He’s strong enough.
“When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them; for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. … For the Lord your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”
– Deuteronomy 20:1, 4
Things were getting serious. “When He had made a scourge of small cords, He drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables; and said unto them that sold doves, ‘Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house…
The seeds of rebellion were in them. “And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God—had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you.” – Deuteronomy 9:16
It won’t. Ever. “For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” – Genesis 3:5 (NKJV)
[Acts 25:10,11] I stand at Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be judged… For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not do die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
This might be something you need to consider. “But [they] were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.” – Psalm 106:35 (KJV)
The crime of accepting the Bible… “All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.” – 2 Timothy 3:12