While filling in for Bryan Fischer on the “Focal Point” radio program today, guest host Fred Jackson interviewed pastor Robert Jeffress about last night’s “I Stand Sunday” event in Houston. Jeffress said he hoped that the event would wake Christians up to the fact that their religion is under attack by Satan and that this nation is well on its way the wholesale persecution of Christians.

When Jackson asked why Christians are being attacked in America while there are no similar sorts of attacks against Buddhists, Hindus, Atheists, or “Islamics,” Jeffress said that it was obviously due to the fact that Satan “has been trying to extinguish the Christian message ever since he inspired Herod to try to kill the Christ child.”

“There is a spiritual reason why Christianity is uniquely under attack like this,” he said, as he and Jackson both hoped that the controversy in Houston will wake Americans up to the fact that “spiritual warfare is very real.”

Jeffress admitted that the so-called “persecution” of Christians in America is nothing like what is experienced by Christians in other countries, but warned that this nation is still marching down the path toward that same sort of persecution happening here in the very near future.

“You start, first of all, by marginalizing Christians,” he said, “which Christians are increasingly being marginalized. And then you paint them as extremists, which is what is happening right now. And then once you’ve succeeded in turning the public’s attitude toward Christians as that of being extremists, then it’s okay to launch a persecution against them. And I believe that’s what’s happening right now and I believe we’re going to see it increasingly occur”: