After an attack that left a man dead, it was reported in September that his family saw a staggering miracle take place.
An extremist group kidnapped Tilak, a church leader from rural India, after his Hindu neighbours had complained to them that he was brainwashing the villagers and polluting their minds with the Christian faith. 40 families had been led to Jesus by Tilak. When he refused to deny his faith in Christ, they beat him and tortured him. Finally, he collapsed. He had no pulse. Tilak was gone.
‘See, as your Jesus was beaten and killed, so have we killed your pastor now. His body is in a ditch in the forest. Find him and bury him.’
Suddenly he started to move
The Christian families from Tilak’s village found his body and brought it home. They laid him out in a hut, and people gathered to pay their last respects.
Then suddenly – he started to move. His eyes opened. Tilak was alive!
No one could believe it. Some of the militants who had attacked Tilak were present when he came back to life. They knew what they had done to Tilak. They had tied him up and beaten him with sticks until he had bloody wounds all over his body. Then they made him crawl up a mountain, still beating him with their sticks to force him forwards. When Tilak had taken his last breath, they sent for the village doctor to confirm that he was dead. Finally, they threw his body in a ditch. There was no way he could have survived.
And yet, there he was – alive! As Tilak woke up, he could hear people saying: ‘It was because he believed in Jesus.’
