As our world becomes inarguably more and more antichrist and antisemitic, it is indisputably seen by the discerning eye to be in its downward spiral into its Biblically predicted end-time scenario. More and more, God's people, both His chosen people—Israel and the Jews—and His elect people—the church and Christians—are in the crosshairs of this fallen world. Soon, as Scripture predicts, this fallen world, possessed with the spirit of antichrist, will launch its final all-out assault against the people of God, in hopes of ridding the earth of them.

While examples of antisemitism are both manifest and multitudinous, our world's animosity and antagonism toward the Christian Faith is more subtle; yet, no less real or ruthless. Therefore, it being Easter week, I've decided to enumerate a few of the subtle subversions being perpetrated against Christianity all around the planet.

We will begin here, in the good ole USA. Although it is being touted as a victory for Christianity, our Supreme Court's recent ruling against the state of Colorado's ban on so-called "conversion therapy" is really more disturbing than consoling. The fact that our Supreme Court had to step in and stop Colorado, as well as 27 other states and more than 100 municipalities, from outlawing the conversion of LGBTQ minors to Christianity ought to give no Christian any comfort or confidence. In fact, it ought to sound the alarm bells for every Christian in America, especially in light of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's lone dissent, in which she claimed that such Christian conversions would prove to be the downfall of our nation.

Do you remember the Equality Act, Democrat legislation that passed the Pelosi-led Democrat-controlled House of Representatives multiple times? If the Equality Act had ever cleared the Senate and been signed into law by President Joe Biden, who proudly announced that his number one priority as president was to sign it into law, it would have effectively outlawed all Biblical beliefs and Christian convictions in America that Democrats deemed discriminatory toward the militant LGBTQ community. Every Christian's religious liberty and freedom of speech would have been undermined for the sake of the LGBTQ community, which demands that all Americans, including Bible-believing Christians, be coerced by our government into conformity to their radical agenda.

Let's turn our attention now to our neighbor to the north, Canada, where current legislation, the Combatting Hate Act, which is making its way through Parliament, is considered by many to be a major threat to the religious liberty of all Canadians. If passed, this legislation would remove all religious exemptions from Canada's Criminal Code, so that Christians could be prosecuted for hate speech for any Biblical belief or sincerely held conviction, which is found to be offensive or threatening to any LGBTQ Canuck. 

Of course, no one who has been paying attention to Canada's growing criminalization of Christianity is surprised by the above. After all, in 2022, Canada passed its own law prohibiting "conversion therapy," a law that not only effectively outlawed Biblical belief in heterosexuality and cisgender identity, but also declared both of these Biblical beliefs to be myths. And we must not forget the tragic tale of Bill Whatcott, the Canadian Christian who was not only fined $55,000 for referring to a man claiming to be a woman as a man in 2019, but also threatened by the Canadian court with more severe legal consequences if he continued to refuse to echo the dictates of the militant LGBT community and to embrace Biblical doctrines, such as Genesis 1:27—"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

Finally, let's look at one of many examples of the ever-increasing spirit of antichrist now raising its head throughout our world. Finland's Supreme Court has just outlawed a 20-year-old pamphlet explaining the Bible's teachings on sex and marriage as "hate speech." Furthermore, it has fined a Lutheran Bishop for writing the pamphlet and a church group for publishing and distributing it, because it is insulting to other Finns, especially those in the LGBTQ community. According to the Bishop, who has not only served in Finland's Parliament for over 30 years, but also as Finland's former Minister of the Interior, this Supreme Court ruling should scare the bejeebees out of ever Finish Christian. It also ought to send shockwaves to all saints throughout today's increasingly antichrist and antisemitic end-time world.