"Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy — The Second Missionary Journey: Through Much Suffering, the Theme Continues as the Lord Continues to Call Gentiles by His Glorious Gospel of God’s Abundant Grace”

Chapters 16 and 17 are wonderful and revealing chapters about how this new missionary journey would bear fruit.  First and foremost was the founding of church at Phillipi although the churches of the Thessalonians and the Bereans were also established afterwards.  In Philippi, Paul and Silas were imprisoned after a demonic woman was delivered of her possession.  Paul was troubled by her continued announcements and cast out the demon.   The local businesses were benefited by her soothsaying though, it seems, and so Paul and Silas were put into the city jail from which they were delivered by an earthquake.  The jailer and his household were saved through this miracle and Paul’s preaching.  They then left town at the request of the town magistrates when Paul announced that they had been unjustly beaten though Roman citizens.  But the church at Philippi was the fruit of it all.  They traveled then to Thessalonica and Berea barely escaping imprisonment but their ministry brought forth much fruit as many were saved and taught there.  The theme throughout was that through much suffering Paul’s ministry of grace would be used by God to bring many to a glorious salvation.