Who are the enemies of Christians now?

The following is an excerpt from a lecture that one of the professors of a class I am talking gave related to Psalms & Wisdom Literature - V. Philips Long & Covenant Theological Seminary

"We struggle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, spiritual forces
of darkness in high places. How are we to fight this battle? By praying for conversions and by actively
seeking to advance God’s kingdom here on earth. We do not want to spiritualize it entirely, because the
judgment day is really coming. There will come a day when the weeds and the wheat will be divided.
The weeds are still among the wheat and thus we cannot really go about uprooting the weeds without
danger of uprooting the wheat. From our perspective, how do we know which is which? We cannot. We
do not know until the end of the story is told at the end of each individual life. What if Christian
militants had killed Saul of Tarsus because he stood by while Christians were martyred? They would
have been attempting to destroy the wheat and not the weed. Right now we simply do not know about
people’s souls, and we are called upon to pray that God will draw to Himself those who at this point are
very far from Him. In 2 Peter 3:9, we read that important verse about God’s patience: “The Lord is not
slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone
to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” We live in a time of common grace in which the rain
falls on the just and unjust alike. But the Day of Judgment is coming, and we do our contemporaries no
favor if we obscure the fundamental truth that judgment is coming. Read Luke 13 and discover how
Jesus responded to natural disasters and public criminal acts. He pointed to them as reminders that
judgment was coming and a reason to repent. Therefore I think we do our contemporaries a favor to say,
when bad things happen, “Judgment is coming. As bad as this is, this is only a foretaste of what awaits
the world outside of Christ.” As we see with horror what is happening in this world, that should
encourage us to seek to be those instruments of God’s love who have an opportunity to see people come
to know Him."

“Judgment is coming. As bad as this is, this is only a foretaste of what awaits
the world outside of Christ.” - This is my favorite line in the whole piece! For those that live life outside of a unity with Christ, this life is as good as it will ever be. The brokenness and pain that those who do not have Christ, is just a foretaste of what waits them! Drives me in humility and prayer to those in my life that are living willfully against God and his son!

In Christ Alone - Kevin