The Ultimate Three Minutes: The Story of Two Great Human Watersheds - Their Preparation and Their Coinciding

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The title of this book borrows from two distinguished scientists: Steven Weinberg describes the developments of the first three minutes of the universe following the explosion of the “Big Bang” 13.8 billion years ago; Paul Davis describes the final subsidence of the universe into entropy and heat death. The Ultimate Three Minutes: The Story of Two Great Human Watersheds—Their Preparation and Their Coinciding provides a humanitarian parallel. The title embodies a value judgement, namely the need of the human race for redemption, and the achievement of that redemption by Jesus Christ, the Anointed Savior, on his Cross. The “Ultimate Three Minutes” is the final three minutes before Jesus Christ expelled his final breath, when the suffering and the cost of the redemption of mankind was at its most heavy and precarious. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword by the Rt. Revd. Nicholas Reade List of Maps and Genealogy Introduction 1 The Dancing Floor 2 The Dancing Years 3 The Century of the Crescent Quiescent (900–801 BC) 4 The Century of the First European Miracle (800–701 BC) 5 The Century of the Fall of Assyria (700–601 BC) 6 The Century of the Tightening World (600–501 BC) 7 An Underestimated Contribution (546–538 BC) 8 The Century of the Second European Miracle (500–401 BC) 9 The Century of Farewell to the Aegean (400–301 BC) 10 The Century of the Intermeshing (300–201 BC) 11 The Century of Creaks, Cracks and Contradictions (200–101 BC) 12 The “Century” of Accelerating Discontents (100–50 BC) 13 Thirteen Centuries of Song (1,370–103 BC) Chapters 14–32 (A)–(S) The “Long” First Century AD (50 BC–AD 120) 14 (A) The “Decade” of the Assassination of Julius Caesar 15 (B) The “Decade” of the Second Triumvirate (43–30 BC) 16 (C) The First Decade of Augustus: The Restoration of the Republic (30–21 BC) 17 (D) The Second Decade of Augustus: The Ascendancy of Augustus (20–11 BC) 18 (E) The Third Decade of Augustus: The Splendid Isolation of Augustus (10–1 BC) 19 (F) Augustus and Providence (63 BC–AD 14) 20 (G) The Fourth Decade of Augustus:The Disillusionment of Augustus (AD 1–10) 21 (H) The Decade in the Wake of Augustus (AD 11–20) 22 (I) The Decade of the Disillusionment of Tiberius (AD 21–30) 23 (J) The Decade of Tiberius and Caligula (AD 31–40) 24 (K) The Decade of Claudius and the Council of Jerusalem (AD 41–50) 25 (L) The Decade of the Rise and Fall of Agrippina the Younger (AD 51–60) 26 (M) The Decade of Nero and theYear of the Four Emperors (AD 61–70) 27 (N) The Decade of Vespasian (AD 71–80) 28 (O) The Decade of Titus and Domitian (AD 81–90) 29 (P) The Decade of Domitian, Nerva and Trajan (AD 91–100) 30 (Q) “Where Can I Get a Drink?” (AD 91–100) 31 (R) The Decade of Trajan (AD 101–110) 32 (S) The Decade of Trajan and Hadrian (AD 111–120) 33 The “Century” of the Two Watersheds (50 BC–AD 120) 34 The Century of the Climax of the Ancient World (AD 101–200) 35 The Century of the Superannuation of Rome (AD 201–300) 36 The Century of Kaleidoscopic Mutation (AD 301–400) 37 The Century of Diverging Destinies, AD 401–500 (A) The East 38 The Century of Diverging Destinies, AD 401–500 (B) The West 39 The Northern Frontier (10,000 BC–AD 500) 40 The Ultimate Three Minutes (Passover AD 33) 41 The Parable of the Target 42 The Parable of the Doppler Shift Epilogue Back Cover