Household cites ‘miracle’ after Bible survives devastating home hearth intact in Philippines

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A household that misplaced almost all of their belongings in a devastating house fire in Ilocos Sur, Philippines, found a shock as they rummaged by means of their ruined belongings after the incident.

Ruth Mary Repuyan and her family visited what was left of their residence on November 27 after a fireplace left the construction closely broken — decreasing most of their belongings to black ash and melted particles.

With almost all the pieces destroyed, the household started rigorously looking out by means of the wreckage to see if something may very well be recovered.

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Whereas analyzing their issues, Repuyan noticed a thick object partly buried underneath scorched rubble, as Viral Press reported.

Anticipating the merchandise to be burned like the remainder of their belongings, Repuyan pulled the merchandise free.

A home-owner was startled to seek out one treasured object that someway escaped harm throughout a devastating home hearth. (Viral Press)

Startled, she found it was the family’s Bible — virtually untouched by the fireplace.

In a video, she will be seen lifting the Bible from the ashes and flipping by means of its pages — which seem intact and unmarked regardless of the in depth harm to quite a few objects round it.

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Remarkably, the quilt, backbone and paper of the Bible show no visible signs of scorching or melting.

Close by, she and her household positioned a second e book — nevertheless it had been closely broken.

A wood cupboard stands fully charred after a home hearth, its cabinets stuffed with melted particles and smoke-damaged objects. (Viral Press)

She mentioned, "We are going to have fun Christmas with nothing left. The whole lot was burnt, and the one factor we have now is the Bible. It is a miracle."

The Philippines is residence to over 99 million Christians , in line with the most recent Census of Inhabitants and Housing by the Philippine Statistics Authority.

"The one factor we have now is the Bible. It is a miracle."

There have been many earlier reviews of different circumstances during which Bibles remained undamaged in main home fires.

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Within the fall of 2024, for instance, Cindy Cole, a 62-year-old grandmother from Nashville, Georgia, suffered the lack of her residence throughout Hurricane Helene .

She was asleep in her bed room when the storm was passing by means of in the course of the evening of Sept. 26. That is when she heard a voice — one thing she believed to be divine intervention, she later mentioned, as Fox Information Digital and others reported on the time.

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"I had this little voice that saved saying, 'Stand up! Go to a different room in your home,’" she advised information company SWNS.

Cole mentioned the "voice" got here to her when she awoke to the sound of her electrical energy going out in the midst of the evening.

When a house owner from Georgia went again into her bed room to have a look at the hurricane harm, she was shocked to see that her room was fully destroyed — however her Bible remained untouched. (iStock)

"I laid there, and I heard it [again] … saying, ‘Stand up! Go to a different room,'" she mentioned.

Cole received up and left the room, and inside 5 minutes a big tree from her neighbor’s yard "crashed into the bed room" and landed on her mattress.

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"I’m pondering it was the Lord telling me to maneuver to a different room," she mentioned.

"You can not contact the phrase of the Lord."

Cole mentioned that when she went again into her bed room to have a look at the harm, she was shocked to see her room fully destroyed — but her Bible remained untouched.

She mentioned on the time, "You can not contact the phrase of the Lord. You can not contact it."

There have been many reviews of circumstances during which Bibles remained undamaged in main home fires. (iStock)

In one other occasion, an Alabama man in 2019 mentioned his grandfather’s Bible survived a Christmas tree fire that destroyed his Gulf Coast residence.

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The person's sister advised Fox Information on the time that the Bible was untouched by the flames or the firefighting efforts — saying it was in such good situation she "may’ve taken it to church."