Claim. It is structurally difficult for those steeped in the old tradition to accept the new providence; therefore the saints and sages leading the new dispensation are typically persecuted as victims of the old age. Jesus’s rejection by the Jewish faithful is the type; DP predicts the same pattern at the Second Advent — the returning Christ “will be persecuted by the Christians” who are most strongly attached to New Testament doctrine.
Elaboration. Per 5.2. Our Attitude in the Last Days: “It is difficult for a person steeped in the old tradition to understand or accept the new providence. This is why the saints and sages leading the dispensation of a new age were often persecuted and martyred as victims of the old age.”
Jesus is DP’s archetype: “Jesus, for example, who inaugurated the New Testament Age, came at the close of the Old Testament Age in such a way as to bewilder the faithful adherents of the Mosaic Law. He was ostracized by the Jewish people and eventually crucified.” DP predicts symmetric treatment at the Second Advent: “Just as Jesus at his first coming was derided by the Jews as one possessed by Beelzebul, he will similarly be persecuted by the Christians when he comes again.”
The mechanism is letter-bound rigidity: “Fallen people’s spiritual sensibility is extremely dull. Hence, they generally tend to adhere strictly to the letter of the truth.” The Last Days’ chosen are instead those who pray and respond to spiritual promptings — paralleling Jesus’s disciples, “not one of whom was overly attached to the Old Testament Scriptures.”
This is a self-referential apologetic frame: DP’s contestation by mainstream Christianity is, on this reading, expected.
See also. dp-sun-moon-stars-symbolize-jesus-holy-spirit-believers, dp-old-and-new-dispensations-overlap-at-transition