Hussein and his ministry partner had gathered in an apartment belonging to a Christian in a Kurdish area of Iran. The man who lived in the apartment had also invited 10 young Kurdish, Muslim women to come hear about Jesus. The previous week, the believers had received a secret shipment of 500 New Testaments, which were stacked in three large boxes in one of the apartment’s bedrooms.
Shortly after the meeting started, eight members of the Ettelaat, Iranian secret police, rushed into the apartment. The angry men brought the meeting to a halt. One of them slapped Hussein before they took him to one of the bedrooms and handcuffed him. Some of them began to photograph each person at the meeting, while others began to tear the apartment apart, throwing everything—including Christian books and literature—into the middle of the floor in the large front room. They even pulled the pictures off the walls.
But miraculously, they never spotted the 500 New Testaments. “I was sure they would find them,” Hussein said, “because they even picked up a needle off of the floor.”
Hussein and three of the women were put in a white Volkswagen van. The van did not have official government license plates, and the Ettalaat officers had not shown any identification or warrants for the search or arrest. But they told Hussein he was in big trouble.
The police kept asking him about the girls in the apartment. What was he doing in the apartment with so many girls? And why was he, a Persian man, involved with Kurdish women? Hussein tried to remain calm and quiet.
They pulled up to a large gate, and when it opened they pulled inside. Hussein was blindfolded, and his ankles were chained together. The women were taken away; he didn’t know where, and he wondered what they would tell the officers and how he could make his story match theirs.
Three men marched him out of the van. “This is just the beginning of what we are going to do to you,” one of them said angrily. “This is just the welcome parade.” The men then put him in another vehicle. He heard the gate open again and they started moving. He didn’t know where they were taking him. Every time he moved in the car, one of the officers hit him and told him to be still.
“I knew if I made one mistake this church was going to get disintegrated,” Hussein said. “If I wasn’t John, I didn’t want to be Judas.” Hussein was silently praying, “Give me wisdom, God, for what to say and how to act.”
Hussein’s story was featured in a past issue of VOM’s free monthly newsletter. You can sign up to receive VOM’s newsletter here. Visit PersecutionBlog tomorrow to read how God protected Hussein in solitary confinement and interrogation. You can also read Part 1 and Part 2 of Hussein's story.
GOD is ALMIGHTY !
GOD can make invisible !
GOD can heal all everyone !
GOD can protect all in safety !
GOD possible do all everything !
but ...
why some servants of GOD must live in suffer of persecution ?
why GOD not help some servants of GOD from persecution ?
why some servants of GOD must live in suffer of diseases ?
why GOD not heal some servants of GOD from diseases ?
why GOD let some servants of GOD died killed by evils ?
Posted by: STAR777 | March 12, 2013 at 12:55 AM
some said :
if not chosen by GOD then GOD will not help.
only the chosen by GOD then GOD will help.
how to know : chosen by GOD ?
how to know : the Will of GOD ?
some said :
GOD speak in audible voice hear by ears.
GOD speak in mind.
GOD speak in heart.
GOD speak in vision.
GOD speak in dream.
GOD speak through someone.
GOD speak through something.
Posted by: STAR777 | March 12, 2013 at 12:22 AM