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He has slain them in 70AD and afterwards for 2000 years they have been scattered and persecuted and now is the time that the remnant gets saved in the time of Jacobs trouble from which he will be saved. In the trib God is going to judge the nations that persecuted Israel, not Israel. The woman gets a safe place in the desert where she will be fed 3,5 years.

While Jesus was emptying Himself for others on the cross He kept His mind on others, while also overcoming the physical pain and anguish. Then there was also the emotional pain of being abandoned while bearing all the sins of the past, present and future. "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"   Martyrs past and present do not have the luxury of choosing which hill to die on. One is appointed to them and they must accept this and be prepared to pour themselves out under very stressful conditions. I believe it is only possible by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit enabling the very life of Jesus within the martyr. Mark 13:11 (ESV) And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. They have/will speak by how the martyr dies.

Your perspective negates Isaiah 65, which states the Lord will slay those to whom He has been stretching out His arms to all day long to observe Him, but who continuously ignore Him. 

It just jumps a few thousand years further like it's one event. One of the reasons it's hard for them to see Jesus as Messiah.

The surly die it happened the moment Adam ate the forbidden fruit. But we noticed that God continued his fellowship with Adam and Eve and later with his children without any hindrance. God continued to visit and guide Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel out of the Garden in the surely die mode and in the same way as when they were in the innocent mode while in the Garden.  The eating of the forbidden fruit and gaining the knowledge of good and evil did not affect their relationship with God as it continues to be the same out of the Garden and as it was in the Garden. They were in the presence of God both Adam and Eve and their children. They were not seperated from God. He was their God in the Garden and He continued to be their God out of the Garden. We should be careful not to bring things God spoke to other people under different circumstances and different context in the situation of Adam.  The knowledge of good and evil had definitely a big effect on Adam and Eve as the became different people all together and they can never turn back to be the same again and began to live in the Garden without the knowledge of good and evil. To possess the knowledge of good and evil it doesn't make someone a sinner or being in sin. God had the knowledge of good and evil and he was not considered a Sinner. Abel offered a sacrifice to God and his sacrifice was accepted. Cain who offered a different sacrifice and was not accepted that did not made him a sinner God told him next time if you want your sacrifice to be accepted by God do what you know it is right what God is asking from you. He did not called him a sinner, it affected their relationship but he was not call a sinner and cut off from God the way he was cut off after he killed Abel.  Adam was not a sinner and still when his children were born he was without sin because his children were born without sin themselves but in a world of the knowledge of good and evil. They will learn to choose between good and evil. Even the children of Cain they had to learn to choose between good and evil and they were taught to discern between the two. Even the Idolatrous learn to discern between good and evil as Idolatrous but that does not reconcile them to God. From Adam to Shem we have a line of righteous people to Enoch to Noah. Enoch walked with God you cannot say that God walked with a sinner or someone born in sin from sinful parents no we cannot say that, the fact that God walked with him it declares that he was not a sinner, not born in sin or not in his own sin because God took him in Heaven. It is not written that God had to forgive his sins and he cleaned him from his sins furst and how. No mention of sin at all. Also those people in the clean line kept them selfs clean from the pollution of the Idols. All those people as righteous as they were were all of them born in the surly died default mode. Enoch also was in the surly die mode inherited from Adam. But God took Enoch before he died, before he physically died. God could get him before he died. Which is telling us that God could not get him if he was wanting for him to die. Which is shedding some light about the surely die mode Adam was subjected and his children were subjected to, him and his children even the righteous ones. Enoch walked with God, that close special relationship would have ended at the time of Enoch's death if he was left to live his life till he died. The surly die mode. He would have not gone to Heaven to be with God. At the time of his death he would have to descend and not to ascend just like Abraham. People of God but without a Heavenly Inheritance. The righteous People of God but without the Heavenly Inheritance without the eternal life, for that reason they had to wait for Jesus Christ.