Who is like you oh Lord? YOU WHO created all things. YOU made a way for us to have forgiveness of Adams sin forever! YOU brought a new covenant with YOU through YOUR ONLY BEGOTTEN SON JESUS CHRIST. WHO took the form of man, that HE would be the sacrificial Lamb. The last sacrifice ever needed for sin! Who rose on the third day after taking our punishment upon HIMSELF, enduring death, yes even death upon a cross. HE did it willingly that we would have life eternal through HIM.
In the time of JESUS, many of the Jews did not believe that HE was the MESSIAH in whom FATHER GOD had promised through HIS WORD. The ONE that HE had spoken of through the prophets many times as well as through King David. Also, while HE walked in HIS ministry here on earth HE healed the sick, raised the dead, opened blind eyes, fed the multitudes, delivered the bound. Yet they didn’t believe.
This same JESUS that was mocked, killed and buried fulfilled GOD’S WORD and the promise was finished! When the FATHER poured HIS glory and power back into HIM again to resurrect HIS SON, HE left a visible impression upon the linens in which HE was wrapped at the time of HIS burial and resurrection. This is the Shroud of JESUS CHRIST. It was seen by the disciples and has been kept since then. It was passed from one area to another with the utmost care and respect. This is visible evidence of the LORD’S RESURRECTION and the suffering displayed upon HIS body.
There are many scientific proofs demonstrated after years of study and research I believe the proof is explained by Dr. Giulio Fanti, an Italian professor at Padua University in Italy. He and many others that have done research together have shown a marvelous work.
Do I need this to believe? No, indeed not. HE lives in my heart. HIS WORD manifest in my life. HE died for me and rose for my salvation. I know this without seeing.
But GOD through HIS great mercy and plan revealed HIS SON to me 47 years ago. HE did this by reaching down from between the clouds to save me from a fatal accident that was about to happen.
I am presently 67 years old and a physical therapist in the United States. At age 18 to 19 years old I was heading back to the University of Buffalo after a holiday at home. I was on the New York State Thruway which is a major highway in New York State. It was a beautiful day with sunshine and partly cloudy skies. While driving, I reached into my glove compartment with my right hand while keeping my left hand on the steering wheel. I was going to slow for traffic and when I set up my left hand caused the wheel to drift the car left into the passing lane. At the same time that I noticed this, I also noticed a tractor-trailer blasting by and the front end of my car was about to go under his truck trailer. It was all in a moment but I saw death coming and then immediately felt the car jerked to the right. I noticed an odd something on my car good but could not tell what it was, so my eyes trailed to the right where I saw that it was attached to an arm that extended up to the sky to a break in the clouds. This arm was attached to the upper frame of a pleasant bearded man with long hair. I was startled and thankful and after stopping to compose myself, I continued on my way without telling anyone until about 15 years ago. That is when I told my wife and some Christian friends who were at our home for dinner. My wife was raised Pentecostal and I was raised Roman Catholic. I was always a consistent church goer and almost never missed mass, yet I never read the Bible on my own before. After my wife and I started dating, I bought a small New Testament and could not stop reading it! I soon also began reading the Old Testament the same way. I began to notice several references to the right arm of the LORD. I thought could this really have been GOD who saved me. I felt in my heart this was probably JESUS. I had just assumed before that it was probably an angel. I began looking at every picture and painting of JESUS that I could find, yet none of them matched the face of WHO saved me that day. I tried drawing it but just couldn’t do it. None of the images lined up with the visual image which was so vividly impressed upon my mind. I have had that image frozen in my mind for all these years. One day about 20 years ago, I was resting one Sunday afternoon waiting to go to an evening service at church. My wife and I were watching a documentary on the Discovery Channel about the Shroud. On a commercial break I stepped into the kitchen to check a cake. When I came back into the room I sat down into my chair to look at the television. Just then, I saw the shroud face hanging up upon a wall being discussed. When I saw it I began shaking and became very pale. I looked at my wife and I told her that this is who saved me all those years ago! Exactly to every detail of his face and beard. It was Jesus! I still had questions like why me? For what purpose? Etc. but one thing I know is that it was HE, the great I AM! Our GLORIOUS LORD!
Then January 11, 2015 my wife and I were watching a story on television called the secrets of the Bible – the Turin Shroud. It was the story of an Italian professor who has studied the shroud for many years. His name was Dr. Giulio Fanti. After viewing this episode it reminded me again of the day the Lord saved me and the detail of his face. After the show I told my wife I would love to share my testimony with professor Fanti to encourage him. Well, the next day when I came home from work, she handed me a piece of paper with his email address on it. I was surprised and excited. So I wrote this testimony and emailed it to him telling him that he had done a magnificent work and for him to be encouraged. That this truly was the Shroud of JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD and SAVIOR. HIS GLORY imprinted on that linen is real. That this is WHO saved me from sure death that day on the highway.
