I am currently engaged in a Bible Study in Revelations. It is a difficult book of the Bible to understand. There will be hell to pay for various sins but the greatest hell will be reserved for those who have persecuted and slaughtered those who profess their belief in Christ.

It has troubled me that God, who I have always seen as a loving Father, could torment those who don’t believe in Christ. My greatest spiritual gifting is in the arena of mercy and so forgiveness is not unattainable for my thought process. I find evil and wickedness much harder to entertain in my thoughts than forgiveness.

The horrors that those who kill Christians will have to face are eternal, for God’s mercy will come to an end and then His wrath will begin.

I was searching for understanding of His character. How can He be so loving as to give His only Son to die for my sins yet so vicious as to say that the blood of those who have murdered Christians will run as high as a horse’s bridle?

Then I happened to read an account from the Voice of the Martyrs recent magazine. The article recounted some of the struggles that Syrian Christians are enduring. The man who wrote the article had had a grandfather who was decapitated by ISIS and the extremists then kicked his head around as if it was a soccer ball. The article said that they would also put little babies in ovens and bake them. This is mild in relation to what I have heard they have done to Christians in Sudan.

How anyone can act with that much evil in their hearts is beyond my comprehension. I do understand why God would commit each and every extremist who does this to one of His children to burn in a lake of fire for eternity.

It is so important that every Christian intercede in prayer for those who are persecuted and equally as important that we pray for Muslims. I have heard that God himself has appeared to many Muslims to lead them to Christ. We should do the same. It is His will that none perish.