God Is Back!

The divine absence has ended

Photo by Axel Antas-Bergkvist on Unsplash

For the 400 years preceding the life of Jesus, Israel had been living amid a spiritual nightmare. In 586B.C., Israel went out of business. The political center, Jerusalem, was ransacked and burnt. The religious center, the temple, was razed to the ground. The agricultural villages and fields were decimated. Isra…