Dr. Fanti responded to me the next day. He was very encouraged and thankful for me sharing my testimony. This began a relationship of communicating and an opportunity to meet and view this special relic together June 13, 2015 in Turin ,Italy. Meeting Dr. Fanti revealed to me the humility and fervor he had for sharing the salvation message of JESUS CHRIST.
After all, this is what it’s all about. The saving grace of OUR LORD through JESUS CHRIST. Evidence of HIS suffering and death followed by HIS GLORIOUS RESURRECTION on the third day. It is revealed in the Shroud. The punishment that He physically endured is manifest on the Shroud. He endured it all for HIS LOVE for you and me. Thank you JESUS!
I am not trying to be Scientific. I am not one, however in my mind, one amazing fact that stands out to me is that when a picture is taken of the Shroud the image is very dull and difficult to see. But the negative of the picture is very clear and detailed. This is the opposite of a picture taken of you or I. When our picture is taken, the light comes from the sun or house lights or a flash. From the outside is where the light comes. The picture is clear and the negative is not. In the case of the Shroud the light came from the inside! That is why it is more clear in the negative then in the positive or the picture itself. Amazing!
HE is full of light, HIS GLORY reveals GREAT LIGHT. He is the LIGHT of the WORLD. There is great LIGHT that emanates from HIS PRESENCE. It is enough LIGHT to LIGHT up heaven! Praise GOD.
HE is the beginning and the end. The first and the last. HE was and IS and IS to come. HE has always BEEN and will ALWAYS BE. Believe oh child of creation and be whole. Be adopted into HIS family. Be HIS son or daughter. You are HIS creation and HE loves you. Stand true to your MAKER, your heritage, your HOLY and LOVING FATHER and true GOD. Be HIS and live.
The story is simple. The rise of life through GOD. The fall of man through sin of Adam and Eve. The fall of Lucifer. The plan of salvation through JESUS CHRIST. Choose your way. Eternal life or eternal suffering. Holiness, forgiveness, love and life or death and destruction. It is your choosing. Live my friend. HE has done it all for you and me. How great is our GOD and how MIGHTY is HIS NAME. One day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that HE IS LORD. Proclaim it now dear child and live. Ask HIM to be your LORD. Don’t let this gift pass from your hand. For HE LOVES you.
What proof do you need? The stripes upon HIS body, the thorn wounds upon HIS head, the pierced side, the nail holes in HIS wrists and feet. The list goes on. He left HIS complete image upon a linen. He appeared to many for 40 days before HIS ASCENSION into HEAVEN. Also before HIS sacrificial death HE healed the blind, the deaf, the lame, HE delivered the oppressed, HE raised the dead. HE fulfilled the Scriptures. What more do you need?
Listen to me. HE reached out from the clouds and saved me from sure death. I was about to go under the wheels of an 18 wheeler truck. HIS FACE is the same face as the Shroud face. The Shroud is real. It is the imprint of JESUS OUR LORD. HE loves you and HE loves me. HE is a HOLY and LOVING GOD. Your CREATOR and LORD. Don’t be foolish in your choices. There is only one choice you need to make. Your eternity depends upon it. Your present life needs it. There is no other GOD who can forgive your sins nor prepare your destiny with eternal life. Who else will fellowship with you and live with and in you as you travel through this earthly life? HE is your friend, the lover of your soul, and your GOD. How sweet is HIS NAME. Ask HIM to come into your life and change your heart. Ask HIM to show you HIS ways in JESUS NAME.
Did you realize that through the studies of many scientists and scholars including Dr. Giulio Fanti that it was realized the injuries that JESUS sustained were very difficult. They are so very clear to these who have studied the Shroud. Do you know that HE could have stopped the punishment at any moment? But HE didn’t because HE LOVES you. HE endured, knowing what the result would be. A new covenant of hope, forgiveness, healing and grace through HIS SACRIFICE. To connect us freely with GOD through HIM. No intercessor needed except JESUS CHRIST to the FATHER. No sacrifice other than love and obedience. Believe and have hope in HIM. HE left his WORD to follow as our guide. These HOLY SCRIPTURES were written in by HIS disciples as the HOLY SPIRIT gave instruction. Through HIS sacrifice HE has given us the HOLY SPIRIT as our promise. WHO will be with us and guide us and use us. JESUS, the FATHER, and the HOLY SPIRIT are ONE. It is a mystery, yet the truth. Our worldly bodies are subject to the world but our spirits live forever. Our spirit is subject to GOD and one day our spirit will unite with HIM if we profess HIM as our LORD. HE will give us a new body, not made of flesh, never to die again.
Another point which is important to address and understand is that the Shroud although it should be referenced as a TRUE RELIC which covered our LORD at HIS burial and RESURRECTION is in itself of no power. It carries his PERFECT IMPRINT but in itself has no power. All power comes from GOD alone and by HIS HOLY SPIRIT. HE can speak and reveal great truths in front of the Shroud! And HE has!! The POWER IS IN HIS PRESENCE through the HOLY SPIRIT. If in HIS WILL, HE can reveal HIMSELF. But one thing is for certain, in HIS PRESENCE, things happen!! Healings, deliverance, conviction, guidance, proclamation unto salvation and the list goes on. HE has all POWER. HONOR and GLORY belongs to HIM.
Anyone that believes in JESUS CHRIST and will not support the authenticity of the Shroud because it is not scientifically proven is absurd. The science has proven it. The GOD in whom we believe, WHO created heaven and earth, WHO created all things and formed you in HIS image, WHO holds all POWER in heaven and earth, WHO gave power unto men to part the Red Sea, to bring water from a rock, WHO sent manna from heaven, WHO brought the wall of Jericho down and the list goes on. Do you think HE does not have POWER to leave an impression with evidence of his suffering on it? In whom do you believe? This is HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON. WHO gave all he had and all HE was for you and me. When RESURRECTED HIS GREAT GLORY returned unto HIM with POWER beyond our imagination or even beyond our science. Where is your faith? Science is not necessary to prove it, however I believe it has. Science is good. GOD gives us knowledge and giftings. But GOD’S existence and HIS Creation do not need science to prove HIM. Because HIS WAYS are above our ways.
When JESUS walked the earth. HE healed the blind, deaf, lame, possessed and he delivered them as well as raised the dead. Wake up and trust in HIS POWER. Be a LIGHT in this world of darkness.. There is only one who would persuades you against this. He is the deceiver, the accuser, satan himself. Choose your side. The Shroud holds a picture of wounds that our LORD suffered and evidence of the GLORY that is in our RESURRECTED GOD.
Do you truly believe in GOD? Let your ways, words and thoughts show it. HIS POWER is real whether we believe it or not. Our unbelief does not diminish WHO HE IS nor the greatness of HIS ESSENCE. OUR LORD loves all people and desires that each to come to the knowledge of HIS saving grace through HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON JESUS CHRIST. Through HIS shed blood, death and RESURRECTION, HE has fulfilled the Scriptures and brought a new covenant to both Jew and Gentile. If they would but believe and be saved.
HE reveals HIMSELF in many ways and will continue to show HIMSELF MIGHTY in SPIRIT and TRUTH. Throughout the world missionaries give testimony of many profound healings in the NAME of the LORD. Miracles are a daily occurrence in this earth. We don’t need justification, just give our GOD praise for HIS MIGHTY LOVE for us. HE IS WORTHY. Don’t you agree? Praise and glory to HIS sweet NAME! The Bible says, that if he cannot find a people to praise HIM that HE will cause the rocks to cry out. HIS POWER to do this is real. You can’t explain it you can’t prove it just believe and live.
The mystery of GOD’S PRESENCE brings great PEACE and JOY. HE amazes your soul with the assurance needed to affect your day with the victory. HIS mercies are new every day. HE welcomes you to receive fresh and a new each day. What a MIGHTY and LOVING GOD we serve. Service is an important part of his message. JESUS walked and lived to serve. HE, our MIGHTY KING and EVERLASTING FATHER lived to serve. HE told us to serve. Service is walking with HIM in love in all our ways. HE longs to overwhelm our soul with PEACE and HOPE. HE is FAITHFUL as witnessed in HIS giving of all HE IS and all HE has to us -HIS creation. How great is our GOD and MIGHTY is HIS HOLY NAME. HE is WORTHY of our best which is HIS good pleasure to empower. HIS HOLY SPIRIT will accomplish HIS will in us as we trust, listen and obey. What you need today has already been given. What you need tomorrow will be there when you arrive. Ask and see – what the LORD will do! You see, it is about HIM and not us. We are on HIS mind always. Can you imagine HIS LOVE? Think about what has been said. But look at the Shroud, look at the wounds, look at the will demonstrated in what HE endured for you and I. He took it all because HE LOVES us.. Let HIM reveal HIS LOVE in your heart. Meditate on HIS LOVE and know HE IS alive. Know that you have eternity secured in HIM. Believe you are forgiven. Believe HE wants your love and attention. HE deserves your worship and praise. Taste and see that the LORD IS GOOD. HIS MERCY endures forever. The cross was the end of lost hope. Ask and HIS blood will wash you clean. Ask and IT will clean you again. HE cried out it is finished. Know that it will not be done again. If you don’t receive HIS GIFT then you are lost. When he returns HE will bring his people home and complete HIS PROMISE. You cannot earn HIS LOVE but you can do HIS work. You cannot work your way into heaven but you can accept HIS GIFT of heaven secured. This is HIS WILL, HIS PROMISE, HIS LOVE and HIS COMMAND. HIS LOVE demonstrated, HIS covenant made. Forever more, amen.

