Think this can not happen; think again. Just consider how much the current “Democratic” administration has changed this country in just seven short months. Very recently, Joe Biden is now talking about mandating a third booster shot. Last week I went to the doctor for a follow-up and asked him if I needed to take the third shot (the booster). He pointed to the wall and the CDC directive and said that I do not qualify. I looked at the list on that wall and thought to myself; only those who are already half dead are on that list.
I really believe that a dictatorial attitude of the government has been steadily increasing over the last four or so decades and will increase to the point that this cartoon becomes reality.
The church of the first century had to deal with far worse. Christians were imprisoned, had their property confiscated, and were tortured or executed in the horrible ways imaginable. The apostle Paul describes their situation this way…
2 Timothy 3 ( World English Bible )
1 But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
6 For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
7 always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected.
9 But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
10 But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
11 persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me.
12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Yet, Christians changed the world. How? By being willing to suffer for their faith and holding fast to their beliefs, regardless of what the “government” did.
Being a Christian is not easy and if recent history continues, then we may suffer persecution in ways that we never thought would happen. But, if we remain faithful, we will receive heaven as our reward. I think eternal communion with God and fellow Christians in heaven is worth far more than anything any government can do to us. Remember, the early Christians overcame the greatest empire the world has ever seen- Rome. And we can overcome this modern “Rome” as well.
Believe that, for its true!