Exiled to the island of Patmose,
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the apostle John
received direct revelation from
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Jesus Christ. In
chapter two of the
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book of revelation
we find the council to
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Pergamos. The
church here in this area at
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the time he wrote in verse 12,
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an angel of the
church in Pergamos right.
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These things saith he
that he has the two edge
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sword, I know thy
works that are dwellest
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even where Satan seat
is. This was an area of
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worship of every kind
of God. God's of sacrifice,
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Zeus the God of all Gods,
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the giants who
battled against the Gods.
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But yet, yet the
church stayed faithful notice
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these words. And thou hold is
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fast my name and is
not denied my faith.
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Today the story of Tanya,
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is a young lady who
searched and searched
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but when she found
the faith of Jesus Christ
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she too is holding fast.
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Stay tuned for
this exciting story.
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Into the angel of the
church of Pergamos right
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these saying saith
he which have the sharp
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swords with two
edges. I know thy works and
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where thou dwellest
even where the Satan seat
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is and thou
holdest fast my name,
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and has not denied my
faith, even in those days
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wherein Antipas
was my faithful martyr,
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who was slaine among
you, where Satan dwelleth.
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But I have a few
things against thee,
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because thou hast
there them that hold the
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doctrine of
Balaam, who taught Balac to
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cast a stumblingblock
before the children of
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Israel, to eat things
sacrificed unto idols,
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and to commit fornication.
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So hast thou also
them that hold the doctrine
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of the Nicolaitanes,
which thing I hate.
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Repent; or else I will
come unto thee quickly,
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and will fight
against them with the sword of
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my mouth. He that hath an ear,
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let him hear what
the Spirit saith unto
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the churches; To
him that overcometh
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will I give to eat
of the hidden manna,
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and will give him a
white stone, and in the stone
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a new name written,
which no man knoweth
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saving he that receiveth it.
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Lilya how many years
have you worked for the
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studio in AWR? Fifteen years.
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Fifteen years! You
don't look that age,
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you must have
started as a little child.
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Thank you,
almost. You see AWR making
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a real impact in the
lives of many people there?
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I visited my relatives
Odessa and in the morning
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I woke up at 8 a.m.
to a loud sound of radio.
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And I was happy to hear
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that it was the voice of hope.
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What does it feel like
to you when you see people
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who you lead through
Bible studies and then they
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are eventually baptized?
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This is very joyful
and I was very happy,
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but when they write
that they were baptized I
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am not the only
one that is happy.
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We are happy
altogether and we pray for this
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person like the
rest of our sisters.
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We try and help one and
another to get closer to
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Christ, this bring joy.
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Tell me about some of
the other exciting stories?
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I want to tell you
a story about the girl
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Raymant. Me and her
were writing back and forth
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and I sent her
homework. Later I found out
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she was a young lady
and so I offered to talk
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to her of the job personal.
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She wrote in her letter
that her grandmother was
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from Orthodox Church.
Her grandmother took her to
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church showed her how to pray
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and read the Bible with her.
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Right when she started
to read the Bible deeply
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on her own, she found
out that her wrote seemed
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different from the
wrote of Orthodox Church.
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God said
something different to her.
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During her studies
she learned more about the
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church. I invite her
to church in one of my
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letters and she came to church.
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She was then baptized.
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She happened to come to the
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same church and visit.
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She walked by one day
and said hello my name is
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Tanya, the Tanya
that wrote to you.
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We talked about how
her life changed and she
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thanked God every day
for listening to the radio.
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Today, she is still my friend.
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Almost forty five
thousand people live in
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Bergamo Turkey,
a city of 50 miles
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North of Izmir. This modern day
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city is built over
the ancient remains of the
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Roman city. To the North East is
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the ancient
Greek Acropolis and the
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biblical city of the Pergamos,
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one of the seven churches of the
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revelation. Looking up
from the valley where the
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common people
lived worked and farmed,
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Pergamos was a grand site.
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I am on the very top
of the mountain here in
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Pergamos. The ancient
city was walled all around
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this. This
center contained all the
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government
functions, all the temples,
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all the market
place, because as long as
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they protected this
area from invaders then the
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city was saved. It
didn't matter about
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the populations
below. And during the time
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of John writing to
the people here from the
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Book of Revelation
there was over a hundred
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and fifty thousand
down in the valley.
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The theatre was a
lot smaller than the
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population of the
area at that time.
