PERSECUTION
(See also Bans; Concentration Camps; Inquisition; Intolerance; Martyrs; Mobs; lands by name)
attitude of press: g86 1/8 29
Bible examples: it-2 609-610; w02 2/15 16-17
Daniel’s death plotted: w08 11/1 23
Daniel’s three friends: scl 92
early Christians: scl 92; bt 44, 90, 92; it-1 386; it-2 610; w10 12/1 20; jv 30-32, 642; w90 6/1 16-17, 20; si 201, 244; w89 12/15 11-12
Elijah: scl 90
Jesus Christ: scl 90-91; w05 1/1 10-11
Job: scl 92
Joseph (son of Jacob): scl 90
Paul and Barnabas in Lystra: w23.04 17
Paul and Silas in Philippi: scl 91; bt 129-131
Paul in Corinth: bt 152-153, 167
Paul in Damascus: w05 1/15 28-29
Paul in Ephesus: bt 157, 163-164
Paul in Iconium: bt 95-96
Paul in Jerusalem: bt 185-191; mwb19.01 3
Paul in Rome: scl 92
Paul in Thessalonica: bt 135-137
Paul persecutes Christians: scl 92
by dragon (Re 12):
‘earth swallows up’ (Re 12:16): w22.05 6-7; bt 164; mwb19.12 8; kr 151; w09 1/15 32; re 185-186
“persecuted the woman” (Re 12:13): re 183-184
“spewed out water like a river” (Re 12:15): w22.05 6-7; kr 150-151; re 184-186
by Inquisition: g97 5/8 18-21; sh 282-283; w89 9/1 3; g89 8/8 24-25; g86 4/22 20-24
France: g86 4/22 20
Spanish Inquisition: gm 30; g87 10/8 23-27; g86 4/22 23
causes: w03 10/1 12-13; je 29
avoiding valid causes: it-2 610
nationalism: re 42-43
Christian attitude toward: scl 41, 53, 90-92; w22.12 20; bt 60-61; lff lesson 59; w19.02 10-11; it-2 610-611; jy 124; w14 9/15 13-14; w03 10/1 14; w02 2/1 16-17; w02 11/1 19; yb02 3-4, 192, 203-204, 220-221, 227; w01 6/1 15; w01 6/15 20; w01 7/15 16-17; w97 5/15 25; jv 642, 676-677; gt chapter 50; w90 11/1 27-28; yb88 254; w87 6/15 30-31; w87 8/1 8; w86 6/1 28-30; je 29
authorities who launch or permit: rr 76; w05 12/15 23-24; w98 9/1 16; w90 11/1 22
‘cautious as serpents, innocent as doves’ (Mt 10:16): w96 7/15 22
God’s favor not lost: w19.07 8-9
joy despite persecution: bt 40-41; mwb22.11 13; it-2 120; w09 2/15 10; w04 9/1 5; w04 11/1 13-18; w01 5/1 15-17; w01 7/15 19-20; w95 1/15 19
paying taxes when under: w90 11/1 24-25
praying for persecutors (Mt 5:44): w24.11 7; w05 12/15 23
public reproach: w19.03 12-13; w95 4/1 26-29
remembering those persecuted: w89 12/15 17-18
weapons formed against “will have no success” (Isa 54:17): w19.01 6-7; w08 9/15 7-8; w08 11/15 28; w07 12/15 21-25; ip-2 229-230
when persecution seems unlikely: km 2/94 3-5
when responsible brothers are mistreated: w22.11 16-17
comfort when under: w03 5/1 18-19
conduct before officials: sg 94-95
courage under: w19.07 5-6; w03 2/1 11
avoiding exposing brothers: w08 2/15 10; w93 11/15 21
deliverance from: bt 80; w05 12/15 23-24
discussion: scl 90-92; lff lesson 59; it-2 608-611; w04 8/15 12-17; w03 10/1 9-19; km 2/94 3-5
effect on witness work: bt 53, 55, 220-221; mwb21.03 13; yb88 253; w86 2/1 12-13
after Stephen’s death: bt 52-53; w90 6/1 17-19
India national anthem case: w88 2/1 19-20
enduring: scl 41; w22.05 5-6; bt 60-61; lff lesson 59; it-2 610-611, 1126; w11 1/15 26-27; jr 84-85; re 38-41; w03 3/1 6-7; w03 10/1 14-19; yb02 3-5; w01 8/15 25-26; w98 5/15 17-18; w93 9/15 11; w92 3/1 18; w89 6/15 25-27; rs 118-119; w87 1/15 18-19; w86 2/1 15-20
