Showing posts with label Christian persecution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christian persecution. Show all posts

Saturday 11 September 2010

How Would We Face Persecution In Canada and all Western Nations.

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Would You Die For Jesus?

 How quick it is to dismiss and to forget that there was a time when Christians were thrown to lions, burned as human torches, mangled by wild beasts, killed by gladiators, tortured, torn apart by wild horses, or martyred in other dreadful ways?


Another great period of martyrdom broke out at the time of the Reformation in the 16th and 17th centuries. We can read the accounts in all their gruesome details in 
"Fox's Book of Martyrs."

Do you know what century was the most tortuous of all? It is estimated that more Christians were tortured and slain in twelve months during World War II than Christians who died under Rome in all the early centuries. In the city of Seoul, Korea, ten thousand Christians have already suffered martyrdom for their faith. Some authorities claim that over fifteen million Christians have been slaughtered in India, Pakistan, China, Soviet-controlled Europe, and other Communist countries. Since Christianity began, no generation has seen such worldwide persecution as is now and progressing.

In Africa and the Middle East, Egypt, hundreds and thousands of Christians are being killed by Muslims. Europe lost its gripes over the growing Muslim population. They are increasing their population by using the same tactic that the provincial government of Quebec used with the support of the Catholic Church in the nineteen century for the purpose of increasing their representation in the Federal government that is by making babies. What do you think will be the result once Muslims reach a democratic majority? Democracy will prove that it is not the best form of government. At election, there is always part of the population who lose and are left out. Democracy only works when the minority submits to the majority. Would you submit to Sharia law? Democracy is not necessarily the best solution in some countries such as Iraq. There is more disorder and suicide booming among Muslims now than under the regime of Saddam Hussein.

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In spite of the facts, political and some church leaders persist in avoiding any mention of Islam or Muslim when referring to their violence. That is always blamed on extremists. We are now considered racist for our comments toward Muslims. Would I be accused of racism for denouncing Nazism as evil? This society is afraid of Islam. Studying the origin of Islam will reveal that Muhammad himself began this trail of death, and his followers have obeyed, as supported by the Qur'an.

This simple truth of history is brushed aside by the UN and almost the entire world, including some denomination churches that support the establishment of a Palestinian State unaware that it is the foothold used by the surrounding Islamist nations who are planning Israel's extinction (Ezekiel 38). Those denominations have accepted the "Replacement Theology" proclaiming that the Church has replaced Israel as God's representative and that the role of the Jews as God's Chosen People was over.

Islam nations have been at war with the Jews since 1920 when the Jewish army repelled the first Arab attacks on the Palestine Jews. Jews were in Palestine long before 1948 the birth of the nation Israel. Before 1920, the Zionists decided to redeem Palestine by buying land on a grand scale for all Jewish settlers. Suddenly, the scraggy soil of Palestine, neglected for fifteen centuries by its alien custodians, acquired value. Though prices asked by Arab and Turkish landholders were outrageous, the Zionist Jewish National Fund paid them.  By 1948, when the State of Israel was founded, the Jews had paid millions of dollars for 250,000 acres of desert land, had settled 83,000 Jews on the land, had founded 233 villages, and planted 5,000,000 trees on soil that but fifty years previous had been barren. (Ref: Jews, God and History by Max I. Dimont) Yet, the Arab nation's goal is to annihilate all Jews.

Any nations and church denominations that take sides against Israel do so against God. ""I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse, and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."  Genesis 12:2-3. This declaration by God is very active today. Look at the poor economic state of the nations that are putting pressure on Israel to give up land for peace. Canada is in good standing before God for its role in supporting Israel and, therefore blessed abundantly economically compared to its G8 members counterpart.

Church denominations that support a Palestinian state do not understand that Islam is forcing its religion against people's will. Their mandate is to convert the whole world. I am not making this up. It is in the Qur'an. Many accept Islam for fear of losing their business, their family, and their life. ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF TERROR that seeds fear and submission ruled by Sharia law Among the horrors of Sharia are death for criticism of Islam, death for leaving Islam, death for non-Muslims living under Sharia, the near impossibility of rape victims to prove rape, wife beating, child marriage, unequal rights for women, no legal rights for non-Muslims, and the subjugation of women. There is no retribution by the Islamic State against a Muslim who kills a non-Muslim under Sharia law. If this should happen in Canada, would there not be an outcry for justice? This is it …it is not happening here in Canada…yet! So why should we get involved? No one took seriously Winston Churchill's warning about the dangers of a German Nazi regime.

The Qur'an considers Jesus to be a prophet. At the return of the Mahdi (Muslin messiah), Jesus will be his servant. Frankly, who came first? Jesus Son of God who GAVE His life on the cross by spilling HIS blood so that whoever believes in Him (voluntarily) may have eternal life, and warned us of a false prophet to come, or Muhammad the prophet who spilled blood to whoever resists him from converting to Islam?

