"When they put me in the cell with the other inmates, I said, 'Peace be with you!"' Ogorodnikov remembers.  "One of the prisoners asked if I was a Christian.  I said yes.  He told me to prove it.  Another inmate said, 'We are the scum of the earth.  We don't even have cigarettes.  If your God will give us cigarettes, we'll all believe in him."'

Ogorodnikov told his fellow prisoners that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and smoking fouls it.  But, he continued, God loves you so much that I believe he would even give you cigarettes as a sign of his mercy.  Ogorodnikov asked them all to stand and pray together for this.  Everybody laughed, but they stood respectfully as he led them in prayer.

"That cell was very crowded, but it became very quiet,'' he recalls.  "We prayed for fifteen minutes, then I told them the prayer was over and they could sit down.  At just that moment, the guards opened the cell door and threw a bunch of cigarettes into the cell." 

"That really happened?!" I ask, astonished.

"That really happened," he answers.  "It was incredible.  There was the sign I had prayed for.  The prisoners shouted, 'God exists! He exists!' And that is when I knew that God was speaking to me too.  He was telling me that he had a mission for me here in this prison.''

Alexander Ogorodnikov thus began his life hidden behind the walls of the Soviet prison system.  But he was not hidden from God.  And because of that, as the Christian dissident would learn, God manifested through his fidelity to those damned to die before a firing squad who were desperate for a sign of hope.  Ogorodnikov's connection to God would be, to these wretched men, their only lifeline.

Cigarette Miracle References

https://misyononline.info-aid.net/misyononline.com/mar-apr2001/he-showed-himself-through-cigarettes.html

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2013/31-may/books-arts/book-reviews/inspiring-tale-from-the-gulag

Pasolini's 1964 film "The Gospel According to St. Matthew" (Italian, English sub-titles):   https://youtu.be/OpX5dD5jtaw?si=8NkYi8Vh22CPTgTB

Pew Research Data on Christian Persecution

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/09/30/harassment-of-religious-groups-reaches-new-peak-in-2019

Pew Research data on Christian persecution for 2007 to 2019
finds an average increase of 3.93%/yr, which doubles and
re-doubles every 17.8 years.

News Reports on Christian Persecution

https://youtu.be/MDpfprLLPlQ?si=K1Ym2kXa0M05nS46

Persecution includes tortured, killed, executed, arrested for no crime at all, just being a Christian.  Tolerance of Christianity is dropping, intolerance is increasing.

Christian now the most persecuted, happening everywhere, especially in Muslim countries, and Afghanistan.

Even Western countries are persecuting Christians.

Western democracies are no longer Christian majorities.

Whites and Christians are not being protected under the laws that protect against discrimination.

CBN News Report on Christian Persecution

https://youtu.be/fgrHKcDxw4Y?si=pU0WQprFTKzC0wGj   CBN News

world watch list:  open doors 30 years ago started list of persecution

started with 1 man researching, now 4,000 people involved in compiling the list.

We are all part of the same body, so what affects one part, affects all parts

[1Co 12:12-13 KJV] 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also [is] Christ. 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

We are commanded to remember those in jail, especially fellow Christians who are unjustly persecuted for their faith 

[Heb 13:3 KJV] 3 Remember them that are in bonds [prison], as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

Afghanistan shot up to the worst country that persecutes Christians, where they are killed, or exiled, or forced underground after the US vacated; this trend is now coming down some.  

Radical Islam wants it to be the dominant religion, and/or the exclusive religion in their Muslim majority country.

Nigerian radical Islamic groups are attacking & killing Christian on a regular basis.  Open Door is most concerned about sub-Sahara Africa, where the church is under huge pressure.

OpenDoor   

https://www.opendoorsus.org/en-US/persecution/persecution-trends/

OpenDoors 2023 Christian Persecution Top 50 Countries

OpenDoor Christian Persecution Data for 2023

7 More Years

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Erin, an End Times Prophetess of God, was told by God in a dream:

“Erin, seven more years!  Seven years from today!”

