ugh. The name worries me. The whole thing worries me. On Saturday night, someone in our town got stabbed while walking his dog, and a terrorist organization claimed they did it. This caused frantic calls to the mayor to hurry and build the fence and wall around us quicker and for better security checks at our entrance.
My son went to his party tonight, and for the first time in 10 years I was worried at him walking alone to this girl's house. I haven't been worried since I left Toronto at kids roaming around by themselves, as they all do here. But the world is changing here. Our world is changing.
I got an e-mail from an English friend who got an e-mail from her Bible-thumping friend. It was a worrisome e-mail.
"VERY URGENT ...for your prayers!*
Below is an email from Labib who is the executive secretary of the Arab Bible Society in Israel and gives details regarding current threats upon the Gaza Bible Society. Some solid brothers and sisters of the Lord are working there to share the good news of God's amazing love. They need a supernatural intervention!
Dear Friends I have just received a call from Jerusalem and Gaza informing
me that this morning we have received another very serious threat. Few
masked and armed militants distributed fliers around the area where the
Bible Society's centre is located in Gaza this morning.
The flier included the following:
A threat to the landlord that if he does not evict us by the 28th of Feb they will blow up the whole building
A warning to the tenants in the building that they should leave before that date if we are still there
A warning for us that we should completely close down our operation in Gaza and not to try to relocate as we are being watched closely
Accusations that we spread a doctrine against Islam and that we
are a Crusaders' evangelistic operation supported by the Crusaders' West
A strong worded warning about their seriousness proved by the bomb
which they blew up at the door of the Bible Society last week.
Our team in Jerusalem and Gaza are taking two lines of action:
Calling upon the Lord and claiming the blood of Jesus upon the team
and the neighbors and the building Informing all the security offices responsible and also copying the office of the Palestinian President Mr. Mahmoud Abbas
Calling upon the Church through all of you to lift us up before the Lord as we want to hold in balance:
Trust in the Lord and His protection
Not giving in to the threats of the enemy
An attitude of responsibility towards the safety of the team, and our Muslim neighbors who are terrified by this threat, the landlord came to the
Bible Society centre and demanded that we should close for a while!
Please pray for us. .
"Pray for the peace of Jerusalem for who knows whether you have been brought
to the kingdom for such a time as this." Psalm 122:6 and Esther 4:14
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Hamastan
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
to bruce786:
Yeah, yeah whatever.
I have I qoute for you.
"When I think of all the problems religion has caused, I thank God I'm an athiest".
-Mike "Meathaed" Stivic.
Bruce the Robot - it will take me over a week to read this message. And Jeez, I'm sure you had to replace the duracell batteries after this post!!
And Mike - the reason I can't be an atheist (it's an old joke) - they don't celebrate any holidays
OKO, Bruce a very interesting sermon that to reach neither point nor conclusion...as this email was alluding to the destruction of a church built on love and devotion, I myself personally sent this letter ahead and you have no idea of the worry it has caused me in fact, it was sent by a personal friend...NOT a robot...whilst I agree with you, i find these quotes amongst a thousand others using one excuse against another for death being justified...perhaps you and I BOTH read the 'message' incorrectly...well, we'll see...
Post a Comment