TUESDAY, 12 AUGUST 2025 WHICH PERSECUTION WILL YOU FACE? Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also - John 15:20 Persecution is part of the Christian experience. Persecution is one of the promises from the Lord Jesus Christ. Just as they persecuted the Lord Jesus Christ, they will also persecute us. The Church should therefore teach her people about persecution and how to live under it. There are different types of persecution. Matthew 10:21 says, ‘And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.’ Family persecution is about to increase. We’re about to see family members betray one another to the point of death. That’s why you have to be careful around some family members and not share your preparation plans with them. They might soon betray you. Acts 4:3 says, ‘They (Sanhedrin) seized Peter and John and, because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day.’ Religious persecution will also become a factor. There’s a One World Religion on the horizon. Those who conform to it will persecute us who will refuse to bend our knees to idolatry and compromise. Acts 16:19 says, ‘When her owners realised that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities.’ Satan also uses economic persecution. We saw many Christians being persecuted by their employers recently when they refused to take the 2019 n33dle. The business world will turn against Christians, and many will lose their jobs and even their property because of their refusal to deny the Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 12:1-2 says, ‘It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword.’ There’s also state persecution. In the end, when Christians refuse to take the Mark of the Beast, the government of the Antichrist will bar us from buying and selling, they’ll imprison us, torture us, and even have us put to death. We’re in the last days, and Satan will use all four forms of persecution. Family persecution, religious persecution, economic persecution, and state persecution. That’s why the Church has to teach on this subject. Some people will experience one type or more of persecution but not face the other kinds. Others will face all four. Either way, ministers of the gospel should start preparing their congregations for what’s coming. That’s why we must start building our faith right now, so that we will be armed with the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ to face the onslaught of what’s coming. James 1:2 says, ‘My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials.’ We will count it all joy when the whole world turns against us. When they begin to martyr our brothers and sisters, we will not mourn but rejoice. This is the path the Lord Jesus Christ took. This is the path the apostles followed. But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved. For yet in a little while, He that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Glory to God! CONFESSION I’m a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ. I don’t fear persecution. Just as they persecuted Him, they will persecute me. Just as He conquered the world, I have already conquered it because greater is He that is me than he that is in the world. Glory to God! https://www.facebook.com/100068613729631/posts/pfbid02MhPpxZqvS6bUchb6vkqrsVk7vMkPC81komg1wf9BRdqMQ6bVRjEB318DzpDEr3aBl/