Certainly, it is not. We will fight it tooth, and nail, but ultimately there will be one. If there wasn’t to be one, then the Bible wouldn’t mention all of the beheaded Christians.
Oh that's right, no Christian has ever been beheaded since Luke 9:9, and surely the people living in the days of Nero and Domitian were safe and secure with no fears whatsoever. We can completely ignore the first three chapters of Revelation or be like Prophetic Paragon Tim LaHaye and say that the Churches aren't literal but are allegorical characterizations of the evolving church divided into seven progressive periods.
The Thousand Years of Islamic Caliphate a few centuries ago? No Christians harmed there either (actually closer to 60 million killed by the sword). And the six million Christians slaughtered in Africa in the last decade literally by machetés? Didn't happen? (sigh) Prophecy has been seen fulfilled before our eyes in the past 2000 years and the Futurists are blind to it saying "not yet, but maybe tomorrow."
A huge problem with the Futurist interpretation of Rev 20:4-6 is that they make the perverse claim that somehow the lives of people taken during this Future 1000 years is more important than those taken in the past two thousand years - as if anyone could be saved absent the Paraclete. Do you want to be first in the Kingdom of Heaven? Then don't die now for Christ, wait until after this "rapture" event and get killed then - only then will you matter to God. Stephen's stoning? Died as a missionary preaching in the Amazon? God doesn't care about that according to the Futurists. But if you die at the hands of a future "Beast", well then, statues and murals of your faith will decorate heaven.
Dittos with this One World fetish that Futurists have. History makes it perfectly clear that this is Satan's goal, and it seems that the Futurists, if they have been ever exposed to Genesis 11:1-9, see failure after failure on Satan's part, reliving a new generation like it was Ground Hog Day, only to say "God loses and Satan Wins in the End" with God's Declarative Will thwarted and we get the Futurist's Fantasy of a One World Government.
I'm sorry, I can't agree with the Futurists and their characterization of God as an enfeebled cosmic character that is a cat-toy for Satan, and even fail when He allegedly personally comes down to physically reign. When God shut down Babel in a very dramatic way so that there would never be a One World Government, we can look around today and see that this has withstood over four centuries of time - yet the Futurist persist in his/her hope that God's Will will fail and that Satan will win.
Sickening. You can keep your God of Fail.
Consider King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the earth’s final age as interpreted by Daniel:
“As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay. And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever, just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king what shall be after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”
Daniel 2:42-45
I don’t normally respond to babbling megalomaniacs, but... what are you talking about?
“Sickening. You can keep your God of Fail.”
What is it about reformation theology causes it’s adherents to become so sour?