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Contrary to the rhetoric of popular end-time revival prophets, the Bible warns us that the final days on earth preceding the return of Jesus Christ will be extremely bad for Christians.
How bad? When Christ revealed the prophetic signs that would alert the world the end was near, he said this: "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)
Christ revealed that prophecy 2,000 years ago. And while His followers have been persecuted in varying degrees since the beginning of the church age, at no time have they faced the type of persecution they're experiencing today across the world.
From the Middle East to Northern Africa, Asia, Western Europe and even North America, Christians are being mocked, maligned, jailed, stripped of their rights and are losing their lives. And why? Simply because of their Lord Jesus Christ, that's why.
Here's another prophetic caveat that Christ issued concerning the end times: "In fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. They will do such things because they have not known the (Heavenly) Father or me. I have told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember that I warned you about them." (John 16:2-4)
Christ warned His followers that many of them would be put to death by those who believe that they were being obedient to God. Muslims are informed by their religion that murdering infidels pleases their god Allah. Though there are those who scoff at that, the Qu'ran indeed commands Muslims to kill for Allah.
Here's are some examples: "Fight in the way of Allah with those who fight with you." (Surah 2.190) "And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers." (Surah 2:191)
If that's not enough, then here are more examples: "Therefore let those fight in the way of Allah, who sell this world's life for the hereafter; and whoever fights in the way of Allah, then be he slain or be he victorious, We shall grant him a mighty reward." (Surah 4:74) "Make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them." (Surah 8:12)
And here's yet another example from the "Religion of Peace": "Slay the idolaters wherever you find them...take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush." (Surah 9:5)
How about one more? "When you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite their necks until you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners, and afterwards either set them free as a favor or let them ransom (themselves) until the war terminates." (Surah 47:4)
Though Christians are also persecuted by Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists and even Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel, that persecution pales in comparison to the persecution they're experiencing at the hands of Islamists throughout the world. The goal of terror groups such as ISIS, al Qaeda, Abu Sayyaf, Boko Haram, Hamas, Hezbollah etc. is to set up a global caliphate and remove all non-believers from the face of the earth. And Islamists consider Christians and Jews to be the worst of non-believers.
There are those--especially in western governments--who dismiss Islamic terror groups as "extremists" and fanatics that embrace a "medieval" interpretation of the Qu'ran, whatever that means. And there are those such as President Barack Obama and his buffoonish Secretary of State John Kerry who seek to appease the Islamic world by equating the Crusades and supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan with the barbarism of Islamic terror groups.
However, those comparisons are pathetic and disingenuous. Those who persecuted others in the name of Christ did so in opposition to what Christ taught rather than in obedience. Those who persecute in Allah's name do so in obedience to what Islam's prophet Muhammad taught. If you don't believe that, then reread some of the examples that I've provided.
Whatever the theology, Christians are being persecuted today just as biblical prophecy foretold 2,000 years ago. Does the Qu'ran reveal that Muslims would be persecuted by non-Muslims in the last days? No, but we have the modern day prophets and geniuses such as Barack Obama, John Kerry and their media stooges to tell us that.
After all, they would never tell us anything other than the truth, would they?
Here's another prophetic caveat that Christ issued concerning the end times: "In fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. They will do such things because they have not known the (Heavenly) Father or me. I have told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember that I warned you about them." (John 16:2-4)
Christ warned His followers that many of them would be put to death by those who believe that they were being obedient to God. Muslims are informed by their religion that murdering infidels pleases their god Allah. Though there are those who scoff at that, the Qu'ran indeed commands Muslims to kill for Allah.
Here's are some examples: "Fight in the way of Allah with those who fight with you." (Surah 2.190) "And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers." (Surah 2:191)
If that's not enough, then here are more examples: "Therefore let those fight in the way of Allah, who sell this world's life for the hereafter; and whoever fights in the way of Allah, then be he slain or be he victorious, We shall grant him a mighty reward." (Surah 4:74) "Make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them." (Surah 8:12)
And here's yet another example from the "Religion of Peace": "Slay the idolaters wherever you find them...take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush." (Surah 9:5)
How about one more? "When you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite their necks until you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners, and afterwards either set them free as a favor or let them ransom (themselves) until the war terminates." (Surah 47:4)
Though Christians are also persecuted by Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists and even Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel, that persecution pales in comparison to the persecution they're experiencing at the hands of Islamists throughout the world. The goal of terror groups such as ISIS, al Qaeda, Abu Sayyaf, Boko Haram, Hamas, Hezbollah etc. is to set up a global caliphate and remove all non-believers from the face of the earth. And Islamists consider Christians and Jews to be the worst of non-believers.
There are those--especially in western governments--who dismiss Islamic terror groups as "extremists" and fanatics that embrace a "medieval" interpretation of the Qu'ran, whatever that means. And there are those such as President Barack Obama and his buffoonish Secretary of State John Kerry who seek to appease the Islamic world by equating the Crusades and supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan with the barbarism of Islamic terror groups.
However, those comparisons are pathetic and disingenuous. Those who persecuted others in the name of Christ did so in opposition to what Christ taught rather than in obedience. Those who persecute in Allah's name do so in obedience to what Islam's prophet Muhammad taught. If you don't believe that, then reread some of the examples that I've provided.
Whatever the theology, Christians are being persecuted today just as biblical prophecy foretold 2,000 years ago. Does the Qu'ran reveal that Muslims would be persecuted by non-Muslims in the last days? No, but we have the modern day prophets and geniuses such as Barack Obama, John Kerry and their media stooges to tell us that.
After all, they would never tell us anything other than the truth, would they?
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