Emphasis Preaching Journal

History is full of examples of the church prospering under persecution. In the middle of the 12th century, the Mongol warrior, Genghis Kahn, broke through the great wall of China and moved through central Asia and across the mountains into Russia. He and his warriors literally crushed the Russian opposition by building a huge platform over their victims and then holding a feast atop this platform. Their victims were then crushed to death by the weight of the celebrants.