Fire wipes out familys home with nothing left except for one treasured item: A miracle
A family that lost nearly all of their belongings in a devastating house fire in Ilocos Sur, Philippines, discovered a surprise as they rummaged through their ruined belongings after the incident.Ruth Mary Repuyan and her family visited what was left of their home on Nov.27 after a fire left the structure heavily damaged — reducing most of their belongings to black ash and melted debris.With nearly everything destroyed, the family began carefully searching through the wreckage to see if anything could be recovered.While examining their things, Repuyan spotted a thick object partly buried under scorched rubble, as Viral Press reported. Expecting the item to be burned like the rest of their belongings, Repuyan pulled the item free.
Startled, she discovered it was the family’s Bible — almost untouched by the fire.In a video, she can be seen lifting the Bible from the ashes and flipping through its pages — which appear intact and unmarked despite the extensive damage to numerous objects around it. Remarkably, the cover, spine and paper of the Bible show no visible signs of scorching or melting.Nearby, she and her family located a second book — but it had been heavily damaged.She said, “We will celebrate Christmas with nothing left.Everything was burnt, and the only thing we have is the Bible.
This is a miracle.” The Philippines is home to over 99 million Christians, according to the latest Census of Population and Housing by the Philippine Statistics Authority. There have been many previous reports of other cases in which Bibles remained undamaged in major house fires.In the fall of 2024, for example, Cindy Cole, a 62-year-old grandmother from Nashville, Georgia, suffered the loss of her home during Hurricane Helene. She was asleep in her bedroom when the storm was passing through during the night of Sept.26.
That’s when she heard a voice — something she believed to be divine intervention, she later said, as Fox News Digital and ot...