“And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.” (Philippians 1:28)
Satan is referred to as “our adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” (I Peter 5:8) Satan has his messengers, his workers, his servants who are in opposition to the things of God and the servants of God. Satan often uses other people to oppose our Christian faith. Their opposition to the gospel and their adversarial attacks on Christians are evidence of their lostness. On the other hand, their opposition to our stand for Christ and their persecution of Christians are evidence of the Christian’s salvation.
Illustrations of this truth are seen in China, North Korea, Iraq, Vietnam and other countries as unbelievers are today persecuting Christians, raping women, beheading men, kidnapping young women and selling them or giving them to the enemy to be their brides, sending others to slave camps and simply scattering Christians from their homeland. Jesus said that “the time would come that whosoever kills you (a follower of Christ) would think he was doing God a favor. And these things they will do unto you, because they have not known the Father nor me.” (John 16:2-3)
Let us pray that these atrocities will end and Christians can live in peace.
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