Splattered throughout on the walls in the Halls of History are the Blood of Christian Martyrs! Examples they are, Spectacles to the World, Witnesses, and Testimonies! Saints who chose rather to suffer affliction with the Righteous than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season! Having been crucified with Christ, they were persuaded "..that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us" (Romans 8:18)
"These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city." (Hebrews 11:13-16)
