TORTURE & SUFFERING – A Chinese church leader

I have been imprisoned for 10 years for my faith in JESUS.  Every day I prayed, “Lord, before I experience today, you have already walked through it.  You have gone ahead of me to experience what I am going to walk through.  You know what will happen in my day, and you will take full responsibility.”

First, when they arrest you, they try to convince you to give up your faith.  If you do not deny your faith and surrender to them, then they will attack you.  First they put you into a small place, isolate you, and they let you starve to convince you.  The first prison I was in was 150 sq. ft. and there were 40 prisoners there; a small square for each prisoner.  When we crossed one another it was very close, and when we slept, we couldn’t stretch out our legs.  When you wanted a drink there was no water.  And because I was a Christian, they appointed me to distribute water to everyone.  But everyday we only had a cup of water, and this water was for you to brush your teeth, wash your face and drink.  We only had two small bowls of noodles every day and a small piece of bread.  Every day they gave you work.  The work was making Christmas lights.  We had to install those light ports every day –seven thousand.  Inside the light bulb you have two small lines.  You hook them together and you have to use your teeth to bite and then seal it.  If you could not finish your goal, they beat you up.  When you finished, you had to bow down.  Then they used that big long stick and hit your hip.

There was no barber, so you had long hair and a long beard .They would interrogate you and ask you questions.  If you don’t answer then, or if your answer was not according to what they wanted you to answer, they would punish you.  I would NOT deny my Lord.  I said, “I have nothing to say, because the Holy Spirit did not give me a word to share with you.”  And they said, “How can you say words like this?”,…  so they bound me.  But afterwards they said, “No, we will not bind you.  We have found another kind of punishment.”  They had a gate.  They cuffed my hands in the back and then to the gate.  When they opened the gate my body hanged in the air; my feet could not touch the ground for almost four hours.  During these four hours I prayed to the Lord and the Lord gave me feelings.  I felt the Lord crucify Himself on the cross to carry our sins.  He is the Son of God.  He paid the price for us and He allowed me to take part in His suffering.  At that time in my conscience I told myself, “I love You! Truly I love You,” because He allowed me to experience His suffering.  It is really only a little suffering I experienced because the Lord will not give us more than what we can carry.

Another officer came to see me.  He said, “Why do you have to suffer?”  I had no strength to talk and I heard a loud voice from far away that said, “Beat him up!”  Then I felt just like when Jesus was on the cross.  He said, “Forgive them because they don’t know what they are doing.”  After a few hours they came to see me.  They didn’t say any words; they just released me from the handcuffs.  They brought me to another room.  I sat at a table with the officer—face to face.  He had a paper and pencil and he said, “Talk!”  How can I say anything?  Then he said, “Thank you,” and closed his book and walked away.  He never questioned me again, and they sentenced me to three more years in the labor camp.

When I was in the barber shop in the prison, the guy who cut my hair—a spy—said, “We already have four people sentenced to death.  You are one of them. We will execute you.”  Every time I heard an engine noise, I put on my clothes because I knew they were coming to execute me.  I was ready.  Every day I make this preparation.  When they wanted to execute someone, they would have some police in uniforms with white gloves and handcuffs.  They took out those prisoners, who never came back.

One day the uniformed police came with their white gloves, opened the gate and came into our room.  They called out my name.  I thought, “This is the time of the Lord.”  I got up and followed them out the gate.  There were two gates.  I can see the outer gate.  Eight police were with me.  I walked with the police to the room of the prison chief.  They told me to squat on a rock.  One soldier said it was his first time to execute a prisoner.  At the right side of the execution ground was a meeting room and the officers were holding a meeting.  I talked to a prisoner and he said, “No weapon can hurt me.  I am with supernatural power.”  After he said this, they executed him.  Just shot him in the head.  Blood everywhere!

The days they executed prisoners they have a loudspeaker.  People came to watch the executions.  An officer said, “Well, this group is waiting for you.  What do you want to say, you have to say it now.”  I said, “I have nothing to say.”  I felt very sorry for him.  He came from his chair and grabbed my wrist.  Then he put his hand on my heart to see if it was still beating.  He was very angry because he assumed I was going to be very scared.  Then he sat down.  I experienced death.  After a couple of times of this kind of imprisonment and death threats they finally said, “This man’s a real Christian.”  Thank you, Lord.  They finally released me after 10 years.  Praise the Lord.!

From outside the door of China seems closed but we see doors that are open.  In the book of Revelation the Lord said to the church of Philadelphia, “because brothers you love one another” I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut.”  Through this open door we have to carry the cross of the Lord, and by faith the door opens.  This door is open always and no one can close this door.  In China it’s like that.  In North Korea, it’s like that.  May the Lord bless you