avoiding being stumbled: w90 4/15 26
helping fellow Christians: w25.02 29; w22.12 26-27
need for spiritual food: jv 450, 454
not compromising: w89 1/1 20-22
role of “peace of God” (Php 4:7): w88 2/15 16-18
experiences:
abusive husband won over: yb12 86; yb90 64
accept truth after seeing persecution: yb12 181-182; yb99 183
banished: w00 9/15 8
beaten, then forced to walk: yb16 135-136
beatings: w88 2/15 17-18; w88 5/15 20; w86 2/1 17-18; w86 6/1 28-29
Bible students undeterred: w90 7/1 7
chemical substances used: yb06 118-119
child endures father’s violent opposition: ijwex article 29
child rescues theocratic books and records: yb03 100
compromiser encourages youth to stay faithful: w93 12/15 13
death threats: yb92 178-181; yb91 213-215
disowned by family over spiritistic custom: w19.04 25
effect of Jehovah’s spirit: w06 8/15 29; w01 5/1 16; w88 2/15 18
efforts to deceive: yb96 102-104
efforts to divide: yb96 101-102
faithful despite threat of death: g93 5/8 5-12
faithfulness outperforms secular education: yb92 181-182
families separated: yb02 180-185
family persecution endured: w95 1/1 7-8
fear of persecution overcome: w22.06 14, 17-18
former official who persecuted Witnesses: w06 6/15 11
former persecutor accepts truth: yb88 40-41
former persecutor embraces victim and cries: yb16 55-56
Gestapo agent breaks own finger: yb94 203
headmaster beaten for neutrality: yb04 232
imprisoned but joyful: w01 5/1 15-16
imprisoned Witnesses preach: yb12 72-73
imprisonment under inhuman conditions: lfs article 6; w89 3/1 18
interested person arrested with Witnesses: yb99 251-252
interrogation fails: w04 11/1 27-28; yb03 100-102
investigator unwittingly strengthens Witness inmate: yb08 200-201
isolated publishers undeterred: yb92 62
jailer’s warning to police: yb88 61-62
Kimbilikiti massacre (Zaire) (1983): yb04 223, 226-227
kindness to KGB officers (Russia): w17.08 15
Kingdom Hall bombed (Australia, 1985): g92 1/8 9-13
Kingdom Hall torched (Korea, 1992): g93 4/22 25-27
lands where work is restricted: w07 12/15 21; w95 9/1 31
leader later accepts truth: yb94 63
letters from Witnesses about to be executed: yb09 168-169; w07 7/15 31; w05 5/1 18; w03 1/15 32; g03 2/8 18; g03 3/8 31; w01 11/15 32; g95 8/22 5; yb94 98-99; jv 662; w89 1/1 32; yb89 121-122; w86 2/1 13; w86 6/1 11
lists of names demanded: yb97 98-100
mobs: w01 2/1 25-27; yb92 219-220
neutrality: w22.10 9-11; yb09 171-173, 176-177, 249-250; yb07 119-122; w05 10/1 18-20; w98 9/1 24-28; w86 1/1 27
newspaper report interests couple: w89 6/1 24
nonretaliation wins out: yb92 63-64
prays to stay faithful, not for release: yb92 181-182
prison wardens interested: yb08 54-55
remnant: w89 6/15 27
respect for Witnesses: yb92 64
rusty barrels shoved over heads: w96 3/15 7
school: w01 8/15 26
showing Jehovah’s name in Bible brings release: w88 7/1 13
sisters protect brothers: yb02 208-209
sister stripped and threatened: w14 4/15 9-10
slopped with sewer slime: yb88 96-97
tarred: w89 6/15 27; w87 8/1 23
thrown to crocodiles: yb92 104-105
torture: yb94 96-97, 111, 217, 224-226; yb92 176; w89 6/15 27
training pays off: yb96 132-133
video Enduring Despite Persecution: lff lesson 59
video Interview With Brother Dmitriy Mikhaylov: mwb21.03 13
video Jehovah God Will Strengthen Me: lff lesson 59
video Showing Courage Despite Persecution: lff lesson 59
Witness boy called Jew by teacher: g00 6/22 3
witnessing to attacker: w90 6/1 23
youths face soldiers to save printing operation: w99 2/1 12
foreshadowed by Ishmael’s persecution of Isaac (Ge 21:9; Ga 4:29-31): it-2 807; w06 3/15 11-12
foretold: jy 124-125; re 183-186; w03 10/1 10-11; gt chapter 50; w87 8/1 8-9
by Jesus: it-2 610; w04 11/1 13-17
enmity (Ge 3:15): it-2 609; w08 11/15 27
king of the north (Da 11:30-35): w93 11/1 14-18
messages to Smyrna and Philadelphia (Re 2:10; 3:10): w22.05 5-6
“objects of hatred” (Mt 24:9): w02 3/1 14; km 2/94 3-4; rs 238
forms: scl 90-91
interrogation: lfs article 13; w24.06 27
reproach: it-2 780; w96 7/15 22
ridicule: w22.11 17-19; it-2 807-808
Holocaust (Nazi era): ijwfq article 57; g95 8/22 3-15; g89 4/8 2-20
Holocaust Museum (U.S.): g05 3/8 15-18; g99 9/22 24-25; g94 2/8 30; g93 5/8 31; g93 11/8 16-19
Polish people: g89 4/8 9-11
reality of: g89 4/8 4-8
in divided households: tp 173-174
life stories:
Despite Trials, My Hope Has Remained Bright (Hungary): g02 4/22 19-24
Half a Century Under Totalitarian Tyranny (Soviet Union): g99 2/22 10-16
Maintaining Faith Under Totalitarian Oppression (Soviet Union): g00 9/22 19-23
Over 40 Years Under Communist Ban (Soviet Union): w99 3/1 24-29
Serving God in the Face of Death (Angola): g99 8/22 18-23
Tested in a Fiery Furnace of Affliction (Crete, Greece): w03 2/1 25-30
loyalty under: w06 5/1 30; w97 8/1 13-14
meaning of term: it-2 608-609; w11 1/15 26
of Albigenses: w95 9/1 27-28, 30; w87 7/15 28-29; g86 4/22 20
of Anabaptists: w04 6/15 11-13; w87 11/15 22-23
of colporteurs (Bible distributors): g01 12/8 25-27
of early Christians: w23.04 17; it-2 610; w11 11/15 18; re 101; w04 11/1 15; w03 10/1 11-12; w02 7/15 21-22; w99 5/1 4-5; w93 11/15 8-11; si 201-202, 251; gm 16; w86 2/1 12
after Stephen’s death: w90 6/1 17
by Caesar Galerius: w12 6/1 21
by Emperor Diocletian: g 12/11 5; g 11/07 12-13; w92 6/15 28-30; gm 16
by Emperor Domitian: it-2 825; re 101
by Emperor Nero: ijwbv article 30; it-1 383-384, 441; it-2 825; re 101; w93 11/15 9; sh 260; si 237; w88 5/1 29
by Emperor Trajan: it-1 442; w10 5/15 5-6; re 42, 62
by Herod Agrippa I: bt 77-78; it-1 467; w90 6/1 20
by Jews: w10 12/1 20; w93 11/15 8-9
by Jews in Judea: si 244
by pagan worshippers: w98 12/1 11
by Saul (Paul): bt 200; it-2 586; w05 5/15 26-27; w05 12/1 27; w99 6/15 29-31
description by Tacitus: re 101; w93 11/15 9; w90 8/1 17; w88 5/1 29
for not worshipping Roman deities: w10 5/15 3, 5-6
in city of Rome: it-2 825
in Jerusalem: lfb 222-223; kr 134; bm 25; w89 12/15 11-12
in Roman Empire: w98 12/1 11-13; w95 6/15 5; w93 11/15 9-11
letter from Pliny the Younger on: bt 26; it-1 442; g16.5 4; w10 5/15 3; w07 8/15 11; re 42
response: w03 10/1 17; w99 5/1 5; si 205
role of Caiaphas: it-1 386
of Huguenots: w98 8/15 25-29
of Jan Hus: sh 311-312; w86 6/15 29-31
of Jehovah’s Witnesses: w23.07 15-16; w07 12/15 21-22; re 39-43, 91-92; w03 3/1 3-7; ip-2 395-396; w00 4/1 18-21; w98 6/15 17-18; w98 12/1 8, 13-14; jv 10, 642-677; g93 5/8 4-12; w90 1/1 12; w90 4/15 14; rs 207; g88 6/8 22-25; je 29
accusations: w00 4/1 20-21
all nations: jv 675-676
by Catholic Church: jv 492-494, 666-668
by Catholic priests: yb13 124
by religious opposers: bt 38
commendation for qualities under persecution: w17.08 17
due to neutrality: jv 669-675
evidence of being true Christians: w90 1/1 12
Governing Body’s admonition: yb88 254
Holocaust Museum (U.S.): g93 11/8 16-19
letters protesting persecution of: brfi 6; yb12 184; g03 1/8 31; yb96 144; jv 692-695
loving support: jv 315-317
reaction to persecution: bt 40-41; mwb22.11 13; w05 1/1 11; w05 12/15 22-24; yb02 192, 203-204, 220-221, 227; w01 7/15 16-17, 19-20; w00 4/1 21; w98 9/1 16; w98 12/1 13-18; jv 448-458, 692-695; w90 1/1 13-14; w90 11/1 22, 27-28; w89 1/1 27; w88 4/1 22
representatives of (1918-1919): w18.10 4-5; w16.11 29-30; kr 23-24; w08 9/15 8; g01 11/22 19-21; w00 4/1 19; w00 10/1 26-27; jv 69-75, 650-654; w87 6/15 16
success despite persecution: w17.06 11-12; kr 148; w07 3/15 24; w07 12/15 21-22; w00 4/1 17-22; jv 552-553
treated as agents of enemy governments: g88 8/8 10
what to do if cut off from organization: w87 8/1 20
why persecuted: w14 11/15 15; g 5/11 20-21; w05 1/1 11; w04 11/1 14; w02 3/1 14; w89 1/1 20-22; je 29
will continue despite times of relief: km 2/94 3-5
World War I: w18.10 4-5; kr 22; jv 69-70, 423-425, 552, 577, 647-656, 675
World War II: w10 9/15 3-4; g00 4/22 19; dp 173, 175-178; jv 448-458, 675-676
of Polish Brethren (Socinians): w00 1/1 21-23; g88 11/22 21-22
of Protestants in France (16th-18th centuries): g 3/11 12; g00 12/22 14-15
of Waldenses: w02 3/15 20-23; g97 4/22 5-6; w87 7/15 28-29
prayer regarding: scl 95-96; mwb17.01 8; w90 11/15 22; km 11/90 8
preparing for: lff lesson 59; w19.07 2-7; w19.12 30; w14 9/15 15-16; w11 1/15 27; w10 7/15 12-15; km 2/94 3-4
Jesus’ instructions: jy 124-125; w05 1/1 10-11; gt chapter 50; w87 8/1 8-9
purpose: w06 1/15 27-28; w05 8/15 16-17
relief foretold: w22.05 6-7; re 185-186
false religion: it-2 609
symbolized by—
river spewed out by dragon (Re 12:15): w22.05 6-7; kr 150-151; re 184-186
sun (Mt 13:6, 21): w03 2/1 11
victims differ from martyrs: g93 5/8 3-4
video No Reason to Fear Persecution: mwb22.03 5
what to do in face of: scl 91; w22.12 20-21; w19.07 8-13; od 176-177; w07 3/1 26-27; w03 10/1 14-18
‘bless persecutors’ (Ro 12:14): w09 10/15 10-11; w07 7/1 24
local threat to life: bt 168; w90 6/15 11
when cut off from organization: w87 8/1 20
when to flee: bt 95-96, 136-137; w02 4/15 32
where persecution begins, Christianity ends (quote): re 102
why permitted: w03 10/1 13; jv 676-677; w86 3/1 11-12, 16-17
form of training: it-1 629; w87 6/15 30-31
‘refining’ (Isa 48:10): ip-2 127-129
‘refining, cleansing, whitening’ (Da 11:35): dp 274-275; w93 11/1 17-18
youths:
coping with persecution: w01 8/15 26