[I received this fascinating story below… and would like to comment on it. Many will no doubt find this interesting, especially since in this case, the Muslim intolerance of Christians seems to have resulted in the demise of the Muslims in this town. I could start a religious war by repeating something a Jewish friend of mine mentioned, which has bearing on the theme expressed below.

A Jewish friend of mine remarked that the Tsunami almost exclusively killed Muslims… and he remarked than in Malaysia, as many of us have suspected, even more are dead than we may have been led to believe (maybe more than twice the official body count). (NB: Note a UN official, in a news story on DrudgeReport, said, within days of the event, that he flew over a region where he estimated the dead in that provine alone to be 400,000). My Jewish friend basically said… that the reason the Muslims are covering up the full extent of this damage is because it affected them the most… and they cannot cope with the concept of God punishing them.

This disaster struck mainly Muslim countries.

My Jewish friend basically saw this tragedy as a punishment of the Muslims directly, by God.

In order to understand his reasoning, one has to also understand, as he told me, his firm belief that we are in The End Times. It has been mentioned by many, including him, that the Bible speaks of a time when everyone in the world is against the Jews, but that God promises the Jews that he will fight on their behalf, as long as THEY BELIEVE. The Bible speaks of Jerusalem being a rock, and anyone who tries to destroy the Jews will be shattered to pieces on this rock… because the Jews will stand firm.

In fact, God promises the Jews that they will ultimately get to keep not only their land, but large portions of the land of other people. You can look this up in the Bible for yourself, in the book of Isaiah and some other places.

These days, Israel’s existence as a Jewish state is coming to an end… and the Muslims and their terrorist allies are standing firmly against Israel. Indee much of the world is against Israel’s Jews, EXCEPT for certain portions of Christianity (notably conservative Christians in America)… who dare to stand firmly by the Jews. Hence, my Jewish friend sees this tragedy as God starting to fight back… for the Jews…

And remember… Christianity… is nothing more than a “radical” off-shoot of Judaism…

After I received this email, I passed it on to a Jewish friend of mine in Jerusalem, and he had some fascinating comments from the conservative Jewish point of view. I have appended his comments to the bottom of this message. Jan]

—–Original Message—–
What a remarkable story.
Subject: Fw: 400 Christians saved from destruction

Dear friends,
Here is a remarkable story and one well worth publicising. As the
Bible says “The fool hath said in his heart there is no God”. Amongst the
many stories of the Tsunami this has got to be one of the best.
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God Protects His own!
We know that 80% of the town of Meulaboh in Aceh was destroyed by
the Tsunami waves and 80% of the people also died. This is one of the
towns that was hit the hardest.

But there is a fantastic testimony from Meulaboh. In that town are
about 400 Christians.

They wanted to celebrate Christmas on December 25th but were not
allowed to do so by the Muslims of Meulaboh. They were told if
they wanted to celebrate Christmas they needed to go outside the city
of Meulaboh on a high hill and there celebrate Christmas.

Because the Christians desired to celebrate Christmas the 400
believers left the city on December 25th and after they celebrated
Christmas they stayed overnight on the hill.

As we all know the morning of December 26 there was the earthquake
followed by the Tsunami waves destroying most of the city of
Meulaboh and thousands were killed.

The 400 believers were on the mountain and were all saved from
destruction.

Now the Muslims of Meulaboh are saying that the God of the
Christians punished us for forbidding the Christians from celebrating
Christmas in the city. Others are questioning why so many Muslims
died while not even one of the Christians died there.

Had the Christians insisted on their rights to celebrate Christmas
in the city, they would have all died. But because they humbled
themselves and followed the advice of the Muslims they all were
spared destruction and can now testify of God’s marvelous protection.

This is a testimony of the grace of God and the fact that as
believers we have no rights in the world. Our right is come before God
and commit our lives to Him. Our right is kneeling down before the
Lord almighty and commit our ways to Him. He is our Father and is very
capable to care for His children. Praise the Name of the Lord.

Bill Hekman
Pastor Calvary Life Fellowship in Indonesia

[Herewith are the comments of my Jewish friend in Jerusalem. Jan]
Amazing story. I have much more to convey to you on this subject. Many Israelis go on vacation in Thailand when they are discharged from the army. Out of thousands traveling there at the time of the tsunami, only a few were killed. The local media was filled with amazing stories, like this one about the 400 Christians saved.

An aged and wise old rabbi here in Jerusalem, beloved by the entire nation, is a miracle working holy seer. Two weeks prior to the tsunami the rabbi, who is about 111 years old now, told Israel that a very great natural cataclysm would soon strike in the East, and he warned young Israelis to stop going there, to come home.

The word “tsunami” transcribed into Hebrew letters appears only once in the Hebrew Bible, where it happens to appear “out of context” of the plaintext, comprised in succession by the letters of three words that belong in a chapter of the prophet Jeremiah, where God speaks about tidal waves covering “Babylon”.

One would have to be familiar with the Hebrew language in order to visualize what I’m trying to describe, but try to imagine this.

I only found out about the rabbi’s warning after the tsunami struck.

But his words were quoted in an article that issued his warning in one of Israel’s major newspapers, Yediot Ahronot, on December 12, if my memory serves me well.

My favorite “rescue” story about Israelis saved during the tsunami concerns a twenty eight year old Israeli who went surfing with his friends in Thailand. All five of these guys were out at sea on their surfboards when the tsunami actually struck, but they were idling out just past the wave, paddling around. When the coast was literally clear they paddled back to the beach only to discover corpses strewn everywhere. Everywhere. Shocked, this young man made his way to his hotel, only to find it “wiped out”. He managed to get to his hotel room, which was not on the first floor, to discover that everything in the room had been completely trashed, turned over, wrecked, with most of his belongings washed away — all except a few items that sat on a small table that remained in place. Only this small table hadn’t moved, and the water hadn’t overwhelmed it. The following belongings remained untouched, just as he had left them: his prayer book, his traditional prayer shawl and phylacteries (which Jewish men adorn for morning prayers), his passport, and his return ticket to Israel.