TLDR: Video Link Background: Paul had traveled to the city of Thessalonica after being beaten and imprisoned in Phillipi. You can read in the book of Acts, when in Phillipi, Paul and Silas had released a fortune teller girl from demonic possession and her masters were enraged and they beat Paul and SIlas with rods in the marketplace, humiliating them, then they were thrown in a dungeon called the Tullainium where the worst criminals were kept, their feet in stocks that stretch the prisoners feet apart, causing severe pain. Did they give up? Did they say, oh we must not be in the Will of God? No, an earthquake during the night broke open the jail, they stopped and witnessed to the jailer helping him and his family come to Christ, and they were released. This is when they went to Thessalonica. In Thessalonica, it’s important to understand the type of place this is. It’s like a political rally with all the parties vying for attention on every street-corner and...
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