Beirut Blast: Holy Spirit Prompting Led Me To Send Church Members Home Early Before Explosion – Lebanese Pastor
Pastor Said Deeb of Life Center Church in Lebanon has said an overwhelming feeling of anxiety, anger, and sadness on the day of the massive explosion in Beirut led him to send home worshippers early.
Life Center Church, Beirut situated only about a mile from the explosion epicenter that killed over 200 people and has left over 4,000 injured and many others homeless.
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According to CBN News, Pastor Deeb explained that he prayed with his staff but could not get over the feeling that something bad was going to happen.
He said;
I don’t know why, I was so rude, I told everyone, ‘Go home, go home, just close the Center’. But people said, ‘How come? We came a long way, we have commitments, we have meetings.’
I said I don’t know why but please go home and come back on Sunday and it was a Tuesday afternoon.
Pastor Deeb repeatedly sent his entire staff of 34 people home and canceled all children’s Bible classes after sensing something terrible was about to happen.
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He narrated;
It was as if the Holy Spirit is saying, Go! Go! Go! Go! So I was saying everybody go home, turn off the computers, forcing them to leave, I was forcing them and they said, ‘We are cooking, cooking food for the refugees and for the poor,’ and I said, ‘Today cancel everything, put it in the fridge’.
They were thinking I lost my mind but they didn’t know and I didn’t know it was the Holy Spirit’s prompting.
He said the blast blew out windows and doors to the 4,000-square-meter facility and would have surely taken lives if anyone had been there.
