Then the people of the land tried to discourage the people of Judah. They troubled them in building, and hired counselors against them to frustrate their purpose all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia. Ezra 4:4-5
It has always been a struggle. Those that endeavor to do the Lord’s work will always be opposed—sometimes annoyingly, sometimes violently—by others who resist the Lord’s work in their neighborhood as well as His work in their own hearts.
