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Introduction to the New Testament: ”From Malachi to Matthew”

Unshaken Saints

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Antiochus and the Jews of the Old Testament

The First Maccabees were writing about life under the reign of Antiochus IV. The king ordered Jews to make themselves abominable by everything unclean and profane, says Oaks. To understand what we are seeing here is just like what they were up against, he says. "Just like Christianity would be an age of martyrdom with a dichlicious age"

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