Out of Babylon #11 Flashback to the sixth century BCE. With the final demise of Jerusalem, we see that the end result of generations of civil war between Israel and Judah is extinction for both. The lesson? When any society is fundamentally weakened from within, it eventually succumbs to invaders from without. But history also shows that extremity sows the seeds of rebirth, rekindling venerated old ideas and spawning bold new ones. Dr. Kenneth Hanson http://drkenhanson.com/