Hi James,
The logic of your post is contrary to what the Word tells us will happen. Christians were killed by lions for entertainment and murdered all sorts of ways through the centuries.
Matt 16:25
"For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake shall find it."
Matt 10:28
"And do not fear those who kill the body, but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."
Rev. 6:9-11
9 And when He broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the alter the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained;
10 and they cried out with a loud voice saying, "How long, Oh Lord, holy and true, wilt Thou refraim from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?
11 And there was given to each of them a white robe; and they were told that they should rest for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been should be completed also.
It is not hidden and there is no mystery to the fact that the saints have and will suffer for their testimony of Jesus and even be killed.
Rev 7:9
.....behold, a great multitude, which no one could count,......clothed in white robes.......
Rev. 6:11 tells us the martyrs are the ones given white robes and here we see a multitude no on could count now have white robes. And then we are told who they are.
Rev. 7:14
....."These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb."
This multitude was martyred in the great tribulation, that is signified by the white robes. The dragon was given authority to make war with the saints and overcome them.
Rev. 13:7
And it was given to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them; and authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation was given to him.
Rev. 12:11
"And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even to death."
Matt 16:33
"These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world." |
