Popular, But False

   I remember watching Christian-based movies back in the 1970s and ‘80s having to do with the end times.  They were not very well done, and I found one aspect of these movies to be a little bit hard to grasp.  They always showed Christians under great persecution.  Society had changed so much that Christians were now portrayed as haters - as a dangerous faction that had to be done away with.  Christians were, in fact, HATED, because they were perceived as being hateful. They were attacked in the streets, churches were burned, some were hauled off to concentration - or “re-education” camps.  Many had to worship secretly in private homes, and even these home meetings were made illegal.
 
   At the time, I could not understand how such a scenario could possibly happen in America, even though Scripture warns about persecution in the last days.  But today, I realize these scenes portrayed in movies a generation ago were not so preposterous, but instead, prophetic.
 
   Indeed, how quickly things have turned around.  Today, in our age of unbridled tolerance, everything is readily accepted, and no one is willing to judge right and wrong or declare moral absolutes.  No one, that is, except the bible-believing Christian.  In a world that seeks not just acceptance, but celebration of any ...

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