“We had a pastor who came to work in a particular neighbourhood to start a church among Shiite Muslims. He knew very clearly that the Lord said to take his family and go to this neighbourhood and start a church. He went and a few days after he arrived, the doorbell rang and he went out to the gate to open the door. Three masked men put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger and murdered him that day.
Not long after, God spoke to another man of God, a pastor, and said to him, “I want you to take that murdered man’s place. I want you to take your family and go to that same place, that same neighbourhood and I want you to plant my church among the Shiite Muslims there.” That Christ follower willingly obeyed the Lord’s instruction, took his family and moved into that same flat where that pastor had been. Not long after he moved in, there was a ring at the doorbell at the gate outside. He went out to the gate and three masked men were at the gate. They put a hood over his head and threw him into the back of a car. He said that he rode for a long time in the trunk of that vehicle not knowing where he was going. The vehicle came to a stop and they lifted the lid and pulled him out of the car. He was still masked and they walked him up some steps and he heard a door open. They stepped inside and the masked men took the hood off the pastor’s head.
He looked around the room, it was a giant room, in which he saw 900 men sitting around the room – 900 Shiite Muslim men. At that point the pastor thought “Oh my, they are going to publicly execute me.” One of the masked men, who had kidnapped the pastor, looked at him and said “Sir, we did not mean to frighten you but do you remember that man who lived in that home before you did?
“Of course”, the pastor said. “Yes, I do.”
Then the man said “Well, I am the one who pulled the trigger. The three of us are the ones that murdered him. The night that we killed him, do you see the men in this room?”
He said “Yes”.
“Well”, the man said, “the night that we killed him, every single one of us in this room had the same dream. We dreamt that the blood of that man was on our hands but that God in his mercy would send someone in his place who could tell us how to get the blood off our hands. Are you that man?”
That night the pastor had the blessed opportunity to share the gospel with 900 Shiite Muslim men who had the same dream on the same night. That night we were told that all 900 of those men choose to follow Jesus the Messiah. We heard later that their entire families, their wives and children, came to know Jesus Christ and follow him as well.
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