An ISIS fighter who used to enjoy killing Christians had a radical change of heart after a man who he believes was Jesus appeared to him in a dream and scolded, “You are killing my people.”
According to the Christian Post, the jihadist, whose name is not being released for obvious reasons, told his story to a member of Youth With a Mission Frontier Missions (YWAM), and was made public during a recent show on The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) Radio Network.
“One of our YWAM workers in the Middle East was contacted by a friend earlier this year and they met up and he was introduced to an ISIS fighter who had killed many Christians already. I mean that’s a horrible situation, and admittedly, he was probably on guard,” said YWAM director Gina Fadely during the show.
“He told this YWAM leader that he had begun having dreams of this man in white who came to him and said, ‘You are killing my people.’ And he started to feel really sick and uneasy about what he was doing,” Fadely continued. “The fighter said just before he killed one Christian, the man said, ‘I know you will kill me, but I give to you my Bible.’ The Christian was killed and this ISIS fighter actually took the Bible and began to read it. In another dream, Jesus asked him to follow him.”
The jihadist is now asking to become a follower of Christ.
“So who knows. Perhaps this man will be like Saul in the Bible that persecuted Christians and he turned from that persecution of the early church to become the Apostle Paul who led it,” Fadely added. “God can turn it around.”
Sutter went on to share that one of his leaders in the Arab world said he was witnessing a “spiritual hunger” that was “unprecedented” among Muslims.
“Many people are now following Jesus but they keep it quiet,” Sutter said. “They haven’t gone public about it.”
The appearance of Jesus in the dreams of Muslims has a special significance that was explained to the Post earlier this year by Nabeel Qureshi, author of Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity.
“In Muslim cultures, generally speaking, people don’t see themselves as being able to commune with God. Communion is a very Christian concept and the idea that Christ has torn down the veil — in a lot of cultures the veil is still up. In Islam, for example, people don’t expect to have God talk back to them personally, as the Holy Spirit isn’t living in them. They ask God for guidance through dreams; that’s like the one way that Muslims expect to hear from God,” Qureshi explained.
“For someone to reach out and ask, ‘God, can you tell me about you?’ Or, ‘If you’re Jesus, can you show me a dream?’ That’s not strange at all. … That’s kind of what Muslims do,” he added.
The video below contains more testimony about the appearance of Jesus in the dreams of Muslims.
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