This volume has been developed out of a burden to see vital gatherings of God s people established in these last days.13 The time of pressure and persecution that is coming worldwide will be such that it will demand the unity of the true body of Christ. For in the Gospel of Matthew it is declared by our Lord: Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of Me. 14 This truth of persecution is Biblical and repeated often in the Scriptures.
