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Mt 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
The time is soon to come that your neighbours on every side will hate you. You will be ostracized at work by all your workmates. Because Satan now has great wrath and knows he has but a short time, he will array against you every possible foe. Because he hates Jesus with such malevolent hatred, to hurt Him he will attempt to destroy His prized possession. You.
He will even turn your family and friends against you. They will turn you over to the authorities to "re-educate" you. For your good of course.
The local gangs, instead of preying upon the unwary and each other for money, territory and power, they will, with the approval and encouragement of the governing authorities, see you as the perfect target. They will pour all their fury and hatred upon you and legally take the spoils.
The police, the armed services, and the government itself will claim you as an enemy of the state. All nations will claim to be a part of the counterfeit religion of the world, itself claiming to be 'Christian', and they will accuse you of being a corrupter of morals, and of being a traitor to the common good.
And finally, the organised churches themselves will pour out their loathing and scorn upon you because by your simple faith, example, and humble obedience to your Lord, you will show them to be the hypocrites they are. Because you "keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus", they will malign your character, cast false assertions upon your every motive, and charge you with being possessed of devils.You, like the reformers and prophets before you, who choose to follow the Bible and the Bible only as your sole guide to faith and practice, will be charged by the church of heresy. Because you choose not to worship according to the dictates of man, but rather according to your conscience.And it is the church which will turn you over to the authorities to be killed.
Joh 16:2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
The whole world will be arraigned against you. Armageddon is not a power struggle between Israel and Russia. It is not a worldly war between nations. A war yes. Global yes. But it is the final last ditch stand of the enemy of our souls and the body of Christ.
Re 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
It is a war between the entire world and those who have refused the mark of the beast. It is those who refuse the mark of the beast who keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus. Are you a part of that remnant? Are you keeping the commandments of God? Do you have the faith of Jesus? Are you bearing in your daily walk the testimony that Christ is in you, the hope of glory? Are you being daily sanctified, changed, and transformed into the image of Christ Himself in character and life? If so, then the above is what you have to look forward to.
Are you ready for this?
Are you prepared to lay down your life for the sake of the gospel and the kingdom of God?
When you are brought before the tribunals and various judiciary for the crimes of treachery
and heresy, and to give an account of yourself by reason of the faith that is in you and your love for Jesus, will there be enough evidence to convict you of being a true Christian???
The time is soon to come that your neighbours on every side will hate you. You will be ostracized at work by all your workmates. Because Satan now has great wrath and knows he has but a short time, he will array against you every possible foe. Because he hates Jesus with such malevolent hatred, to hurt Him he will attempt to destroy His prized possession. You.
He will even turn your family and friends against you. They will turn you over to the authorities to "re-educate" you. For your good of course.
The local gangs, instead of preying upon the unwary and each other for money, territory and power, they will, with the approval and encouragement of the governing authorities, see you as the perfect target. They will pour all their fury and hatred upon you and legally take the spoils.
The police, the armed services, and the government itself will claim you as an enemy of the state. All nations will claim to be a part of the counterfeit religion of the world, itself claiming to be 'Christian', and they will accuse you of being a corrupter of morals, and of being a traitor to the common good.
And finally, the organised churches themselves will pour out their loathing and scorn upon you because by your simple faith, example, and humble obedience to your Lord, you will show them to be the hypocrites they are. Because you "keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus", they will malign your character, cast false assertions upon your every motive, and charge you with being possessed of devils.You, like the reformers and prophets before you, who choose to follow the Bible and the Bible only as your sole guide to faith and practice, will be charged by the church of heresy. Because you choose not to worship according to the dictates of man, but rather according to your conscience.And it is the church which will turn you over to the authorities to be killed.
Joh 16:2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
The whole world will be arraigned against you. Armageddon is not a power struggle between Israel and Russia. It is not a worldly war between nations. A war yes. Global yes. But it is the final last ditch stand of the enemy of our souls and the body of Christ.
Re 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
It is a war between the entire world and those who have refused the mark of the beast. It is those who refuse the mark of the beast who keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus. Are you a part of that remnant? Are you keeping the commandments of God? Do you have the faith of Jesus? Are you bearing in your daily walk the testimony that Christ is in you, the hope of glory? Are you being daily sanctified, changed, and transformed into the image of Christ Himself in character and life? If so, then the above is what you have to look forward to.
Are you ready for this?
Are you prepared to lay down your life for the sake of the gospel and the kingdom of God?
When you are brought before the tribunals and various judiciary for the crimes of treachery
and heresy, and to give an account of yourself by reason of the faith that is in you and your love for Jesus, will there be enough evidence to convict you of being a true Christian???