Teenage Martyr
Refuses To Deny
Jesus Christ!
In the face of satanist
teens, what would you have done? I received this and my heart is grieving yet rejoicing,
for a young teenager shows us what to do when it comes down to being bold enough to stand
in front of death and not show fear not compromise her love for YAHUSHUA! (Jesus Christ) I
look forward to meeting this precious teenager one day in Heaven. The least I can do is
post this for ALL to see and ask you to please ask for prayers of peace for her parents.
Her parents must be very proud that their daughter did not deny the God she served even at
the point of a gun! Pray for me should that be the way I am to die. One day that your
Pastor Sherrie Elijah will also be as Bold and brave to do the same if need be.
A new
message is coming forth given to me on April 20, 1999. I am waiting for the time to
release this message. You must be brave for the time is coming when many will be asked the
same question with the same end results as this precious Sister in YAHUSHUA! (Jesus Christ)
We must remember YAHUSHUA willingly gave his life for us for YAHUSHUA's sake if need be we must
be willing to die like this sister, Cassie Bernall. We must remember the bravery the Jewish
people showed as they faced torture and death and did NOT deny the God they Served!
Cassie is now in Heaven while the teen boys who killed Cassie are burning in HELL for
eternity! Cassie, although I didn't know you I LOVE YOU! Cassie's Parents, do NOT grieve
but rejoice for you taught your daughter NOT to compromise her Love for Jesus Christ
(YAHUSHUA) I love you Cassie's Parents for the scripture "train up a child
in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it." You proved you
trained her up and she did not depart from the God she serves and Loves and put first even
before her own life. Would we do the same?
Youthful Christian confesses her belief to rampaging gunman, then pays with her life.
By Carla Crowder Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer April 23, 1999.
A Columbine killer pointed his gun at Cassie Bernall and asked her the life-or-death
question: "Do you believe in God?"
She paused. The gun was still there. "Yes, I believe in God," she said. That was
the last thing this 17-year-old Christian would ever say. The gunman asked her
"Why?" She had no time to answer before she was shot to death.
Bernall entered
the Columbine High School library to study during lunch. She left a martyr. Though lots of
fellow Columbine students already were strong, vocal Christians, Bernall's confession in
the face of death has inspired them to keep the faith no matter how bad it gets.
"She did something that one of the thieves did when Jesus was on the cross. She
admitted she believed in Jesus Christ before she died," said Joshua Lapp, a
16-year-old Columbine sophomore and member of St. Philip Lutheran Church.
Crouched in the
library, hiding from the gunmen, he listened as Bernall was shot to death after her
confession.
How would he have reacted? "I would've done the same thing she did," Lapp said.
He only knew Bernall from passing in crowded school hallways. But his voice was still
halting as he spoke of her.
"It was just ... she's ... after she said that, you know
she's now in a better place," Lapp said. "She died for her faith. That's why she
died and that's how she lived her whole life. She was a martyr for Jesus," said
Crystal Woodman, a Columbine junior and member of Bernall's youth group at West Bowles
Community Church. The girls used to volunteer together, reaching out to homeless people
downtown. Woodman, too, barely escaped from the library, and only after asking God to
"send your angels down."
Teens like Lapp and Woodman aren't blaming God for
Tuesday's violence. They're thanking him they're alive.
"Everybody that made it out,
they know they made it out for a reason, or somebody was watching out for them," Lapp
said.
Churches where these students worship have had countless vigils, memorials and
counseling sessions this week. On Thursday, another prayer session sprung out of the mud
and muck at the park across from Columbine. At first it was just a small circle. The Faith
Christian School girls soccer team from Arvada had come over in their maroon sweats to
pray at the site. Hundreds of people buzzed around them: friends, students and strangers
hauling posters, flowers and letters to the giant memorials growing in the park. The girls
prayed and the circle grew. Twenty kids, then 50. Holding hands, singing hymns. Young
voices praying aloud under a cold, slate gray sky.
