Can you imagine dispensational futurists telling the following early Christians that they were NOT the ones Jesus spoke of to be persecuted and killed for their faith? That Jesus was rather speaking of Carl in Ohio in 2025 when He talked about things that were “at hand” and “shortly to come to pass” in the 1st century? 
1. Peter – crucified upside down
2. Andrew – crucified
3. James (son of Zebedee) – beheaded
4. Philip – crucified upside down
5. Bartholomew – flayed & beheaded
6. Thomas – pierced by 4 spears
7. Matthew – stabbed & beheaded
8. James (son of Alphaeus) – stoned
9. Thaddeus – arrows through body
10. Simon (the Zealot) – cut in half
11. Mattias – stoned & beheaded
12. Abel – stoned to death
13. Isaiah – sawn in half
14. Jeremiah – starved in cistern
15. Amos – killed by a priest
16. Zechariah Ben Jehoiada
17. John the Baptist – beheaded
18. Stephen – stoned to death
19. Mark – dragged by rope
20. Luke – hanged in olive tree
21. Jude – axe’d to death
22. Paul – beheaded
23. Antipas – burned to death
24. Zachariah (son of Barachia) – sword