Author Unknown:
In February 2015, twenty-one Christian men were led to a lonely shore along the Mediterranean Sea in Libya.
Most were poor laborers from small villages in Egypt. They had traveled abroad simply to provide for their families. Instead, they were captured by ISIS militants and imprisoned for months.
On the morning of their execution, they were marched across the sand wearing orange prison garments, each man forced to kneel with the sea behind him and a masked executioner standing at his back.
They were given one final chance. Deny Jesus Christ—and live.
Not one of them did.
Witnesses who later examined the video reported that several of the men were quietly praying.
As the moment drew near, some were heard whispering the name they loved to the very end: “Lord Jesus Christ.” One by one, along that cold shoreline, the militants beheaded them for their faith.
The killers believed they were spreading terror. Instead, they bore witness to something far greater. The world watched as twenty-one ordinary men chose Christ over life itself, and the sand of that Libyan beach became the ground where their testimony was sealed in blood.
Today they are remembered as the 21 Martyrs of Libya.
