All, we are about to see the finish line.   Keep moving fast at lightening speed encouraging other watchers and preparing your hearts and souls.    Don't get caught up in exposing false teachers because that is when you look to the left or to the right and will trip close to the finish line.   Don't get caught up in responding to people who are attacking you because you will fall into a pit, then will have to climb out of it to get back on the race track.   Time is short and people believe at this point what they want to believe.   We can pray for them.

If you are going through persecution, just be nice to the person and kindly walk away.   I watched this movie Henry Poole is Here and this guy was a mocker and full of anger....but his neighbor Esperanza really believed in Jesus Christ and His blood and stayed nice to him, and it made all the difference.   We don't have to deal with everyone who is coming against us mocking us, but there is one person usually in our lives that is close we have to face.  For me, it is my husband, but I am not required to deal with the general public mocking me and trying to argue with them all day long.   I am not going to go down into that pit with them.   I am going to avoid it.    Otherwise I will get depressed and full of bitterness and I don't want to be like Lot's wife who looked back.   Getting into arguments with people who don't agree with you or that mock you is looking to the right and to the left in the race and you will end up tripping into a pit.   At this point, focus clearly on the prize and look straight ahead and encourage other watchers.  

People mock and are angry because there is something wrong in their lives, it has nothing to do with you.