We are told, in its infancy, “there was a great persecution against the church.” I personally believe there will be a repeat of this before our Lord’s Second Coming. We have refused milder remedies to unite us as a people, who are to affectionately care for one another.
God may just compel us by hardship and persecution to keep His commandment. Affection is not basically built on agreement, but relationship. I can disagree with a person, but still love him or her.
When the world points all of its artillery at us and begins shooting, we are going to be surprised who is in the fox-hole with us. I heard an old preacher once say, “You can know your friends if you both have the same enemies.” Or as C.S. Lewis so aptly puts it, “Those who suffer the same things from the same people for the same Person can scarcely not love each other.”
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