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were delivered to General Ramos and he had<br />

these systematically distributed to soldiers and<br />

police throughout the country.<br />

One missionary friend, who worked with<br />

army officers at a very secure military base,<br />

said he normally had to go through three very<br />

strict checkpoints every time he conducted<br />

a Bible study with the officers. However, the<br />

day the New Testaments were delivered, he<br />

was simply waved through each security check<br />

point with the guards paying him little mind<br />

because they were busily reading their New<br />

Testaments!<br />

When the peaceful People Power<br />

Revolution began a few days later, the army<br />

was ordered by the President to shoot into the<br />

crowd and run over them with their tanks. The<br />

army refused to shoot the innocent. Was this a<br />

result of the military reading the Word of God?<br />

Who knows? But we <strong>do</strong> know <strong>that</strong> it was one of<br />

the first “peaceful” revolutions which resulted in<br />

the overthrow of an unjust regime.<br />

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