to you the Judgment of the Living series. If you're not familiar with the concept I'm going to share here, but the Purification of the Church series touches on this as well. End time events, most of the truths of prophetic importance at the end of the world, are best understood as taking place in a progression, whether it's the Judgment. The Judgment begins with the dead, ultimately moves to the living. The Judgment begins with the house of God, ultimately moves to God's other children outside the house of God. The Judgment is progressive. The Sunday Law is the tool that the Lord uses to bring Judgment to a close. It'll be that test that is given to the world that proceeds through planet Earth until the test is over, and at which time Michael stands up in Daniel 12.1. And in that sense, the Sunday Law is correctly understood as the tool, the issue, the test that brings Judgment to a close. And the Sunday Law is geographically progressive. It begins in the United States, and then all the countries on the globe follow her example. So over and over again, when you look at the items associated with end-time Bible prophecy, they are understood as progressive. Whether we consider the judgments that Sister White talks about being in the land that come before the Sunday Law, and then we know at the Sunday Law, national apostasy is followed by a national ruin, that the judgments of God only escalate further until ultimately at the close of human probation and the great time of trouble, the judgments even escalate further. So the judgments of God increase. Many of the prophetic events that have to do with end-time Bible prophecy are best understood on a continuum that progresses. And here in verse 44, we're seeing the persecution that takes place in this final moment of Earth's history. And in reality, this persecution begins in earnest back in verse 41 at the Sunday Law in the United States. And I'm not suggesting that at the Sunday Law in the United States that there are immediately going to be martyrs, because the persecution that takes place in the United States is the immediate, the beginning of the persecution. It's when those faithful Seventh-day Adventists that have prepared for the test begin to be hauled into the courts of the land. And it's this situation that is going to propel the issue onto the televisions and radios and newspapers and magazines in the world, and bring this issue to a heightened situation as soon as possible.