Hostility toward religious Biblical faith across the United States was already high, but now the Family Research Council reports that the growing threat to religious liberty in the U.S. has surged. Jesus Christ foretold this Last Days spiritual sign.
Their report, Hostility to Religion, shows that the number of religious freedom violations in America more than doubled in a 114 percent surge.
Every section of the report shows an increase in the suppression of religious freedom, but an even greater increase is in the level of hostility to religious beliefs on the topic of sexuality. Following the Supreme Court ’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges and other developments, this trend is even clearer now.
The settlers on American shores sought freedom from religious persecution. And the Founding Fathers considered religious liberty to be a paramount principle in the new United States. The Founders affirmed that allegiance to God precedes allegiance to the state, and that our rights come from our Creator, not the government.
But now hostility to religious expression in the public square is reaching levels unprecedented in the history of the United States, and the hatred toward Biblical belief has only grown.
Militant atheists and progressives continue to aggressively target long-existing historical symbols and markers of America’s religious heritage in public places. Teachers tell young school-children they can’t read their Bible in school. Private citizens and the government alike are attacking religious expression by other citizens.
Jesus Christ foretold this rise of hostility toward His followers who believed in Him and the beliefs taught in the Holy Scriptures. In Matthew 24:9 He said, “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.”
He foretold that there will be Christian persecution in the Last Days for those Christians defined by Jesus Christ. Jesus said in John 15:18-20, “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you…. If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you.”
This rise in the growing spirit of hostility with rejection of Biblical values and beliefs of born-again Christianity is a Sign of Last Days spiritual activity. It indicates the increase of spiritual forces flowing through humanity leading up to the rapture of the Church by Jesus Christ and the anti-christ ascending to world power.