MichaelMaybe you should read 'Why were our Reformers Burned' by J C Ryle.
My point sin't about Calvin etc it is about modern evangelicals revising what was held by the majority of believers in the persecuted church, copy and paste and read and weep
http://www.williamtyndale.com/0reformersburned.htm
Spurgeon and Whitefield held to that scriptural identity of Antichrist. My point is how such is no longer held by the majority who claim to be Reformed and hold to the WCF, a majority who will know little of persecution. I know you don't hold to such and was ignorant of your comments to DJC49 when I posted such, my point was REVISIONISM BY THE MODREN REFORMED NONE PERSECUTED CHURCH.
Brethren in Pakistan and other Muslim countries who convert to Christ can speak of persecution, but I am sure few in the west have to fear torture and death? Read how the REFORMERS DIED and I don't think we'll be speaking too much about our own injustices/persecution.
I read that some think Ombama is the Antichrist...that's where revisionism takes the church.
John is right...really preach the truth like the Apostles and the REFORMERS and turn the world up side down and then see what persecution is all about. A faithful church will indeed suffer persecution.