Nature of persecution
Notes
Persecution is characteristic of this world Ps 10:2 See also Am 1:6; Am 1:9; Am 2:1; Hab 1:6–11; Re 6:8; Re 9:7–10 Satan is the arch-persecutor of the church Ge 3:15 See also Job 2:6–7; Zec 3:1; Lk 22:3–4; 1 Pe 5:8; Re 2:10; Re 2:13 The agencies of persecution The world Jn 15:18; 1 Jn 3:13 See also Mk…