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Persecution And The Christian
Lesson Two

Welcome back. I trust the first lesson was helpful for you.

For Lesson Two, read the following sections in your Textbook and do the questions below. The questions are in chronological order.

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Read pages 34 - 42 and answer the associated questions. If you are using the PDF version of the textbook, I suggest you make a 'copy' so you can highlight in it. You may write the answers to the questions below in a notebook or in a computer file. You may also print them off here and work from a 'hard' copy. God bless.

Lesson Two Questions

The Example Of History: Insights From The Historical Books
The Old Testament View Of History

1. E. A. Speiser makes the keen observation that the Bible is not so much a chronicle of events and thoughts worth recording as it is an ____________________ of significant happenings. pg. 34

2. The Mesopotamian cultures saw history as a ___________________ meandering, subject to the whims of capricious, untrustworthy gods who might turn on them at any moment. pg. 35

3. The collapse of the Assyrian and Babylonian empires was due not so much to the superiority of their enemies as it was to the crushing weight of their ____________________ structure while they sought to find form and security within the chaos of their worldview. pg. 36

4. The Egyptians, on the other hand, held to a ____________________ view of history. pg. 36

5. The word of the Pharaoh became ____________________ as soon as the words were spoken. pr. 36

6. Israel’s law was from a ____________________, covenant-making God whose character and will was reflected in the law. pg. 38

7. In later times, the Jews would encounter the view of the Greeks who tended to see history as moving forward and ___________________. pg. 38

8. The call to the sufferer is to ____________________ the distress to One who is mightier and who understands all things. pg. 39

Suffering As Discipline
Discipline As Punishment

9. The Israelites understood that suffering could be the catalyst for their ____________________ from sin and its consequences. pg. 40

Discipline As A Means Of Spiritual Maturity

10. Discipline gives the assurance of ____________________, seeking to create in the life of the child a God-centered way of life that reflects itself in obedience and ethical behavior. pg. 40

Suffering Specifically For God’s Sake

11. The Old Testament historical books also record incidents of what we most commonly understand as persecution: suffering for doing what is ____________________, or more specifically, because of one’s allegiance to the living God. pg. 41

Assignment

1. Memorize Daniel 6:10.

2. Do a Devotional Meditation on Daniel 6.

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