 This was the tenth period of the persecution of Christianity and the most severe, because of being on a “worldwide” scale.Then with Constantine's rise to power, Christianity became legalized (313) and the church was thereby vindicated.This judgment encompasses Christians who will be martyred for their faith in Christ during the Great Tribulation by not bowing down to the Antichrist and by not submitting to the global economic system that forces all people on the earth to receive the mark of the beast.