A Knight's Blog

100,000 Syrian Christians are now at risk as America pulls its troops out of Syria and Turkish Troops invade. The Turks have been told in 84,000 mosques of Turkey that Muhammed is back and that this is a Jihad Akbar ( https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2019/october/this-is-in-many-ways-a-jihad-middle-east-bureau-chief-chris-mitchell-explains-turkish-invasion-of-syria ). Pres. Recep Endogen of Turkey had pledged “a war between the cross and the crescent.” Syrian Christians are arming themselves to go to the frontlines and fight the Turkish Mujahideen ( https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2019/october/syrian-christians-pray-kiss-the-bible-before-heading-to-front-lines-in-battle-against-turkey ).  I am asking that you pray for our Syrian brothers and sisters. The time has come that they must defend themselves. There was a period when Jesus’ disciples took no bags or needed swords or food in their ministry, “Then Jesus called the Twelve to Him and began to send them out two by two

Since 323 A.D. the Church has had unprecedented favor, fiscal gains and freedom. Christianity became the world’s religion as Rome under Constantine adopted it as the official religion. Ironic that the Church which was to be reviled for Christ, “ Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner. of evil against you falsely, for my sake ” (Matthew 5:11), was now renowned. The laurel crown has since faded, and setting in is a crown of thorns. We forget that when Jesus said “take up your cross,” he wasn’t talking about cutesy bumperstickers, bling pendants, or testimony tattoos, but that we like He would suffer and as is the fate of all crucifixion, even possibly be killed. We have become complacent with the comfort and prosperity Constantine afforded us, and we forget the promise of our Lord Jesus Christ that we will suffer and be hated for His namesake: “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.   If you belonged to the w