Christian teaching

1. Persecutors of the prophets

• “The Jews . . . who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out” – 1 Thessalonians 2:14-15

•  “Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town . . ..” – Matthew 23:34  (Also Matthew 23:31)

2. Hindering the gospel

• They “displease God and oppose all mankind by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved” – 1 Thessalonians 2:15-16

• “Woe to you . . . for you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.” – Matthew 23:13

3. Filling up the measure of sin

• “ . . . so as always to fill up the measure of their sins.” – 1 Thessalonians 2:16

• “Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers” – Matthew 23:32

4. Judgment is coming

• “But wrath has come upon them at last!” –  1 Thessalonians 2:16

• “Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation” – Matthew 23:36