Key scriptures that instruct believers to defend their faith include:

1 Peter 3:15 but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

Jude 1:3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

2 Corinthians 10:5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

Colossians 4:6  Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Recently on a national syndicated show a Christian was asked to defend the bible. The host’s opening statement was; “Everyone knows that the four gospels were not written by the Apostles.” The Christian guests did not defend the gospel at all, letting the host get away with that opening comment.

I would have rejected the premise. No one knows with any degree of certainty what “everyone” thinks about much of anything. The guest let the host get off the first shot without any rebuttal.

I was not the guest on that show and will probably never be asked on a show like that. In my real life no one has ever challenged me on my faith and to be fair, I do not go around looking to pick a fight.

I believe that I could answer that challenge if confronted but until the occasion comes up and I am tested, we will never know for sure.

How prepared are we to defend our faith?

Will there come a day when we have to do that?

Zechariah 14:4 On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward.

If a religion is looking to this prophecy to Identify the coming Messiah, would you insist on seeing an earthquake?

Zechariah 14:8 On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter.

If He brought about living water, would you even know what that looked like?

Luke 12:51 Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.

John 7:38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, “Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”

Do you believe that His Second Coming will be preceded by an earthquake?

Is there not now, this day, no greater division on earth than the east from the west?

Isaiah 30:30 And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and storm and hailstones.

Matthew 24:29-31 English Standard Version

²⁹ “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. ³⁰ Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. ³¹ And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Is what you want to see more important than His Word?