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Your future lies in 6640.

66 books by 40 authors, and yet we now discover it's an integrated message system from outside our time domain.

Welcome to 6640, the ministry outreach of Koinania House and Korninia Institute.

Today's Bible teacher is Chuck Missler, connecting the Bible to your life and the world around you.

In today's study, Chuck begins his teaching on the Gospel According to Luke, Chapter 1.

Thank you. One.

Well, we're going to explore the book of Luke.

But we're going to start with a story that I think you'll find provocative.

It's a true story. A story of Torori. She was a 12-year-old girl. In 1835, the Bible Society here published 100 copies of the

Gospel of Luke in Mari. We still have copies of that, of course. And in 1836, missioners gave one of these to a young Mari girl Torori at a mission school near Matamata.

And she read it to her father, the chief of the Waikato tribe.

And we're on the Waikato River as we record here.

She kept her treasured copy of this Gospel of Luke under her pillow when she slept.

Well, under the threat of a neighboring warring Rotorua tribe,

the mission school was in the process of relocating to Taranga.

And on October 19th of 1836, at the Warray Falls, a raiding party

killed the 12-year-old girl and took the treasured object from under her pillow. Later,

unable to read, the Rotorua chief discarded it until a slave boy who had learned to read revealed its contents

to the fascinated listeners. The chief was convicted by the contents of the Gospel of Luke

and resolved to become a Christian. The Rotteruit chief resolved to seek out the father of the murdered girl

and beg for his forgiveness. And when finally confronting the father, the chief of the Wakato tribe,

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