The Coming Days in America

This afternoon, my husband and I were discussing some of the trials that we believe are coming to America. I was trying to explain the burden I feel to share the gospel, to encourage people to get to know Jesus and the Bible; and to seek the baptism of the Holy Spirit, because these are the only things that will get us through the days ahead.

In that amazing way the Holy Spirit has of confirming things, a little later I stumbled across this video at Persecution Times:

Miss Corrie Ten Boom was a Dutch survivor of the Nazi Concentration Camps, and a lifelong missionary. Corrie was a believer in facing tribulation. She was one of the many people who were persecuted in concentration camps during the World War II.

Her family was murdered before her eyes, but though her life was threatened, God led her through that terrible time. She lived to testify all over the world of how God brought her out of that time of trouble. In the worst days in the concentration camp she and her sister Betsy discovered that “there is no pit so deep that the Presence of God is not there with us”.

In the following message she shared a plea for the saints to prepare themselves for the possibility that at some point their faith may be tested. It serves today as a timely warning to us in the comfortable and complacent western church as we approach the threshold of the endtime drama.

Here is her exhortation to us from a letter she wrote in 1974: