MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

First he was charged with apostasy and threatened with death for turning his back on Islam and converting to Christianity.  Then the Iranian government changed its mind and said he was guilty of rape, not apostasy.  Then Iran’s Supreme Court ordered a retrial. Now Iran’s kangaroo court is again telling him to convert to Islam, or die.  Either way, the specter of death is an ever present reminder to Middle East Christians of the time in which we are now living …

Hebrews 13:3, “Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.”

Sahih Bukhari 52:260, “… The Prophet [Mohammed] said, ‘If somebody discards his [Islamic] religion, kill him.” (Hadith)

John 16:2b, “… the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing a holy service for God.”

“Iran’s government and security apparatus have ratcheted up the pressure on Evangelical pastor Youcef Nadarkhani to convert to Islam or face execution, Fox News reported on Saturday.

Youcef Nadarkhani, now 34, was arrested in 2009 for questioning the compulsory Islamic education of his children and for seeking to register a home-based church. He was sentenced to death in 2010.

Iran’s security officials recently delivered a book on Islam to Nadarkhani, Fox News said. He is in prison Rasht on the Caspian Sea coast.

The Iranian officials told ‘him they would be back to discuss the material and hear his opinion,’ according to the report.

Fox cited ‘sources close to the case.’

David Parsons, spokesman for the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday the new development is ‘very troubling.’

There need to be ‘three attempts to make him convert to Islam before they can kill him,’ Parsons said. He cited Shari’a Islamic law as the basis for the threeattempts rule.

Iran ‘is going through the motions’ and ‘trying to do it in a very public way for the Muslim world and maybe, in their mind, thinking they can placate the West. It is outrageous,’ said Parsons, who is a contributing editor to The Jerusalem Post Christian Edition.

The case ‘should be an eye-opener for world leaders,’ he said. ‘They should know what Islam teaches in terms of ‘inferior religions’ like Judaism and Christianity.'” Read more.