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Bro.John Rabi was born and brought up and educated at Tirunelveli, a city in the state of Tamilnadu in India, and later became an educationist at Coimbatore. While Bro.Rabi was doing post graduation degree, he received an invitation from the country of Malaysia to become the principal of a college. After hearing the voice of God, that Bro.Rabi should serve him, he decided not to pursue a secular job.
In the meantime Bro.Rabbi got married; unfortunately he lost his wife on the 55th day after the marriage. Discouraged by this incident, Bro.Rabbi joined an ashram which is on the 18th mile road between Bangalore and Mysore, two popular cities in the state of Karnataka.
In the year 1963 on May 9th, Bro.Rabbi had an apparition of Christ, and in the vision he spoke with Bro.Rabbi face to face for 25 minutes. This incident inspired Bro.Rabbi to start preaching the good news of Jesus Christ. In the year 1969, on October 7th evening at 4:45 Bro.Rabbi had another apparition of Christ, and he commanded Bro.Rabbi to go into the villages and for about 3 years and 7 months. The grace of God, and the power of the Holy Spirit lead Bro.Rabbi to more than Indian 3,500 villages.
7th October 1969 was a red letter day in the life of Bro. D. John Rabindranath. On that day the Lord Jesus Christ commanded him to go on an independent mission to preach the Gospel to the gentiles.
There were 3 associates who accompanied him from place to place, as the Lord instructed them. The main feature of the ministry was to visit villages, preach the Gospel and offer prayers for the sick, the destitute, the poor and the needy. He preached in more than 3,200 villages.
In 1965 Bro. D.John Rabindranath had the rare opportunity of an interview with the then President of India, Dr. Radhakrishnan, at the Rashtrapathi Bhavan, New Delhi. One outstanding question the President asked was, “Why do you insist that Christ alone is the living God?” Brother replied, “There are many luminous bodies in the sky,the moon and the stars radiating light. But they are all eclipsed by the radiance of the Sun. Even so Christ, who is the light of the world eclipses all other angels”. In the year 1972, Bro. D. John Rabindranath, with his associates preached in the Andaman Islands, directed by the Spirit of Jesus Christ. It was in the same year that the Lord commanded him to preach the Gospel in the churches and also to give messages of His Second Coming, in the cities, towns and villages.
In the year 1973, Bro. D. John Rabindranath with his team visited Israel, Cyprus, Lebanon, Bahrain and Kuwait. In 1974, he and his team toured over Kuwait, Bahrain, U.K., U.S.A. and Canada including Newfoundland.
Since then the ministry has expanded by the grace of God, and now there are more than 600 Co-ordinators to assist Bro. D. John Rabindranath in the various branches of the ministry. In 1975, Radio ministry was started through relay from Seychelles, Manila and Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation.
In 1976 began the publication of magazine “Jesus Comes”. In 1977 three Gramaphone records - Two L.P.’s and one E.P. were produced through H.M.V. Madras, South India.
1978 Bro. D. John Rabindranath made a second trip to the Holy Land. On the way, places like Rome, Italy, Switzerland, West Germany and Sri Lanka were covered.
In all these places ,messages on the Second Coming and Gospel were given, Prayers were offered for the sick and counselling given wherever sought. For the second time, Bro. D. John Rabindranath entered into the Rashtrapathi Bhawan, Delhi.
In the same year Bro. D. John Rabindranath had an interview with the former President of India, Mr. Sanjeeva Reddy, regarding the Freedom of Religion Bill banning all religious propaganda which was just then awaiting for the presidential assent. Bro. D. John Rabindranath, who represented all the Churches of South India along with some Christian leaders of other organizations, effectively prevented the President from giving his assent to the bill. Bro. D. John Rabindranath has since then made missionary sojourns to countries overseas, such as Sri Lanka, Singapore, Dubai, Sharja, Kuwait (9 times), Al-Ain, Ras-Al-Khima, Ajman, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Muscat and many other countries.
The living saints in Kuwait gave the first award for the ministry of Bro. D. John Rabindranath. Till this day many miracles took place.
Bro.Rabi was taken into heaven five times. Bro.Rabi was showed the hell fire, five chambers, the people bound by the chains of darkness.
Bro.Rabi regularly taught at Jesus Comes Bible college in the garden, and had 39 batches of trainees from all over the world released for the body of Christ. Approximately 8,34,000 people were healed in many crusades around the world through Bro.Rabbi’s meetings.
Bro.Rabbi passed away on November 3, 2006 at the age of 84. His beloved son Bro.Paul Raj Moses leads healing meetings at the beautiful Garden called Jesus Comes Garden.
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