The Problem with Christians

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"Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands." Revelation 20:4

To the casual (and dare I say the cynical) observer, this doesn't say much. However let's unpack it a bit. You have an obscure Jewish fisherman 2000 years ago make a prediction that in the last days, just prior to the return of Christ, (modern era) you will have Christians being beheaded for no other reason than being Christian. Until very recently,  this wasn't happening, now it is. ISIS is beheading hundreds, if not thousands of Christians as we speak. Was John correct with his prophecy? Absolutely.

Yes, as I said, to the credulous it can mean anything they want it to mean. Do you by any chance remember the old song "bend me, shape me" by The American Breed? It's exactly what you're doing, what everyone's doing when it comes to prophecy.

You're unpacking nothing but your own ignorance here, if you're insisting it has to mean ISIS beheading christians, since the majority of people killed by ISIS are fellow muslims, who, in your christian bigotry, you associate with the mark of the beast.

Yes, bend me, shape me in the worst sense of the word. Quod erat demonstrandum.

Is it ignorant to associate Islam with the mark of the beast? Not if you do your homework. The Islamic system is proudly antichrist. All over the Islamic world, they declare "God has no Son." They will openly tell you that Jesus is not the Christ. According to the Bible in 1 John 2:22 it defines "antichrist" as the one who denies Jesus is the Christ. So Islam is clearly an antichrist system. And who is the beast? He is THE antichrist.