Thank you for sharing this fine episode. It was inspirational. I need to go out now and find someone who needs to find out who this Great God and Savior is, and let them know how much He loves them. I think that if you allow the mud to dry on your skin it will be better because it will draw out excess oils and impurities, leaving your skin tighter and refreshed. I can't imagine what torture would even feel like for Christ's sake. Americans have had it so good for so long that I don't know what we would do if we had to endure such persecution. I'm not certain that I would ever want to really know that, positively not in my flesh. I have endured so much pain in my back, neck, shoulder and knees for so long, that I don't want to feel any additional pain. Although Paul said that we should count it all joy when we are persecuted for righteousness sake. I would rather not have to know it. I rejoice that I have never been persecuted in my life for the sake of my faith in God and the Bible.

I am very keen to know what Isaiah 14:12 says in the Hebrew scrolls.