The global dominos are being stood on end, one next to the other, and laid out in a clear pattern. Each domino carries the potential for a terrible cascade of events leading to disaster after disaster. The most striking thing about the global situation right now, the thing that takes one’s breath away, is that the dominos are laid out in the very pattern predicted by the Bible 2,000 years ago. People who long for the latest thing, the new insight that makes the world understandable, may be surprised to find such profound answers in so ancient a book. That book sits on more bookshelves and probably on more digital devices than any other published work. It’s there, but dusty from disuse.
I often think about the people who lived in ages past and wonder what they understood about their place in the flow of His story. For those who lived between the Testaments, it meant experiencing a famine of the Word.