How God Used Three Christian Young Men to Stop an Islamic Terrorist
By
Julio
Severo
God
empowers Christians to do the extraordinary: Three Christian young
men tackled a ISIS Islamic terrorist hellbent on slaughtering passengers
on a crowded train, disarmed him and saved hundreds of innocent lives in a
courageous act.
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| Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler and Spencer Stone portray themselves in the movie “15:17 to Paris.” |
El-Khazzani
was armed with an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, 270 rounds of ammunition
and a bottle of gasoline during the high-speed railway ride to Paris.
Knowing that at any moment, the terrorist could unleash his firepower and
execute him on the spot, Stone tackled El-Khazzani.
Skarlatos wrestled the terrorist’s
weapon from him. But the terrorist pulled out a box cutter and began slashing
Stone.
All three men fought El-Khazzani and
rendered him unconscious. Stone, Skarlatos and Sadler then tended to other
injured passengers on the train until paramedics and police arrived.
The
three young men made international news for their heroic efforts.
The
three young men give all the glory to God for placing them on the train and
preparing them for that critical moment. They have been friends since they
attended Freedom Christian School in California together.
The
mission statement of their evangelical school says, “Freedom Christian School
is committed to providing a biblically-based, academically excellent education
in a nurturing, family environment so its students can effectively accomplish
the purpose for which they were created and impact the world for Christ…
Students will know Jesus Christ as their Savior and their Lord, will demonstrate
a desire to serve Him, and will be trained to live according to His teachings.”
“The
odds of our exact situation happening to us are too astronomical to believe
that it was just purely chance,” Skarlatos said. “I mean, we shouldn’t be here
today, to be honest. I really think God had a hand in it.”
“It’s
like we were training our whole lives for that moment without even knowing
about it,” he said.
Stone, a
trained paramedic who said he was raised in a Christian home and attended
church every Sunday, added: “God, for me, is someone who is always there,
who will always have my back – whether it’s a good situation or a bad
situation.
“God
is not going to put you through anything you can’t handle. I think that’s what
I kinda fell back on in the moment on the train. At times, we’re vessels to be
used by him to do his work. And it was an honor to do something that good. … I
just want to earn the life we’ve been given by God.”
Anthony
Sadler, who is the son of a Baptist minister, said he believes God not
only put them there to save lives, He also planned use the men to spread
His message.
“I
feel like we’re just affirming God’s plan for our lives by being where we’re
supposed to be on the train that day and just the things that have happened
since. It’s all just another step in the bigger plan that we’re just not aware
of,” Sadler said.
“As
far as on the train that day, you can’t almost deny that God had his hand on us
because so many things could have gone the other way. It’s divine intervention.
I feel like we were meant to spread the story, and it’s meant to touch people.”
Now
Hollywood director Clint Eastwood is, in partnership with Warner Bros.,
retelling their story in the new film “The
15:17 to Paris,” which was released in theaters on
February 9. Eastwood enlisted the three heroes to play themselves in the film, which has more filthy language and partying than families
anticipate.
According to Plugged In, in the film the
three Christians are frequently shown drinking beer, misusing the name of Jesus
and using profanity. They are shown drunk in a night club in Amsterdam, which
is the European capital city of legal prostitution and drug availability.
In the film, all three guys get
exceedingly intoxicated knocking down multiple shots of liquor. You see them
groggily waking up at noon the next day (in their hotel room) complaining about
their hangovers. Spencer smokes a cigarette in one scene where he makes a
rather profound statement, and one of his buddies jokes about what he really
might be smoking.
There is an obvious conflict between
their Christian testimony and what the film shows. Perhaps such conflicted
testimony is helpful to show that God is merciful when troubled victims
remember Him in critical moments, and the Islamic attack was a very critical
moment.
If
God can use three imperfect Christians from America, the largest Protestant
nation in the world, to stop an Islamic terrorist, it is obvious that He can
use America herself to stop a very large number of Islamic terrorists.
So
why is not He doing it? Because America has other plans and, governmentally,
she is not behaving with Christian motivations.
In fact, because mainly of NATO’s
misguided policies, Islamic terrorists have invaded Europe, where the three
young Americans suffered the attack.
Let
us get the facts straight.
Europe
is under the protection of NATO, which was created by the U.S. government.
So
NATO should have as its absolute priority to protect Europe from Islamic
invasion, but it is not doing it because it does not want to antagonize Saudi
Arabia, the Sunni Islamic dictatorship which is a powerful ally of the United
States. The overwhelming majority of Islamic invaders in Europe are Sunni.
