The founder of a ministry devoted to serving the Iranian underground church said many people in the restrictive nation had encountered Jesus through dreams and visions, a phenomenon that’s potentially foreign to Western cultures.
A great awakening has started in Iran.
Acts 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
Joel 2:38 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
According to Open Doors International, more than 1.2 million believers are residing within the Islamic Iranian regime.
“In my research and interviews, it has become clear that new Christians’ witness to others is mostly shared in quiet conversations, encouraged by low-profile online Bible studies, and affirmed by visions, dreams, and miraculously answered prayers,” said a Senior Fellow for International Religious Freedom at Family Research Council,
They cannot stop talking about it. I saw a vision of a man with a white robe, with a cross on his shoulder or his heart, “I’m Jesus. “In Iran, people see a vision they will wake up sweating and shaking,
Many believers in the West come to Jesus because others share the Gospel. In Iran, people see a vision; they will wake up sweating and shaking,
Paul came to Jesus to Jesus through a vision:
Acts 9:3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:
Acts 9:4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Acts 9:4 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Cornelius had a vision:
Acts 10:3 He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.
Acts 10:4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.
Acts 10:5 And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter.
Peter had a dream from God:
Acts 10:9 On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:
Acts 10:10 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
Acts 10:11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth.
Becoming a Christian in Iran is life-changing, but if caught, sometimes the persecution is brutal and life-threatening.
Prison is usually the outcome of where lack of sanitation and the use of torture for being a Christian. Guards rape many women.
1 Peter 3:14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
1 Peter 3:16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
1 Peter 3:17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
2 Timothy 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
It is thought that the number of Christians in Iran is approaching 1.2 million.
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