Repeating History
(Image courtesy of http://bibleencyclopedia.com.) This saying is trustworthy and true: "History repeats itself." Most everyone has heard the phrase, but why is it true? It is true that history repeats itself, not because all the individual circumstances and characters line up exactly as they were in any given historical account, but because the natural world has not undergone extensive, redefining changes. Nature continues its constant, un-rushed, consistent pattern of absolutes. Here are a few examples of nature's absolutes that I am referring to: Men and women still attempt to usurp the throne of God as sovereign ruler and law-giver. The earth's heating and cooling patterns cycle every once in a while because God designed it that way. There is no such thing as global warming. The seasons continue their changes, uninterrupted and certainly never rushed.
