<p><strong>The Warning of  Jesus for the End of the Age</strong><br /><br />Jesus warned that as the end of the age approached, "Then they  will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all  nations because of My name." (Matthew 24:9) Today that prophetic warning is  being fulfilled. <br /><br />As I stated in my book, The American Prophecies,  the greatest century to date of Christian persecution was not the first century,  but the twentieth. In the history of the world and of the nearly 69.6 million  Christians martyred for their faith, over sixty-five percent of them were killed  in the twentieth century. That is not even mentioning what happened to Jews in  the Holocaust. It is estimated that the first ten years of the twenty-first  century saw another million Christians murdered for their faith. Though this  shows a significant decrease in martyrdom worldwide as compared to the twentieth  century, it is still an alarming number. The truth of the matter is that while  some of the most severe persecutors of Christians in recent history have eased  their "cultural revolutions"—namely Communist governments—those who profess  faith in Jesus Christ, still place their lives on the line virtually every day  throughout the Islamic world.</p>
