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Series: Obadiah: A Hard Word, A Hopeful Word
Wyman Richardson
Obadiah 1-4
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1 Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: ''Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!'' 2 Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you shall be utterly despised. 3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, ''Who will bring me down to the ground?'' 4 Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the Lord.
I think the strongest lyric that Bob Dylan ever wrote can be found in his 1965 song, ''Desolation Row.'' The song is about the current and coming demise of Western culture and the line that I am referencing goes like this: ''The Titanic sails at dawn.''
It is a short line, ''The Titanic sails at dawn,'' but we immediately know what it means because we are all familiar with the tragedy of the Titanic. The Titanic was the supposedly unsinkable ship that sank on April 15, 1912. Over 1500 people died in that tragedy.
Some people allege that nobody actually spoke of the Titanic as unsinkable, but the Snopes website, after investigating the matter, concluded that they did.
...in mid-1911, nearly a year before the Titanic's maiden voyage, publications such as the Irish News and Belfast Morning News and Shipbuilder printed detailed articles about the ship's construction and noted that ''The Captain may, by simply moving an electric switch, instantly close the doors throughout and make the vessel practically unsinkable.'' And of course the Titanic's Captain, Edward J. Smith, had said of the Adriatic several years earlier: ''I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding ha ...
Series: Obadiah: A Hard Word, A Hopeful Word
Wyman Richardson
Obadiah 1-4
Read Obadiah 1-4
1 Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: ''Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!'' 2 Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you shall be utterly despised. 3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, ''Who will bring me down to the ground?'' 4 Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the Lord.
I think the strongest lyric that Bob Dylan ever wrote can be found in his 1965 song, ''Desolation Row.'' The song is about the current and coming demise of Western culture and the line that I am referencing goes like this: ''The Titanic sails at dawn.''
It is a short line, ''The Titanic sails at dawn,'' but we immediately know what it means because we are all familiar with the tragedy of the Titanic. The Titanic was the supposedly unsinkable ship that sank on April 15, 1912. Over 1500 people died in that tragedy.
Some people allege that nobody actually spoke of the Titanic as unsinkable, but the Snopes website, after investigating the matter, concluded that they did.
...in mid-1911, nearly a year before the Titanic's maiden voyage, publications such as the Irish News and Belfast Morning News and Shipbuilder printed detailed articles about the ship's construction and noted that ''The Captain may, by simply moving an electric switch, instantly close the doors throughout and make the vessel practically unsinkable.'' And of course the Titanic's Captain, Edward J. Smith, had said of the Adriatic several years earlier: ''I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding ha ...
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