DO YOU KNOW HOW THE APOSTLES DIED???

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March 9th 2010
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DO YOU KNOW HOW THE APOSTLES DIED???

"And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake:
But he that endureth to the end shall be saved." Matthew 10:22


Matthew
Suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia,
killed by a sword wound.

Mark
Died in Alexandria, Egypt, after being dragged by horses
through the streets until he was dead.

Luke
was hanged in Greece as a result
of his tremendous preaching to the lost.

John
Faced martyrdom when he was boiled in huge basin of boiling oil
during a wave of persecution in Rome.
However, he was miraculously delivered from death.
John was then sentenced to the mines on the prison island of Patmos.
He wrote his prophetic Book of Revelation on Patmos.
The apostle John was later freed and returned to serve as Bishop
of Edessa in modern Turkey.
He died as an old man,
the only apostle to die peacefully.

Peter
was crucified upside down on an x-shaped cross.
According to church tradition it was because he told
his tormentors that he felt unworthy to die
in the same way that Jesus Christ had died.

James
The leader of the church in Jerusalem,
was thrown over a hundred feet down from the southeast
pinnacle of the Temple when he refused to deny his faith in Christ.
When they discovered that he survived the fall,
his enemies beat James to death with a fuller's club.
This was the same pinnacle where Satan
had taken Jesus during the Temptation.

James the Great
Son of Zebedee, was a fisherman by trade when Jesus
called him to a life time of ministry.
As a strong leader of the church,
James was ultimately beheaded at Jerusalem.
The Roman officer who guarded James watched amazed
as James defended his faith at his trial.
Later, the officer walked beside James to the place of execution.
Overcome by conviction, he declared his new faith to the judge
and knelt beside James to accept beheading as a Christian.

Bartholomew
also known as Nathaniel - Was a missionary to Asia.
He witnessed for our Lord in present day Turkey.
Bartholomew was martyred for his preaching in Armenia
where he was flayed to death by a whip.

Andrew
Was crucified on an x-shaped cross in Patras, Greece.
After being whipped severely by seven soldiers they tied
his body to the cross with cords to prolong his agony.
His followers reported that, when he was led toward the cross,
Andrew saluted it in these words:
'I have long desired and expected this happy hour.
The cross has been consecrated by the body of Christ hanging on it.'
He continued to preach to his tormentors for two days until he expired.

Thomas
Was stabbed with a spear in India during one
of his missionary trips to establish the church in the sub-continent.

Jude
Was killed with arrows when he refused

to deny his faith in Christ. Matthias –
The apostle chosen to replace the traitor
Judas Iscariot was stoned and then beheaded.

Barnabas
One of the group of seventy disciples,
wrote the Epistle of Barnabas.
He preached throughout Italy and Cyprus
. Barnabas was stoned to death at Salonica.

Paul
Was tortured and then beheaded by
the evil Emperor Nero at Rome in A.D. 67.
Paul endured a lengthy imprisonment which allowed him
to write his many epistles to the churches he had
formed throughout the Roman Empire.
These letters, which taught many of the foundational doctrines of Christianity,
form a large portion of the New Testament.

Perhaps this is a reminder to us that our sufferings here
are indeed minor compared to the intense persecution
and cold cruelty faced by the apostles/disciples
during their times for the sake of their
Faith.

May He Bless You and Keep You Today!

With Great Love
IN HIS SERVICE
Pastor Connie
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