I Tim 4:10,11
"10: For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
11: These things command and teach. "
When we trust and uphold the living God (Jesus the son), when we preach the Gospel of Christ without favor and fear, when we unfold the spiritual truths of the Kingdom, the bible and God's hand in history, persecution and revilement will come. We can never preach the Gospel outside the context of human society and her tensions of war, hatred and strife. To insist that Christ is the only door to the Kingdom of God will always bring strife and hatred. You can speak of a universal and generic "god" and there will be mostly smiles, but when you bring up the name of Jesus it antagonizes many, particularly the antichrist Jews! Moslems are not offended by the name of Jesus, but Jews are. Jews everywhere, including Israel, are fanatically opposed to positive mention of the name of Jesus. Why? Because Satan knows there is power in the name of Jesus! His name brings persecution and salvation!
Paul and the other disciples and Apostles faced the same things in the first century. The Apostles created such strife by their teachings that many were murdered by the pagans and antichrist Jews of the first century. The Jews who rejected Christ in the first century spread lies and slander against him and persecuted Christians everywhere in the Roman Empire. The antichrist pagans and Jews do the same today. The leaders of the opposition against Christ in almost every nation are the Jews. In the Soviet Union tens of millions of Christian were "reproached" to the point of murder by the Jewish/Communist revolutionaries. Hatred against Christ and Christianity was the focal point of hatred for these communist butchers. |
