Foreign Intervention

After Maryam and Marzieh were acquitted, the Iranian government pressured them to leave the country. Another Christian in exile says, “That’s a pretty old-fashioned procedure they have—‘We will let you go if you leave the country. You can have your faith, but not here.’ . . . The government would not want them to stay in the country as heroes.” The writer of the Compass Direct article went on to add, “Iran’s government views all Christian activities as foreign intervention and thus a threat to national security.”

Foreign intervention—from where? Christianity does not belong to a particular country. Jesus said that His kingdom is not of this world. What does the Iranian government fear? Foreign intervention—from heaven?

“If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of My name, because they do not know Him who sent me.” – John 15:19-21

Source: Compass Direct News