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Churches under Siege of Persecution and Assimilation: The General Epistles and Revelation is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this third and final book of a three-volume series, B.J. Oropeza covers the writings of the General Epistles and the communities in the book of Revelation—the seven churches in Asia Minor. In Hebrews there were warnings of apostasy with no restoration, yet in James there can be restoration of apostates. Peter identifies marginalized Christians and apostate teachers. Jude confronts apostate...

cult with the offices of high priest and a neokoros, who underwrote expenses for temple maintenance. The religious leaders of the imperial cult seem to be portrayed by the False Prophet who causes Roman society to worship the image of the Beast (13:11–17). The Beast refers to Caesar and veneration of him as deity. Smyrna, Ephesus, and other cities in Asia Minor also became centers for the imperial cult.30 The citizens of these communities would seem to be patriotic and zealous for the imperial cult.
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