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  "textContent": "By Pieter Vermeulen, ICC Board Member, as part of a series, “Persecuted but not Forsaken.” The story of persecution in the Bible begins not in a battlefield or a courtroom, but in a place of worship. Only one chapter after humanity’s fall into sin, Genesis 4 introduces the first act of persecution in human history.…\n\nThe post The First Martyr: What Cain and Abel Teach Us About Persecution first appeared on International Christian Concern.",
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