A portion of the church has lived in comfort for a great period of time. In nations like The United States, there was favor and prosperity granted to Christians. Even culture showed a measure of respect at Easter, with The Ten Commandments and King of Kings airing on television. There was Bible stores a plenty and a sense that golden years were ahead. The problem is this is not the natural state of being a follower of Christ. The conditions are not supposed to be comfortable. The Early Church was persecuted severely, Emperor Nero of Rome, only one of the antichrist caesars used Christians as night torches and wore Christian skin as clothing. The End Times prophecies also predict severity for following Christ, “And you will be hated by all on account of My name; but the one having endured to the end, he will be saved,” (Matthew 10:22), “For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again,”...
Today is Valentine’s Day, a day that is about love. Or so that is what the commercialized version of the holiday has become. It originates as a day to venerate a saint named Saint Valentinus of the Roman Catholic Church who married people in secret when the Roman Emperor Claudius Gothica banned marriage. As is common with these venerations is relics, one of which is purported to be the finger of the saint in Coventry, West Midlands, England at St. John the Baptist’s Church. How a finger of a Roman Christian got there is a mystery, as there is no records to explain how it got there, even the Father who presides over the parish says to the BBC, “So at some point it's been sealed and stamped to say 'this is a true relic.” ( https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/mystery-st-valentines-finger-city-081949404.html ). Ah the good ol Medieval we just trust this is pieces of the True Cross or bones of the saints. It is things like this that Martin Luther in the Luther Movie made jo...