Redeeming a Nation (Timeless Teaching)
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[146] See also Job 37:6-10: “[God] says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the rain shower, ‘Be a mighty downpour.’… The tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving winds. The breath of God produces ice, and the broad waters become frozen.” and Job 38:22: “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail?”
[147] Godly wisdom is not the same as worldly wisdom. Eve confused the two when she “saw that the fruit of the tree [of the knowledge of good and evil] was ... also desirable for gaining wisdom.” (Genesis 3:6).
[148] See also Proverbs 2:6: “... for the Lord gives wisdom.”
[149] Goliath’s height is considered by some to be exaggerated and the whole story fanciful yet Henry Cooper (1853-99), the so-called Yorkshire Giant, stood eight feet six inches high.
[150] The United States and Ireland being the major exceptions.
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Legacy
2. Beginnings
3. Survival
4. Onslaught
5. Defeat
6. Resistance
7. A nation divided
8. Stirrings
9. Apocalypse
10. Pilgrims and ploughmen
11. Side of the angels?
12. Two tribes
13. A tongue of our own
14. Martyrs
15. Protestant wind
16. Secret lives
17. A nation chooses (1)
18. A nation chooses (2)
19. Brother against brother
20. Commonwealth
21. Cauldron
22. Restoration
23. Revolution
24. New horizons
25. Balance of power
26. Revival
27. Beacon
28. Slough of despond
29. Colossus
30. New lands
31. Jubilee
32. New power
33. Band of brothers
34. Titans
35. Aftermath
36. Furnace
37. Sisters of mercy
38. The Great Game
39. Lady of the Lamp
40. Soldiers of the Queen
41. Grand Old Man
42. Besieged
43. Hubris
44. Hard times
45. So near
46. So far
47. Lost
48. Praying for our lives
49. Seeing a way through
50. Tin legs
51. Bearing the unbearable
52. Living with evil
53. Sticking it out
54. A New Jerusalem
55. Letting go
56. Against all odds
57. Crisis
58. Down to the sea
59. Turning the tide
60. Standing firm
61. Turning aside
62. Sirens
63. Drift
64. New landscape
65. New citizens
66. New resolve
Epilogue
Appendix 1
Bibliography