NATO
has not taken its responsibility to protect Europe from Islamic invaders, but
it has been responsible for the current massive wave of invasions.
* Under left-wing U.S. president Bill
Clinton, NATO bombed Christian Orthodox Serbia to create an Islamic enclave,
Kosovo, in the 1990s. This enclave, created by NATO and America, is an open
door in Europe for multitudes of Islamic terrorists and all kind of
trafficking.
*
Under left-wing U.S. president Barack Hussein Obama, NATO attacked Libya, and
as a direct result of this illegal military intervention, made exclusively to
please Saudi Arabia, Libya is today a passage point for multitudes of African Muslims
invading Europe. Before NATO’s attack, Libya was a hindrance for such invasion.
After the attack, Libya has been under influence of ISIS and other Islamic
terrorist groups. As a State Secretary, Hillary Clinton helped to send arms
from Libya, through CIA operations, to Sunni terrorists in Syria to overthrow
the Syrian government and slaughter Christians.
* Even though not yet directly
attacked by NATO, Syria has been a victim of illegal military operations,
including from CIA, firstly under the Obama administration and now under the
Trump administration. U.S. conservative pundits as Ann Coulter have condemned
such illegal interventions. In Trump’s case, Coulter has reminded that for
years Trump clearly condemned Obama for intervening in Syria and promised not
to imitate Obama. Under Obama, Syrian Islamic terrorists were funded and armed to
overthrow the Syria government. Such invasive and illegal policy continues
under Trump.
The act of the three American
Christians was heroic. But NATO’s actions, spurred by the U.S., have not been
heroic.
Three
American Christians gave a beautiful example to America, as far as their fight against
a terrorist is concerned. God can use America’s Christianity to fight and
defeat Islamic terror. But first America should change her policy of supporting
Saudi Arabia by funding, training and arming Sunni terrorists. Such policy is
anti-Christian, because in the Middle East and Africa, Sunni Muslims slaughter
scores of Christians. In fact, ISIS, which Trump said in 2016 was created by
Obama, is fully Sunni and a machine of Christian genocide.
A
truly Christian attitude against Islamic terror is for America under Trump:
* to leave her illegal operations and
presence in Syria and make reparations for the years of illegal American interventions
in Syria.
* to arm Christian populations in
Syria and Iraq that were victims of ISIS. If under Obama CIA operations armed
Sunni Muslims to slaughter Christians in Syria and Iraq, why cannot under Trump
CIA operations arm Christians to defend themselves? This is fair reparation.
* to work to abolish the Islamic
enclave to Kosovo and make reparations to Christian Serbia.
* to guide NATO to protect Europe
from the invasion of Sunni Muslims. If Saudi Arabia and Turkey are displeased
with this security arrangement, America should shun these Islamic “allies” and
expel Turkey from NATO. In fact, what is Islamic Turkey doing in NATO?
America
does not like illegal invasions in her own borders. So why has she supported
and done such illegal interventions in other nations? As Jesus said, “Always do
for other people everything you want them to do for you.” (Matthew 7:12 GWV)
America
under Trump can choose to continue the disastrous plan of appeasing Saudi
Arabia by letting Europe unprotected, under NATO’s nose, from Islamic invaders,
or can guide NATO to attack and defeat Islamic terrorists, including those whom
American has funded, trained and armed for a long time.
America
can and should fund, train and arm Christians in the Middle East for
self-defense against Islamic violence. The three American heroes subdued a ISIS
terrorist because they trusted God and because they had been trained by the
U.S. military. Christians in the Middle East need the same training. They need
U.S. arms.
While the three Christian young men
from America were used by God to hinder an Islamic terrorist in 2015 in an
Europe unprotected by NATO, America under Obama was actively encouraging such
terrorists through misguided and perverted policies. God can and want to change
such course. He can transform America from a nation that equips Islamic
terrorists to a nation that defeats them.
The
God who used the three American Christians against Islamic terror can use
America too.
The
three Christian young heroes are an example and model for America, which should
fund, train, equip and arm Christians against the Islamic terror machine.
Three young men impacted the world
because they were educated in evangelical Christian principles, even though
they had a hard time to live out these principles! But they remembered God in
the critical moment.
With information from WND (WorldNetDaily) and Plugged
In.
Portuguese
version of this article: Como Deus usou três jovens cristãos para deter um
terrorista islâmico
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