With 24 confirmed arsons, 5 suspected of being arson, and 2 others still under investigation points to one thing, persecution. Yet, hardly is it a blip in the news. But the important question is, are you one that "when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended" (Matthew 13:21) or despite persecution, are you one in which "he that endureth to the end shall be saved" (Matthew 10:22).