(tm)The fifth seal
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And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. (Revelation 6:9-11)
The opening of the fifth seal, the giving of white robes to the martyrs under the altar, speaks of the persecution of the righteous in this world and then the clothing of them in the robe of righteous conduct, which is the reward of the overcomer.
The Beast (the Antichrist world spirit), the False Prophet (the spirit of religious deception), and Babylon (man-directed Christianity) regard the truly righteous as being worthless refuse that must be removed from the earth. But God clothes those who have endeavored to live righteously with the power of righteous conduct, the power of endless, incorruptible, resurrection life. No more will they be compelled to struggle against a body of sin and death.
The true saints have been tortured, burned at the stake, driven into exile, scorned, and cast out as evildoers—often at the hands of "Christians." The Catholic Church alone, that forerunner of the end-time worldwide Christian denomination, has murdered multitudes of true Christians down through the centuries of the Church Age.
It is our point of view that the most vicious persecution of all times soon is to take place on the earth.
God clothes His saints in the white robes of the power to behave righteously. They are revealed to be truly righteous and accepted of God while their murderers are blind, not having any place in the Kingdom of God. God will wait until every saint predestined to death at the hands of the wicked has been killed. Then God will avenge the blood of His witnesses by forcing the wicked to drink blood from the water supplies of the earth.
What a different world this would be if God were to make plain those who are righteous and those who are wicked! He does not do so. He permits people to make that judgment from their heart so all that is in their heart may be revealed. In this manner the sons of the Devil are separated from the sons of the Kingdom.