(3) To the second period of church history (“The Old Catholic Church Period,” A.D. 100–312, from the close of The Apostolic Period to the conversion of the Roman emperor Constantine)—During this period, the church experienced abject poverty and wave after wave of intense persecution from heretics, from unsaved Jews, from pagans, and from Roman emperors (4) To the individual believer—Does this letter apply to me? Am I laboring faithfully in the midst of poverty and persecution? Am I fearing persecution,