Chanced upon this post on multiply. Ashamed to say i can't even recall by heart the names of the 12 apostles, let alone know the exact details of how they died. And i tot all died tragically except John, but i didnt know John suffered near death even. Touched by their faith, im ashamed of wat i have done or said that hurt anyone. It's indeed not easy to follow Christ. And yeps, all the disasters (earthquakes, cyclones, diseases etc) u see happening are signs of the nearing of the end of the world. U can actually read wat happens in the Book of Revelations and the Horrors that are bound to happen in the Bible. Cowardly to say this, but i hope im dead before the end comes.
Do you know how the apostles died?
MatthewSuffered martyrdom in Ethiopia, killed by a sword wound.PREFIX = O /
MarkDied in Alexandria, Egypt, after being dragged by horses
through the streets until he was dead.
Luke- was hanged in Greece as a result of his tremendous preaching to
the lost.
JohnFaced martyrdom when he was boiled in huge basin of boiling oil
during a wave of persecution in Rome . However, he was
miraculously delivered from death. John was then sentenced to the
mines on the prison island of Patmos . He wrote his prophetic
Book of Revelation on Patmos . The apostle John was later freed and
returned to serve as Bishop of Edessa in modern Turkey . He died as
an old man, the only apostle to die peacefully.
Peterwas crucified upside down on an x-shaped cross. According to
church tradition it was because he told his tormentors that he
felt unworthy to die in the same way that Jesus Christ had died.
James, Just The leader of the church in Jerusalem , was thrown over a
hundred feet down from the southeast pinnacle of the Temple when he
refused to deny his faith in Christ. When they discovered that he
survived the fall, his enemies beat James to death with a fuller's
club. * This was the same pinnacle where Satan had taken Jesus during
the Temptation.
James theGreat , son of Zebedee, was a fisherman by trade when Jesus
called him to a lifetime of ministry. As a strong leader
of the church, James was ultimately beheaded at Jerusalem . The Roman
officer who guarded James watched amazed as James defended his faith
at his trial. Later, the officer walked beside James to the place of
execution. Overcome by conviction, he declared his new faith to the
judge and knelt beside James to accept beheading as a Christian.
Bartholomewalso known as Nathaniel Was a missionary to Asia . He
witnessed for our Lord in present day Turkey . Bartholomew was
martyred for his preaching in Armenia where he was flayed to death by
a whip.
Andrewwas crucified on an x-shaped cross in Patras , Greece . After
being whipped severely by seven soldiers they tied his body to the
cross with cords to prolong his agony. His followers reported that,
when he was led toward the cross, Andrew saluted it in these words:
"I have long desired and expected this happy hour. The cross has been
consecrated by the body of Christ hanging on it." He continued to
preach to his tormentors for two days until he expired.
ThomasWas stabbed with a spear in India during one of his missionary
trips to establish the church in the sub-continent.
Jude, Was killed with arrows when he refused to deny his faith in
Christ.
MatthiasThe apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot,
was stoned and then beheaded.
BarnabasOne of the group of seventy disciples, wrote the Epistle of
Barnabas. He preached throughout Italy and Cyprus . Barnabas was
stoned to death at Salonica.
Was tortured and then beheaded by the evil Emperor Nero at Rome
in A.D. 67. Paul endured a lengthy imprisonment which
allowed him to write his many epistles to the churches he had formed
throughout the Roman Empire . These letters, which taught many of the
foundational doctrines of Christianity, form a large portion of the
New Testament.
Perhaps this is a reminder to us that our sufferings here are indeed
minor compared to the intense persecution and cold cruelty faced by
the apostles disciples during their times for the sake of the Faith.
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake:
But he that endureth to the end shall be saved.Mt 10:22
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