Iran’s Spiritual Revolution |
Most people refer to the 1979 hijacking of Iran by extremist ayatollahs as the Islamic Revolution. I like to refer to it as the Demonic Revolution. I am praying that Iran’s demons will be exorcised shortly and allow Iran to have a true spiritual revolution.
The history of Islam in Iran is relatively new compared to its long-time proud Persian history. It was only introduced with a previous Islamic invasion and the forcing of Persians to become Moslem, following one of the most extreme strains of Islam. The parallels to the 1979 Demonic Revolution are painfully similar. Today, Iranians are demonstrating their contempt for Islam not just by calling for the death of the ayatollahs, but by burning mosques. It’s also important to note that in the past decades, since I became a Christian, the Islamic regime has had to close some 50,000 mosques because even if Iranians were not burning the mosques, they had long ago abandoned Islam, leaving many, maybe most, empty.
The Islamic identity imposed on Iranians is not natural. Most Iranians who consider themselves Moslems at all are nominal Moslems. Most do not follow Islamic law, and in fact run from it, and disavow it through their private actions. They understand that Islam is a host of lies, worshipping a god of punishment and intolerance.
This was my experience growing up in Iran and suffering the misogyny and discrimination as a girl and young woman, and shocking demonic experiences that run deep in the Islamic regime. I recount many of these experiences in my two books.
Since being arrested and sentenced to death for my faith in 2009, to the extent that Iranians were opposed to Islam then, they have become more repelled by Islam since.
It’s one of the reasons that Iran has the fastest-growing church in the world today. Iranians are thirsty for truth. Just as the water taps have run dry, Islam has been revealed to be empty, too. Unfortunately for their safety, Christians in Iran exist largely underground. Not only are........