The LORD uses leaders to deal with threats to the welfare of his people, and he is the God who delivers them.
Although the first anointed king tried to kill the second one, the Lord protected his anointed, as he always does.
When Peter explained what happened at Cornelius‘s house, the Jewish Christians were amazed that God had given salvation also to non-Jews!
The Thessalonian Christians show us what it looks like to live out God’s grace under persecution.