Josephus

In an earlier blog post a reference was made to Josephus and how, by recording the fact that the Romans cut down all the trees around Judea and the City of Jerusalem, he indirectly confirmed that the very words of Jesus were indeed true: "The ax is already at the root of the trees."

Two thousand years in the making- we now have Josephus's major works (Antiquities and the War of the Jews) in seachable form as demonstated in the following link:
Masada

Recently I was reunited with a childhood friend. I hadn't seen this person in 20 years. It turns out that, like myself, this child of independent Baptist missionaries was badly burned by the premillenial dispensational legalism with which she had been spoon-fed as a child. I took the opportunity to share a bit of my own journey being reborn out of that propaganda of the mind.