How Suffering in This World Can Prepare Us for Eternity

The Bible implies a lot of things. Of them, none are that I speak for God, take attendance in heaven, or know everything about "all the Protestant reformers" ever. Others, unfortunately, apparently do not suffer from such limitations. Leaders, however, could be "burned at the stake or otherwise killed by the authorities of the time" because their inflated ego kept them from wanting to appear weak, not their piousness, satisfying Romans 13:2's " Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation."