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THE SHADOW OF EVIL. PERSECUTION and THE CHURCH. JN 15:17-21; JN 16:1-3; REV 6:9- 11 and numerous other text. Saeed , Nagmah , & their children. 1 WHAT IS CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION?. www.opendoors.org. Christian Persecution :
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THE SHADOW OF EVIL PERSECUTION and THE CHURCH JN 15:17-21; JN 16:1-3; REV 6:9-11 and numerous other text
1 WHAT IS CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION? www.opendoors.org Christian Persecution: “any hostility, experienced from the world, as a result of one’s identification with Christ. Verbal harassment to hostile feelings, beatings, physical torture, confinement, isolation, rape, severe punishment, imprisonment, slavery, discrimination in education & in employment, and even death are just few examples of what they experience on adaily basis.”
2 WHERE DOES IT OCCUR? Map courtesy of “Open Doors”
3 What Scripture Says About the Persecutors Reveals a Warped sense of righteousness
3 What Scripture Says About the Persecutors Reveals a Warped sense of righteousness Godless Leaders Bring Corruption Leading To Persecution
4 What Scripture Says About the Persecuted More than ½ million people fled the brutality of “Da’eesh” to become refugees in Jordan & Kurdistan & Turkey
the fellowship of His sufferings A few persecutions chapters in the Bible, there are just too many to list. MT 5 MK 13 LK 21 JN 15-17 Acts 4,5,7 RO 8 2 COR 4 2 TIM 3 1 PT 4 PHIL 3 REV 2,6 ZakariaBotros
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