Judeo-Christian evangelists, especially the TV preachers, love to take the scary scenes found in the book of Revelation and apply them to current events, with predictions of horror about to be unleashed upon us. They even had President Reagan convinced that Armageddon, with unimaginable carnage and devastation, was just around the corner. There is good reason to believe that our nation may already be feeling the strokes of God's judgment, and this should instill fear in the unrepentant. However, the God who judges is the same God who sustains and nourishes His Israel people, the White Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, Celtic and kindred peoples of the world. Fear destroys faith, silences testimony, stunts growth, aborts plans, delays actions, and keeps millions from moving forward in Christian living.
Fear is a deadly enemy of the faith.
Some say that that fear is displaced by courage. Many a soldier has courageously gone into the thick of battle, all the while filled with fear. One may be courageous and still be fearful. God has given us the formula to overcome fear, and it has worked for His people through the centuries, and will still work today. Terror is not something new.