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- Matt. 24:3 - great question
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- Matt. 24:6,7,14 - now for a moment, different angle. forget your history books and news events
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- you're an israelite. look down. wearing sandals and a robe. No phone. Breathe in the air. Full of spice, life and humidity.
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-- view of the world, at once small and unimagably vast.
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+- view of the world, at once small and unimagably vast.
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+- World Pop: McEvedy & Jones - 170M, UN 300M. Less than the population of US by a lot. But you don't know that. You've probably never even heard a number that high.
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+- Perhaps your world view is limited to Roman Empire, swallows the earth. The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World, Schneidel, Morris, Saller) between 59M and 76M. Think California and Texas. But still too large of a number for you to comprehend. The Roman Empire stretches beyond your comprehension. What lies beyond that is mostly a mystery.
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+- From the mount of Olives take a look around, look as far as you can see. Likely, you've seldom or never gone that far in your life, unless you're a merchant. Of course, if you're from out of town, you might come yearly to Jerusalem. But likely, you haven't been far in your life. You might know many people locally, but most of your news is local news second hand.
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+- If you're educated you might know some details about warfare. You might have heard of Carthage or Parthia and a couple famous battles with the Roman Empire. Maybe... MAYBE Julius Caesar's conquest of the barbarians to the extreme northwest of the known world.
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