"Zechariah was a major factor in recovering the magnificence from the ruins of a degrading exile. Zechariah reinvigorated their imaginations with his visions and messages...(his) enigmatic visions, working at multiple levels, and his poetically charged messages are at work still, like time capsules in the lives of God's people, continuing to release insight and hope and clarity for the people whom God is using to work out his purposes in a world that has no language for God and the purposes of God."
"I know their pain and will make them good as new.
They'll get a fresh start, as if nothing had ever happened.
And why? Because I am their very own GOD,
I'll do what needs to be done for them." 10:6
(Pictured above is the Kazan Cathedral-1801-11- in St. Petersburg, Russia scanned from a postcard of the site we visited:
"The cathedral was named after the "miracle-making" icon of Our Lady of Kazan, which the church housed till the early 1930s. The Bolsheviks closed the cathedral for services in 1929, and from 1932 it housed the collections of the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism, which displayed numerous pieces of religious art and served anti-religious propaganda purposes. A couple of years ago regular services were resumed in the cathedral, though it still shares the premises with the museum, from whose name the word "atheism" has now been omitted.
Location: 2, Nevsky Prospekt, Kazanskaya Square"
http://www.saint-petersburg.com/virtual-tour/kazan-cathedral.asp)
Wow, wouldn't it be terrific if these splendid churches which have been restored to their former beauty, would now flourish with people who have similarly been restored in their inner being and set free?
2 comments:
Yes...that would be terrific! Miracles do happen. It would just take the mighty wind of God's Spirit to move around.
That's it, Marilyn..."the mighty wind of God's spirit to move around." Let it be so! Thanks for that great insight.
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