Islam used to represent … Africa’s main religion and there were
30 African languages that used to be written in Arabic script.
The number of Muslims in Africa has diminished to 316 million,
half of whom are Arabs in North Africa. So in the section of Africa
that we are talking about, the non-Arab section, the number of
Muslims does not exceed 150 million people.
When we realize that
the entire population of Africa is one billion people, we see that
the number of Muslims has diminished greatly from what it
was in the beginning of the last century.
On the other hand, the number of Catholics has increased
from one million in 1902 to 329 million 882 thousand (329,882,000).
Let us round off that number to 330 million in the year 2000.
As to how that happened, well there are now 1.5 million
churches whose congregations account for 46 million
people. In every hour, 667 Muslims convert to Christianity.
Everyday, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity.
Every year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity.
These numbers are very large indeed.
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how some of them really feel
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After years of al-Qaeda war on Iraq, a similar phenomenon is growing.
The New York Times March 4 reports: “After almost five years of
war, many young people in Iraq, exhausted by constant firsthand
exposure to the violence of religious extremism, say they have grown
disillusioned with religious leaders and skeptical of the faith that they
preach.” A high school girl tells Times reporters: “I hate Islam and all
the clerics because they limit our freedom every day and their
instruction became heavy over us. Most of the girls in my high
school hate that Islamic people control the authority because they
don’t deserve to be rulers.” A 19-year-old man says:
“The religion men are liars. Young people don’t believe them.
Guys my age are not interested in religion anymore.” A Baghdad
law professor explains that her students “have changed their views about religion.
They started to hate religious men. They make jokes about
them because they feel disgusted by them.” A 24-year-old
female college student says, “I used to love Osama bin Laden.
Now I hate Islam. Al-Qaeda and the Mahdi Army
are spreading hatred. People are being killed for nothing.”
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Jesus Appears To 200
Thousand Muslims
At Once In
T.L. Osborn Crusade
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He was seen of above five hundred brethren
at once” (1 Cor 15:6)
Who Said He Couldn’t Appear To This Many
People At One Time-
He Did It Yesterday And He’s Now Doing
It Again Today
To confirm this, there’s another story that has inspired me for years!
In 1956, T.L. Osborn was doing a metting before an audience of 200,000
people who were all Muslims, in Darkotr, Java. When all of a sudden
Jesus appeared notably over the whole crowd in a cloud. Everyone saw
His face and glory and got saved giving their lives and hearts to Jesus!
Tremendous! What makes this story more awesome is that these who
saw this with photography equipment, took pictures where you actually
see Jesus face on the pictures when the Lord appeared. I saw
first saw this picture when I read a book T.L. Osborn wrote
called “Healing the Sick”. You see the picture where Jesus
appeared openly in front of two hundred thousand Muslims.
This is what America is about to see and we are
starting to experience it in it’s shallow beginning.
Miracles As The Result of Jesus Resurrection And Appearance
CAMERA MIRACULOUSLY CONFIRMS
CHRIST’S APPEARANCES
DURING THE OSBORN CRUSADE IN JAVA
In almost every service during the Java Campaigns, someone saw the Lord.
This might seem superficial, except for one fact: The Muslim
people believe that Jesus is dead!
According to Scripture, that was the attitude of the people in the Holy
Land after Christ’s resurrection.
To prove them that He was God’s Son, and that death could not hold Him
, it is written that “He shewed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible
proofs, being seen of them” (Acts 1:3).
Having established the fact of His resurrection, thousands of the people
believed on Him and became His followers (Acts 4:4)
So it was in Java where the Moslem religion had held sway for centuries.
Night after night, Christ “shewed Himself alive… being seen by of
(the people)”. Thus confirming the Gospel preached, the living
Christ was received in faith by tens of thousands who heard
the Gospel and saw it confirmed by “signs following”.
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Jesus Appears To Everyone By Night In The Whole Country”
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As he told others in that Muslim country, everyone he spoke to hadseen Jesus the same night in a dream. Come to find out on the internationalnews, everyone in this whole Muslim nation was visited at the samenight by Jesus in one day (Is 66:7-9)! The whole nation was convertedover to Christianity in one night by the appearance of the Lord!Wow, now that’s power! Like the scriptures declares,“Can a nation be born (born again) in one day? The answeris yes it can. Jesus is appearing to whole Muslim nations nowwhere the gospel is not accepted. He’s evangelizing Himself!We serve an awesome Lord.
Isn’t this beautiful! Another incident happened in this orderat an all Muslim third world nation that was just as tremendous.This is a true story and it also made international news and headlines.There was this young woman that got killed in a tragic accident, leaving behind two beautiful and precious children. They wereyoung and still under the age of 12. Her brother, which was theiruncle, had to take them and attend to them after his sister died.He started getting impatient with the children as time wentby and he didn’t handle them properly. So he being upset,took them to a cemetery and buried them alive in two separate tombs.For two weeks or more, these children remained inside thisplace when someone heard them or somehow discovered themin a walk in tomb. When the news media heard of this theywere all over this and found out what happened. Theyasked these two children how did you survive this long withoutfood or water. You know little children can’t go that long without eating.The amazing thing is both of them answered the same way andthey were not even buried together in the same tomb for two weeks!Now you also got to understand that these childrenwere raised Muslim and had never heard of Jesus!++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++They saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.”
“Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine.”
“Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.”
“This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his disciples,after that he was risen from the dead.”
(John 21:9,12,13,14)-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The so called Night of Power, or “Laylat ul-Qadr” as it is known in Arabic, is
one of the most significant moments of the Islamic year (It is the 27th night
of Ramadan which varies from country to country depending on when people
start Ramadan). Muslims believe that groups of angels are sent out on the Night
of Power to perform special acts. Some come down to earth to worship Allah,
others come to bring about the requests of believing Muslims. Special angels
are also said to descend to earth to make proclamations about the coming
year. This night is also called the “Night of the Decree or Destiny” by some.
This night of “blessing” is supposedly the same night of the month of
Ramadan as when Mohammed first received the revelation of the Qur’an.
Muslims are often encouraged to stay awake during the entire night,
and pray for blessings and forgiveness. This is one moment of the year
when Muslims are perhaps a bit less fatalistic and have increased
confidence that God will hear and act on their behalf.
The "30 Days" movement wants to encourage Christians around the
world to especially pray for Muslims especially during the next 48
hours that many Muslims will really meet the Lord in visions and
dreams. We also want you to pray for the success of a special web
site which tells the stories of several Muslims who met the Lord
in incredible ways (www.DreamsAndVisions.com).
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A testimony from the site: Mohammed grew up in a Fulani tribe in Nigeria
and started rearing cattle when he was six years old. He did this for almost
10 years until he went to an Arabic school to study the Qur’an. Prior to this,
Mohammed had learned about Islam from his father.
After several years of schooling, he returned home.
One night he had a frightening dream. Then as second and a third. Then for
six nights, Mohammed had similar dreams. Each time, Mohammed saw
himself in different places and, regardless of where he was, the same man
in white came and helped him. In the last dream (the 9th dream),
Mohammed was sitting under a tree reading books that he couldn’t understand.
The man in white (Jesus) was sitting beside him. Jesus took a book and said,
“This book comes from the Lord and it has the message of God inside
of it. In this book, I will show you verses which will help you.”
Jesus read scriptures to Mohammed, including John 14:6, which says, “
I am the way, the truth and the life." The next day Mohammed told
a Christian acquaintance about his dream. Mohammed suffered greatly
for his new found faith. He was rejected by his father and several times
he was in danger of death by persecution.
You can read his whole story on the dreamsandvisions.com web site.
http://www.30-days.net/muslims/muslims-in/mid-near-east/dreams-visions/
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MUSLIMS COMING
TO CHRIST
During a recent ministry trip overseas I was presented with some astounding statistics onMuslims coming to Christ. As the sources are involved in restricted access areas, they do
not want their names mentioned as sources, neither can I personally confirm the accuracy
of these reports. However, for your interest and information: I’ve been informed that
there are now over 50,000 believers in Afghanistan. Before the war there were less
than 100 Christians in the country. Today there are more than 400 Christian
missionaries in Afghanistan, operating in each of the 34 provinces, for the first time in
Afghan history. One of the missions involved in Afghanistan claims that there are
today over 50,000 Afghan Christians.
Another mission involved in Iraq claims that, in the year before the war
in 2003 there were only 3,000 known evangelical Christians in Iraq,
and only six evangelical churches. Today there are more than 25,000
Iraqi believers in 25 churches in Baghdad alone. And hundreds of new
churches in other areas of Iraq.
According to Christian author, Dr. Jim Murk (author of Islam Rising –
The Never-ending Jihad against Christianity) estimates that 20,000
Muslims convert to Christianity each year in America.
According to Muslim sources, over 6 million Muslims convert from
Islam to Christianity each year! This seems to be an incredibly
high figure, but perhaps these sources are counting all those lost to
Islam as converts to Christianity. It is possible that many are leaving
Islam without coming to faith in Christ.
However, there is no doubt that tens of thousands of Muslims are
coming to faith in Christ in Nigeria, Sudan, Indonesia,
and other parts of the Muslim world.
Does your church have a programme for reaching
Muslims for Christ? Are
your members well informed on the teachings of Islam
and the culture of Muslims?
Are they effectively trained in evangelism and
prepared for cross-cultural
witnessing? If Muslims come to Christ in
your area, would you church be able to
welcome them into the congregation, and effectively disciple them?
Frontline Fellowship has been revising and refining
our Muslim Evangelism
Workshop over the last 24 years. We have resources that can assist your
church in effectively witnessing to and evangelising Muslims, and
helping with love & compassion of God converts from a Muslim background.