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252 illustrations across all 48 chapters
The oozing stream from a bursting reservoir becomes a torrent; the torrent becomes a deluge.
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Observers at Abeih noted that as evening air cooled, locusts literally "camped in the hedges and loose stone walls, covering them over like a swarm of bees settled on a bush." They remained stationary until the sun warmed the next...
Israel shall be borne away from her land suddenly and violently, as by the winds of heaven.
When Elohim commands, "Prepare war, wake up the mighty men," He invites evil to marshal its complete arsenal, knowing this concentration only ensures its more thorough destruction.
In December 1938, twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker Nicholas Winton canceled his ski holiday and traveled to Prague. Jewish families were desperate, their children in grave danger...
In the prophet's day, the Jewish leaders had cast off their wives for heathen women, then taught their followers this transgression was no sin.
Transgression may appear productive of happiness, yet the wicked possess no reasonable expectation of contentment—neither now nor in the eternal world.
"Then shall ye return," the prophet declares, speaking of a conversion to full recognition of neglected duty and past transgressions.
In the autumn of 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts stood before seventeen people in a small chapel in Loughor, Wales. His...
In 1858, the River Thames was so polluted that Parliament hung lime-soaked curtains over their windows just to endure the stench. They called it "The...
In the autumn of 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts stood before seventeen people in a small chapel in Loughor, Wales. He...
On the morning of May 5, 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss stood atop the Maeda Escarpment on Okinawa — a sheer four-hundred-foot cliff the...
In 2001, permaculture designer Geoff Lawton stood on a barren, salt-crusted plot in the Jordan Valley, just miles from the Dead Sea. The soil was...
In 1977, Wangari Maathai knelt in the red soil of her backyard in Nairobi, Kenya, and planted seven trees. It was a modest act —...
In August 1727, a small community of religious refugees gathered in the village of Herrnhut, nestled in the hills of Saxony. Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf...
In August 1916, Ernest Shackleton stood at the bow of a Chilean tugboat, scanning the frozen shore of Elephant Island through binoculars. Four months earlier,...
In 1793, a Northamptonshire cobbler named William Carey stepped off a ship in Calcutta with little more than a printing press and a stubborn conviction...
In 1722, a handful of persecuted Moravian refugees stumbled onto the estate of Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf in Saxony. They were exhausted, homeless, and few...
In 1935, the Tennessee Valley was dying. Decades of poor farming had stripped the soil bare. Rivers ran brown with erosion. Families abandoned homesteads where...
In 1854, Florence Nightingale arrived at the British military hospital in Scutari, Turkey, and found a nightmare. Wounded soldiers lay on filthy floors, neglected by...
In 2014, volunteers with the Michigan Urban Farming Initiative gathered on a stretch of abandoned lots in Detroit's North End. The properties were littered with...
In 2013, Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. Whole neighborhoods stood hollow — 78,000 abandoned buildings, streetlights dark for miles, emergency response...
In the vibrant hills of Colombia, where the colors of life seem to dance in rhythm with the wind, the Madrigal family resides in a magical home that reflects their gifts. Yet, amidst this wonder, a shadow looms — the...
In August 1727, a small community of religious refugees gathered in the German village of Herrnhut on Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf's estate. They were fractured,...