A Personal Reflection by a Coptic About the Beheading of the 21 Copts in Libya
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By Beshoy Souliman
John 16:1-3 New King James Version (NKJV) “These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me.”
Talking about being brave? My 21 faithful brothers who gave up their lives for the LORD’s name were the brave ones, not as the ISIS murderers who spend their time covering themselves in caves. ISIS members might think of this as getting the Copts 21 less members, but I think of it as gaining another 21 saints, in the presence of the lord, praying and interceding for me, because they departed from this evil and corrupted world into the eternal joy.
As a Coptic Orthodox Christian, and through the teachings of Jesus Christ, I warmly pray for those who completely, mind and heart, blinded, whom the devil won on his side and have been using them as one of his many corrupting tools in this universe.
My beloved Coptic Church, throughout the ages, have lost millions of my brothers and sisters for the sake of keeping the name of Christ in their hearts, and pronouncing it on their lips till the moment of their death.
The blood of my brothers, the holy martyrs, unified the entire Egyptian nation. Copts, Protestants, Catholics, Jews, and Muslims mourned the death of the 21 beheaded martyrs. As a national response to that, President Sisi visited His Holiness Pope Tawadros II in the Coptic Orthodox cathedral to express his condolences, which was, in my opinion, a very wise and appreciated move from Sisi, showing the entire world that such barbarian actions of ISIS will never be accepted in anyways and by no one.
