Answers about persecution

Will there be a time of tribulation before the rapture?

I believe the tribulation spoken about in the New Testament, has been happening in varying degrees, throughout history.  Certain times and certain places experience more tribulation than others.  For example, the Christians in the first century faced awful persecution under Nero and Domitian, then later under Trajan, Aurelius, Severus,  Decius, Valerian,  Maximinus, Aurelian, Diocletian and [...]

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Is Nero the “devil who prowls around like a roaring lion”? (1 Peter 5:8)

1 Peter 5:8 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. The first thing to say is that the interpretation “the devil as a lion is Nero” is a big improvement on the popular (at least in earlier days) idea that this verse refers to a [...]

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