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The End Is Not Yet
fifty Coptic believers and called Dejene to come and bap tize them. After he arrived, authorities threw the can didates in jail as well as Dejene.
A two-month prison sentence did not change their convictions; Dejene baptized them when they got out. Their former leaders sent a supposedly holy replica ofthe ark to the homes of several prestigious families in an at tempt to regain their confidence in ancient traditions. When that failed, they sent out a circular asking that Yared be killed on sight.
God protected him. His stepfather took a pistol to kill him, but he got away from him as David did from the angry King Saul. Then the stepfather hired an assassin. An angel awakened Yared three times during the night to show him the room's door that he had closed and locked each time standing wide open. The would-be murderer was foiled. While he waited for another chance to kill Y ared, the police arrested the hired killer for attempted robbery.
Over two hundred believers worship the Father in spiritand intruthinthatsmalltown,andYaredislook ing for more souls to win.
W e heard a young evangelist, Fitsum Berhan, give a thrilling testimony on our visit to Ethiopia in 1986. He works for the Lord near the border, where war and tur moil is a way of life. He ignored several warnings to stop preaching. Caught again in the act, a commanding officer sent him to the forest to die before a firing squad. Look ing over his executioners, he realized that they represent ed varied beliefs and backgrounds so he spoke with a clear voice, "Just before you shoot me, let me tell you about Jesus!"
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