{"id":3123,"date":"2015-02-17T07:13:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T15:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2015-02-17T07:13:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T15:13:16","slug":"isis-sends-21-from-a-beach-to-the-throne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2015\/isis-sends-21-from-a-beach-to-the-throne\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS Sends 21 from a Beach to the Throne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/21-egyptian-martyrs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/21-egyptian-martyrs.jpg\" alt=\"21 Egyptians martyred by ISIS in Libya\" width=\"670\" height=\"376\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/21-egyptian-martyrs.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/21-egyptian-martyrs-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/21-egyptian-martyrs-400x224.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"display:none\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/21-egyptian-martyrs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/21-egyptian-martyrs-400x224.jpg\" alt=\"21 Egyptians martyred by ISIS in Libya\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/21-egyptian-martyrs-400x224.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/21-egyptian-martyrs-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/21-egyptian-martyrs.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are the ones in orange pictured above among these now?<\/p>\n<div class=\"facebook\">&#8220;I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?&#8221; (Revelation 6:9,10).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God&#8221; (Revelation 20:4).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know enough to pretend to know the eternal status of those 21 Eygptian Copts slaughtered on that beach. But I thought of the Revelation scene(s).<\/p>\n<p>I also thought of this angle: <!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"facebook\">&#8220;Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do&#8221; (Luke 23:34).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge&#8221; (Acts 7:60).<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>May God redeem the killers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Islamic State terror group released a video on Sunday showing the Islamic jihadis beheading 21 Egyptian Christians who were previously kidnapped in Libya.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian Copts, who were dressed in prisoner-like orange jump suits, were lined up along a beach and abruptly beheaded in the graphic five-minute video.The Islamic State\u2019s Al Hayat Media, the group that has published the previous beheading videos in the Middle East, produced the Libya video titled, &#8220;A Message Signed With Blood To The Nation Of The Cross.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"alignrightsmall\"><a href='http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2015\/02\/15\/isis-beheads-21-christians-promises-to-conquer-rome-by-allahs-permission\/'>ISIS Beheads 21 Christians, Promises To &#8220;Conquer Rome, By Allah&#8217;s Permission&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>May each of the killers experience <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaylaroth.com\/2015\/o-love-that-will-not-let-me-go\/\" title=\"O Love That Will Not Let Me Go | Michayla Roth\">the love that will not let them go.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They too are precious in the eyes of the Redeemer Lamb, who shed His blood for them.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data->\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">O Love That Will Not Let Me Go ? <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/NcXjkwpCLZ\">http:\/\/t.co\/NcXjkwpCLZ<\/a> ? After the song lyrics, a beautiful post ? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/encouragement?src=hash\">#encouragement<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/hope?src=hash\">#hope<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Roth (@anabaptist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anabaptist\/status\/567692245998923777\">February 17, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Praise God for His redeeming love!<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>42 men, each precious in the eyes of Jesus the Redeemer<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[29,39,586],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-endangered-christians","tag-islam","tag-persecution","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/21-egyptian-martyrs.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-On","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}