Hitler had a secret mandate to eliminate Jews. Islam has an open mandate to eliminate the "infidels" which are considered Christians, Jews, and anyone who opposes Islam. There is no such thing as a moderate Islamist. They are wolves in sheep skin.

What are we to do? Denounce then? Bring their scam to light? IT IS ALREADY TO LATE FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Muslim emigration into the United States is out of control. President Obama is professing homosexual Muslim, not Christian.

Here's a small excerpt from Brigitte Gabriel's speech delivered at the Intelligence Summit in Washington DC:
This is the ugly face of the enemy we are fighting. We are fighting a powerful ideology that is capable of altering basic human instincts. An ideology that can turn a mother into a launching pad of death. A perfect example is a recently elected Hamas official in the Palestinian Territories who raves in heavenly joy about sending her three sons to death and offering the ones who are still alive for the cause. It is an ideology that is capable of offering highly educated individuals such as doctors and lawyers far more joy in attaining death than any respect and stature life in society is ever capable of giving them.
The United States has been a prime target for radical Islamic hatred and terror. Every Friday, mosques in the Middle East ring with shrill prayers and monotonous chants calling death, destruction, and damnation down on America and its people. The radical Islamist deeds have been as vile as their words. Since the Iran hostage crisis, more than three thousand Americans have died in a terror campaign almost unprecedented in its calculated cruelty along with thousands of other citizens worldwide. Even the Nazis did not turn their own children into human bombs, and then rejoice at their deaths as well the deaths of their victims. This intentional, indiscriminate, and wholesale murder of innocent American citizens is justified and glorified in the name of Islam.
We are next in Canada. Is it too late to change course? Oh yes. We are too involved in our daily way of life and too content to look for threats. These are part of the signs of time predicted from the book of Daniel to the Book of Revelation. "Blessed is the man who listens to me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors". Pro 8:24.

The truth is that hatred for Christians and Christianity is rapidly increasing. Jesus warned us that these days would come. The times ahead of us are not referred to as "the Tribulation" for nothing. It will be an absolute bloodbath for Christians. The entire world system will be geared towards eliminating all traces of the true Christian faith. Members of the same family will even betray one another to the authorities.  The truth is that things are not going to get any easier for Christians from here on out. Someday soon there will be no place to hide from Christian persecution. When that day arrives, what will you do? 


Pray for thy kingdom come.

Sunday 13 December 2009

The Frightening Rise Of Christian Persecution

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Christians Around The World Are Being Shot,
 Burned, Hanged, Tortured, 
 Stuffed Into Metal Shipping Containers 

While we Christians in Canada are still free to assemble to practice our faith, many are being persecuted for accepting Jesus as their personal saviour.  It won't be long now that these phenomena will be at our doorstep…. enjoy your freedom while you can. 


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"Persecution is a test from God in order to separate the real Christians from others, it also makes Christians stronger. Look at other countries where there is no persecution; USA for example where people are free to worship. See what happen there? The Christian's faith has weaken there.. How it is in decline...  it is no so in China," Pastor Wong, Voice Of The Martyrs USA

There is a widely quoted statistic that more Christians died for their faith in the 20th century than in the 19 centuries leading up to it. But as bad as the 20th century was, the 21st century is starting to make that look like a Sunday picnic. In every corner of the globe, Christians are being shot, burned, hanged, tortured and even stuffed into metal shipping containers. Christian clergy are being marked for assassination around the world, and hundreds of churches are being burned to the ground along with scores of homes and businesses owned by Christians. Dozens of nations across the globe have now passed strict anti-conversion laws in an attempt to stifle the spread of Christianity. In the countries where Christians are not yet facing physical persecution, they still must deal with open discrimination, lawsuits and increasing ridicule. Christianity is now the most hated and most persecuted religion on the planet. The reality is that the words that Jesus spoke in John 15:18 ring truer today than ever: "If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first."

Keep those words in mind as you read the following shocking reports of Christian persecution from all over the world...

China

Chinese authorities have conducted a crackdown on "illegal" Christian churches in recent months that church leaders are calling the harshest in years. Christians in China are required to worship in "churches" run by state-controlled organizations, and Christians who attempt to worship on their own are brutally persecuted.

Recently, hundreds of government police and hired thugs descended on a megachurch that served approximately 50,000 worshippers, smashing doors and windows, seizing Bibles and sending dozens of worshippers to hospitals with serious injuries. The co-pastors of the church are in prison and police vehicles remain parked on virtually every corner of the neighbourhood where the church is located. Scenes such as this are regularly being repeated all over China as the Communist government seeks to eliminate all religion that is not government-sanctioned.

Eritrea

In a story that recently made headlines all over the world, thirty elderly women in Eritrea were arrested for simply praying together. But the truth is that this is just the latest episode in the ongoing persecution of Christians that is beyond brutal.

The Pakistan Christian TV website recently described the horrific persecution of Christians in Eritrea this way...

Today some 3,000 Eritrean Christians are imprisoned for their faith. Some are in underground and solitary cells whilst some are in 'secret' prisons for the 'disappeared'. However, most are herded into unventilated shipping containers in the desert where dysentery and infectious diseases go untreated. Torture is routine.

The truth is that these unventilated shipping containers are extremely uncomfortable. The temperatures in these metal shipping containers can reach well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and in many instances, Christians are not even let out of them to use the bathroom.

Assassinations Of Clergy

Increasingly, Christian clergies are being targeted for assassination all over the world. The following are just a few of the recent examples...

*A Russian priest who had been highly critical of Islam has been assassinated inside his own church.

*Leftist guerrillas in Colombia brutally executed a Christian pastor just outside his own home.

*Two masked members of the al-Shabaab Muslim militia shot and killed a Christian pastor in Somalia as he drove home from a worship service.

India

The persecution of Christians in India is getting so bad that India actually made International Christian Concern's Hall of Shame.

According to the ICC, 2008 was particularly bad, with "wave after wave of highly coordinated Hindu raids" that resulted in "the worst outbreak of anti-Christian violence in its recent history."

The statistics that the ICC quotes regarding the outbreak of persecution in India are sobering...

"In all, more than 100 Christians are confirmed dead, 4,000 homes have burned down, and over 50,000 Christians have fled their homes."

The following is just one example of what is going on in India. This story was originally posted by The Voice of the Martyrs...

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On April 25, Pastor Mohan Babu and two other believers were severely beaten by 35 Hindu extremists for holding a Vacation Bible School (VBS) near Bangalore City, in Karnataka State. According to The Voice of the Martyrs contacts in India, the three-day VBS was organized by Ragigudda Baptist Church. VOM sources said, "Around 60 children from different backgrounds were attending the VBS. As they were worshiping, about 35 people belonging to a Hindu extremist group forcefully entered the hut chanting slogans and demolished the hut. The extremists mercilessly beat Mohan, Samuel and Krishna, alleging forceful conversion. The perpetrators chased the children without any courtesy and tore the Bibles. Mohan was severely injured on his lips and was profusely bleeding. The believers are living in fear and did not lodge a complaint with the police."

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Egypt

Hundreds of Muslim villagers in southern Egypt recently burned and looted scores of Christian-owned shops. Christians in Egypt live in a constant state of fear and thousands are being forced to relocate. In fact, the forced deportation of Egyptian Christians from their homes by the government to "protect" them is rapidly increasing.

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, of course, strictly forbids the conversion of any Muslim to Christianity. The penalty for conversion is death. Back in 2008, The daughter of a man who works for Saudi Arabia's religious police became a Christian after she joined an Internet chat group. He responded by cutting out her tongue and burning her to death.

The United Kingdom and Europe

All across Europe, "anti-proselytizing" laws are being passed. Not only that but other laws are being adopted that force Christians to deny their beliefs. For example, the U.K. government is being forced by the European Commission to eliminate exemptions that allow churches to refuse to employ homosexual staff.

North Korea

North Korea is one of the most brutally repressive governments in the history of mankind. Tonight more than 200,000 Christians will try to stay warm in horrific North Korean labour camps.

Christians there are considered little more than dogs as the following story from The Voice Of The Martyrs illustrates.....

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The young brown-eyed girl looked up at her mother. What would she decide?

Earlier that morning, the young girl's mother, their pastor, and twenty-six others in her North Korean village of GokSan were bound and taken before a screaming crowd of Communists.

One of the guards ordered Pastor Kim and the other Christians, "Deny Christ, or you will die." The words chilled her. How could they ask her to deny Jesus? She knew in her heart he was real. They all quietly refused.

Then the Communist guard shouted directly at the adult Christians, "Deny Christ, or we will hang your children." The young girl looked up at her mother. She gripped her and knowing how much her mom loved her. her mother then leaned down. With confidence and peace she whispered, "Today, my love, I will see you in heaven."

All of the children were hanged.

The remaining believers were then brought out onto the pavement and forced to lie down in front of a huge steamroller. The Communists gave them one last chance. "Deny this Jesus or you will be crushed." The Christians had already given up their children; there was no turning back.

As the driver started the heavy piece of equipment, the singing from the villagers started softly. "More love, O Christ, to thee, more love to thee."

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United States

Even with everything that has happened, the United States still offers Christians more freedom than virtually anywhere else on earth. But that is quickly changing as well. Christians in the U.S. just do not have the same level of freedom that they used to experience.

