Posted on 03/01/2024 6:06:59 AM PST by SJackson
[[Muslim mobs launched an anti-Christian riot, vandalizing churches and committing arson against both churches and Christians’ homes]]
Gee, that sounds like a swell place to live /sarc
Just read today in Hebrews about praying for our brothers and sisters in christ who are in prisons, and persecuted. I know I get caught up in my own life and forget to pray for others, but God really does consider prayer for others as a sweet sacrificial act acceptable unto him.
Bkmk
This is no rapture time situation, Christian’s have faced this persecution by mohammedans since the 7th century.
Christian’s were slaughtered and churches burnt
You’ve been asked multiple times not to address me on that topic (prophecy )in either the Religion Forum nor on the open forum
Please continue to respect that
Blessings, though
✝️🙏🛐
(Christian’s have faced this persecution by mohammedans since the 7th century.
Christian’s were slaughtered and churches burnt)
Now that we absolutely agree upon.
That kind of stuff we definitely agree upon and can discuss.
It’s not a religion forum post.
The rapture folks who think that Christians being persecuted is some sign of the non biblical pre tribulation rapture philosophy are ignoring that Christian’s have been persecuted for millenia
We’ve run across this before and had this discussion
You moved from the Religion Forum to doing it here
Please don’t pretend that we haven’t discussed just that
You could even go back to 523 AD when the Yemeni king Yūsuf Asʾar Yathʾar (nicknamed Dhū Nuwās by the Muslim tradition),persecuted and killed numerous miaphysite Christians in Najrān, on the northern frontier of Yemen .
Dhu Nuwas attacked their garrison at Zafar and burned the church there along with other Christian churches.
Dhu Nuwas next attacked the northern Yemenese city of Najran (now in Saudi Arabia) which was strongly Christian. The Christians resisted with desperate valor, appealing for help to Byzantium and to Persian Christians. When Dhu Nuwas found he could not capture the city by direct assault, he swore full amnesty to all who would surrender. The Christians knew they could not hold out much longer. Against the advice of their leader Arethas, they accepted the terms. Dhu Nuwas massacred them all according to a Syrian bishop, Simeon of Beth Arsham, who traveled to Narjan to investigate and report the story,
The Jews amassed all the martyrs’ bones and brought them into the church where they heaped them up. They then brought in the priests, deacons, subdeacons, readers, and sons and daughters of the covenant...they filled the church from wall to wall, some 2,000 persons according to the men who came from Najran; then they piled wood all round the outside of the church and set light to it, thus burning the church with everyone inside it.
On this day, 25 November 523, Dhu Nuwas also killed Arethas and three hundred and forty of his followers. Greek and Latin churches quickly added them to martyr lists.
Dhu Nuwas was not done. For a week he raged through the area, martyring thousands of Christians, who suffered terrible tortures rather than renounce Christ. According to accounts written within a century of the events, Dhu Nuwas dug deep pits and filled them with fire. Anyone who refused to become a Jew was flung in. All gave testimonies similar to some women of Narjan, who replied: “God forbid that we should deny our Lord and our God, Jesus Christ. For He is God and the Maker of all things, and He has saved us from eternal death.”
Now that is a good post
Actually we haven’t. If there is a post that is in the open forum and posts historically inaccurate information, I point it out. Just because that offends those holding to the 19th century philosophy of the pre tribulation rapture, is not grounds in the open thread.
You are free to hold whatever opinions you may have, but when the facts are wrong, I will point them out, such as ignoring Christian persecution through the millenia because Darby says so.
That was my point, Dhu Nuwas massacred Christian’s horribly. Wouldn’t a rapture person say that was tribulation level persecution?
Yet the Christian’s endured to the end
(Actually we haven’t)
Actually we have. And I specifically pinged the Religion Forum Moderator then, too.
But....I don’t know if I saved the post
But NOW you know.
DO NOT ping me to mock my beliefs please
(Wouldn’t a rapture person say that was tribulation level persecution?)
If course not.
Strawman arguments such as those are why I’ve asked you several times to knock it off
Of course not.
darn autocorrect
You’re right - I apologize.
You don’t go around mocking my beliefs and I apologize for clubbing you in that group of people and returning the favor to you
(You’re right - I apologize)
Apology accepted.
God bless
You seem to have worked out the problem.
Praise the Lord!
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