As an adolescent I was told the day would come when Jesus followers would be openly persecuted and ridiculed. At the time, I could not image such things. It was the early 1980’s in the US Bible belt and most everyone I knew went to Church on Sunday and claimed to be a Christian. Fast forward to today when everywhere I look foreign and domestic persecution of the Church is a daily occurrence. Today in many countries being a Christian is ultimately a death sentence that can even lead to public beheading. What has conspired in the last thirty years is nothing less than astonishing. The open animosity and vitriol demonstrated daily toward Christians appears to be escalating at a rate never before seen in the West.
You can blame many, but the fact of the matter is the age of the Church is quickly coming to an end and the rise of the anti-Christ is now here to start the next phase in the eternal sago of Good and evil.
Like it or not we are the last generation, and all this is expected.
This means that we will witness the coming of Jesus the Christ God’s one and only Son with our own eyes and we will see the world, as we know it, die before those same eyes. Over a third of the world will die from famine and pestilence. That is over two and a half billion people die in a very short period time. To put it in to perspective there are 331 million people who live in the USA. That is a fraction of the deaths to come. Meaning multiple countries will likely be no more and those who lived with be left with the after math of such a devastating disaster(s).
My first reaction is to pack it up and move to the woods living in a cave stocked up with all the food and water I need. This reaction is likely what most of us would consider irrational and on the side of silly considering no one will escape the the end of the age no matter who you are or where you hide.
The World will see the Spirit of God poured on the Earth creating a revival never seen before. Great wonders and miracles will be witnessed by all of the peoples of the Earth. This in my opinion is likely what escalates the mass persecution of the Saints. Forcing Jesus followers to choose Jesus over the god of government at the penalty of death.
The day is here when your beliefs will be considered too dangerous to ignore and the time will come when you have to choose your life or your faith. At that moment in time will you choose correctly? Without the power of God’s spirit in you it is very unlikely. This decision will shape your eternity. Faith is believing in God’s ability to provide over your own ability. Seek God in this through prayer now while you can. There is too much at stake to leave for the moment.