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Unseen Hands
day, March 29, a telephone call came warning him not to come to Awasa; men waited to kill him.
Erkenesh's six-month-old son suffered for a week and died, which brought another dilemma. The town would not allow the Pentecostals a place to bury their dead. If she let Tekle know the baby was dead, he would come, giving the armed police the chance they sought to kill him. The child's funeral would possibly trigger another attack, even if a burial place could be found. She cried to the Lord, "Please put life in my baby and make a way for me to take him to Addis." The child started breathing again. Whilethe policeguarded the front door, Erkenesh slipped out the back door. She left Awasa at 5:00 a.m. and changed buses six times (almost every town). The buses frequently broke down. The road to Addis seemed imend- ing, and the heart of a mother breathed silent prayers all the way for her suffering child. She reached Addis at 5:00 p.m.
Everyone at Salome's house gathered around the in fant on the evening she reached Addis, praying for the baby's recovery. While they prayed, God gave Tekle three visions in quick succession. In the first he toured hospitals and saw children of all races cruelly mangled, blinded, and crippled. The Lord spoke, "Do not pray for yoim son; pray for these children who have no one to care for them."
In the second vision he saw a towering mountain, rough and rugged, with people wandering aimlessly up and down and around and around. "They need someone to show them the right road to travel," he heard.
Then the heavens opened, and he saw a city made of round, golden stones as bright as the sim. A colossal, shin ing palace of beauty beyond description stood in the center
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