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            Truly, every prophecy of Scripture concerning and from Christ, the living Word, will be fulfilled (Luke 21:33, 24:44)!  Thus, the hate-filled global persecution of Christians is coming to America!  Judging by the spiritual energy presently being expended to relieve fear among an obviously large number of professed Christians during His Coronavirus judgment, clearly, many are not ready for the coming “fiery trial” God is allowing to “try” us in judgment (1 Peter 4:12-19, NKJV).⁵  As a result, the people need to be warned, taught and prepared to faithfully persevere trusting in the Lord as He has led me to write in many previous posts and my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics.⁶ 

            The current state of fear pervading much of American Christianity is on every pastor and Bible teacher that has failed until now to biblically warn, teach and equip those they serve in the church building and by way of media in the basics of the faith and “the whole counsel of God”--His grace that saves and holiness that demands His foretold wrath upon sinners (Isaiah 13:9; Acts 20:26-27, NKJV).  Imagine how much more fruitful the response of our unsaved fellow citizens could be if in the background of the solid preaching of the Gospel now, going forth, there wasn’t also the steady drone of exhortation not to fear going out to those that already profess to be Christians weak in faith!⁷

            Faithful Christian Americans are just one anti-Christian spark and/or national election to the political far left away from legal persecution through arrest, trial and incarceration for standing on the Word of God as it is written.⁸  The Lord Jesus Christ warns His first century disciples and us about this reality and instructs not to worry about what to say at that time, but to speak what the Holy Spirit puts in our mouths giving testimony about Him (Matthew 10:16-20; Mark 13:11; Luke 21:12-15; John 15:26-27).  Besides that kind of tribulation, verbal and physical assault for being a Christian easily follows in a nation where the majority hates Christ and the Bible He is faithfully portrayed in!

            Too, as in other nations whose governments now, look the other way when mobs and terrorists murder Christians identified by their unwavering testimony of faith, it will happen here as it has and does for example, with black and other Americans profiled by our skin color.  The Lord Jesus teaches that the hatred behind Christian persecution stems from apostasy, falsehood, love grown cold in abounding lawlessness, His works and exposure of the persecutors’ “sin.”  This persecution comes well before the “great tribulation” and gives rise to open conflict among professed Christian religionists and apostates who “betray” and “hate” each other along with the faithful (Matthew 24:10-12, 15-21; John 15:18-25, 16:1-4, NKJV).⁹ 

            Indeed, the coming global persecution is a major factor in “the falling away” the apostle Paul foretells (2 Thessalonians 2:3, NKJV).¹⁰  Falling away and betrayal among the disciples of Christ whether in times of persecution or not has occurred from His time on earth (Matthew 26:20-25, 47-49; Luke 22:48; 2 Timothy 4:9-10; 1 John 2:18-19).  However, for many professed Christian Americans that barely distinguishes between being a Christian and an American, the Lord’s warning of extensive betrayal to the death by family and friends in a nation that hates Christians as a coming reality is very hard to accept.  Yet, Christ says so (Matthew 10:21; Mark 13:12; Luke 21:16)!  

            Moreover, church history and current events among our persecuted brethren in other nations shows how Christians are betrayed by hating family and friends.¹¹  Most Americans--Christian or not--place a high value on family and other mortal relationships.  The Lord Jesus though, quoting from the prophet Micah as historic and ongoing spiritual reality, not only foretold division over Him in families, but made it plain He expects our love and loyalty to Him above all including self (Micah 7:5-7; Matthew 10:35-36; Luke 14:25-27)!  Regardless of who is doing the persecuting, hating or betraying, He also expects His faithful to patiently endure to the end--our lives or His coming--not retaliating or taking vengeance (Matthew 10:22; Mark 13:13; Luke 21:18-19; Romans 12:17-21).¹²

            Therefore, pastors and ministry leaders: do you really plan to go back to business as usual?  The Lord calls you to recognize the times have changed in front of your very eyes and to repent from every way it was before the Coronavirus judgment that is sin in His sight to include allowing women to corruptly defy His Word in falsehood (1 Timothy 2:11-14); deceiving many and leading to their equal judgment (Ezekiel 13:17-23; Revelation 2:18-23)!  Too, snap out of denial and get His people ready for all of what the Lord Jesus said is coming in the face of God’s Coronavirus judgment which is demonstrated proof the judgments and events He foretold would precede His return are underway!  The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, "Who is on the Lord's side?"

