Although in His wisdom God has not always seen fit to deliver His saints from death, every martyr for Him has had the opportunity to know that his life was “hid with Christ in God” (Col. 3:3).

 Throughout the bitter days of apostasy and persecution described in Dan. 11:33, God repeatedly sent His sorely pressed people “a little help” in the person of leaders who spoke forth in the darkness, calling for a return to the principles of Scripture. Among such were the Waldensian ministers of the 12th century onward, John Wyclif of England in the 14th century, and John Huss and Jerome of Prague in the 15th century. In the 16th century the tremendous upheaval in the political, economic, social, and religious life of Europe, which in its spiritual phase made possible the Protestant Reformation, opened the way for many more voices to be added to the faithful ones heard during previous generations.