Matt Baker, a tough-looking kid wearing
baggy jeans, a Tommy Hilfiger sweatshirt and a yellow baseball cap turned backward,
prayed: "If we lean toward you God, we know you're going to lean right back."
The circle kept getting bigger, crowding out the television crews scrambling to go live. A
hundred kids. Maybe 120.
Finally everyone grew quiet, captured by a sweet, high-pitched
voice. "The only way you'll get through this is through Jesus. If you don't have
Jesus, get Jesus," she said. "You don't know if you have tomorrow." It was
the voice of Sam Matherne, a student at Cherry Creek High School and a member of the
Orchard Road Christian Center. She, too, was a friend of Rachel Scott.
"My best
friend died in there, don't let it be in vain," Matherne said.
Nearby, raindrops
pattered on the memorials, smearing posters and letters. A letter to Bernall and to God,
written on white notebook paper, stayed dry under a tent. "This sweet, innocent
beautiful girl (is) one of your most precious creatures and the world has suffered a great
loss." But, as these teens see it, according to Bernall's friend Woodman: "Now
she's in heaven. She's so much better off than any of us."
Colorado Shooting - A
"Must Read"
(c) Thursday, April 22, 1999
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From Larry King Live -Colorado Shooting-
CNN Air Date: 4/21/99
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This is a portion of the
transcript from the CNN broadcast of Larry King Live.
What a tremendous
testimony coming from this tragedy! As we pray for the families and community of
Littleton, Colorado, let us remember this young girl who stood up for Jesus and made the
ultimate sacrifice for her faith in Christ.
This is a MUST READ - MUST
SHARE portion of a transcript.
John Terry
PNB News Director
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...(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
KING: Back to Littleton,
Colorado. Standing by is Mickie Cain, who is a student at Columbine High School who lost a
friend in the shooting. Can you hear me OK, Mickie? I know you've got wind out there. Can
you hear me?
MICKIE CAIN, COLUMBINE
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT: Yes, faintly.
KING: What happened to
your friend?
CAIN: Let's see. Let me
just tell you about my friend Kathy (ph). She was amazing, and I met her about two years
ago, and she came to my private school that I was going to, and she was kind of headed
away. She didn't want to go. And I was so happy to be able to reach out to her and be her
friend and so many special times were spent with her.
KING: Were you near her
when the -- when the -- when the -- when the two boys came in and started the shooting?
Were you together?
CAIN: No. I got out
quickly. Yesterday was unbearable, but today's a little bit more tranquil. It's coming to
the point of...
KING: Hard to accept.
CAIN: Just -- she --
she...
KING: Where was she,
Mickie?
CAIN: She was in the -- in
a classroom, I believe, and she ended up standing up for the greatest thing ever. She had
the courage to turn her life around, and she went straight up after she started trusting
Jesus Christ. And when I came to Columbine the year after she left, she lent a hand to me
when I was kind of going crooked, and she completely, completely stood up for God when the
killers asked her if there was anyone who had faith in Jesus Christ. She spoke up and they
shot her for it. And that is the most brave thing anyone could ever do, and I -- I want
that memory to live on and her example for that. And she was so fun loving and amazingly
open hearted, and -- you could come to her with anything, and she accepted your darkest
secret with open arms.
KING: Mickie, she lives on
in you, Mickie. She had a great friend in you. You take good care, and thanks for being
with us. I know this was hard. We appreciate it -- Mickie Cain.
We'll be back with more
after this.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Jesus
told me everything's going to be all right. Jesus told me everything's going to be all
right. Jesus told me everything's going to be all right; going to be all right; be all
right, be all right.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
Psalm 27
27:1: The LORD is my
light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom
shall I be afraid?
27:2: When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh,
they stumbled and fell.
27:3: Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should
rise against me, in this will I be confident.
27:4: One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in
the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to
enquire in his temple.
27:5: For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his
tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
27:6: And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore
will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises
unto the LORD.
27:7: Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
27:8: When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I
seek.
27:9: Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my
help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
27:10: When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
27:11: Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
27:12: Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up
against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
27:13: I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of
the living.
27:14: Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I
say, on the LORD.
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