Joe Hoyle (18 Aug 2004)
"REPLY TO DEESHELTON"


HI DEESHELTON
 
  Your question was:
 
  <<<<<<<<<< does anyone know the status of the church in nagasaki and hiroshima when america destrotyed those cities with atomic bombs,or was it non existent. >>>>>>>>>>>>
 
  The Christian church in Japan, even though small and silent has been there for between five and six hundred years.As far as Nagasaki and Hiroshima in particular; I can't speak for Hiroshima, but I heard a story back several years ago about Nagasaki.The story is that there were a small group of Christian men who had gathered together for Prayer in a small wooden structure of some type; apparently to Pray for what had just happened in Hiroshima.They happened to be gathered right at the same time that the second A-bomb was dropped on their city.The story is that where they were gathered, was about a half mile or less from ground zero; and that all life around them were killed, and everything flattened and demolished as far as the eye could see.The lone exception being that one structure where the men had gathered, which was still standing and untouched--with all men surviving--the point being of them Spiritually hidden away from the blast.
 
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  (LUKE 21:36)
 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.
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