{"id":12730,"date":"2024-02-21T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12730"},"modified":"2024-02-21T13:45:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T21:45:48","slug":"middle-east-a-former-aide-to-arafat-believes-bible-will-break-out-after-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12730","title":{"rendered":"Middle East: A Former Aide to Arafat Believes Revival Will Break Out After the War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: God Reports, February 8, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A former sharpshooter Muslim and aide to Yasser Arafat, Taysir \u201cTass\u201d Abu Saada strongly believes a revival will break out after the Israel-Hamas war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are looking at a good revival going on already in the Gaza Strip due to what has happened,\u201d [Saada] told CBN. \u201cDespite the destruction that is taking place, I believe God has a purpose to get the Palestinians in Gaza to wake up and look at different alternatives to what they believe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Saada] is himself a Palestinian, though born in Qatar. He passed through the Palestinian militant ranks from sharpshooter to aid to former PLO Chairman Yassar Arafat. Today, however, he is a Christian overseeing teams who evangelize in the West Bank and Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.cbn.com\/news\/world\/ex-terrorist-confirms-mass-visions-jesus-gaza-says-thousands-muslims-will-come-christ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In the CBN report<\/a>, [Saada] confirmed an earlier story that 200 Gazans received Jesus en masse when they all received the same dream about Jesus on the same night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.godreports.com\/2024\/02\/former-aide-to-arafat-sees-revival-breaking-out-in-gaza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The full story<\/a> includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godreports.com\/podcast\/episode-18-taysir-abu-saada-palestinian-fatah-fighter-once-hated-jews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a link to an interview with Saada<\/a>. More of his personal story is told in a 2010 Tyndale House book, <em>Once an Arafat Man: The True Story of How a PLO Sniper Found a New Life<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Missions Catalyst reader asked if we\u2019d heard the reports that 200 Gazans dreamed of Jesus on the same night in November. We had our doubts and couldn\u2019t confirm the story. This one seems a step closer to the source. Pretty wild, though. Let\u2019s pray for God to bring revival by any means he chooses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: God Reports, February 8, 2024 A former sharpshooter Muslim and aide to Yasser Arafat, Taysir \u201cTass\u201d Abu Saada strongly believes a revival will break out after the Israel-Hamas war. \u201cWe are looking at a good revival going on already in the Gaza Strip due to what has happened,\u201d [Saada] told CBN. \u201cDespite the destruction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12730\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Middle East: A Former Aide to Arafat Believes Revival Will Break Out After the War<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12735,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12730\/revisions\/12735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}