Proof The Bible Is True

In Richard Wurmbrand’s time (and in many communist countries still), persecutors did all they could to hide their persecution of Christ’s followers. Communists even gave Richard a different name in prison in an effort to hide him from the world and from Christians trying to find and help him. Communists in China have told us for years that there is no persecution of Christians there, that raids on house churches aren’t about faith but about government policy and Christians’ refusal to register their meetings. Hide, deny, obfuscate: the old-school persecutor’s playbook.

Radical Islam is different. They WANT you to know they are persecuting Christians and others. They WANT you to see their power. They want the whole world to know their devotion to Mohammed’s teaching and to following the example of his life. There is no hiding. In fact, there is promotion. They shout it from the rooftops. Islamists dive deeper into the pool of violence and depravity to find ever-more-creative ways to cause suffering. Beheading isn’t violent enough? How about crucifixion? Or what if we soaked a man with gas and then lit him on fire? What if we locked men in a cage and then sank the cage into a swimming pool? We’d keep the hi-def video cameras running, of course. If you don’t have video, it’s like it didn’t even happen.

If Richard Wurmbrand were alive today and held by ISIS, there’d be a live online video feed into his cell. ISIS is the most obvious example, but Boko Haram, al-Shabaab and others follow closely in ISIS’ footsteps.

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