Persecuting Those Baptizers Part One

The History of the church of Jesus Christ is and always has been marked by intense persecution.
From the moment that the angel Gabriel told Mary that she would have a Son and His Name would be Jesus our Emmanuel Wonderful Counsel God With us.
From that moment Satan has had a strategy to so fully and completely replace true Christianity with his own warped deviant counterfit, and make no mistake, Satan has done a great or terrible job depending upon how you see it.Isn't it always the case that the power hungry always seek to debase God and elivate man, and as I told you last week that is always the number one sign of a false prophet or ministry or teaching.
Jesus completely ignored the system of the apostate Jewish leaders, and established his own leaders who would be servants of the people that God would add to His Church.
But these new leaders had to learn humility, while they wanted to wield the sword and do a little persecuting of their own.In the book History of the Baptist, John T Christian writes
"For the first three centuries the Lord placed Christians in the most unfavorable circumstances that it might display it's moral power, and gain its victory over the world by spiritual weapons alone. Until the reign of Constantine it had not even a legal existence in the Roman empire, but was first ignored as a Jewish sect, then slandered, proscribed, persecuted, as a treasonable innovation, and the adoption of it made punishable with confiscation and death."