THE PROMISE OF DELIVERANCE (3 OF 5)
Scripture: Nahum 1:8-15
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The Promise of Deliverance (3 of 5)
Series: Nahum: God Has Not Forgotten His People
Wyman Richardson
Nahum 1:8-15
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Every time I drive over the Mississippi River I marvel at it. Almost every time I do so I willl say something like, ''Man. That is a LOT of water.'' And it is! In 1927, America got to see the sheer power of that much water. Here is the Encyclopaedia Brittanica's summary of the 1927 Mississippi River flood:
Mississippi River flood of 1927, also called Great Flood of 1927, flooding of the lower Mississippi River valley in April 1927, one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States. More than 23,000 square miles (60,000 square km) of land was submerged, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced, and around 250 people died.
After several months of heavy rain caused the Mississippi River to swell to unprecedented levels, the first levee broke on April 16, along the Illinois shore. Then, on April 21, the levee at Mounds Landing in Mississippi gave way. Over the next few weeks essentially the entire levee system along the river collapsed. In some places, residential areas were submerged in 30 feet (9 metres) of water. At least two months passed before the floodwater completely subsided.
The event has been memorialized in songs and stories ever since, perhaps nowhere more famously than in Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie's 1929 blues song, ''When the Levee Breaks,'' a song most well-known, perhaps, through Led Zeppelin's 1970 adaptation/cover it. The original lyrics to McCoy and Minnie's song have some powerful imagery. Here are some select stanzas:
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break?If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break?And the water gonnna come in and we'll have no place to stay??Well all last night I sat on the levee and moan?Well all last night I sat on the levee and moan?Thinkin' 'bout my baby and my happy home??I worked on the levee mama both night and day?I worke ...
Series: Nahum: God Has Not Forgotten His People
Wyman Richardson
Nahum 1:8-15
Read Nahum 1:8-15
Every time I drive over the Mississippi River I marvel at it. Almost every time I do so I willl say something like, ''Man. That is a LOT of water.'' And it is! In 1927, America got to see the sheer power of that much water. Here is the Encyclopaedia Brittanica's summary of the 1927 Mississippi River flood:
Mississippi River flood of 1927, also called Great Flood of 1927, flooding of the lower Mississippi River valley in April 1927, one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States. More than 23,000 square miles (60,000 square km) of land was submerged, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced, and around 250 people died.
After several months of heavy rain caused the Mississippi River to swell to unprecedented levels, the first levee broke on April 16, along the Illinois shore. Then, on April 21, the levee at Mounds Landing in Mississippi gave way. Over the next few weeks essentially the entire levee system along the river collapsed. In some places, residential areas were submerged in 30 feet (9 metres) of water. At least two months passed before the floodwater completely subsided.
The event has been memorialized in songs and stories ever since, perhaps nowhere more famously than in Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie's 1929 blues song, ''When the Levee Breaks,'' a song most well-known, perhaps, through Led Zeppelin's 1970 adaptation/cover it. The original lyrics to McCoy and Minnie's song have some powerful imagery. Here are some select stanzas:
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break?If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break?And the water gonnna come in and we'll have no place to stay??Well all last night I sat on the levee and moan?Well all last night I sat on the levee and moan?Thinkin' 'bout my baby and my happy home??I worked on the levee mama both night and day?I worke ...
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