At what point are western Christians going to acknowledge that Middle Eastern and North African Christians have been viciously persecuted over the last few years? I ask this not to cause division but, rather, to ask the obvious. Tribulation HAS been happening. And in the areas that are biblically connected. I've noticed that some main stream pastors have been openly sniffy about the "pre Wrath" folk. Stating that anything less than a 7 year tribulation "spoils the typology" etc. The fact remains that these Christians have been persecuted and slaughtered by Muslim extremists. That age old enemy of Israel. Christians are grouped together with the Jewish people as "the people of the Book". And it has been happening!! No question. At what point do Christians acknowledge that our brothers and sisters have been persecuted and slaughtered - driven from their homes.... threatened with death if they don't renounce their faith and convert to Islam? Be-headings have been happening all over the place. How can we doggedly stick to a perceived timeline of prophetic fulfillment when current events are in-your-face happening? Tribulation - without a doubt - has and IS happening. What we are on the verge of is Great Tribulation.... whether we like it or not. Iran is going to attack Israel from their base in Syria. And soon. I say this with confidence because of current political events. The Imam's have declared that their Mahdi cannot arrive until they obliterate Israel. The minute they launch this attack, there is going to be world wide pandemonium on a scale never seen before. Almighty God's wrath is going to hit this earth with an enormous hammer blow. There is no time for a third temple to be built with human hands in this climate. End time prophecy is hurtling towards us. The prophets, Natan and Caroline have been generally ignored by high profile pastors because their testimonies do NOT fit in with the (etched-in-stone) 7 year tribulation and the idea of a re-built temple before Jesus returns. There is no other reason why these pastors would ignore such profound information. This is shameful. Disgraceful.
One more salient point on this.... the Revelation 12 sign happened. It was there. How does that scientific fact fit in with etched-in-stone ideas of the timeline?
I have linked an article on the Holocaust because I have questions. It is fact that the concentration camps went into proper effect in early 1942. The war ended in 1945/ 46 (Pearl Harbour - Hiroshima - Nagasaki). So - approximately 3.5 years of total horror for the Jewish people. My own opinion is that the Holocaust fulfilled a large part of tribulation that the Jewish people were relegated to suffer. It further cements my conviction that we are on the verge of Great Tribulation - which the book of Revelation tells us will last 3.5 years. Almighty God has told us He will shorten those years or no flesh would be left.
Time for critical thinking and prayer, Doves.“Our Lives Have Turned into Hell”: Muslim Persecution of Christians: May, 2017
How long did the holocaust last?