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The following scripture is a prophecy.

"They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service."

—John 16:2


Though there's nothing to say it won't happen again, but I think most would say that that prophecy has already been fulfilled many times over Russ.

The Romans destroyed the Jewish temple in Jerusalem in 70 ad or so, the gentile 'Christians' of the crusades trampled jerusalem later again, burning the jews in their synagogues... and we all know about the Nazi holocaust. That prophecy, is very much directed at the Jewish people, Christians, for the most part, no longer worship in synagogues.

The God I know is rather defensive so whether or not something of this nature will happen enmasse to real believing Christians is questionable to me. Though it may happen to sit-on the-fence christians or people like Linda who are Catholic by birth and do not actually have a God or Savior to defend them, just like many secular jews were rounded up during the holocaust simply by reason of ethnicity, not belief.

Muslims hold this belief today and would like to see Israel destroyed. Yet, by some miracle, the Israeli's did win the 7 day war and more is come in that arena I'm sure..