“I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God.”
I always wondered about this passage, until it became reality with the rise of Islam.
Here is the icon adopted by their Orthodox church:
5 posted on 05/18/2018 6:54:52 PM PDT by Albion Wilde
(We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)