YEAR 2000
Assuming the human race makes it through the next several months, all of us will make our own plans to celebrate New Year’s Eve 1999. Is anything of spiritual significance going to occur when our cosmic odometer rolls 2-0-0-0? Our Jewish friends have had a lot of experience with millennia. They’re way ahead of us and may be wondering what all the fuss is about. In Asian cultures, as well, other cycles will be observed and lived through. Is there anything especially significant to Christians, let alone the whole world, when we enter the 21st century? In his book, The Last Apocalypses: Europe at the Year 1000, James Reston, Jr. tells the fascinating story of what happened in Europe the last time the millennium changed. In Norway, Olaf Trygvesson ruled over a nation of 50,000 people, most of whom were independent farmers, but some of whom loved to jump in boats and pillage and loot as far as present day Turkey. It…
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