Ladies and gentlemen of the SteemChurch,
'Not all is as peaceful as we would like.'
Earlier today this Knight stubbled across a ZeroHedge article titled -
'End-Times Persecution? World's Largest Country Is Destroying 1000s Of Crosses And Bibles'
... and he was horrified!
Attacks upon Christians are prevalent the world over. What many from the West believe to be mere left-wing assault upon Christian values, has now become all out offensive upon our churches, our clergy and our faith. With the murder of Christians becoming common practice in some regions.
Mr Michael Snyder reports...
All over the world, Christians are being attacked, Bibles are being burned and churches are being shut down.
New religious regulations (in China) that went into effect in February are being brutally enforced, and this is causing some to point out the frightening parallels between Communist China and Nazi Germany.
According to Fox News:
The Chinese government is destroying crosses, burning bibles, closing churches and forcing Christian believers to sign papers renouncing their faith as the crackdown on religious congregations in Beijing and several provinces intensifies.
According to the Express:
Authorities have also “raided Christian homes to remove religious symbols, arrested church members and seized churches”.
In Henan province alone, more than 7,000 crosses have been destroyed, but other than Fox News most of the mainstream media outlets in the United States have been completely silent about this very important story.
It is not only China. Islamics viciously attacked home churches in Egypt:
Homes of Copts in the Minya region were attacked by hundreds of furious locals leaving two Christians with knife wounds in the head and face, World Watch Monitor reports.
Four homes were ransacked, looted and partially set on fire by a Muslim mob during the three-hour-long attack, which was reportedly in protest of one of the properties being used as a home church.
And earlier this year in Ethiopia, a total of 69 churches were torched by Islamists…
On March 2nd, Muslims went on a rampage in an Islamic area of Ethiopia, beginning with an assault on churches in Asendabo. ICC and others alerted the world and called on the Ethiopian government to intervene. Unfortunately, the local government did not intervene and the attacks continued for a week. When the smoke cleared, the damage was evident. The Muslims had burned down the homes of 30 Christian leaders, they had killed one Christian, wounded several others, and torched 69 churches, a Bible school, and a Christian orphanage. One of the many wounded in these attacks was the grandson of a church elder who put himself in between the Muslim militants and his grandfather when they arrived to kill the elderly man. The Islamists attacked the young man with machetes – seriously wounding his head and hand and leaving him for dead. His family was forced to make a three-hour journey on foot to bring him to a hospital in a nearby city.
Mr Snyder ended his report with:
Hatred for Christians and the Christian faith is rapidly rising all over the planet, and this was something that I warned about in my book about Bible prophecy. We should do all that we can to put pressure on governments to stop persecuting Christians, but if we really are in the end times, ultimately the persecution is just going to continue to escalate.
The good news is that persecution always brings out the best in the people of God, and I believe that the greatest chapters of the Church are still ahead.
So let us pray for our persecuted brothers and sisters all over the world, and let us also prepare ourselves for the immense persecution that is on the horizon for all of us.
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However, in light of reported events, this Knight seeks to step-up measures for the protection of Christian heritage.
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Stay calm and sensible my friends - but always be alert!
Links to Michael Snyder articles:
The American Dream: http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/end-times-persecution-is-here-the-largest-country-in-the-world-is-destroying-1000s-of-crosses-and-bibles