Why did Christ tell us to love our enemies?

Answer

"But 1 say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and
pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father
which is in heaven: for He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and
on the unjust." Matt. 5: 44, 45.

What is God's love able to do for His children?
How complete was Christ's victory over death?
Whose Spirit inspired their utterances?
8. Did God bless and sanctify the seventh day while He was resting upon it, or when His rest on that day was past?
How is the fifth trumpet, or first woe, introduced?
Is this, for the time being, a source of pleasure?
Who will be permitted to enter it?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle