Why will believers be delivered up to be afflicted and killed
Response to comment [from a "Christian"]: "Why will believers be delivered up to be afflicted and killed...Mat 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake..."
Then shall they deliver you up to be
afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my
name’s sake [Matt.
24:9].
"“Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted”—who is the you? Obviously, He
is not addressing the church but the nation Israel. The affliction He is talking
about is anti–Semitism on a worldwide scale.
At this point let me inject an important fact for Christians in our day. As long
as the true church is in the world, there could not be worldwide anti–Semitism
because the church would resist it. No genuine believer in the Lord Jesus could
hate the Jews; it is an impossibility. It is my feeling that the liberal wing of
the church is presenting a false front to the Jews and that in the final
analysis it will turn against them. But as long as the true church is in the
world, there won’t be worldwide anti–Semitism; it will break out after the
church has been removed at the Rapture." McGee, J. V. (1991). Vol. 35: Thru the
Bible commentary: The Gospels (Matthew 14-28) (electronic ed.) (132–133).
Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
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Why will believers be delivered up to be afflicted and killed