Job 34-36, Matthew 24: 1-31, Psalm 22: 22-31
Matthew 24: 9-10 (ESV)
“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to
death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake. And then many
will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.”
Verses 9 through 11 from Matthew 24 shows Jesus warning his
disciples what to expect after he dies and is resurrected and when he comes back
for the second time. It makes me wonder if the disciples realized at that moment
what was going to happen to them. If they didn’t then, they would eventually
when they were hunted down by the Church leaders and the Romans. All of the
disciples except John suffered horrible deaths. John was imprisoned on the
island of Patmos and wrote Revelations, but then he was let go and died of old
age. Many early followers of Christ were persecuted and eventually fell away
and betrayed their fellow Christians to the authorities.
The persecution of believers in Jesus Christ still happens
today. Many Christians have been jailed trying to spread the faith. In our
modern Western world to be a believer in Jesus Christ is go against the current
cultural milieu, although that attitude is slowly changing. Many people say the
Bible is not relevant for us today, but the persecution of believers in Christ
prove this falsehood wrong. Jesus predicted his followers will be hated, and
that persecution still happens today.
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