JOEL 2 GENERATION

By the grace of God, Christianity is growing in Saudi Arabia. I am not talking about foreigners who live and work there although there are many Christians amongst them of course. I am talking about Saudi Arabians who have left Islam and have decided to follow Jesus Christ as their Lord, the Son of God and Savior of mankind.  I have been aware for some years now of a growing number of Saudis coming to Christ. There are a number of them who are quite visible on the internet and are being used by God to reach many of their own people and other Arab Muslims with the Gospel. The testimonies I've heard coming out of Saudi Arabia in recent years are unprecedented since the religion of Islam took over the Arabian Peninsula back in the 7th and 8th centuries AD. But what many don't realize is that there was a Church in Saudi Arabia BEFORE Islam. These are chapters in Christian History that most Christians today are entirely unaware of. There are reasons for that. One reason is that Churc...

UPDATED – FALL 2023  – Having originally written this after the Paris and San Bernardino Islamic terrorist attacks in 2015, I subsequently updated it in the wake of the Orlando, Florida and Nice, France terrorist attacks in 2016. I updated this document again after the terrorist attack in Belgium on May 29 th , 2018. And now with the horrific event that happened last month on October 7 th , I am once again updating it after an estimated 1200+ Israelis (and others) were killed by Hamas (and Islamic Jihad) militants in yet another terrorist attack. I want to say before I continue that I love Muslims and having lived and worked with them for over 30 years, I can attest that the vast majority are not violent. Most Muslims are NOT radical and don’t use or advocate violence (that is despite what the Islamic religious texts below teach and/or advocate). I also love the truth and the truth is that Islamic violence is firmly rooted in the historic Islamic faith. Whereas Christianity began a...