Thought Quotient

We recently read about this from the Jesus Film team:

A national missionary couple, Indian Bible translators Peter and Mary*, were working on the script of “JESUS” for speakers of the Lanka Kol language of East India. These unreached people (more than 1 million) are primarily animistic — worshippers of idols. Peter and Mary have been laboring to give them the New Testament. They were also helping to translate “JESUS,” praying that the graphic portrayal of the gospel through film and DVD presentations would help lead hundreds of thousands out of spiritual darkness into the kingdom of our Lord. Spiritual opposition was therefore stiff.

After many hurdles and months of work, they completed the script. We dispatched a recording team to spend a couple of weeks on site, recording primary speakers of Lanka Kol, working phrase-by-phrase, scene-by-scene, through “JESUS.” The team experienced similar opposition. First, there was the heat, 120 degrees heat, with 90 percent humidity! The men fell ill, and often fought fatigue. Then there were the equipment breakdowns and failures of electricity. Even though their digital recording equipment was state-of-the-art, the technicians said the computerized equipment would mysteriously “freak out” as they described it. More than once, the team thought they may not finish. One of the hard drives, on which the voice actors were recorded, just “died.” Through specific prayer, God allowed the second drive not to fail. As you will see, God Himself also intervened, quite directly.

During the days Peter and Mary were working on the script for “JESUS ” they were riding their motorcycle through Lanka Kol country. They told how they were forced to stop on the road. Huge logs had been laid down to impede their path. An angry mob of 20 men emerged from behind the trees, surrounding them — physical manifestations of the opposition. Anger was in their eyes.. .and large rocks were in their hands. This precious Indian couple, who had devoted their lives so the Lanka Kol people might understand the Word of God were about to be stoned to death. Peter and Mary had no way of escape. They did the only thing they could: pray and ask God For deliverance, to bring down His hand of protection. God answered. Before they had stopped praying, a fierce swarm of “eye flies” — insects that will literally attack a persons eyes - emerged from the jungle forest. As though in a scene from a biblical plague, the swarm descended on the mob, targeting each one with a vengeance. The men panicked. Struggling to bat the flies away from their faces, they dropped their stones and fled. Yet not one fly landed on Peter or Mary, who quickly rode around the logs and out of danger, praising and thanking God. They went on, free to complete the Lanka Kol translation of “JESUS.”