SO THEY PERSECUTED THE PROPHETS BEFORE YOU

Speak to them, whether they listen or not, “Thus says the Lord God”(Ez 3). We shouldn’t be so arrogant as to think we’re prophets like Ezekiel, hearing direct words from God. Rather, we humbly speak what the prophets spoke. We sometimes succeed, yet they preached with the knowledge that almost all would not obey. So, don’t despair when you meet up with insults and  resistance to words God first gave through His writing prophets.”  In the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you”(Mt 5).