6-Oct-2021_on the persecuted church
(Jesus speaking: ) So great is My love for My church, My Bride, the large body of believers that I would let My dear ones, those most dear and precious to Me, be burned, tortured, given up to die, plagued with pestilence and troubles on every side, all for what purpose? What drove Me likewise to the cross? Because that through My suffering all might be saved. Did I not say that you would likewise follow in this respect, that you too would have to suffer and give your life? Because why? So that all might be saved. 
No, they won’t get the message into their hardened hearts off in yonder land, while My dear ones are sitting in peace, reveling in the joy of their salvation. When I say, “I will that all men might be saved” that means sending out My troupes in to all the dark zones where the enemy has kept them captive, and it means a whole lot of danger and pain and turmoil for My team. 
But what if a firefighter or sea rescue team member said, before being sent out to help those in a deadly situation, “But is it dangerous? Will I ever get hurt? Will I make it there and back without any difficulties and struggle? If it’s not safe, then I won’t go.” 
They shouldn’t be on the team if they have that “save myself” attitude. But that’s what I call you to do, to follow Me—to go through what I went through. No, following Me isn’t so that you can be safe and happy and have all that you need, or should I say all that you think you need, which means what you want in modern day life. 
I have to send my team into the devil’s dens and make My dear ones suffer hunger, thirst and pain, as that will be as a light that attracts the hardened hearts to open up and receive a bit of that light. They aren’t lured by sweet little songs, like a baby. They have been so abused themselves by satan that it takes quite a bit to get through to their souls. That’s what it takes to bring “all men unto Me”. You didn’t think there was a real cost to reaching the “all men”? 
And because times and hearts wax worse and worse, there are more and more dramatic ways that will be used to preach the Gospel; ways that it takes to get through to people who are locked in the enemy’s dungeons of the way they think and where in the world’s system they serve.