[steve86]

Unfortunately, that is not what will happen. The majority in the country will go secularist/anti-Christian, just as is happening in Europe/UK. We will be in hiding, trying to escape the persecution, unable to buy or sell or procure medical services, just prayerful to survive one day at a time. We will subsist only through our underground network, with Rosaries and Crucifixes concealed and disguised. Being caught possessing one of these items, even in the near future, will have one instantly added to the terrorist list and denied public transportation and other services. The revolution will come only at the end of time when a Mass* Conversion will occur.

"Mass" used in a double sense.

[steve86]

Also expect to be denied Internet access early on when one’s bookmarks are found to contain URLs pointing to Christian sites, or, horror of horrors, to a web site name with Christ or Blessed Virgin Mary in the title. My frequent visits to http://ageofmary.com/ will put me on the DHS most wanted list.

[Biggirl]

For some reason, though, I am much more confident that my prediction will come true. Thank-you for your response.

[smvoice]

You truly do believe your Church is Spiritual Israel, don't you? And that you will be hiding in catacombs with your Crucifixes and Rosaries, trying to endure to the end..If you are alive at this moment, you are in the age of grace. You have been promised BY GOD to be kept from the wrath to come. (Rom. 5:9-11). Moreover, "God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Thess. 5:9-11).

This age of grace is about forming the Church the Body of Christ, whose promises and assurances are heavenly, not on this earth.

Our mission during this age of the Grace of God is found in 2 Cor. 5:14-21. We are to preach the gospel of reconciliation between God and man (the gospel of the grace of God). And we are to beseach others in Christ's stead, to be reconciled to God by the finished work of Christ. "Behold NOW is the accepted time: behold, NOW is the day of salvation." 2 Cor. 6:2.

But this age of grace will not last forever. It will end when the last person who is to make up the Body of Christ is saved. At that point, Christ will return to the AIR and we, the living, and those believers who have died will meet Him and thus shall we ever be with the Lord. Then God will turn His eyes toward Israel and the tribulation will begin. Do you have any idea what the tribulation is about? It is NOT about Catholics hiding in the catacombs praying their rosaries and having mass.

Your chance of salvation and avoiding the wrath of God being poured out on you is NOW. What do you think will happen to those people, during this age of Grace, who heard about the free gift of salvation through the finished work of Christ, and rejected it for their own works of righteousness?

"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." 2 Thess. 2:11,12. They did not receive the love of the truth while they had the chance. They rejected it for the love of their Church's doctrines, traditions, and false belief that salvation was to be found in a church, not the finished work of Christ.

So the problem is, you are not Israel. Israel is Israel. Your chance to escape God's wrath is now. To reject it is to go into God's wrath with your eyes wide open. Until God sends a strong delusion that those unbelievers should believe a lie. There will be no endure to the end to endure. That is for Israel. Not an institution that claims she is spiritual Israel during this time when God is dealing with man in grace through faith.