There was a large group of subversives involved in an attack that began at 4:45 am. Miss X had to get up at 3 am to take a pill. She was still awake at 3:30 when Mr. Y got up to finish preparing the sermon he was to give that morning in church.
Both Mr. Y and Miss X sensed some impending doom there at 3:30 am and prayed together for quite a while. The people in the city in the jungle had been warned the subversives were going to attack on Nov. 24th. Miss X said to my friend and Mr. Y, “What if they have decided to do it sooner? After all, tonight is the witches’ night (Halloween).” They all prayed for God’s protection before they went to bed. When the attack started, the four of them hid in a room next to the bathroom which was farther from the front of the house than their bedrooms. The front of the house is on the main street and the police had a bunker and trenches across the width of the street at the nearest corner. That was the first target of the subversives. Something crashed through the roof of the bathroom soon after the attack began, so they all moved to the little room (“prophet’s chamber”) my friend had built a few months before for Mr. Y out back by the laundry area
He was calling out to my friend. It was a young policeman with the inside of his left arm from wrist to elbow blown away to the bone gushing blood all over. He was trembling from the severe pain. The four Christians took him into their hiding place (Mr. Y’s little room), put their hands on him and asked the Lord to stop the bleeding. Miss X said, “That was the first miracle. It stopped immediately.” Then Mr. Y noticed blood was oozing out of one of his boots. He had five holes in that foot! They prayed for the foot to stop bleeding – second miracle: it stopped right away. He was in terrible agony and they had nothing to give him, so they prayed he would fall asleep. He immediately fell into a deep sleep that lasted the rest of the day. The five were all lying on the floor under Mr. Y’s single bed with the mattress pulled down for over ten hours, praying and dozing off and on. They had such peace that my friend and the policeman were snoring! That woke Miss X up and she prayed none of the subversives would hear them. That prayer also was answered. (In comparing notes afterwards it seems only the Christians were able to sleep during the attack.)
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[Persecution, Protection, Columbia]