THE PROBLEM OF DIVINE DISTANCE—AND ITS 3 SOLUTIONS. #PhilosophyOfReligion #DivineHiddenness

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]400 years [music] of silence followed the last prophet Malachi. 400 years when heaven seemed closed, when no vision came, when the voice of God was not heard in Israel.

[00:00:10]Empires rose and fell. Persia gave way to Greece. Greece [music] gave way to Rome. The Jewish people clung to their laws, their traditions, their hope that the Messiah would come.

[00:00:21]They read the prophecies. A virgin shall conceive and bear a son. Unto us a child is born. [music] Unto us a son is given.

[00:00:29]The government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called wonderful, counselor, mighty God, everlasting father, [music] prince of peace.

[00:00:38]They studied the promise to Abraham.

[00:00:40]They remembered the walk in [music] Eden, and they waited. Rome ruled the world with iron and road. Caesar Augustus [music] decreed that all the world should be registered, and so Joseph of Nazareth traveled to Bethlehem with his betrothed wife, Mary, great with child.

[00:00:55]In the town of David, in a stable [music] because there was no room in the inn, the third coming down began.