Erin then wrote:

"I woke up suddenly and went to my journal.  I don’t get dates often.  Seven years from today is September 25, 2030 on the Gregorian calendar.  Using the Hebrew calendar, seven years from today is Yom Kippur in 2030.  This starts at sunset on Sunday, October 6, 2030 and ends at sunset on Monday, October 7, 2030.  Of the two dates, the Hebrew calendar seems to make the most sense… at least to me and my husband."

http://sparrowcloud9.com/heaven-dreams-interpretations/the-tribulation/excerpt-from-dreams-questions-answered/full-dreams/dream-732/

Erin's prophecy is confirmed by Dr. Robert Mawire, another Prophet for God's End Times.

https://www.youtube.com/live/YfHGyGZUs4o?si=fsY9IGNuQX4N9hhh

Previously, Dr. Mawire has explained that there is no Pre-Trib. Rapture, as its existance is a lie from Hell; a lie so that the majority of God's people do not adequately prepare.

Prepare yourselves accordingly:

To be saved & go to Heaven, you must:   

fear God (Prov 1:7, Eccles 12:13, Mat 10:28); know God (2 Pet 3:18); love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mat 22:37-39); be Born Again (John 3:3); water baptized in the name of God The Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit by full  immersion (Mat 28:19); fully forgive all those who trespassed against you (Mat 6:14-15); confess to God all your sins and repent with a contrite heart (1 John 1:9); pray to God for forgiveness of your sins (Heb 8:12); obey God’s commandments (OT laws except Temple ceremonial laws and as modified in NT, & NT laws; see our document God's 26 Commandments for Christians https://et-manitoulin.blogspot.com/2019/12/gods-26-commandments-for-christians.html ) to the best of your ability (John 14:15); maintain a deep, loving, & intimate relationship with God (eg. read the Bible every day (2 Tim 3:16); pray to God continually (1 Thes 5:17), etc.), avoid blaspheming the Holy Spirit, don't take the Mark of the Beast 666, do not worship the Beast nor its image, do not contaminate your DNA so as to be less than 100% human.

God's End Times Flowchart

 The following diagram shows all major decision and events during God's End Times process.

Click on the diagram to get a full size view.

God's End Times Process

I recommend you carefully study the whole diagram so that you fully understand what is soon coming (2023 - 2030), so that you aren't deceived, or miss out on an oppotunity of a lifetime.

In the diagram, I use the term "True Christian".  Based on surveys that I and/or others conducted, True Christians are about 0.5% of all those in N. America (ie. USA and Canada) of those who self-identify as Christian.

True Christians are defined as those humans who:

Fear God; know God, and know that Jesus willingly died as a blood sacrifice for their sins, then God raised Him from the dead; believes in God, their Creator, Lord, & Saviour; loves God (ie. God the Father, Jesus Christ His Son, and the Holy Spirit) with all their heart, mind, body, soul, & strength; loves their neighbours as themself; understands both God &  sin through reading God's Word every day; believes God's Word is truth, God-breathed and inspired, & preserved by God; learns to study & rightly divide God's Word; learns God’s commandments; confesses & repents to God all their sins (both known & unknown); is humble & contrite, and admit they are a broken person without God; turns away from sin and turn towards God; fully forgives all those who trespassed against them or hurt them; prays to God for God's forgiveness of their sins & His cleansing of them; lets their old sinful self (ie. a slave to sin, and a child of Satan) die off, so that their new, obedient, righteous self can be Born Again as a child of God; invites Jesus into their life, to dwell in their heart through faith; gets baptized by full immersion in water in the name of God the Father, Jesus Christ His Son, and the Holy Spirit; remembers God's promises that temptation will never be greater than what they can resist, and there will always be a path to escape from sin & temptation; gets all iniquity (ie. pre-planned, pre-meditated, or chronic sin) out of their life; obeys all of God's commandments to the best of their ability; prays to God that He hedges them in, & keeps them away from sin and Satan’s fiery darts; flees from sin & temptation, and when they fail, stops (ie. the sooner they stop sinning, the better) & repents & confesses their sins to God and asks for forgiveness & wisdom & strength to resist all same & similar sins in the future; does not grieve nor quench the Holy Spirit; dresses, acts, & thinks in a modest & humble manner; carefully studies alleged Prophets & prophesies, testing them against God's Word, rejects what is false, and keeps what is good; does not pray to, nor worship, nor sacrifice to anything other than God; rejects all False Gospels & heresies; praises & worships God; prays continuously to God the Father; obeys the righteous laws of man, & pays their tributes (taxes); pays a tithe of 10%; help widows, orphans, the poor, the sick, strangers, & neighbours; is joyous & thankful; avoids pride, boasting, grumbling, & murmurring (ie. rebellious complaining); lives each day by being & acting through the Fruit of the Holy Spirit (ie. faith, longsuffering, patience, meekness, gentleness, temperance, goodness, righteousness, godliness, joy, peace, truth, and love); denies themself, then lives for their Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ; shares their testimony & preaches the Gospel to every living creature; prepares themself to serve God each day, and to be mocked, scorned, rejected, persecuted, &/or martyred in the name of Jesus Christ.

