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EXODUS 20:3

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What a wonderful testimony indeed when these three men obeyed the First Commandment given by Adonai Ex. 20:3 לֹא יִהְיֶה־לְךָ אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים עַל־פָּנָיַ You shall have no other gods before Me

THE SYAHID MINAR REMINDS ME OF CALVARY

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Our God has His fingerprints in every nation that reminds people of Himself.   It was a simple structure like this that I saw. To me, it looked like three gallows. I whispered to my missionary friend, Walt White as we were walking in one of the villages in Bangladesh to visit one of his friends. "What is this? Doesn't it look like Calvary? The pillar in the middle is taller than two other pillars one on each side?" Walt, who was a missionary in Bangladesh, told me, "This is the Syahid Minar." The story continues. The Syahid Minar is till today the monument to remind the people of Bangladesh about the Benggali Language Movement. Bangladesh used to be known as East Pakistan. When the Government of Pakistan decided to declare Urdu as their national language, the Benggalis living in East Pakistan were angry because their language was neglected. This was how the Benggali Language Movement kickstarted around 1952. The prime minister of Pakistan