![]() `Do not I fill both heaven and earth?' declares the Lord." (Jer 23:24). 1 Such was his divinely appointed meeting with the sovereign Lord of the universe, the "Hound of Heaven" who had tracked him down to that very warehouse! Remember Jeremiah's words: "`Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?' declares the Lord. No wonder he was weeping-God had powerfully and yet tenderly made Himself known to this young man. Out of the thousands of Bibles still left in that warehouse, he stole the very one belonging to his grandmother-a woman, who throughout her entire life, was persecuted for her faith. ![]() The inside page of the Bible he picked up had the handwritten signature of his own grandmother. What he did not know was that he was being pursued by the "Hound of Heaven." What he found shook him to the core. He had slipped away hoping to take a Bible for himself. Eventually they found him in a corner of the warehouse, weeping. As they were loading Bibles, one team member noticed that the young man had disappeared. One helper was a young man-a skeptical, hostile agnostic collegian who had come only for the day's wages. The next day the CoMission team returned with a truck and several Russian people to help load the Bibles. Then the CoMissioners asked if the Bibles could be removed and distributed again to the people of Stavropol. But when the team was having difficulty getting Bibles shipped from Moscow, someone mentioned the existence of a warehouse outside of town where these confiscated Bibles had been stored since Stalin's day.Īfter the team had prayed extensively, one member finally mustered up the courage to go to the warehouse and ask the officials if the Bibles were still there. The city's history wasn't known at that time. The CoMission once sent a team to Stavropol. Thousands of Bibles were confiscated, and multitudes of believers were sent to the gulags-prison camps-where most died, unjustly condemned as "enemies of the state." ![]() In Stavropol, Russia, this order was carried out with vengeance. ![]() In the 1930's Stalin ordered a purge of all Bibles and all believers. The Hound of Heaven and a Young Russian AgnosticĪndrea Wolfe, on staff with the CoMission office in Raleigh, North Carolina tells the following story:
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