MY FATHER GOD!!! I was imprisoned on March 3, 2008 in the Russian Compound Prison in Jerusalem. It was the end of winter and we still remember the beauty of the blossomig almond trees on our way to the police station well. We were interrogated at the station by the most bitter police woman I have ever come across in my life. I never returned home that night. I was sent to prison. I was suddenly and unexpectedly wrenched from the human being that I love most. The pain of that evening, seeing my wife in the corridor while I am handcuffed for prison never goes away…. We had been handed over to the authorities through the enmity and hatred by brethren in the Body of Messiah. They had found a way of destroying us after I had failed deeply in a matter. Although we had tried to help them for years, they would do this to us. I was deeply stricken during my confession and they never even bothered to cross examine us with another brother. They simply broke all contact and handed us over to the police. False charges were added against me that led to the sentence handed out by a female judge who was known for her deep cruelty. We were on visa status in Israel as missionaries and the law was twisted to accuse us and incarcerate me. Our brethren had sided with the police and ultimately with the accuser of the brethren himself. The horror that awaited us in the years ahead is hard to describe to anyone. I still remember the beauty of the Cyprus trees in Jerusalem, very early in the mornings when I was taken to court in a police van. I would be treated in a horrific manner in the waiting cells for the court hearings. After I had been serving my sentence for quite a long time they still were not satisfied with their punishment and deliberately tried to make money out of my family in South Africa. But enough of this, the One who taught me about forgiveness is the one that also taught me you can be a happy and fulfilled person without the praises of man! But I need to tell you about the following: GRB 080319B was a remarkable gamma-ray burst (GRB) detected by the Swift satellite at 06:12 UTC on March 19, 2008. It coincided with the time of the first visit of my wife in the prison yard. The one JESUS had given me that loves me with all of her heart! It was the first time we saw one another again after that late afternoon in the police office. I think that it was in 2007 that I had started to study the phenomenon of supernovae and what later led to a study of gamma ray bursts. I am deeply grateful to our heavenly Father and Redeemer JESUS CHRIST, for giving these signs to me. The reason is that we had been caught up in a net of guilt, accusation and punishment hurled against us in the power and deception of Lucifer himself. You can imagine what value these would have for a soul accused and condemned such as I. Amazing as it may sound, GRB 080319B set a new record for the farthest object that could have been seen with the naked eye: it had a peak visual apparent magnitude of 5.8 and remained visible to human eyes for approximately 30 seconds. The magnitude was brighter than 9.0 for some 60 seconds. The GRBs redshift was measured to be 0.937, which means that the explosion occurred about 7.5 billion years ago, and it took the light that long to reach Earth. This is roughly half the time since the Big Bang. The first scientific paper submitted on the event suggested that the GRB could have easily been seen to a redshift of 16 (essentially to the time in the universe when stars were just being formed, well into the age of re-ionization) from a sub-meter sized telescope equipped with near-infrared filters. The afterglow of the burst set a new record for the most intrinsically bright object ever observed by humans in the universe, 2.5 million times brighter than the brightest supernova to date, SN 2005ap. This is the great compassion and mercy of a heavenly Father to help us through a process that is so miraculous that either one of us came out of it alive. Thank You Father GOD!!!
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