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God's Twenty One Martyrs
by Lewis E. Thomas Twenty one Egyptian Christians lined up in a row on their knees. God listened very intensively to their final pleas! They prayed their final prayer on this old earth. They were Children of The Cross who believed in Christ's virgin birth. As they prepared themselves to depart and go to Glory. They were beheaded by ISIS terrorists and the executions were gory! The were murdered by the servants of Satan in the name of of Allah! There would be many more Christian martyrs to follow. They were offered the opportunity to reject Christ and live. But to reject Jesus was something they just could not give! As the Twenty One said their final prayers to the God they loved. Jesus and the Angels stood and applauded up in Heaven above! My own Faith has been tremendously strengthened through their deaths! I am more determined than ever now to be Faithful to my last breath! Jesus put something within me worth more than all the world's gold! "Faith in Him and His Cross" that will save my eternal soul! I want the Islamic Terrorists to know God's Twenty One died not in vain! Because of their faithfulness I'll never, ever, be the same! Now I'm more determined than ever no matter how great the price! To be faithful unto death following my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! Lewis E. Thomas As given by God on 2-23-2915 This poem dedicated to the 21 Coptic Christians beheaded by ISIS in Lybia 2015. There names: Hani Abdel Messihah Yousef Shoukry Towadros Yousef Maged Suleiman Shahata Here are the names of the rest of the Christian men killed by the Islamic State in Libya, according to a list provided to The WorldPost by a Coptic church representative in Minya. 5. Milad Makeen Zaky 6. Abanub Ayad Atiya 7. Kirollos Shokry Fawzy (Kirollos Bashree Fawzy) 8. Bishoy Astafanus Kamel 9. Malak Ibrahim Sinweet 10. Girgis Milad Sinweet 11. Mina Fayez Aziz 12. Samuel Alham Wilson 13. Samuel Astafanus Kamel 14. Ezat Bishri Naseef 15. Loqa Nagaty Anees 16. Munir Gaber Adly 17. Esam Badir Samir 18. Malak Farag Abram 19. Sameh Salah (Sameh Salah Farug) 20. Girgis Sameer Maglee 21. Unknown (While the Egyptian government has said that all 21 men were Coptic Christians, a document compiled by the church in Minya and provided to The WorldPost lists only 20 names) The Islamic State's Al Hayat Media produced the Libya video of their beheading titled, "A Message Signed with Blood to the Nation of the Cross." On Jan. 3 at around 2:30 a.m. in the coastal Libyan city of Sirte, masked gunmen began knocking on doors, according to survivors. They were looking for Christians marked with traditional tattoos on their hands that identified them as Copts, an ancient Christian sect in Egypt. Some men were pulled from their beds at gunpoint. Others hid and prayed, only to later see their captured friends and family members decapitated in a widely circulated and highly produced Islamic State video. But in this tight-knit village, these men will not be remembered for their brutal murders. They are remembered as beloved husbands, sons, brothers, cousins and friends. In death, their lives are celebrated. Here are the lives they lived, as told by family members. Hani Abdel Messihah, 32 coptic christians Magda Aziz, 29, holds the photo of her late husband, killed by ISIS, as she sits in her home in Al Aour, Egypt, on Tuesday. Hani loved his four children -- three girls and a boy, the youngest -- more than anything in the world, his family says. He was gentle and kind, always making a joke whenever he could. His wife Magda Aziz, 29, will forever remember his laugh. "I felt like he was an angel," Magda said of her deeply devout husband. "There was a prayer in anything he said." Hani desperately wanted to come home after eight months laboring in Libya. He was sick and tired of the relentless violence and the constant threat of kidnapping. But leaving was a difficult choice. There was money in Libya, unlike in Al Aour, money that he needed to support Magda and his children. But he finally decided to come home to his family, she said. He was killed before he ever got a chance to leave. "He took care of all of us," Magda explains, weakly. The women around her nod in unison, passing around a faded photograph of the smiling father with his little boy. "He was so kind," Magda says. "He gave us hugs and kisses." coptic christians Hani Abdel Messihah, 32, killed by ISIS in Libya, smiles with his young son in a worn photograph. Magda will never forget the last conversation she had with her husband. He called on New Year's wanting to speak with each of his children. The couple exchanged tender words. He asked if she wanted or needed anything -- he would try to get it to her, whatever it was. She remembers saying, "I want you safe." And he asked her to pray for him. She never heard from Hani again. When she saw the video of his beheading on Egyptian television, her family cried so hard that she says neighbors called an ambulance. She doesn't talk much about how she feels now, apart from the fact that she's still in shock. "I miss him," she says with a whisper. Her three daughters sit around her, clinging to their mother. The oldest girl begins to weep as the younger two stare off, unable to comprehend the grief around them. "Your dad is in the sky," a relative says, hoping to console the little girl. "He's in the heavens." Read more stories by family members of the 21 martyrs here: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6703278 ... Article Source: http://www.faithwriters.com |