The Amazing Way Jesus Reached Down and Rescued a Desperate Iranian Atheistic Woman Who Tried to Hang Herself after Years of Abuse

Mark Ellis : Sep 27, 2019
God Reports

"When I stood up I saw that my noose was open on the floor and my neck was all black. After two years of not being able to cry, I cried for hours..." -Bahar

[GodReports.com] Her parents were in the army of the king—the Shah of Iran. After her father left the military, her life took a horrible turn. (Image credit: Abolfazl Bahadori-Unsplash)

"When my father retired he went into business with a man who became his partner," Bahar* says on the "Sheep Among Wolves" documentary. "He brought his friend to our house. When I was five years old the man raped me. He did this for many years and I was afraid to tell my father."

Bahar's mother found out and told her husband. "He started beating me from that day forward," Bahar recounts. "My father didn't stop his business with the man. In fact, he invited him more to our home. From that time on, I hated men. I hated men's faces; I hated men's bodies."

Because of the unjust beatings, Bahar's relationship with her father shattered. Instead of sheltering and protecting her from danger, he enabled the abuse to continue.

Despite Iran's Shia Muslim culture, Bahar's mother was an atheist and taught her daughter God does not exist. "She had trained me so well in atheism that I would prove my Quran teachers wrong at my Quran class," she notes.

Bahar's hopeless situation led her to despair. "I took 12 pills a day for my depression," she says. "For two years, I couldn't laugh or cry because I was so high on these psychoactive drugs. I tried, without success to kill myself five times with pills."

Like many of the homes in southern Iran, there are hooks on the ceilings for fans. One day she decided she would use the hook to hang herself with a rope.

She ingested all the pills in one bottle of drugs to make herself numb.

But before she hung herself, she said something surprising: "God, if you actually exist, I want to physically touch you."

Bahar put the rope around her neck, affixed it to the hook, and jumped. "Everything went black and I didn't understand what was happening," she recounts. "And for four seconds I saw Jesus. I saw that I am on His shoulders like a child that loves his father. And I always wanted to do this with my father.

"Please don't put me on the ground," she said to Him.

I promise I will always protect you. I won't let a rock strike your foot, He told her.

Then Jesus repeated all of Psalm 91 to her... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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