Bre (3 March
2009)
"Awesome article by Joel Rosenberg about Damascus film :)"
Hey Doves....I have been here every day and reading just not posting much....So hiya :)
Awesome
article....I have been praying as I am sure others have as well for
salvation of the Muslims :) That being said then, we must also wonder
if the next Biblical prophetic event will be Isaiah 17 when Damascus is
destroyed.....I will be keeping my eyes open to see........
Is God giving them a last chance to be exposed to the Gospel (and obtain salvation) before Isaiah 17?
Like
Jonah warned Nineveh, Assyria that they had 40 days to repent before
destruction?? Hmmmm....Plus counting from the day of March 2 forward
40days puts us on April 10th Good Friday....Might lead to something,
might not lead to much but, it DOES mean with the obviousness of the
Lords finger prints all over it due to the fact that they even got to
show this film in the first place, that it will probably lead some
remaining Gentiles to salvation in Jesus before destruction/rapture on
what ever day it does occur...So that in and of itself is
wonderful....Just some food for thought :)
Jonah 3:4 (King James Version)
4And
Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and
said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
LOVE ysiC,
Bre
Joel Rosenberg curious development in Syria
Washington,
D.C., March 2, 2009) -- On Monday night, something remarkable is going
to take place in the capital of Syria. More than 1,100 senior Syrian
government officials, journalists, business leaders and religious
leaders -- Muslim, Catholic and evangelical Christian -- will attend
the gala premiere of a major motion picture entitled "DAMASCUS,"
written, produced and directed by entirely Arab Christians. The film,
part documentary and part narrative drama, tells the story of how Saul
of Tarsus -- one of the first prominent persecutors of Christ-followers
in the Holy Land -- himself became a follower of Jesus during a
miraculous encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus and eventually
became known as the Apostle Paul, going on to write much of the New
Testament.
It is unheard of in the Middle East to have a
major Christian film about the events of the New Testament debut in a
Muslim-majority country run by the secular Ba'ath Party, much less have
the premiere supported and attended by senior government officials.
That's what makes the "DAMASCUS" docu-drama project so extraordinary.
What's more, the film is hosted and narrated by one of the most
well-known Syrian TV newscasters who explains the historic events of
the life of Paul in the very places where those events occurred.
Numerous events in Paul's life are then dramatized using famous Syrian
Muslim actors playing the parts of Jews and Jewish followers of Jesus.
After
the premiere, the film is expected to be launched throughout Syria and
the rest of the Muslim world. Sources indicate senior Catholic leaders
in the Vatican recently reviewed the film and were favorable.
The
remarkable film debut comes at a sensitive time for Syrian officials
who are feeling quite isolated from the West. U.S. and European leaders
have been sharply critical of President Bashar al-Assad's government on
a number of fronts, for supporting Hezbollah's war against Israel,
supporting Hamas' war against Israel, forming a strategic alliance with
Iran, buying billions of dollars worth of advanced weapons systems from
Russia, and building a nuclear facility with the help of North Korea (a
facility that was bombed and destroyed by an Israel airstrike several
years ago). Syria's government has never been controlled by Radical
Islamic jihadists. Still, it has long stifled activities by Arab
Christians to teach others about their faith. It is not clear what the
Assad government's motives are for both allowing and supporting the
release of the "DAMASCUS" film. But it is an encouraging development
indeed.
It is especially noteworthy given two Bible
prophecies -- one in Isaiah 17 and the other in Jeremiah 49 -- that
suggest the city of Damascus will be obliterated in what the Bible
calls "the last days." The Scriptures do not say exactly when or how
the Syrian capital will be destroyed. But let us pray that the powerful
message of Paul's life and Jesus Christ's love and forgiveness for all
people is clearly communicated to every Syrian, particularly those in
the capital.