Barranquilla, Colombia
Waiting for this Thursday to pass head of the world, 25 people are locked in a house in a rural town in northern Colombia and, led by a religious pastor, have stated that this day will be the second arrival of Jesus Christ.
The 25 people are part of three families living in the Colombian city of Barranquilla and who for two weeks traveled 50 kilometers to wait for the “final trial” in Isabel López, A population located in the Atlantic Caribbean department.
Pastor Gabriel Alberto Ferrer Ruiz, Who heads the group of parishioners, until last December was a professor at the University of the Atlantic, a position he resigned.
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In his letter of resignation the teacher says he did so irrevocably “by a direct order given to me by the Lord Almighty.”
“The power of Christ’s resurrection in which they died believing in Him is about to be manifested, and eternal life will be manifested, the victory over death that has afflicted man during these six thousand years in which it has been on this earth, on which the curse of sin weighs, “Ferrer expressed in his letter of resignation as a professor of linguistics.
Like Pastor Gabriel Ferrer and following the directions he gave them, the other faithful gave up their jobs and sold all their belongings because “they will no longer need these material goods.”
Several days ago the residents of Isabel López alerted the authorities about the three families who arrived at the end of December and were living in the house where they had written the countdown of the days needed for “the second the coming of Christ “.
Police authorities and the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF) were present at the scene in the face of the possibility that the rights of minors belonging to the three families were being violated.
In the matter, the commander of the Atlantic Police, Colonel Hugo Molano, has stated to the media that the Childhood and Adolescence Police visited the site in the face of the community complaint that the children were being subjected to fasting.
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“What we found there was three families. They say there is no one obliged, but the three families reside there and it is the place where they go to other people to hear them,” Colonel Molano noted.
After the inspection, the authorities considered that the religious community was not violating any rules and allowed them to remain congregated in consideration of the freedom of worship enshrined in the Colombian Constitution.
Jorge Manotas, mayor of Sabanalarga, which is the municipality of which Isabel López is part, announced that they will monitor this religious community closely as there is concern about the outcome that the situation may have. EFE