Author: Shalem John

Birth: 09-08-1939 Home Calling : 09-03-2021 Native Place : Villaverla Country: Italy Place of Vision: Mozambique Giocondo Pendin was an Italian missionary who served as a missionary in Mozambique. He came from a God-fearing family of eight children and all of them grew up to do ministry in different capacities. After completing his middle school studies, he entered Florence monastery in 1955 and began his training for monkhood. During this time, the word of God strongly visited him. He realized that he cannot be a child of God by ancestral godliness but only by repenting of his sins. He was…

Birth: 21.09.1452 Death: 23.05.1498 Native Place: Ferrara Italy Place of Vision: Italy Girolamo Savonarola was a preacher and reformer who died as martyr for Christ. Intellectually very talented, he devoted himself to the study of philosophy and medicine. As a young man, he could not bear the wickedness, paganism, and corruption among the Italian Christians. He recognized that the clergy who were in the highest levels of the church hierarchy are responsible for spreading this corruption, and publicly denounced them. Savonarola joined the Dominican monastery at Bologna, where he devoted his time in prayer and study of scriptures. After being…

The Book of Joel is one of the twelve Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Though “minor” refers only to its brevity, the book carries a major theological and prophetic weight. Composed of just three chapters (in the Hebrew text, sometimes four in Christian numbering), Joel delivers a profound message about divine judgment, repentance, and restoration. Its vivid imagery, poetic intensity, and eschatological vision make it one of the most theologically rich prophetic writings in Scripture. Authorship and Date The book opens with a simple introduction: “The word of the Lord that came to Joel…