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The Past is Another Country

January 19, 2021 By Mike Rakes 1 Comment

A Picture of Their Loss

The past is another country they do things differently there, someone said. "By the rivers of Babylon," the poet begins, "There we sat down, and there we wept when we remembered Zion." Psalm 137:1 begins to expose the grief and loss of all they had come to know in this place, "we are the landless people of God," the Psalmist must have been thinking.  In the first 39 chapters, Isaiah talks … [Read more...] about The Past is Another Country

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