Nina As Good as Dead, Part 2

Rejected by her abusive alcoholic father and pushed out of her mother’s Sunday church because she was divorced, Nina searched online for hope. She discovered a video by an American pastor translated into her own language entitled, “The Big Statue in Dreams.” Intrigued, she clicked on the link.

What she heard and saw gave her goosebumps. She grabbed her Bible and followed along. Though Nina did not know it, she was having her first Bible study on the prophecy of Daniel 2 by Pastor Doug Batchelor.

Nina was a simple girl. She had never learned about the history of the world. But she understood what this American pastor was saying. She understood that the end of the world was close at hand and that her life did matter to God.

Immediately, she ran to tell her mother. But her mother asked only how she could suddenly claim to know so much about the Bible. A day ago, this would have stopped her. But Nina was different now. She went on to tell an aunt of hers and secretly continued to watch Pastor Doug’s sermons online.

As she learned more, she yearned for a church that believed as she did—a Sabbath-keeping church like the one Pastor Doug went to. But she knew of none. Suddenly, like sunlight shooting through the clouds, the answer came to her. “There was a voice ringing in my mind,” Nina recalls, “that the wonderful truths I’ve been listening to should have a customer service number.”

So she searched for the Amazing Facts phone number online and called. She was given the address of the nearest Sabbath-keeping church. Just like that, Nina’s prayer was answered, with a church family and, sometime later, a pastor who gladly baptized her. And because of the aunt whom she first told about Daniel 2, a Sabbath-keeping church was eventually founded in her home village and filled with new members—nearly every member of her mother’s Sunday church.

Reflect: When you search for answers from God, and doors seem to close all around you, persist in prayer. Be patient and wait on the Lord. You will not be abandoned.

Key Bible Texts

We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: (2 Peter 1:19 KJV)