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The Foothills of History
When you're in the middle of history it's like you're looking at the mountain range from one perspective. So we'll look at this. There's a famous poem in Isaiah chapter 13 where he talks about the stars falling from heaven and the mountains shake and there's fire and I mean it's like what's the end of the world. And so it's that that's the kind of thing that the prophets do. This is what Jesus does when he predicts the fall of Jerusalem in the gospels. He actually quotes from that chapter of Isaiah that described the fall of Babylon. But he does so in this cataclysmic language. Our experience of living in history is within the chain of