Christian Martyrs Of The Tribulation

A multitude in white before the throne,
Waving olive branches to praise the King;
How many there were to none could be known,
Save only by Him that knows ev'rything!
An elder said to John, "Do you know these?"
"No." answered the apostle, "but you know!"
"They are Christians beheaded to appease
The Beast; to Islam's Allah they'd not go!
Never again will they hunger or thirst;
God will shelter them forever on high;
The Lamb leads them to living waters first,
And He will wipe all the tears from each eye!
Christians of every language and land
Gave their lives for Jesus in heroic stand!

The Great Tribulation is soon to begin. Of more than 6 billion people living on earth today, only about 1.5 billion will survive the 7-year upheaval, a combination of the Wrath of God and the subsequent rule of earth by the Antichrist (Beast). He will make Christianity illegal; every person will have to submit to Allah and reject Jesus Christ, or to be beheaded. About 2 billion nominal Christians will enter the Tribulation; only an estimated 150,000 will survive to greet Jesus on His return to earth 7 years later. Those who receive God's seal of protection from the natural disasters of His wrath will have a better chance of survival. In fact, one of His reasons for the wrath is to force lukewarm Christians to become sincere and committed, or to be pressured into falling away from Christ and joining the condemned.

During the Tribulation, God will send two Witnesses to proclaim the gospel especially to the Jews of Israel, and it is possible that the 78% Jewish citizens of that nation will accept Jesus as the Messiah, something they refused to do when He first came to earth. It is possible that God will lift the judgment of spiritual dullness that He placed on the Jews in the time of Isaiah (See Isaiah 6:9-10). If so, many of them will be martyred by refusing to worship the Beast or to take his mark signifying their rejection of Christianity.

Many present-day Christians have been misled by those who believe there is to be an event called the Rapture before the beginning of the Tribulation. Suposedly Jesus is to come down in the clouds near the earth and call for the resurrection of bodies of dead Christians, as well as all living ones, to join Him and return to heaven. In this way, there will not be a single Christian left on the earth to enter the destructive time of Tribulation. A false euphoria has spread over large numbers of believers. The huge popularity of the "Left Behind" movies and books by Tim LaHaye and others has multiplied this false belief. The reader can decide for himself. First read Revelation 7:9-17. Ask yourself where did this "multitude" of Christians slain DURING the Tribulation have come from if they did not enter it?