If anybody consistantly & whole heartedly does all the above, they will be one of the saved souls who avoid Hell, and spends all eternity in Heaven with their loving God, and live there in peace, love, joy, and fulfillment.  Those who refuse (or neglect to have) a deep, intimate, loving relationship with Jesus Christ (see above) are doomed to Hell.

Hell, also called the Lake of Fire, was primarily for Satan and his evil demons.  However, all those who do not have a deep loving relationship with Jesus Christ, or are "workers of iniquity", or commited the Unforgiveable Sin, or took the Mark of the Beast (666) or worshipped The Beast, or modified their DNA (eg. genetic mutations via gene therapy or hacking, chimeras, AI augmentation, hybrid humanoids, possibly COVID-19 &/or its vaccination, etc.) so that they are no longer fully human, then they are doomed to the Lake of Fire.

Those thrown into the Lake of Fire will have no rest, neither day nor night, but will suffer burning and torment for ever & ever.  There will be gnashing of teeth (ie. Severe anger, likely Atheists & those who hate God) and weeping forever (likely those who were deceived by false doctrine, but discovered the consequences too late).  Once somebody enters the Lake of Fire, there is no escape, there is no death, there is only an eternity of torment and burning.

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[Phl 4:8 KJV] "8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."

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Some people may think that the above list for True Christians goes way beyond the absolute minimum conditions for salvation, and that is true.

However, where is your heart if you seek to do only the absolutely minimum necessary things to get to eternal life with Jesus?  Does Jesus judge by outward signs, or by the inward heart?

Secondly, the Bible describes the falling away and the apostates at End Times.  This is only possible for Believers who changed their mind.  

It is suggested all those things listed above that some people may regard as "optional" or "nice to do, but not essential" are exactly the steps that will help ensure you are not one of those that "fall away".

Rev.12 & Rosh Hashanah 2023 High Watch, V.1

I declare a High Watch period Sept. 11-25, 2023.

We are in an exciting yet dangerous time.

A recent prophecy tells us that God declared that this fallen, evil world in 2023 AD, is now more evil than what Sodem & Gemorah was just before God totally destroyed it.  See:

 
http://sparrowcloud9.com/heaven-dreams-interpretations/the-tribulation/excerpt-from-dreams-questions-answered/full-dreams/dream-726/


Jesus Christ repeatedly told people to look up, and Watch! 

 I don't believe Jesus was encouraging us to watch TV, nor anything similar. 

Clearly, Jesus wanted all of us to watch for His signs in the Sun, the Moon, the planets, and the stars.  He warned that if we failed to watch, He would come back and catch us unaware, and we would be punished for our negligence.

[Gen 1:14 KJV] "14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:"

[Luk 21:34-36 KJV] "34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man."

Therefore God will likely soon deliver Judgment on this evil world. God's Judgment will likely occur at some point between Sept. 11 to Sept. 25, 2023.

Sept. 11th is the anniversay date for the New York USA Twin Towers terrorism attack.

On Sept. 11, 2011 Xi JinPing took over as China's supreme leader. See: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/06/born-red

On Sept. 11, 2023 there may be other major, evil world events (eg. Financial collapse ?, earthquake, storm, war, etc.).

The Revelation 12 sign is back. It was originally believed to have occurred on Sept. 23, 2017. With greater study, and additional revelation from God, it is now clear that the Rev. 12 Sign in 2017 was a wake-up warning, and the full, real Rev. 12 Sign is on Sept. 15-25, 2023.



Pastor Patrick's Revelation 12 Sign in 2023, showing the asteroids, comets, planets, Moon, and Sun; all which supernaturally gather in and around the Constellation Virgo on or about Sept. 15-25, 2023.


For full information on Rev. 12 Sign 2023, see Pastor Patrick Wright's YouTube Channel "Hourly Watch" summary:

https://youtu.be/veZAULGqOSQ?si=JMZVmOAMwQlmbtyX

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Also see Patrick's video published 9/11:

https://youtu.be/PoxgjVgqmzk?si=zfDdUzZdWwojLZgv

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In addition, Sept. 15, 2023 at sundown (our local sunset is 7:40 pm EDT) is the Head of the Year on God's calendar (Rosh Hashanah, also called Feast of Trumpets), a high holy day in the Bible.

