“[W]hen we contemplate the history of martyrdom, why should we ask deliverance from what millions have already suffered? . . . [W]hen we recall the thousands of Christians who fell in torture and death and did it gladly in the name of Christ at the hands of the manifestation of the spirit of antichrist in the Roman emperors . . . . what kind of a faith does the Church of today exemplify and what sort of a gospel is it which we proclaim if we insist that God must deliver us from the hands of the last manifestation of antichrist at the end of the age?” —George Eldon Ladd
