What the book is about (revision):
- The Lord Jesus Christ – God’s true humiliated and vindicated.
- Our spiritual fathers – how they suffered and how God relieved and vindicated them.
- The spread of the Gospel to all the nations by the power of the Holy Spirit.
- The Justice of God.
- The particular wickedness of those who were close to the people of God, yet persecuted them.
- Caring for the sick and weak.
- The wickedness of malice and pride (boasting).
- Indifference to suffering – how the Second Commandment is broken through the sin of neutrality.
- Where family feuds, grudges and the profane spirit (living for the here and now) lead.
- Refuges outside of the true God will always let you down.
- God is sovereign over the nations.
- God intervenes in history to punish wicked nations.
- Gives us a picture of what a world set straight looks like.
- God uses individuals and nations as instruments of His purposes.
- Hurting God’s people is a very dangerous and stupid thing to do.
- God keeps His promises to protect His people and to bless the world through them.
- Shows us that the persecuted people of God are to be confident in His care for them even though they may feel neglected and hopeless.