As a baby Christian in the relatively innocent mid-1980s, reading the Bible for the first time, I concluded that the end-times references to “beheaded” Christians must be metaphorical because such practices did not occur in the present age. Lol. Then the third wave of global Islamist expansionism exploded and heads began rolling again all over the world. It was a faith-builder for me as I realized I should always trust the God of the Bible, because He knows “the end from the beginning” whereas we humans see only the present ...