For example, school teachers in Florida say that they are being forced to hide in closets to pray after a controversial court ruling. All expressions of Christian faith are being ruthlessly pushed out of the public sphere by very powerful interest groups.

Calls for government repression of Christianity in the United States have grown louder than ever before. The Huffington Post even published a deeply disturbing article that calls evangelical Christianity the number one source of domestic terrorism in the United States and that calls on the Secret Service and the FBI to investigate and "infiltrate" pro-life and evangelical Christian groups.

Not only that, but many of the hottest bestselling books in recent years have publicly mocked Christianity...

Just consider the titles of a few recent New York Times bestsellers.....

*"God is Not Great: Why Religion Poisons Everything" by journalist Christopher Hitchens.

*"The End of Faith" by atheist author Sam Harris.

*"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins.

But this anti-Christian sentiment is just not held by a few elitists. The reality is that it has spread to much of the general population.

For example, the following are the titles of just a few anti-Christian threads on one of the most popular political discussion forums on the Internet...

"Dirty, Filthy, Christians": Treatise On The Most Dangerous Death Cult In Human History

How can we destroy Christians?

Christians should not participate in politics

Why Christians are so ******* lame...

Attention Heterosexuals! Repent! Jesus Can Finally Make You Gay!

Christian are sub-humans

The truth is that hatred for Christians and Christianity is rapidly increasing.

Jesus warned us that these days would come.

In Matthew 24:9, Jesus told us how the world will treat Christians in the end times....

"Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me."



WARNING ( Some of the clips are extremely graphic in nature and children should not watch) 

The times ahead of us are not referred to as "the Tribulation" for nothing. It will be an absolute bloodbath for Christians. The entire world system will be geared towards eliminating all traces of the true Christian faith. Members of the same family will even betray one another to the authorities.

The truth is that things are not going to get any easier for Christians from here on out.    Someday soon there will be no place to hide from Christian persecution.

When that day arrives, what will you do?





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Sunday 29 June 2008

A Great Wedding Dinner and Reception is Being Prepared for Us

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Are we there yet?


How many of us (Christians) are anticipating Christ's return? When I look at my life (past and present) and compare it with the one promise in the future (our blessed hope), I can't stop saying, "Are we there yet?" I have experienced failures in many parts of my life. I failed in marriage twice (not counting the relationship before marriage). The present marriage survived by a pure miracle act of God. I am the only one on my side of the family who accepted Christ. My brother is an atheist, and my sister is recovering from a bad experience with the new age movement, yet refuses to accept Christ to rebuke the spirit that followed her. My mother? She accepted Christ as many Catholics do, which is faith plus work. My children who were influenced by me (even separated, I took them to church every second weekend) live their lives without Christ.

My present wife, I thank God for accepting Christ in her life, and we share the understanding of the signs of the time and of Christ's return. She also had a two-failed marriage (abusive). She had skin cancer, and heart surgery, and lost her father and mother within a year. My wife now is in stress relief from her work caused by so many factors.

Are we there yet?

We are in debt. We invested in establishing a vineyard, which is yet to give revenue. Working in this cursed land is difficult. Day to day, we live in faith and hope for Christ's return.

Are we there yet?

There are few in our lives that share our hope in Christ (His return). I am in the body of Christ. I share the fellowship, as it was meant to be. Are we there yet? A great wedding dinner and reception is being prepared for us. Christ will be at the head table. He will take the bread and break it. He will take a cup of wine and drink out of it, as he did for the last time with His disciples. We all will testify to Christ in our lives as we share our meal with fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. There will be no more tears, and no more hope because we will be living our blessed hope for eternity.

Are we there yet?

My personal impression is that the original church gathering format will return, not at this present time but after Christ returns for His Bride. Those left behind will realize that they have missed the boat by lack of faith (figure of speech). The rapture will be a big blow to many so-called Christians, friends and relatives of those taken away. In despair, they will make amend to God and accept Christ. They will be pursued, persecuted, and killed for their belief. They will go into hiding and congregate as the original Christians did. Furthermore, they will be instructed by all the tapes, CDs, MP3s, and documents left behind by those who had joined Christ in heaven. 
 
They will be sharing wine and bread in remembrance of the broken body of Christ, signing hymnals, and sharing their life experience in Christ in a very dangerous and troubled time never seen before. This time, they will have a road map of all the events as described in prophecies in the bible. They will have seven years to notch off event by event. Every day, they will live in fear of being captured and beheaded. "Are we there yet?" will be on the lips of every living Christian every time they meet in secret.

So when I compare my present miseries with the experiences of those left behind, I can say in faith and assurance that "Yes, I am there", (Col 1:13).