  5 This unpreparedness for His sudden judgments in the earth is just as the Lord led me to warn would be the case in the September 29, 2019 post, God Almighty In A

     21^st Century World, under the category, Bible Prophecy.

  6 Read  the  following posts under the category, Instruction: May 22, 2016, The Peculiar People, May 29, 2016, Preparing For The Final Battle and the two-part, Lined 

     Up  Behind Jesus beginning on August 18, 2019.  Get  a  print  copy  or digital download of my book at major internet booksellers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, 

     ChristianBooks.com and Apple (digital only).  You can also purchase a print copy in the Strong Man Store.

  7 Having  previously  written  transparently about my own 2014 failure to trust God in a business situation, I did not write this statement out of some high-handed, self-

     righteous place.  See my March 2, 2014, The Testing Of Our Faith, under the category, Instruction.  I understand and empathize with those of my spiritually maturing

     brethren  that  fail  the  test of faith as a matter of momentary weakness in sin.  What I am writing of here, is ongoing unbelief in weakness sustained by longstanding 

     spiritual  immaturity  through lack of instruction and practice especially prevalent in the many forms of empty, powerless manmade Christianity the religion.  Read the

     two-part  post  beginning  August  21,  2016, Christianity The Religion Of Men, under the category, Instruction followed by the two-part post beginning September 11,

     2016, American Culture’s Religion, under the category, Call To Repent.

  8 Roman  Caesar,  Nero,  had  only  to blame Christians for the fire that destroyed much of Rome to persecute many to the death, while a later Caesar, Diocletian (and

     government tyrants from many nations that followed), used no excuse except to be rid of them!  Without endorsing as completely accurate or any specific sects men-

     tioned, an online overview source to explore the history of Christian persecution is Wikipedia.

  9 See the December 9, 2018 post, The Peril Of Religious Men, under the category, Instruction.

10 Read the February 2, 2014 post, The Falling Away, under the category, Bible Prophecy.

11 This  Ministry  supports  Open  Doors  USA,  a  Ministry  serving our persecuted brethren in many places and invites you to read some of their stories that include be-

     trayal and violence against them by family, former neighbors and friends.

12 Read my June 5, 2016 post, The Day Of Vengeance, under the category, Bible Prophecy.

            It is wonderful hearing of what God is doing during His Coronavirus judgment to stir the hearts of those bewildered and seeking for answers made up not just of persons never having made a profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, but those professed to be Christians living out nominal, spiritually dead lives.  These are flocking in large numbers to the online services and instruction of churches and ministries.  However, gauging by Christian media chatter and actions, it still does not appear there is a widespread appreciation among Christians, churches and their leaders that they are enduring judgment from the Lord and consequently, needing to give full heed to His call to repent!¹

            My mother used to always say to us kids growing up, “A hard head makes a soft behind;” a saying passed down to her from her parents and a cultural expression familiar to nearly all black Americans born before the 1970’s.  The expression served to warn stubbornly disobedient children of pending corporal punishment if obedience was not immediately forthcoming!  Only the hardest of heads did not get the message and pressed on to find out mom was not issuing idle threats (that would have been me on too many occasions, I am ashamed to report).  Now, the Lord looks out upon professing Christianity and sees that far too many filled with stubborn pride are being hard headed.