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It held about
ten thousand people;
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eighty rows of seats,
all over the upper seats
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were formed of andesite
but the lower seats those
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were constructed of marble.
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Those were for the
high officials of the area.
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Below me is the
temple of Dionysus.
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Dionysus was the God of fun,
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frivolity of wine
and party and happiness.
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It seemed like they
were associated many times
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with the theatre such as this.
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An interesting thing
also this particular area
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was a movable
stage. It's one of the only
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movable stages
around in that time,
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I am not told why
there was a movable stage
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but it seemed like there was.
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The view from
here was spectacular;
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I don't know how
they can keep their eyes
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focused upon the actors with
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such an exquisite view.
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As you can see AWR is
frontline mission radio.
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Our first
priority is to travel where
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missionaries cannot go.
We broadcast thousands of
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hours each day in
seventy major languages
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of the world. AWR
has the capability
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and capacity of
blanketing almost 80% of the
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world's population.
Not only do we broadcast
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the shortwave radio
but our signal is on over
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1000 FM and AM stations
around the world as well.
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Our broadcast
subscribers, internet users,
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Evidence by the
hundred thousand plus e-mails,
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letters and phone
calls we receive each and
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every year. Yes
AWR your mission radio.
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No walls and no
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changed lives and
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because God is
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to reach people everywhere.
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Pergamos like most
Hellenistic cities of its
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time was filled
with temples to the Gods,
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a great library,
and sophisticated
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water delivery system.
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I am standing in
the Library of Pergamum.
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I am told it's the
second largest in the
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world only to
Alexandria in Egypt.
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I am actually on one
of the walls right here.
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Another wall over here
but what I want to call
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your attention to is
the space in between.
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One wall space another wall,
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they created this to
cut off all the humidity to
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protect the 200,000
scrolls and parchments
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in the library. But in 41 AD,
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Mark Anthony
decided to give a gift to
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Cleopatra so he
took all of these and
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gave it to her, what a gift!
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The temple of
Trajan! He was the emperor
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of Rome during the time of the
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Book of Revelation. Although,
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he was never here
he was far off in Rome,
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but it certainly
is a beautiful place,
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a beautiful
location, tremendous columns,
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a gorgeous area for sure.
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During the rule and
the time of Emperor Trajan,
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he extended his
territory and his power
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to control. One of the
favorite things with the
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emperors and the rulers
were to provide places of
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sanctuary for
certain crimes and criminals,
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so a criminal could
start out down there commit a
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crime and if he could
get up here he would find
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sanctuary. Quite an
interesting situation,
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we don't know exactly
which ones were offered
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the sanctuary although I am
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certain that every
criminal wanted it.
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Tatyana, thank you
for meeting us here at
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your church
today, I understand that
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you had to take
off work to do this?
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What type of work do you do?
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I am a nanny. I
baby sit a small baby.
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Have you always been
a nanny or have you had
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another profession?
This was my only job.
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Can you tell me a little
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bit about your childhood?
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I was born Yurigi
Thormer in a village.
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I was born in orthodox family.
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I always believed in Christ.
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I attended church
with my grandmother.
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Do you have any
brothers and sisters?
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Yes, I have an older brother.
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Did he go the
Orthodox Church also?
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I believe he did as
well. Our grandmother wanted
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us to be used to
it. She wanted us to be
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regular attendees. We
knew that there was God.
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We celebrated
different events and she prayed
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before eating. She
showed us how to pray.
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So pretty much every
week you went to church?
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No, not every
Sunday but once in a while
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she took us. And as
a young lady did those
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services have
real meaning for you?
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It was interesting. I
didn't understand much,
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but I prayed my own way
listening to music and it
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made me feel good after church.
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It brought me happiness.
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I love attending the church.
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It seems to me that
it was very attractive
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for you. You liked
everything about it,
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but now here we are in
a setting with chairs with
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no icons, no
gold, what happened?
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This was a very
interesting morning.
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I was getting ready to
go church when I heard a
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radio station. I heard
it mentioned whoever wants
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to learn more
about the Bible write us.
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I owned a Bible
and I really wanted to
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know it more. I really
wanted to know more about
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that Old Testament.
Our church didn't talk
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much about it. The
lessons came I studied
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them and they
became closer with the God.
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You received that
first Bible study what then?
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I was very happy.
They sent me a book
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about Christ.
