A few licenced churches of the Assemblies of God in Tehran (Central and Jannat Abad), Ahvaz and Shahin Shahr of Esfahan, as well as Pentecostal Church of Kermanshah, which were all raided and forcibly closed by Ahmandi-Nazhad�s government, have remained closed, and all efforts by the respective church�s elders to reopen them have been blocked by Islamic regime.
Assemblies of God churches in Esfahan and Orumiyeh are faced with severe restrictions and due to continued harassments by regime�s agents, all former leaders of these churches have been forced to leave the country.
Shahr-Ara and Emanuel churches of Tehran are under Islamic Agents� control and all their Evangelical work and Bible classes closed down.
Persian language Evangelical and Presbyterian churches in major cities such as Esfahan and Shiraz are, just as before, under constant surveillance and control by the Islamic regime�s agents. In some churches such as Evangelical churches if Esfahan, and Simon of Shiraz, the intelligence ministry agents are permanently stationed inside the buildings and actively interfere in the day to day affairs of these churches. They are also
1- Are obliged to compile a list of the attendees, photocopy their National Identity cards and submit them to the Ministry of Intelligence and Islamic Guidance. The two years long order has yet to be withdrawn.
2- Forced to hold all their services on Sundays (which is a mid-week, working day in the non- Christian country), and are banned from holding Friday services. This deliberate restriction is even applied to the ethnic Armenian and Assyrian churches in Tehran.
3- They are forced to close their doors to the Persian speakers, and its enforcement has been intensified further in the last six months. The elder of St. Peter�s church in Tehran officially asked his Persian speaking congregation not to attend the church, and refused entry to non-ethnic Christians to attend Christmas service.
4- Forced to hold their services exclusively in ethnic languages and their Persian services are severely curtailed. Pastors and church elders are still compelled to only speak in Armenian or Assyrian.
5- Banned from holding teaching classes or evangelising. Sale of books and other Christian literatures are banned, and Islamic agents enforce the ban.
God, I am asking you to protect Christians in Iran. Please multiply the number of Muslim converts in Iran and make them a STRONG Church acting in the middle of all restrictions in Iran.
The Iranian people are always a very strong nation fighting against injustice. That is why establish Your Church in Iran despite of any persecution like a huge construction raising its worship for You high to heaven.
We all are spiritual Building established by God to bring Him GLORY. Please use Muslim converts in Iran for Your Glory. Let them to extend YOUR Kingdom in Iran.
Coming to Him (JESUS) as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, 5 you (CHRISTIANS) also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
9 But you (CHRISTIANS) are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him (JESUS) who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 10 who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy. 1 Peter 2
God said about His Son:
�Behold, I lay in Zion
A chief cornerstone, elect, precious,
And he who believes on Him (MY SON) will by no means be put to shame.�
7 Therefore, to you who believe, He (the SON of God) is precious; but to those who are disobedient,
�The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief cornerstone,�
8 and
�A stone of stumbling
And a rock of offense.�
They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.
God, please save Rouhani and many people in the Iranian government.
Lord, please save Ali Hosseini Khamenei and talk to his heart that You were NEVER in the false religion Islam!
Save thousands of Iranians in Iran and around the world. Make them (ex-Muslims) are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that they may proclaim the praises of our Lord JESUS who called them out of darkness of Islam into His marvelous light. They once were not a people but are now the people of God and now have obtained mercy through their faith in the Son of God. Use them, Lord, and transform the world by this courageous and strong Iranian leaders whom You have converted and turned from the darkness of Islam into the marvelous light of Your Beloved Son Jesus.
The Iranian government does not allow them to worship YOU our God. But their hearts are WORSHIPING You right now on our planet! Who is able to stop this worship?!
This worship of their hearts is like incense raising up to Your throne of glory and You look at them -YOUR Children- created by You to recognize God and make Him KNOWN.
Father, please make the Iranian believers/Church a very strong spiritual house consisting of thousands of living stones, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices and worship You by their lives and hearts. Please multiply them and use them. In the name of Your beloved Son Jesus I am praying about salvation of the Iranian government, Muslims, Khamenei and Rouhani from the hell of Islam. Amen. Amen. Amen.
It is good that these licensed churches in Iran are closed, for they are hypocrite institutions. They will be closed here soon, or muzzled, as will the Muslim, and the Jew, to prove that they have nothing to do with faith in God. Already the so-called "pastors" are being bound up by the Sahtahnic (world) government of carnal and wicked men, as the one world religion takes over. The hypocrite is being silenced everywhere, for he has no right to even remotely speak of God's holy word. You look at how many pastors are taking a public stand against this onslaught of government-forced homosexual and feminist rights, which are nowhere to be found in the scripture. Where are their voices for God, for true morality and virtue?
The modern corporation, of which you refer, originated out of the Babylonian "harranu". This is where Caesar originated, it is a fictional title, a falsehood. Men love playing these games to generate capital, but when it comes to REAL FAITH, the fake are forced to reveal that they are not genuine. How can a true believer leave the true Temple, in whom God the Father dwells? He is the Temple. That would be absurd to state that a believer has to leave Abba's Temple.
This is the Will of God, else-wise these so-called "churches", which are no churches at all, would not be doing things which are not found in the scripture.
True believes met in houses, not these fictional tax-generating constructions.
The Temple is not made with hands, so please to not try and twist it around, and now claim that you believe that "the people are the Temple".
Make up your mind, which is it? Is it flesh or stone? You appear to be having the same problems the Jews were having when Messiah walked the earth. They, too, though that the stone edifice was "the Temple", though it was not.
Abba is using the Devil's Seed to fight it out. These physical religions, whether Judaism or Christianity, or Islam, are all of the Devil. True believers know not to use the weapons of the carnal man:
"For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal (fleshly) but mighty through God"...?
