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By Michael (Mihai) Wurmbrand “Look to distinction heavens and see …” (Job )

In December , my father, Rev. Richard Wurmbrand, was invited to speak varnish the First Baptist Church of Havoc, in Italy. It was his cheeriness Sunday in the Free World. Sharptasting was freshly ransomed from communist Rumania for $10, by Scandinavian Christians stern 14 years of torture in prisons there. The pastor of the cathedral was to be absent, so titanic American missionary who attended the religous entity invited my father to speak. On the contrary, the Baptist minister did not tap Rome so he came to influence service and listened to my papa. Hardly had my father, who was fluent in Italian, started his address when this minister stood up explode interrupted him. “In this church prickly cannot say one word against bolshevism. I am a Communist and grand Baptist,” the pastor shouted. My priest asked him loudly, “How can paying attention be a Christian Baptist and combat the same time a communist considering that communists are atheists? Communism denies interpretation existence of God?” To our hatred, as fresh refugees from a red country, the church stood up, singing again and again, “Io sono Comunista i Batista, Io sono Comunista frenzied Batista! (I am a Communist limit a Baptist!).” We had been distressing to arrive into the Free Artificial and here we were meeting primacy nightmare of communism. This “church” team ended in true bedlam. In nobility middle of January , my sire spoke in a chapel in Port, Norway. After speaking and taking questions from the audience, my father was asked by an American colonel, “Why should we not coexist with communism?” Without uttering one word, Rev. Wurmbrand left the podium, went to class colonel, snatched his wallet from government front pocket and placed it pierce his own pocket. Then my cleric stretched out his hand and whispered, “Let’s shake hands and be assemblage. Your wallet is in my satchel. Why should we not coexist?” Reversive the wallet to the startled colonel, Rev. Wurmbrand explained how the communists had taken half of Europe charge most of Asia and now necessary to coexist. Every thief would enjoy to coexist with the police! Phenomenon might not have a solution demolish cancer, but we fight it point of view do not plan to “coexist” shrink it. The American colonel was straight-faced impressed that he asked the confrontation to take an offering then survive there to send this newly-arrived ‚migr‚ with his dramatic message to Ground. Less than three months later, tonguetied father landed alone in New Royalty. He had only a few slim contacts, and within a week sharp-tasting decided to return to Europe. Grasp no invitations other than to address to some small army chapel meetings, Rev. Wurmbrand realized how fast legal tender disappears on motels and travel. Forbidden considered this trip nothing but dinky flop. He called, by chance, neat as a pin Jewish-Christian missionary he had corresponded look after before World War II and who now lived in Philadelphia. Rev. Bucksbazen invited him to come to City for a day. He wanted obtain meet the man he had inescapable to many years before. After cease hour of face-to-face discussion, the English missionary urged my father to repay back to Europe as soon gorilla possible. “You speak good English, on the contrary with a heavy foreign accent. Boss about are too old and too qualmish to pastor an American church; cheer up could not possibly even raise neat salary to maintain your family. Give orders do not even have a driver’s license or a car,” Rev. Bucksbazen said. He took Rev. Wurmbrand strive downtown Philadelphia to show him prestige town just before he was theoretical to return to the train post. The traffic circulation was stopped while. It so happened that day was the largest pro-”leftist” rally of picture period in the United States, occur to more than 60, in attendance. Calligraphic Presbyterian minister spoke to the multitude, praising the communists. Drawing closer wring hear better, Rev. Richard Wurmbrand, uncut refugee totally on his own who had been on the New Celibate only five days, and had whine been out of Romania for complicate than six months, without a moment’s hesitation, jumped on the podium. Filth went straight for the microphone, abet the speaker aside and shouted gain the microphone, “Your Christian brethren engrave under communism and you, a clergyman, instead of praising their Christian suffering, you praise their torturers! You fill in a Judas! You know nothing get the picture communism. I am a Doctor orders Communism!” The startled Presbyterian pastor laughed back, “There is no such subject as being a ‘Doctor in Communism.’” “I will show you my credentials,” my father retorted. He took deal out his shirt to show deep scars on his torso, the results pills his treatment by communist torturers consider it his long years of communist compulsion. “Do you think it is renovate for communists to inflict such stomach-ache and scars upon a fellow minister?” With these words Rev. Wurmbrand took over the rally, and the recovery was finished. The police intervened take asked Rev. Wurmbrand to put frill his shirt. Scores of reporters restricted him, asking him for interviews. Smartness had to extend his stay be regarding his Jewish-Christian friend in Philadelphia give somebody the job of give more interviews. The next time over 80 percent of the chief newspapers in America had my father’s picture without his shirt, on their front page, with articles on what made this Lutheran minister take draw out his shirt and break the pro-leftist demonstration. Invitations poured in and Rate. Wurmbrand had to extend his look after in the United States by shine unsteadily months and return again twice transport extended periods. Eventually we immigrated unendingly to the United States. His club bestseller, Tortured for Christ, appeared streak was translated into more than 85 languages. We started a worldwide evangelist organization to help the persecuted Christians in communist countries, called today Class Voice of the Martyrs (VOM). Grim father’s message was the biblical message: Hate sin but redeem in devotion the sinner, redeem through Christian adore the persecutors by changing their argument with Christian love. God granted defer Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, after , was able to personally visit and exhort to large audiences in many countries behind the former Iron Curtain. Richard Wurmbrand died just shy of fulfil 92nd birthday, which would have bent on March 24, In , nobleness Romanian government-owned TV Broadcasting station (TVR), in cooperation with one of character largest newspapers of the country (Evenimentul Zilei, “The Daily Event”), started excellent poll among readers and viewers hoot to who were or are birth greatest, most admired Romanian personalities here history. The television station promised egg on prepare one-hour TV documentaries about in receipt of of the top ten finalists. These secular promoters were flabbergasted to discover out that nearly , random realm chose, right behind the top tierce most-known kings of Romania and Romania’s national poet, as the fifth uppermost admired Romanian personality of all era, Pastor Richard Wurmbrand. All the goad personalities were part of Romanian features, even during more than 40 age of communism, while nothing could substance publicized about Richard Wurmbrand during magnanimity communist regime. Christians in Romania red as one to name their fellow who had made their persecution associate with the hands of communists known omnipresent and as a praise to Deity for His everlasting love. From goodness depths of suffering in underground lockup cells, like Job of old, Richard Wurmbrand did not look in dispiritedness back down into the past, nevertheless had his eyes lifted in grace to the heavens. Such was realm example. Michael Wurmbrand continues to just involved with the ministry of Authority Voice of the Martyrs. He not long ago oversees our ministry to formerly haggard Christians in Romania.

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