Iran Has Fastest Growing Church

Anyone who says that Jesus and His followers are shrinking in number is simply not paying attention.  Yes, it might be true in America and Europe, but in other parts of the world Christianity is exploding.

Check out this incredible news from Iran.

https://www.foxnews.com/faith-values/worlds-fastest-growing-church-women-documentary-film

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A new film tells the story of the "fastest-growing church" in the world, an underground, persecuted Christian movement in a country known for exporting radical Islamic terrorism — Iran.

People in Iran, a Muslim-majority nation, are fleeing Islam in droves as believers bow their knee to Jesus and become aggressively pro-Israel, according to the documentary "Sheep Among Wolves Volume II."

“What if I told you Islam is dead?” one unidentified Iranian church leader says in the film, which was directed by Dalton Thomas and produced by Frontier Alliance International Studios.

“What if I told you the mosques are empty inside Iran?" he continues. "What if I told you no one follows Islam inside of Iran? Would you believe me? This is exactly what is happening inside of Iran. God is moving powerfully inside of Iran.”

The pastor adds: “What if I told you the best evangelist for Jesus was the Ayatollah Khomeini? The ayatollahs brought the true face of Islam to light and people discovered it was a lie...After 40 years under Islamic law — a utopia according to them — they’ve had the worst devastation in the 5,000-year history of Iran.”

Thomas calls the movement "the Iranian awakening."

"It owns no property, no buildings, no central leadership, and is predominantly led by women," he said in a statement.

Named after the Bible verse Matthew 10:16 which says, “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves,” the documentary claims "Muslim-background Iranians are leading a quiet but mass exodus out of Islam and bowing their knees to the Jewish Messiah -- with kindled affection toward the Jewish people."

But the new believers in the Islamic Republic face great risks.

"We know that if they get us, the first thing they will do to us as a woman is rape us and then they will beat us and ultimately they will kill us," one believer said. "This is the decision we have made that we want to offer our bodies as sacrifices. Because I have this thought when I wake up, that when I leave, that door I might not come back."

Here;  https://www.foxnews.com/faith-values/worlds-fastest-growing-church-women-documentary-film

Praise the Lord!  What a testimony!  We wonder how many people in America would still go to church if the women knew they would be raped and killed because of their faith in Christ?

We have no idea what this means for the prophecy of Ezekiel 38, but we need to be in prayer for the church of Iran.  Pray that they will explode under the pressure cooker of persecution.

Hat tip to Mick L.