Long way home

Well after my recent attempt to make a biblically informed prediction I'm a little trepidatious to embark on more. BJ is not the new PM of Brittain so that part of my analysis was clearly wrong, however Brexit happened and the feeling of flux in the waters of our little universe still seems eschatologically strong, so I may just indulge in a bit more of the same. Interpretation belongs to God of course, but I don't have a problem with making informed speculations as long as everyone knows that they are speculations and feel free to draw their own conclusions.  Passages of Daniel and of Revelation are still vividly resonating in my mind with world events so I am jotting down a few thoughts here to get them out, as it were.. In the past I found the description of the final incarnation of the King of the North at the end of Daniel chapter 11 strangely similar to the two Small horns of chapters 7 and 8, to the point of wondering whether we (that is, Jehovah's witnesses) had got...

The Prisoners’ Wall -  b y Sam Hollands       Introduction There had been war for nearly two thousand years. As well as three major continental wars there had been countless civil wars, land wars, sea wars, the war of vanity,  and  the prolonged and terrifying war of technology. The psychological dissonance of conflict had crept with varying degrees of subtlety into every home. War constituted the strongest thread of meaning for two thousand years. One of the poets of this world had described these two millennia as a “love affair with mortality” and the people loved him for pulling off that age-old trick of supplying a glib phrase to allow everyone to be wry and wise about something truly and incomprehensibly terrible.   Then mankind achieved peace. Worldwide unity of purpose, an end to the unsightly carnage that had been their heritage for so many jarring years. It had begun with a piece of legislation called “The Universal Bill of Conservation” which...