The point of this episode is that prayer, from the human side of things, moves history. The “movers and shakers” of history are those who pray. As the New Testament scholar George Beasley-Murray (an expert on the book of Revelation) commented: The significance of the picture can hardly be overestimated. No one was more aware than John of the limitations to what individual men and women can do to change the course of history and to bring in the kingdom of heaven, particularly in the face of the cosmic forces against them and the transcendent character of the kingdom itself. . . . But we can
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