This is one of the prophecies of Christ that should disturb us. When the church was young proclaiming Christ crucified led to persecution. There was opposition.
We then had a time when the West was Christian and the persecution dropped: it still existed both within society and without. The Turks were stopped at the Gates of Vienna after destroying christian communities from Egypt to Bulgaria and Spain. The Islamic pirates raided, raped and enslaved.
But we are now in a post Christian time, and the church is criticized. When the Prime Minister of Canada calls evangelicals despicable, and in the UK the Free Church of Scotland is called unacceptable, you know that the elite hate toose who still have a spine and requires that we become either jellyfish or the enemy.
In that case, become the enemy.
26As they led him away, they seized a man, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming from the country, and they laid the cross on him, and made him carry it behind Jesus. 27A great number of the people followed him, and among them were women who were beating their breasts and wailing for him. 28But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29For the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’ 30Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us’; and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ 31For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
There are forces trying to return the West to sanity, or at least preserve it. They are routinely mocked in the media: to the point where the media is now mistrusted: they have been biased for so long that no one expects fair reportage.
The trust within society is breaking down. There is more despair than ever, some of it self inflicted.
Expect the church to be blamed. Expect Christians to be demonized. And expect the West to fall, unless this changes.