Martyrdom is not a ‘modern’ invention. Any believer who has ever taken the time to investigate the early days of the church, will know that waves of Christians succumbed to licking flames ... unimaginable torture techniques ... and crazed beasts ... often ‘headlined’ through gory, public spectacles by the unnatural blood-lusts of Roman Caesars, Catholic Popes and other potentates. This was the cost of allegiance to Christ and His kingdom, as history’s centuries and pages witn