The "cunning of reason" is echoed in a biblical source, Romans 11:33:
"O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!" (KJV).
In this week of fireworks and celebrations of American independence, there is most certainly "a larger historical design" even now pointing to the yet-unseen, but inevitable collapse of Israel's illegal occupation.
From film Director Christopher Nolan's Interstellar perspective, Commander Cooper (Matthew McConaughey, above left) successfully took his space craft through a black hole into the fifth dimension where he learned what lay ahead for the planet he had left behind.
Cooper returned to his past to confirm that future to the 10-year-old daughter, Murph, he had left on earth.
When he makes another journey, Murph is now an elderly woman surrounded by her own family. As a child, she had deeply resented her father for leaving her, but she never stopped working for the future she had been promised by her father.
The childhood Murph and the elderly Murph both believe, without articulating it, that they are part of a "larger historical design." They do not know what lies ahead, but they knew they had a role to play in contributing to those random events revealed in Hagel's "design."
American presidential aspirants come and go. Israeli rulers intimidate, dominate and fail. Governors take cheap shots. National church bodies sing kumbaya, (the Presbyterians a significant exception), and in so doing, endorse the occupation.
Around them all, known fully only from a higher dimension, the "historical design" continues to move forward in "apparently random or anomalous events."
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