            To the Lord’s great displeasure rather than brokenness and repentance, many church and ministry leaders have gone into organizational survival mode with no plans to change anything from what they used to do before the Coronavirus except what is needed to keep from spreading it.  On top of that, they are not taking any of the prophetic signs this judgment presents serious enough to prepare those following them online or that will assemble in their buildings for what is plainly foretold in the written Word to come next.  One reason for this, of course, is psychology 101 in survival mode from ancient times: don’t frighten people with the truth; keep it positive (Jeremiah 38:1-4)!

            In the face of God’s judgment, telling the truth to a people having been spoon fed a steady diet of deceitfully crafted ego affirmation using Scripture and “American style home grown,” but not unique to America ancient “false doctrines of perpetual peace and prosperity” as He led me to write in a May 2, 2020 social media post is like biting the human hand that feeds you--not a good thing when men are trying to feed themselves and sustain their organizations!²  But the Lord who hears all that these leaders say and sees all of what they do will judge them as false prophets and teachers without repentance (Jeremiah 14:11-16, 23:16-17; Ezekiel 13:1-16, 34:1-10; 2 Peter 2:1-3).³

            Not peace and prosperity fully and perpetually restored now, but more judgment from God is coming upon this world!  For as I wrote earlier in that May 2, 2020 social media post, “From His own words Jesus Christ did not come 'to bring peace on earth' prior to His return, 'but a sword' representing divine judgment and conflict in division over Him (Matthew 10:32-39; Luke 12:49-53, NKJV)."  The Lord will bring perpetual peace and prosperity to the earth at His Second Coming and after the divine outpour of wrath on sinners that have refused to accept salvation by grace through faith in Him!”  If the Lord Himself says there is no peace now, where do you get off contradicting Him?

            Nevertheless, I wrote, “Now, His Personal peace; the peace of God is only available to His sheep,” (Isaiah 57:19-21; John 10:27, 16:33).  This is His peace in the midst of this world’s troubles and the judgments He brings on it seeking for repentance leading to salvation from “whoever believes in Him” and His fruitless, strayed sheep (John 3:16-21, 36, 15:1-8, NKJV).  Christian leaders and teachers deceive those they teach when they only want to present the shine of the Lord’s face in grace and purposely avoid dealing with the fiery glow of judgment in His eyes to keep it positive for people that will not give unless something is in it and “He is for me.”  This they say not appreciating Christ is Savior and Judge and for the righteous even in judgment (Revelation 1:12-16, 3:19)!

            While “famines, pestilences and earthquakes in various places” will continue and intensify to soon be followed by unmistakable acts of God from the sky as warning judgments for all, next up specifically for Christians is hatred fed persecution already rife in many parts of the earth and coming to “all nations” including America according to the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 24:7-9; Mark 13:8-10, 13; Luke 21:11, 17, NKJV).  If you do not or refuse to believe the foregoing you are blasphemously calling Jesus Christ a liar!  Too, you are quite deceived and denying reality in arrogance as an American since you must also be falsely believing persecution and suffering is only for those professing Christ in other, unexceptional nations of the earth as God’s throwaways.⁴

    1 See the April 19, 2020 post, Does Anybody Repent Anymore? under the category, Call To Repent.

    2 I  am  not  without  empathy  on  this point as this Ministry too, faces all of the same challenges of trying to raise funds to keep me employed full-time in the work (visit

      https://fundrazr.com/salarycampaign1 to  learn more).  The difference for us though, is that we will not sell God out, soft pedal the Gospel, compromise the truth, avoid

      talking about sin and judgment or invent feel good messages that tickle hears to raise what we need.  We have struggled for nearly the entire organizational life of this 

      Ministry from 1985 because of this conviction, but have watched God continuously provide what we needed in His will on time, every time!

    3 Like  the handwriting on the king of Babylon’s wall declaring the end of his kingdom, so, this epoch of corrupt, huckster invented and driven Christianity has been sig-

       naled by God through His Coronavirus judgment (Daniel 5)!

    4 Read the November 12, 2017 post, God’s Throwaways?, under the category, Bible Prophecy.