This brought a lot of
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happiness in my life.
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I continued to write
to them and slowly I was
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completing the discourses.
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Because of
listening to that discourses,
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I have found out to
the Seventh day is Saturday
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I became very interested
and began to write them
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why Saturday? What's
the difference and they
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slowly were
sending me the information.
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Slowly I was starting
to understand God more.
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Did you have a Bible
instructor that gonna work
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you through the
lessons and helped you?
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I knew there was
someone very serious
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on the other
side. Someone who cares
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and wanted to
explain everything to me,
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they really
wanted me to know more.
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They were questions
and if I didn't understand
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them they would
send me more information
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about it, so I would
understand the topic.
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Did you let your mother
know and your grandmother
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know that you were doing this?
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I don't remember,
they knew I sent letters.
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They knew about it.
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There was nothing wrong with it.
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I shared information
with them at that time.
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So they were okay
with your searching and
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wondering about God?
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Yes they liked knowing
that I was close with God.
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They enjoined the
information that I
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passed down to them.
They would even ask me to
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ask my instructor questions.
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What was your instructor's name?
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During that time I didn't really
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paid much attention to that.
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This city built on the
mountain top is known for
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the altar of Zeus,
often referred to as the
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Throne of Satan where
the people worshipped and
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offered sacrifices to demons.
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This in Percy Walter
was excavated in 1878 and
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eventually moved to Berlin.
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Hitler was so impressed
that in 1934 he ordered
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the construction
of the tribune at
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Zeppelin field.
The architect used the
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altar as the model.
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Antipas, the faithful
martyr was the leader of
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the small Christian
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a faithful servant of
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two very different
religions in the same
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each other. One
story says that the
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demons complained to
the people saying that there
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sacrifices would not
be accepted because of the
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Antipas and his
power to cast them out.
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We are right on the
edge of the precipice here,
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but what I wanted
you to see down on the
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distance, is the
Roman aqueduct system.
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It was designed to
bring the water 30 miles.
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Now the problem is
we are way up the hill.
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How did they get it up here?
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They apparently
designed a wooden turban system
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that horses would pull
and drive the water on and
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up here, incredible ingenuity.
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One of the other things
is often the distance you
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can see a circle of
trees, form those trees is
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the little road that
goes out to the area that
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was a medical treatment centre.
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Gratian started this
treatment centre using
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physical
medicines but also mental.
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He began to look at
the dreams and analyze the
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dreams of people and treat them
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based upon their dreams.
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In the valley below the
Acropolis a temple can be
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found to Asclepius,
the Greek God of healing.
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Both the religious and
secular medical practice
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flourished side
by side in Pergamos.
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Many Greek Gods were
associated with health
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and healing. Each
Asclepeion temple was
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conglomeration of
buildings and areas
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depending on size and
opulence on it's wealth
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and influence.
The dominant structure
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was usually the main
temple in which a statue
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of God was given
a prominent place.
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Somewhere in the
precincts on the entrance gates
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or before the portals
were tablets describing
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earlier miraculous
curers and voodoo offerings
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which expressed gratitude
for successful results.
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Around building the
tholos contained water
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for purification
sometimes in a pool or
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bubbling up
from a sacred spring.
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Here too paintings and
decorations were frequent.
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The most important
structure to the ailing
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patient was the incubation site,
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the Abaton where the
actual cure took place in
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the worshipper's
dreams. All the preparations and
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anticipations were
prelude to what happened
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within the Abaton,
where the patient went
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to sleep until he
was visited by the God.
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It was common practice
for the priest to whisper
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things to the patients at night.
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And when they spoke
of it in the morning they
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were told it was
the visit from the Gods.
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It took you six months
to complete your studies
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what happened
after you have done?
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At the end of my
courses they asked me
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if I wanted to
attend a church nearby,
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and that they
would be able to send
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me the address.
Of course I said yes.
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They sent me the
address and in 1998.
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I attended their
service here at the
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Adventist church.
And you are still here.
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This is your
church. How did it happen?
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I introduced myself
to all these people.
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I wasn't ready for Baptism.
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I was about twenty years old.
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I didn't have one to
talk about my decisions.
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I was worried, unsure
about what I was doing.
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I constantly prayed
and asked God to show me
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the way. Christ opened up to me.
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I met a lady that lived
next door and she always
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invited me always
wanted to talk about Christ.
