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were the two servants he had seen in the vision. One of them held a red bag in his hand. In this red bag was a
Bible.

It was later that Brother Yun found out the names of the two men. One was Brother Wang and the other was
Brother Sung. They were sent by an evangelist to give Brother Yun the Bible. The evangelist, who had suffered
terribly during the Cultural Revolution and had nearly died while being tortured, had received a vision from God.
In the vision, God showed him Brother Yun’s house and the location of his village. He was asked to give his Bible
to Brother Yun. However, he did not obey God until three months later.

Brother Yun began to devour the Word of God. Even though he could hardly read, this did not deter him at all.
When he had finished reading the entire Bible, he started to memorize one chapter per day. In 28 days, he had
memorized the Gospel of Matthew. Then he went on to memorize the Book of Acts and so forth.

OBEDIENT TO THE CALL OF GOD
One morning at 4am, Brother Yun had a dream. In the dream, God asked him to be His witness in the west and
south. In the same dream, he saw a young man from the south coming to his house. And so at daybreak, he
told his mother to expect the young man’s visit and to ask him to wait for him. Then he sat off to a village he
had never heard of in the west. The people in this village had been praying for him to visit as they had heard
about how he had prayed for a Bible and got it.

When the meeting at the village concluded and Brother Yun got ready to leave, the villagers refused to let him
go. So he stayed on and recited to them the first twelve chapters from the Book of Acts. After that, the villagers
finally let him go. From the village to his house, it could take up to 2 hours to walk. Because he did not want to
make the young man from the south wait too long, he decided to run home.

PERSECUTIONS AND MIRACLES IN HIS LIFE
Brother Yun was arrested by security police numerous times and was thrown into prison three times for sharing
the gospel in communist China.

When Brother Yun was arrested the first time, he was only 17 years old. At that time, he was ministering at a
meeting far away from home. After he was caught, he was thrown into a freezing cold prison cell. There was no
heat in the cell and his winter coat had been thrown into the snow by the security police who had caught him.
He began to sing Psalm 150 aloud. The more he sang, the more he was filled with joy. Gradually, his frozen
hands and feet regained feeling and he no longer felt cold.

During those times when Brother Yun was in the hands of government officials, he was repeatedly beaten and
tortured with electric batons. He was also kicked and trampled upon. Furthermore, he had needles being
jabbed underneath his fingernails.

Brother Yun’s 3rd imprisonment was a very dark period in his life as the prison guards in the maximum security
prison were determined to prevent his escape. So they beat his legs to cripple him permanently. They had him
beaten up every day, even in his crippled state. One day, God instructed him to escape from the prison. This
was confirmed by a brother-in-Christ. Thus, on May 5, 1997, he miraculously walked past dozens of prison
guards and out of the maximum security prison. It was as if he had become invisible to the guards. He did not
realize that his legs had been miraculously healed until later.

Throughout all the horrendous and painful experiences that Brother Yun went through, the word of the Lord
kept coming to him, encouraging him and strengthening his faith.

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