James 5 Part 3: Prophetic Persecution

We have to consider the historical pattern of the prophets, as those who have spoken in The Name of The Lord, and then left behind an example of suffering affliction and patience.
And throughout time, all those that carried and bore the message of God in truth, suffered at the hands of the ungodly, while they bore the weight of the message.
• The Prophet Micaiah refused to tell anything but the Word of the Lord, even though he knew it would greatly displease Ahab. He was put in prison and fed on the bread of affliction.
Normal historical Christianity was a radical, non-conformist, do or die kind of thing that left all those identifying with Christ liable to be persecuted under the most extreme extents of modern laws, due to not conforming to what would be considered to everyone else a relatively minor cultural expectation. This Christianity finds itself at enmity with The World's ways, it's wisdom, and worship and it is willing to go to the gallows and to the cross and to embrace martyrdom over things the rest of the unbelieving world considers trivial. Persecution and tribulation belong to the Church because she belongs to the Christ who was crucified at Calvary.