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which will be so viciously persecuted during that period.Compare Revelation 7:4-14.Universalism and a False ChristBono’s christ is a false one. He says he is “attracted to peoplelike Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism” (U2:e Rolling Stone Files, p. xxviii). e Lord Jesus Christ of theBible is not a pacifist. He is not anything like the adulterousMartin Luther King or the Hindu Gandhi. Christ did instructHis people not to resist evil in the sense of taking up arms forreligious causes. When persecuted, we are to endure it (1 Cor.4:12); but Christ did not teach pacifism. Christ’s forerunner,John the Baptist, warned soldiers to be content with theirwages, but he did not rebuke them for carrying arms assoldiers (Lk. 3:14). Before his death, Christ instructed hisfollowers to provide swords for themselves (Lk. 22:32-38).Christ said he came not to send peace but a sword (Mt.10:34). In fact, the Lord Jesus Christ will return on a whitehorse to make war with his enemies (Rev. 19:11-16). eChrist of the Bible is no pacifist and He did not establish apacifist movement.When asked by Mother Jones magazine if he believed thatJesus is the only way and if that excludes other people fromheaven, Bono replied: “I don’t accept that. I don’t accept thatfundamentalist concept. I believe--what is it? ‘e way is asnarrow as the eye of the needle,’ and all that--But I thinkthat’s just to keep the fundamentalists out. I never reallyaccepted the whole ‘born again’ tag” (“Bono Bites Back,”Mother Jones magazine, May 1989).For their Vertigo Tour in 2005, U2 promoted “Coexist” asan icon for world peace. Bono wore a “coexist” headband thatfeatured the cross of Christianity, the crescent moon of Islam,and the star of David of Judaism and he led the crowds inshouting, “Jesus, Jew, Muhammad, it's true; all sons ofAbraham.”389