[Lev 23:24 KJV] "24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation."

[Num 29:1-6 KJV] "1 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you. 2 And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish: 3 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram, 4 And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs: 5 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you: 6 Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD."

Global EMP Drill on Feast of Trumpets, Sept. 15, 2023

I am still learning that there is no such thing as a coincidence.  Therefore, someone is purposefully scheduling this drill at this time so as to gain an advantage.

EMP is Electro-Magnetic Pulse, which can come from a high altitude nuclear bomb exploding, or from an CME or powerful Solar Flare from our Sun.

If a real EMP occurs, it can destroy all un-protected electrical and electronic devices &/or conductors.  NATO and other militaries protect for EMP's thst have a field strength of 50 kV-m, or less.

Russia, China, N. Korea, and possibly others have nuclear weapons designed to produce fields of 200 kV-m over almost all of N. America, overwhelming NATO EMP partial protection (> 90% of population centres, except Florida and the far edges of California, Far North of Canada, and the NE Maine).  EMP will stop most vehicles, gas stations, refrigerators, generators, computers, city water supplies, city sewage systems, public transportation, grocery stores, banks & ATM's, cell phones, etc.  Estimates say 90% of N. American citizens will be dead within 10 years after an EMP.

Feast of Trumpets, 10 Days of Awe

It is customary to do repentance, special foods, prayers, meals, and 100 blasts per day on the shofar on Day of Trumpets, but no shofar blasts on Saturday Sabbath;

  https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4830/jewish/How-Is-Rosh-Hashanah-Celebrated.htm

Also beginning Sundown on Sept. 15, 2023 are the Ten Days of Repentance, or Ten Days of Awe (Aseret Yemei Teshuvah); continuing until Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) which begins at sundown on Sept 24, 2023. This 10 day period is when we contritely remember all our sins and un-done responsibilities & opportunities to do good that we ignored; pray, confess our sins, and repent to God.

During Rosh Hashanah, & 10 Days of Awe, people must ask God for forgiveness for the things we’ve done wrong during the past year. We also remind ourselves not to repeat these mistakes in the coming year. In this way, Rosh Hashanah is an opportunity to improve ourselves. It’s a Biblical holiday that helps us to become better people. And that’s a beautiful thing.

Confess & repent. Apologize to God.

"Covenant of Many" via SDG?

On Sept. 18-19, 2023 is the UN's SDG Conference (Sustainable Development Goals) will be held, where all or most countries will surrender their sovereign rights and authority to the UN, in favor of CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emission limits, energy consumption, plus restrictions on farming, meat consumption, use of automobiles & trucks, etc.  This is likely the "Covenant of Many" spoken about in Daniel 9:27.

[Dan 9:27 KJV] "27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."

Day of Atonement

Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) begins at sundown on Sept 24, 2023 and goes for 24 hours, until sundown on Sept. 25th.

Each year on Yom Kippur, “all inhabitants of the world pass before God like a flock of sheep,” and it is decreed in the heavenly court “who shall live, and who shall die ... who shall be impoverished and who shall be enriched; who shall fall and who shall rise.”

It is a day of prayer, a time to ask the Almighty to grant us a year of peace, prosperity and blessing. But it is also a joyous day when we proclaim God, King of the Universe.

Atlantic Ocean storms may impact numerous nuclear power plants in NE USA, requiring many power plants to simultsneously shut down.  This may cause electrical grid instability that kills all or most power in USA, or possibly N. America.  Enemies might choose this or a similar difficult, inconvenient moment to attack the USA, USA interests abroad,  and others.

Space Weather

While we are looking up, we should also be watching Space Weather.  You can Do-It-Yourself at http://spaceweather.com or if you prefer a quick YouTube summary of the entire subject, including the latest scientific research papers, I suggest the YouTube channel Suspicious Observers.  Here's their latest video, with a new video every morning.

https://youtu.be/daMikIyU7ho?si=WhcC5bEXbCn2nfHP

Watch for reports of pink or red coloured Northern Lights, X-class solar flares, CME's (Coronal Mass Ejections), solar wind disturbances, cosmic dust clouds, micro nova's, cosmic electro-magnetic current sheets, cosmic ray disturbances, Earth's magnetic field disturbances.

In other words, 

Watch!  Confess!  

Repent!   Pray continuously!