Daniel 11

Daniel 11:44-45:
But news from the east and the north shall trouble him; therefore he shall go out with great fury to destroy and annihilate many.  And he shall plant the tents of his palace between the seas and the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and no one will help him.​

This terrible event in history, which was difficult for me to read, becomes even more surprising and eventful, when I read how it was a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. The depth of his book and using historic details of this genocide, as well as other events in Bible Prophecy, gives fresh insight to past, present, and future events. Even though the Islamic empire and Caliphate came to an end in WW1, Christians are still being persecuted and killed in the Middle East at a rate of one every five minutes. But that was before the Arab Spring. The rate is far greater now that the Islamic empire is once again threatening to come to life again, starting with the Caliphate. Fortner says the next Islamic empire will be the beast of Revelation 13. But in America we still live lives of relative luxury and liberty. Our material wealth and victorious history has caused American Christians to believe that it cannot happen here. We need to better understand the history of Satan's war against Christianity, and perhaps we will be able to see that it can happen here. We are no better than Armenia that was the first nation to officially accept Christianity. We cannot rely upon our Constitution to protect us. As believers, we should understand that our freedom and liberty is not found in the Constitution, but in Christ Jesus, and since other Christians have suffered, we need to understand that it can happen to us also. We are not immune to persecution. There is no biblical basis for American Christians to believe that we will never be persecuted. But are we prepared? --Crossmap