The Currents of World History: how life as we know it has been evolving every seventy years, since the beginning 

With this book I hope to challenge the way the reader looks at history. I hope to encourage her to see things more long term, and to consider a new view of historical cause and effect that may at first belie common sense and traditional thinking. After all, how can events separated by years, decades, or even centuries have any direct effect upon one another?

 

Easy. They can because they do. Like deep sea swells unmoved by the little wavelets on the top of the ocean.

 

Okay, but why should I separate Ages into seventy year segments? Why not eighty? Or a hundred?

 

Here’s the thing - I didn’t invent the Ages pattern. I merely discovered what has been there all along. As the reader peruses this book (straight through for stalwart souls, and the rest by jumping to the chapters that interest them most) I hope she will come to agree with me that the seventy year Ages pattern is a reality, and not some fanciful invention I dreamed up in the dark of night.

 

We can only track the pattern back to when our ancestors began recording abundant details about their world. Even with all that detail it takes a discerning eye to see, because those who recorded history also threw up a lot of background noise; mere static that can obscure the wonderful symphony that lies beneath the surface.

 

Finally, I have one last lingering hope for this book.

 

I hope the reader will see the majestic movement of God in history.

 

Even if the reader disagrees with me about the relative significance of events and people, I hope he will feel challenged to look for deeper meaning and to discern a divine plan. Not only in past Ages, but also all around us in the world we presently inhabit.