Amen, bro. Want to know something strange? I was thinking of posting the same passage. We just had our missionary in Ethiopia preach on this last Sunday. Even stranger, he’d been thinking about it for months, before the leadership asked him to speak on it. There was the same focus you spotted: God is perfectily able to save them, if that is His will, “but even if” God allows their physical demise, they will not bow down to idols. Certainly Islam is idolatry. I commend these Christians for their courage and exemplary faith. May we be equally confident in our God, should we be forced to choose between idols and the fiery furnace. If to the furnace we must go, by God’s grace we will not feel that heat, and will be kept company during our test by the Son of God Himself. Can’t ask for better than that.
Peace,
SR
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