WATCHING FOR VOLCANOES
In reference to the 1991 volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippine Islands, the February 24, 1997 issue of Time Magazine reports, “The first warning volcanologist got of increased seismic activity within Mount Pinatubo was not from a high-tech instrument but from a local nun who walked into the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and, begging the scientists’ pardon, reported that the mountain, clearly visible from her village, had just blown up.” Wayne Hollaway points to this account to illustrate how we can think we are looking carefully for something and still miss it, just as that which happened to many of the Jewish leaders at the time of the incarnation of Jesus Christ.
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