BAR-2022 – 1 Peter-02
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UNLEASHING HOPE AS WE ENDURE DANGER, HOSTILITY & PERSECUTION
The world of the NT when Peter wrote his three Epistles—was a terrible time in history, from AD 60 and 70.
For half those years the hatred and evils of Nero had led to the random acts of fierce persecution of Christians. Across the city of Rome, believers were killed from the arenas to the prisons.
Have you pondered how hard it must have been to be a Christian in those ten years?
Yet in that dangerous time to even be a believer, Peter boldly wrote to the saints of the Roman world about the Life of Jesus (Gospel by Mark) and about Reflecting Jesus to the very end (1 & 2 Peter). As Peter wrote those NT books, he had become the “Most Wanted” man of the day.
Peter demonstrated the holy boldness Christ can bring into the lives of His children.