Posted on 07/10/2015 5:01:15 PM PDT by markomalley
Muslims in Nigeria — all members of Boko Haram — kidnapped a young Christian girl and demanded that she deny Christ. She refused. They buried her up to her neck and crushed her to death with rocks. Her father, a local pastor named Nkeki Mutah, took pride in his daughter’s resilience, and said:
I was told that my daughter refused to change her religion. I was told that they dug a hole and buried her from the neck and stoned her to death… To die for the sake of Christ, that’s the happiest thing for me. I’m grateful that she didn’t change her religion. She trust[ed] in God.
Her mother, Marta, said:
I believe she died with dignity. Monica is now in heaven because she refused to convert.
The perspective of these Christians, which is filled with spiritual fortitude, is actually the correct mindset to have. To see death as not the ceasing of life, but as a mere transition from the transient to the eternal, from the bondage of sin to the absolute bliss of the Beatific Vision and the absolute union with the Divine Trinity, is the correct view. Even God finds happiness when His children are martyred, for in the words of David: “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.” (Psalm 116:15)
The purpose of life, is not to live. Whoever says that the purpose of life is to live is preaching the devil’s lie, that we should “live for the moment.” The purpose of life is to die unto the self, and to liberate the self from the cares of this earth, to prepare the self for the Beatific Vision. “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.” (Matthew 16:25)
Life is not an end unto itself, it is a means to an end, and that end is eternity. The farmer sows the seeds, but the beauties of their fruit do not appear until the seeds themselves die. And so it is with us: the glory of eternity is not experienced until the self is denied, the cross is carried, the Master is followed, and the fruits of holy labor grow from the vines in the spring of repentance, and a worthy martyrdom brings us to Paradise. As the Apostle tells us, “what you sow is not made alive unless it dies.” (1 Corinthians 15:31) Martyrdom is the most sublime form of worship; it is a declaration of gratefulness to the sacrifice of Christ. As St. Paulinus said: “the death of holy men can rightly be called their praise; for it is a precious repayment to the Lord God.” (Paulinus of Nola, Poem 21)
Animals. Just sadistic murdering savage Insects that should be stepped on and eliminated like cockroaches. Can we please get a real President?
Lord, did you see that?
Why do we allow this to happen? Just like Nazi Germany we tolerated all of the Nazi crap. Then after the war we realized what really went on it was too late. Need to wipe them all out.
Coming to a country near U.S.
Someone explain to me how a ‘God’ could allow this to happen ?
Liberals, meet Islam. That’s is going to fun to watch!
A mere child, does God not care?
Sorry but it's continuing events such as these that still make me question the existence of a God........
Here’s, what Jesus said about hatred of Christians.
..If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you...
Muslims fit that description.
And some American Christians think they have it tough...
My most frequent prayer is that I am faithful until the end. I hope I love Christ as much as this little girl. What a witness!
“As WND has reported, despite first lady Michelle Obama’s much-publicized Twitter campaign to #BringBackOurGirls, President Obama withheld weapons and intelligence support from Nigeria in its fight against the Islamists because Jonathan’s administration stood by the nation’s laws criminalizing homosexual acts and strictly forbidding same-sex marriage.”
From here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3290335/posts
More workplace violence from mussy Obambi’s best friends.
It is just Muslims following Mohammed.
Apoc 6
[1] And I saw that the Lamb had opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures, as it were the voice of thunder, saying: Come, and see. [2] And I saw: and behold a white horse, and he that sat on him had a bow, and there was a crown given him, and he went forth conquering that he might conquer.
[3] And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature, saying: Come, and see. [4] And there went out another horse that was red: and to him that sat thereon, it was given that he should take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another, and a great sword was given to him.
[5] And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying: Come, and see. And behold a black horse, and he that sat on him had a pair of scales in his hand. [6] And I heard as it were a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying: Two pounds of wheat for a penny, and thrice two pounds of barley for a penny, and see thou hurt not the wine and the oil.
[7] And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature, saying: Come, and see. [8] And behold a pale horse, and he that sat upon him, his name was Death, and hell followed him. And power was given to him over the four parts of the earth, to kill with sword, with famine, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
[9] And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held. [10] And they cried with a loud voice, saying: How long, O Lord (holy and true) dost thou not judge and revenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? [11] And white robes were given to every one of them one; and it was said to them, that they should rest for a little time, till their fellow servants, and their brethren, who are to be slain, even as they, should be filled up.
[12] And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal, and behold there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair: and the whole moon became as blood: [13] And the stars from heaven fell upon the earth, as the fig tree casteth its green figs when it is shaken by a great wind: [14] And the heaven departed as a book folded up: and every mountain, and the islands were moved out of their places. [15] And the kings of the earth, and the princes, and tribunes, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of mountains:
[16] And they say to the mountains and the rocks: Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb: [17] For the great day of their wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?
Their time is coming...
——Someone explain to me how a ‘God’ could allow this to happen ?——
It’s called the greatest gift God gave us besides Jesus:
Man has a free will...
Monica the new Martyr, pray for us!
You have it exactly backwards.
God did not ‘allow it’.
He is just giving the people exactly what they are asking for!
Think about what the folks in the US have VOTED for - He will give us that in spades.
AMDG
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