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20 results for “Persecution”
Clear searchEdward Burman · Historical survey · 1984
…eriousness of the subject deserves accuracy as well as indignation. Inquisition Religious persecution Heresy Church and state Coercion Medieval Church Spanish Inquisition
View recommendation →Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
…fies 2 Thessalonians 1:5–10 as a decisive passage. Paul is writing to Christians enduring persecution. He promises them rest when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in flaming fire, taking vengeance upon the disobedient. Brown therefore concludes that the Church receives deli…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
…iscipleship. The question is narrower: is the future Tribulation merely another period of persecution, or is it a defined hour of divine judgement from which Christ promises to deliver His Church? Persecution and wrath are not the same Persecution rises from the hatred of Satan,…
Read article →Tertullian · Apologetic, doctrinal, and practical treatises · c. 197–220
…p. Read across the range and you encounter apologetics, prophecy, doctrine, courage under persecution, and an uncompromising emphasis on holy living. Tertullian is an early witness, not a final authority. His later association with the New Prophecy, his growing severity, and some…
View recommendation →Samuel G. Green · Historical survey · 1904
A comprehensive history from the apostolic age to the eve of the Reformation, covering the Church's expansion, persecution, doctrinal conflicts, councils, writers, divisions, monastic movements, missions, the papacy, the Crusades, and movements for reform.
View recommendation →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…dings deserve a fair hearing. The Maccabean reading sees the crisis in the second-century persecution of Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Antiochus halted sacrifice and desecrated the sanctuary, and Daniel elsewhere uses abomination language in connection with his actions. He is an undeni…
Read article →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
…sources show considerable diversity shaped by geography, controversy, exegetical schools, persecution, and the texts emphasised. Early Christians commonly expected resurrection, judgement, Antichrist, and Christ's kingdom, but they arranged details differently. A persecuted Churc…
Read article →Abraham, Lot, divine wrath, and a pattern that must be used carefully
…ighteous can suffer in the same fallen world as the wicked. They experience disease, war, persecution, natural disaster, and the consequences of other people's sin. Scripture never promises believers immunity from every earthly calamity. Abraham's appeal concerns God's punitive j…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…laces it within Daniel's final week. A pre-wrath interpreter places it after Antichrist's persecution but before the concentrated outpouring of divine wrath. A pretribulationist places it before the final seven-year period begins. These positions disagree profoundly about sequenc…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…th-day observance, but the evidence does not establish it as the uniform Waldensian rule. Persecution proves that a community suffered; it does not prove everything later admirers wish it had believed. Hostile sources must be tested, but source criticism does not authorise us to…
Read article →Faith, assurance, and the unseen reality of God
…rough the people who suffer. Alongside accounts of deliverance, we find people who endure persecution, deprivation, and death. They too are commended for faith. Some die still awaiting fulfilment. Their suffering does not mean their faith has failed. Their continuing trust is its…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…s then drew from Daniel. Hanegraaff constructs a seven-year tribulation by joining Nero’s persecution following the Great Fire of Rome to the destruction of Jerusalem. The history does not naturally produce that sequence. The fire occurred in AD 64. The Jewish revolt began in AD…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…out the Near East. A persecuted believer likewise does not establish literary dependence. Persecution is not a rare narrative invention. The case becomes stronger when several unusual elements appear together. Responsible comparison asks: Chronological priority: Is the parallel s…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…ot appointed us to wrath” (1 Thessalonians 5:9). Christians are not promised freedom from persecution; the Church has suffered throughout its history. The issue is divine judicial wrath, not ordinary Christian hardship. What Revelation's change of scene contributes Revelation 1–3…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…the second century BC. On this reading, the surrounding events concern Antiochus IV, the persecution of faithful Jews and the desecration of the Temple. This view possesses genuine explanatory strengths: Onias was an anointed priest. He was violently killed. His death occurred d…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…uthorship and doctrine, but no stream preserves Jesus teaching the later Islamic account. Persecution can destroy people and books. History contains many such tragedies. But the possibility of destruction cannot establish the previous existence of the precise book Islam requires.…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…rtly arising from disputes over authority and the treatment of those who had failed under persecution; practical questions about ministers' conduct, the appointment of Church leaders, regional responsibility and worship. This was the first empire-wide council, but it was not the…
Read article →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
…s that shall arise”. — Daniel 7:24 Another ruler arises after them and subdues three. His persecution is followed by divine judgement and the kingdom given to the saints. This final phase of the fourth kingdom remains future. God’s kingdom follows its overthrow; Christ returns to…
Read article →Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
…called the Church? Revelation unquestionably contains saints on earth during the beast's persecution. This is often treated as decisive: if saints are present, the Church must be present. The conclusion assumes what must be proved. Saint means a holy person. Israel had saints be…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…ion by our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thessalonians 5:9). This does not promise exemption from persecution. The Church is repeatedly warned to expect opposition, loss, and even martyrdom. The distinction is between the world's hostility towards God's people and God's judicial wrath up…
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