The Chinese allow the Catholic Church to set up shop but crack down on the house churches as ruthlessly as they do the Uyghurs and Falun Gong.
Many Chinese Christians have to memorize Bible verses as part of avoiding detection by the Commies.
I often think of these verses when preparing for the future. Bible study is most definitely part of that for me.
Amos 8:9-12
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
The Chinese allow the Catholic Church to set up shop but crack down on the house churches as ruthlessly as they do the Uyghurs and Falun Gong.
Many Chinese Christians have to memorize Bible verses as part of avoiding detection by the Commies.
I often think of these verses when preparing for the future. Bible study is most definitely part of that for me.
Amos 8:9-12
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.