The Watchman On The Wall

The Watchman On The Wall
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Verse 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Friday, March 15, 2013

How The Apostles Died

Friends,
these men, except John, were cowards until Jesus' Resurrection and Pentecost. What happened to change these men. They saw that Yeshua was indeed Yeshua Hamaschiach their Lord, Savior and Messiah. Yeshua changes lives and men and women.  Note below that John was miracously saved from boiling in oil. 
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Matthew
Suffered martyrdom in
Ethiopia ,
killed by a sword wound
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Mark
Died in Alexandria , Egypt , after being dragged by
horses through the streets until he was dead
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Luke
Was hanged in Greece as a result of his tremendous
preaching to the lost.
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John
Faced martyrdom when he was boiled in huge basin of
boiling oil during a wave of persecution in Rome .
However, he was
miraculously delivered from death. John was then
sentenced to the mines on the prison island of Patmos .
He wrote his prophetic Book of Revelation on Patmos . The apostle John was later freed and returned to serve as Bishop of Edessa in modern Turkey . He died as an old man, the only apostle to die peacefully.
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Peter
He was crucified upside down on an x-shaped cross.
According to church tradition it was because he told his
tormentors that he felt unworthy to die in the same way that Jesus Christ had died.
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James
Just The leader of the church in Jerusalem, was thrown over a hundred feet down from the southeast pinnacle of the Temple when he refused to deny his faith in Christ. When they discovered that he survived the fall, his enemies beat James to death with a fuller's club.
* This was the same pinnacle where Satan had taken Jesus during the Temptation.
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James the Great
Son of Zebedee, was a fisherman by trade when Jesus called him to a lifetime of ministry. As a strong leader of the church, James was ultimately beheaded at Jerusalem .
The Roman officer who guarded James watched amazed as James defended his faith at his trial. Later, the officer walked beside James to the place of execution. Overcome by conviction, he declared his new faith to the judge and knelt beside James to accept beheading as a Christian
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The Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew
Bartholomew
Also known as Nathaniel Was a missionary to Asia .
He witnessed for our Lord in present day Turkey .
Bartholomew was martyred for his preaching in Armenia where he was flayed to death by a whip.
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Andrew
Was crucified on an x-shaped cross in Patras , Greece .
After being whipped severely by seven soldiers they tied his body to the cross with cords to prolong his agony. His followers reported that, when he was led toward the cross, Andrew saluted it in these words: 'I have long desired and expected this happy hour.
The cross has been consecrated by the body of Christ hanging on it.' He continued to preach to his tormentors for two days until he expired.
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Thomas
Was stabbed with a spear in India during one of his missionary trips to establish the church in the sub-continent

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Jude
Was killed with arrows when he refused to deny his faith in Christ.
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Matthias
The apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot, was stoned and then beheaded.
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Paul
Was tortured and then beheaded by the evil Emperor Nero at Rome in A.D. 67. Paul endured a lengthy imprisonment, which allowed him to write his many epistles to the churches he had formed throughout the Roman Empire . These letters, which taught many of the foundational doctrines of Christianity, form a large
portion of the New Testament.
Perhaps this is a reminder to us that our sufferings here are
indeed minor compared
to the intense persecution and cold cruelty faced by the apostles
disciples
during their times for the sake of the Faith. And ye shall be hated
of all men for my name's sake:
But he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Matthew 10:22

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