Acts 12 describes a fearful time for the early church. They are experiencing opposition and persecution, and their leaders are being attacked, arrested, even executed. They pray and God intervenes, but there is a new "King of the Jews" who is growing in both power and popularity. How will they hold up against this new attack against the gospel of Jesus the Messiah? It's a spiritual battle, and victory or success is not on them, but from God, and that's what God has to tell us too.