Matthew 5:10-12,44
“Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you . . . . But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”
2 Timothy 3:12
“Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.”
It’s almost a miracle how accurately the Bible anticipated the evil that those who follow God would face so many times in history, and the evil that we face again today. Pray even for God’s enemies, but fight for good and stand up for the truth.
This is the Left’s blueprint and inspiration from “1984”:
O’Brien held up his left hand, its back towards Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended.
‘How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?’
‘Four.’
‘And if the party says that it is not four but five — then how many?’
‘Four.’
America’s enemies desperately need to hear us say that we see five fingers and that God was wrong in everything he inspired Moses, the prophets, Paul, Peter, and the others to write in the Bible. They demand those lies at the point of a gun (often figuratively, but more and more that will be literal). Just as much as they need that lie, we need the truth.
I still see four fingers, and I still see the truth in the Bible, even if thugs threaten me.
In bourgeois society, therefore, the past controls the present; in communist society, the present controls the past.The blueprint goes all the way back to the mid-1840s, when the Communist Manifesto appeared. The notion of “an endless present in which the Party is always right” was indeed promulgated by Marx and Engels.