Hi Star4Jesus,
I can feel your pain, and I know that it is very real, And I do not intend to make light of your pain, and we will continue praying for the Lord to give you the strength to carry through. I recall Ray speaking of a time when he was about to give up serving Jesus as a Prophet because of the things which were happening to him. But the Lord Strengthened Ray and Ray continued.
You may find interesting the following very true story about what Lillian Trasher went through.
http://www.barr-family.com/godsword/lillian.htm
And the following of what one man is going through in Israel right now, even today. (This Testimony is written by one who is there, and not by me.)
Meanwhile, in a previous prayer letter I shared that Y told D he had heard about an Ultra-Orthodox man who is a believer in Yeshua and shunned by everyone. We didn’t know if this was a rumor or not, but felt the Lord wanted us to have this information. D has now found this person at the yeshiva Y told him about. S is indeed a believer, a young man in his twenties with four children. His story is quite sad, but also tremendously encouraging and a confirmation of the vision the Lord has given this ministry. It all started when D went to the yeshiva to try to find this man, as he was given his name by Y. This was actually quite courageous since this yeshiva is not that far from the community that knows D very well. Anyway, after asking about him, he was told who he was, but advised not to talk to ‘S’ because “he’s crazy and loony.” S was understandably suspicious of D because everyone hates him and he couldn’t understand why anyone would be trying to find him just to be friendly. S doesn’t speak verbally at the moment. He writes messages on paper. On Monday, a friend of S phoned D to say that S wanted to meet him again the next day. S told D he doesn’t talk because he has been so persecuted and abused that he decided he wouldn’t talk to anyone anymore except the Lord. When D saw him today, he had egg on the back of his coat. People spit at him and children in the neighborhood throw things at him. It turns out that the friend that phoned D used to be a believer, and even S’s wife used to be a believer. They all came to faith at the same time after S’s friend had a dream about Yeshua while visiting the Lubavitch Headquarters in Brooklyn. BUT then, at some point, their faith was somehow discovered by the rabbis and they started to come under heavy persecution. S said they tried to get help from other believers, but “couldn’t find anyone to help them,” so S’s friend and wife were drawn back in, deciding there was no other choice.
The reprinting of even this part of the message is dangerous to those spoken of, even when their initials are used, for should they be identified by anyone living near them, they would be very severly persecuted as you read above as happened so far to the man identified as "S". You see how he is persecuted, and how he has lost his wife and children, and his friend, because he is following Jesus Christ.
Is there anything that any of us here is going through that can even begin to compare to what these people are living with daily?
With the Love of Jesus
Jack Barr
