“A young Huguenot woman named Marie Durant, fourteen-years-old, was required to abjure her Huguenot faith. All she had to do was say one word—j’abjure—and she could go free. Because she would not do it, she was placed in a tower by the sea with 30 other Huguenot women where she remained for the next 38 years. She and her fellows scratched a different word entirely on the wall of the prison. It was ‘resistez’ —resist.” - Douglas Wilson, The Romance of Protestantism
Hang in there, saints!
Revelation 14:12
Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
Q: What were the saints called to endure? What were the Hugeunots resisting?
A: The mark of the beast
Revelation 4:11
The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.
The temptation to give up and give in is real.
There are incentives tied to the mark and offered to those who take it upon themselves. There are penalties assigned to those who do not bear it. There are conveniences and comforts associated with taking that name and pain and discomfort threatened for those who won't.
Luke 12:4-5
I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!
Do not give in or give up.
Our struggle may not be against the same mark or the same beast per se, but the principalities and powers are not so creative as to put out anything other than cover albums.
Let's not tolerate an encore. The show is over. Shut it down.
Never again.
Never give in.
Keep Christ and His commands.
Surrender only to Him.
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