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Verse of the Day - 2 Corinthians 12:10

2 Corinthians 12:10 (NKJV) - Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Samuel Rutherford

Today we celebrate the Holy Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. These saints are possibly one of the most interesting in all of Christendom! During the Christian persecutions, these seven soldiers were stripped of their military rank for confessing their faith and which they suffered tortures. As their final torture, they were sealed in a cave, in other words, buried alive, and on the seal was the names of these soldiers and the events of their lives. Two whole centuries passed before someone was excavating in that very spot where they came across the seal with the name and lives of the seven youths. When he opened the seal, he found them as if waking from a gentle sleep. When one of the young soldiers went to the city to buy bread, his coins still had the Roman emperor’s face on them, which had now been replaced by Christian symbols. He was astonished to see crosses everywhere and the name of Christ spoken freely. He was taken to the bishop who confirmed that these holy youths had in fact been miraculously put to sleep by God for 200 years in order to prove the doctrine of the general resurrection of soul and body. In August we celebrate the awakening of the seven youths while in October we celebrate the event where they went back to sleep, this time until the general resurrection. #saint #saints #seven #sleeper #sleep #sleepers #sevensleepers #ephesus #turkey #asiaminor #persecution #persecutions #martyr #martyrs #soldier #soldiers #century #centuries #cave #sevensleeperscave #orthodox #saintoftheday (at Ephesus, Turkey) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj_HJS8LcPD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Peter began to say to Jesus, "We have given up everything and followed you." Jesus said, "Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the Gospel who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age: houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and eternal life in the age to come. But many that are first will be last, and the last will be first."

2 Thessalonians 1:4 (KJV) - So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: