LUKE 21 Jesus speaking
17 YE shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
19 In your patience possess ye your souls.
20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
Jesus is telling us something important here and I immediately wondered who "Ye" is? The scene is at The Temple; the widow has just been commended for her 100% tithe and comments were being made about the décor.
5 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said,
6 As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
7 And they asked him, saying, MASTER, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?
I've highlighted the words "Ye" and "Master" because Jesus was referring to a specific group: those who acknowledge Him as Master. There is so much hate in the world today, and hate always results in harm. Stabbing would be an example of that. And people get stabbed, shot, beheaded, poisoned, fed to crocodiles (it's a long list) all the time. Unless knives, bullets, swords, malignant toxins & ferocious reptiles have been developed to extinguish life (other than hair follicles) the situation described here cannot involve Christians. Surely in the chaos hair was been lost? Either in the scramble for safety or during the passage of a blade Christ's promise—if these were truly Christians—would never have been proved a lie.
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Multiple people were injured
---"Sometimes we can’t prevent injury."
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That's not what Jesus said. Of course no-one HAS to believe Jesus. It's not compulsory to accept that He ever existed at all. But making up your own stuff which directly contradicts Him is to call Jesus a liar. In which case how can you also call yourselves Christians?
These are the Last days. It's right there in The Bible.