Signs of the Times. . . Have Changed: ‘Guns and God: Growing Number of Churches Want Armed Security’
“The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them.” Psalms 34: 7, K.J.V.
Beginning after Pentecost, A.D. 1, the church (in contrast to the world), founded upon Christ as the Rock and Foundation by the first Twelve, undergoes its prophesied periods. It is now in its seventh and final remnant period, symbolized as the “Laodicean church,” spiritually lukewarm yet militant.” See on Revelation chapters 2 and 3.
All throughout its different yet successive periods, particularly now in its commandment-keeping, remnant stage, the faithful of each period who kept the flame of truth burning, well-understood and faithfully applied apostle Paul’s injunction, which says: