A half-Century Ago

Someone said history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. History is laid out - as our ancient History book, the Bible, presents it - in "Time, times and half a time", in the panorama of history. . . recorded, as it is, by dutiful historians, prophets, poets, scribes, pharisees, scholars, and people just remembering stuff.  Half a century and another couple of years ago. . . 52 years ago, to be exact, I was a college student at LSU. In the summer of 1973, being a student of Political Science (as if politics were a science?), I was fascinated with the Senate Watergate hearings. Watching, on TV, Senator Sam Ervin's committee collect evidence and testimonies about a criminal break-in at the Watergate Hotel, I was fascinated with the unfolding evidence being presented by witnesses who testified about Richard Nixon's attempt to, by criminal tactics, secure the continuation of his presidency by criminal tactics, a break-in. Now Deja Vu rattles around in my brain: that strange experience that we sometimes get when, in a moment of time and space, we get the feeling that we've been in this circumstance, or even this very moment, before. This is that feeling that Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young sang about, back in '71, that feeling that they sang about:

"We have all been here before; we have all been here before. . ." But on another plane of time and experience, this morning I woke up with some images running in my head: scenes I was watching last night on a video screen. . . of Jesus's disciples, presented as a video series, the Chosen. 

But now, seemingly in another world, the next day. . . this is a new day, July 21, 2025. More importantly however is this: This is a day that the Lord hath made! My morning routine starts with the world's oldest book, the Bible. Today I find, in Daniel, chapter 7, a visionary testimony of what the Lord of the Universe had presented, in ancent times, to the prophet while he was serving the king of Babylon. Future historical events were shown to Daniel in his night visions. Those events would be, and ultimately were, manifested in real "time, times, and half a time". (whatever that means) All this is neither here nor there when compared to actual news events in this summer of 2025, news events that seem to coincide with similar developments in the summer of 1973, when an earlier president was being called to the courts of Justice. But I do get the feeling that, somehow, history rhymes, as I view contemporary controversies surrounding the behavior of our present president. I do get that strange feeling that CSNY sang about back in the day, 1971. . . "We have all been here before; we have all been here before." King of Soul