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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

God's…promises are not simply random good intentions. Rather, God's promises together point to and delineate a divine plan for history – a plan to rescue a people for the praise of His glory, and to effect that rescue, that salvation, through a judgment that God Himself would bear on our behalf. In other words, history is not cyclical, a 'mere repetition' of archetypal patterns. Rather, history is heading somewhere. It's linear. It's developing and progressing toward an end that God has already prepared.
Michael Lawson

When the emperor Valens threatened Eusebuis with confiscation of all his goods, torture, banishment, or even death, the courageous Christian replied, “He needs not fear confiscation, who has nothing to lose; nor banishment, to whom heaven is his country; nor torments, when his body can be destroyed at one blow; nor death, which is the only way to set him at liberty from sin and sorrow.”
Unknown Author