Does Revelation 7 mention christians being killed and persecuted during the trib?

Rom 9:15 For He tells Moses: I will show mercy to whom I show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.

 

The only exercise some folk get is
JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS :BangHead:

 

Ed, while I don't question the motives behind those who have compiled the figures you quote, I do question the figures, a bit. Current World population is estimated at a few over 6. 6 billion people, give or take a couple million. With the world's total population now fairly well estimated to have reached the mark of 1 Bill. shortly after 1800; and no doubt due to some small attrition due to the many wars of the 19th and 20th Centuries, various plagues such as typhoid (" This is chicken is really good, Ma'am. You said your name is Mary?), political 'ethnic cleansings' ("What train to Auschwitz, ma'am? And your family was supposed to have been on it? You must be mistaken ma'am. All our trains out of here go to Berlin!"), purges, where some folks just seemed to vanish into thin air, mass graves, gas chambers, perish on the Western prairies of North America ("(Chew, chew!) 'Ptooey!' Don't know exactly what happened here, Captain! But there seems to be some kind of pointed stick plumb through their chests. And them fellers with the braided hair and feathers seem to have some sort of holes through them. With all the blood that run out from all of 'em, it's kinda' hard to tell. 'Ptooey!' It's just my second day out here. Sir?? Yassir! We'll bury 'em, and not leave 'em out in the open. Whazzat, Sir? Nawsir, Shore don't want to keep General Custer waitin'!"), etc. Three Billion was not reached until around 1950; it hit 4 Bill. in 1971; 5 B. around 1987; 6 in late 1999, and 6,658,851,000, as I am typing this. So I do figure the 34 Billion figure for World Population and 8 Billion Christians is far out of line. Especialy since it can be shown thet the total Population of the world with this expanding curve has fewer than 7 Bill.

Ed

 

Or hopping about, misquoting proof texts, huh?

 

EdSutton: //Ed, while I don't question the motives behind those who have compiled the figures you quote, I do question the figures, a bit.//

Take it up with the source:

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OUR GLObE AND HOW TO REACH
IT (Foreign Mission Board of the SBC, 1990)
by David B. Barrett.

 

Chapter 7 - Deliverance​

http://www.revelationcommentary.org/07_chapter.html​