But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake. Luke 21:12
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. Revelation 13:15
"The work which the church has failed to do in a time of peace and prosperity she will have to do in a terrible crises under the most discouraging, forbidding circumstances...The warnings that worldly conformity has silenced or withheld must be given under the fiercest opposition from enemies of the faith" Testimonies for the Church vol. 5, p.463 E.G.W.