As Persecution Rises

    My children, I desire you would search your hearts – are you truly Mine? Do you truly desire My Will above all else? Even if My Will is opposite yours?

   Even if My Will causes you loss?

   I must be the first love of your heart, and I desire you would ascertain I am. In the time coming, you will have many chances to deny Me as persecution rises to a fever pitch. In the end for those who are still on the earth, you will choose Me or your earthly life, so you must be fully committed.

   As persecution rises, if you are not truly committed to Me, you will fall away, deny Me, and lose your salvation.

John 15:18

¹⁸ If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

1 Peter 4:12-14

¹² Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

¹³ But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

¹⁴ If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

Matthew 5:10

¹⁰ Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 6:22

²² Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

2 Corinthians 4:8-12

⁸ We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

⁹ Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

¹⁰ Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

¹¹ For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

¹² So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

 Revelation 14:9-11

⁹ And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

¹⁰ The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

¹¹ And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.