When you watch your television, Christ-follower, and see a comedian making lewd and bitter jokes about Jesus and His people, or you watch portions of a video put out by an openly homosexual man, calling a young girl all kinds of filthy and vicious names because of her stand on Christian principles, you should be alerted to the inevitability that wide-spread and unchecked persecution against the true church is right around the corner.
When it comes, who is going to stand? Will it be the people who have subscribed to a ‘Santa Clause’ god who lifts them up lest they cast their foot against a stone; who provides them with every selfish whim?
Or will it be the people who have chosen to endure ill-treatment with the people of God, rather than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin – considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the riches of the world? - c.e.t.