A professor of literature, owner of an impeccable resume and author of several academic texts. This is the pastor Gabriel Alberto Ferrer Ruiz, who assured a few weeks ago that Jesus would arrive on January 28 in the Isabel López district of Sabanalarga, Colombia’s Atlántico state.
Before the arrival of Jesus In this small town, the pastor prepared his religious community, which he led with his wife Yolanda Rodríguez.
He told them to fast for a long time to purify their bodies and souls, quit their jobs and sell their properties.
And it is that after the supposed arrival of Jesus There was no need to have a job, no house or money.
Even Ferrer Ruiz He left his position as a full-time professor at the Universidad del Atlántico: “I am resigning from the Universidad del Atlántico because I want to pursue the goal, to see if I achieve what I was also held by Jesus Christ for.” he said in a letter to the presbytery of this educational institution.
Given this resignation, some teachers knew who Ferrer Years ago they had asked the university not to accept the dismissal and instead provide psychological help.
In addition, they assured that he and his wife were committed to religion, but in recent months they had reached an inexplicable level of fanaticism.
The pastor was informed that he had recently lost a daughter.
Jesus did not come
But on the day it would arrive Jesus nothing happened. In fact, up to that point, the community, which consisted of about 30 people, had news of its religious leader, many of whom industry neighbors said were giving money.
After this situation, the story came to the media on Monday, who reported that no one in the congregation knew where the pastor was.
Some people have already brought legal proceedings against it FerrerWell, he would have kept his money.
Many of the followers reached the north of Barranquilla, where the pastor lives, but they did not find him.
Sabanalarga’s interior minister, Vicente Berdugo, said TIME Monday with which the authorities have had no contact Gabriel Ferrer Ruiz: “We never had any contact with the pastor. He lives in Barranquilla, his last name is Ferrer, but we had no contact with him until January 29th.”
The coming of Christ, Ferrer said, was at 11:59 PM on Thursday, January 28. But the date arrived and there were no signs, so some asked the pastor.
His answer was that “those who died in holiness with the faith of Christ will be resurrected in a few days.”
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