On This Day, 1600 Years Ago, Rome Fell[1]
And, as a consequence, Augustine wrote The City of God.
Was the fall of Rome a sign of the end?
Were the Christians at fault because they had rejected the religion of the City of Man,
symbolized by Rome?
What was God doing, anyway?
“Here we have no abiding city” (Hebrews 13:14 KJV).
In our time,
again a time of chaos and collapse,
perhaps again to be followed by Dark Ages,
or even The End in 2012
that the Lord is Lord both of chaos and cosmos,
even of Western civilization,
makes all the difference.
For His city is the City of God, which He has prepared (Philippians 3:20).
[1] On August 24, 410, for the first time in 800 years Rome fell, to an army of the Visigoths (Northern Europeans), led by Alaric, an Arian Christian general.