A free Iran would be a game changer not only for its own 93 million people but for the entire Middle East, a beacon of liberty and prosperity. Might it also be a modern-day Antioch?
Part way through you mentioned "witness something unprecedented, 1st modern Islamic country to turn to Christ"
Has this ever happened before? Has an moslem country ever renounced Islam and embraced Christ? I have never read about this ever happening. Is there a big gap in my reading?
The Spanish and Greeks escaped, but only after centuries of war and resistance and the expulsion of moslems, not by spiritual conversion.
Our Heavenly Father can achieve anything but is this realistically possible?
Yes there have been miraculous people movements, whole language/ tribes saved like the Karen in Burma and the Mizoram people of mizoram state in East India, just north of Bangladesh.But like the Koreans none of these were originally moslems.
We can only pray the Holy Spirit does move to save many. The rebirth of the Russian Orthodox from ritual to faith has been spectacular since communism collapsed in 1989.
I don't disagree. But I don't think the Holy Spirit is uniquely powerless against Allah (not suggesting you do). I think the key here may be that according to Iranian government data (!), 54% of Iranians have "no religion" now, and 50,000 of the country's 75,000 mosques have closed in the last decade.
Those data points -- again, from the Iranian government -- tell us that something pretty dramatic is already underway. And to the best of my knowledge, that is also unprecedented in Islamic states, which suggests exactly what Reza Pahlavi's supporters keep saying: that the regime has declared itself identical with Islam, and the people have decided to believe them.
No stopping Islam until they’re driven out from Europe, just like last time. It’s no different than dealing with locusts…
A terrific article! God bless the Iranian people! I hope millions will join the Christian Church and give their lives over to Jesus Christ! ✝️⛪️🙏🕊️
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Iran, war, and the surprising growth of Christianity
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Would not have seen this without your post!
Persians reclaiming Persia would be a great start to this optimistic outlook.
Iran will be free.
Part way through you mentioned "witness something unprecedented, 1st modern Islamic country to turn to Christ"
Has this ever happened before? Has an moslem country ever renounced Islam and embraced Christ? I have never read about this ever happening. Is there a big gap in my reading?
The Spanish and Greeks escaped, but only after centuries of war and resistance and the expulsion of moslems, not by spiritual conversion.
Our Heavenly Father can achieve anything but is this realistically possible?
Not Islam in that timeframe, but South Korea went from 1% Christian to about half in the second half of the 20th century.
Yes there have been miraculous people movements, whole language/ tribes saved like the Karen in Burma and the Mizoram people of mizoram state in East India, just north of Bangladesh.But like the Koreans none of these were originally moslems.
We can only pray the Holy Spirit does move to save many. The rebirth of the Russian Orthodox from ritual to faith has been spectacular since communism collapsed in 1989.
I don't disagree. But I don't think the Holy Spirit is uniquely powerless against Allah (not suggesting you do). I think the key here may be that according to Iranian government data (!), 54% of Iranians have "no religion" now, and 50,000 of the country's 75,000 mosques have closed in the last decade.
Those data points -- again, from the Iranian government -- tell us that something pretty dramatic is already underway. And to the best of my knowledge, that is also unprecedented in Islamic states, which suggests exactly what Reza Pahlavi's supporters keep saying: that the regime has declared itself identical with Islam, and the people have decided to believe them.