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Many people are convinced that another holocaust is coming. With anti-Semitism spreading once again across the world like a deadly malignancy, many folks believe that a second holocaust is inevitable.
And they're partially correct. There is another holocaust coming, but this one's going to involve Christians rather than Jews.
How can we determine that? Two ways--by the events that are already taking place in the world and biblical prophecy that warns of bad times for Christians in the last days preceding the return of Jesus Christ.
Multitudes of Christians are being slaughtered by Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists in such venues as Syria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, India, the Sudan and Indonesia. Their churches and homes are being destroyed; women are being raped and their children are being murdered or sold as slaves.
In the western world, Christians are increasingly maligned as homophobes, xenophobes and ignorant cretins for rejecting the "settled science" of homosexuality, evolution and Climate Change.
As many older Jews who survived the original Holocaust can attest, verbal insults and intimidation often precede persecution and violence. They remember how European Jews were maligned as subhuman monsters who were accused of all sorts of crimes from poisoning young children to controlling financial institutions and manipulating currencies.
When Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the verbal persecution was transformed into physical persecution and six million Jews perished in the Fuhrer's death camps. Even worse, much of the world willingly closed its eyes to Hitler's atrocities.
And what happened in Europe leading up to Hitler is now taking place in North America. It's only a matter of time before Christianity will be outlawed as a religion of hate. And those who continue to practice their faith and proselytize Christianity will be threatened with incarceration and even death.
Does that sound extreme? It's coming. Christ Himself warned us 2,000 years ago that His followers would be persecuted in the end times: "Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me." (Matthew 24:9)
The apostle Paul revealed this in his second epistle to fellow apostle Timothy: "In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived." (2 Timothy 3:12-13) Paul not only revealed the inevitably of persecution, but he also revealed that many of the persecutors would masquerade as Christian ministers and pastors.
And the apostle John revealed that when a world government commences under the dreaded Antichrist, Christians will be persecuted worldwide. John wrote: "The beast (Antichrist) was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months. He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. He was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them." (Revelation 13:5-7)
Though Christians have been persecuted since the beginning of the Church age 2,000 years ago, they have never faced the level of persecution throughout the world that they're experiencing today. And it's only going to get worse.
How much worse? It will culminate in a global Christian holocaust.
When Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the verbal persecution was transformed into physical persecution and six million Jews perished in the Fuhrer's death camps. Even worse, much of the world willingly closed its eyes to Hitler's atrocities.
And what happened in Europe leading up to Hitler is now taking place in North America. It's only a matter of time before Christianity will be outlawed as a religion of hate. And those who continue to practice their faith and proselytize Christianity will be threatened with incarceration and even death.
Does that sound extreme? It's coming. Christ Himself warned us 2,000 years ago that His followers would be persecuted in the end times: "Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me." (Matthew 24:9)
The apostle Paul revealed this in his second epistle to fellow apostle Timothy: "In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived." (2 Timothy 3:12-13) Paul not only revealed the inevitably of persecution, but he also revealed that many of the persecutors would masquerade as Christian ministers and pastors.
And the apostle John revealed that when a world government commences under the dreaded Antichrist, Christians will be persecuted worldwide. John wrote: "The beast (Antichrist) was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months. He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. He was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them." (Revelation 13:5-7)
Though Christians have been persecuted since the beginning of the Church age 2,000 years ago, they have never faced the level of persecution throughout the world that they're experiencing today. And it's only going to get worse.
How much worse? It will culminate in a global Christian holocaust.
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