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And then I knew that
God had shown me the right
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church and rest with
me, and after the program
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I was happy to
be baptized at this
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Adventist church.
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It's always
interesting to me to see how God
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weaves a thread
connects everything
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in each person in
a special way and He
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certainly did
that for you. Amen.
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Tell me about momma and grandma,
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what's going on with them now?
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My grandmother passed
away already but at first
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they were amazed and
didn't take it serious.
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They thought that I
would stop coming after a
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while then they asked
me to read my books and
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talk about Christ a little.
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My mother and my
brother never attended
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the church with me.
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And how does that make you feel?
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I am very happy.
I understand someone
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told me that after you
were baptized you got to
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meet your person who helped you
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through your Bible studies?
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Yes! It was on Saturday.
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I heard someone
was coming from Keel.
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I had the chance to
meet this lady and I still
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talk to her until this day.
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You find it's
wonderful in the family of God,
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don't you? Yes,
of course this is big
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happiness in my life.
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Do you share
AWR with others now?
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Yes, I gave my
completed courses to my friends
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and families so they could read
00:24:08.20\00:24:10.36
and become closer to Christ.
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It sounds like you
share with everybody
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you can find you
tell them about Jesus now.
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Of course I didn't
want to keep this miracle
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to myself I told
people that my life changed.
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How much easier it is
to live with God and I just
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can't imagine my
life without Christ.
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I am so happy that
you are a part of making
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waves around the world also.
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Thank you so
much. You are welcome.
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Tatyana in our story
today was not one who had
00:24:45.26\00:24:48.13
a dramatic
experience of persecution or
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difficulty rather she
was one who God led step
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by step to a
greater unfolding knowledge
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of the truth.
Notice the agencies
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the God used to catch
her attention and bring
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her to Him. First of
all He implanted in her
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heart a desire, a
hunger to learn more about Him.
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And that caused her to
begin to search here and
00:25:12.50\00:25:15.50
there and everywhere. Secondly,
00:25:15.50\00:25:17.73
came the radio
broadcast, the voice of hope.
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From there she got the bigger,
00:25:21.86\00:25:23.16
clear
understanding of who God was.
00:25:23.16\00:25:26.26
Third was the Bible
correspondence course.
00:25:26.73\00:25:29.30
There she learned
more deeply about what the
00:25:29.30\00:25:31.93
Bible taught and
what the truth really was.
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Fourth, she had a neighbor,
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a neighbor that also
believed and encouraged
00:25:36.60\00:25:39.96
her and brought
her to church together.
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Then finally came
the church that served as
00:25:44.36\00:25:47.20
a family to help her
fell solidified in her faith
00:25:47.20\00:25:50.73
and her belief.
Tatyana didn't take
00:25:50.73\00:25:53.90
everything just as
it came. She had many
00:25:53.90\00:25:57.06
questions along the
way and she did a lot
00:25:57.06\00:25:59.80
of checking to make
sure that what she was
00:25:59.80\00:26:02.90
learning was indeed the truth.
00:26:02.90\00:26:04.86
Perhaps unconsciously
she followed the council
00:26:06.10\00:26:09.36
of first John chapter 4 verse 1.
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Test the spirits to
see if they are from God.
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Well, she finally
came to the place where she
00:26:17.56\00:26:20.03
felt confirmed in her belief.
00:26:20.03\00:26:22.46
She felt like she
understood the basic
00:26:22.46\00:26:24.90
things about the
Bible and she could have
00:26:24.90\00:26:27.00
confidence that
it was the truth,
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just like the people
who lived here in Pergamum
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the Christians, as
was recorded in the
00:26:32.76\00:26:36.10
Book of Revelation
in the letter to them.
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That's what you
and I need to do.
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We need to
study, we need to test,
00:26:41.80\00:26:45.13
we need to make
them to make a decision.
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So many people in
this world gain a lot
00:26:47.53\00:26:50.86
of knowledge, but they
never come to the point of
00:26:50.86\00:26:54.00
making that decision
to follow Jesus Christ and
00:26:54.00\00:26:57.50
make Him part of their
life that's what we need
00:26:57.50\00:27:01.16
to do. Won't you help
AWR in bringing more and
00:27:01.16\00:27:06.46
more people to
decision, who need to learn more
00:27:06.46\00:27:10.20
about Jesus Christ
in this world around us.
00:27:10.20\00:27:12.70
AWR is your ministry
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