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more tears and sorrow and pain and so

forth.

So John gives us the Gospel of John and

writes about the upper room. In 1 John

chapter 3 he tells us again about this

persecution and uses the example of Cain

and Abel, the unrighteous and the

righteous, and he tells us that the reason

Christians are hated is because of our

righteousness in Christ. And then John gives

us the book of Revelation, and while on the

Isle of Patmos, he says to the seven

churches of Asia that he is their companion

in tribulation and in the kingdom and

patience of Jesus Christ. So the book of

Revelation was written to bring comfort to

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