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About the author: PJ Patrick Flynn has spent years researching the intersection of biblical theology, history, and contemporary events, with a special focus on God's covenant promises and their outworking across generations. Drawing on a background in academic research PJ writes for serious lay readers who want depth without jargon, and for leaders who need well-sourced material they can trust and pass on.
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About the book: This book traces the thread of God's covenant promises through Scripture and history, showing how the "eternal flame" of God's purpose has been guarded, opposed, and carried forward to our own generation. It is written for thoughtful lay believers, pastors, and small-group leaders who feel the weight of current events and want to test every headline against the unshakeable promises of God rather than speculation or fear.
Drawing on careful bible exegesis, historical research, and engagement with contemporary scholarship, the book seeks to equip readers to recognize the pattern of God's dealings with his people, discern the times without sensationalism, and anchor their hope where Scripture does: in the faithfulness of the One who calls Himself "the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."
By the end, readers will better understand where we are in the story of redemption, and what it means to live as children of the promise in an age of upheaval.
CHAPTER 10: RETURNING WITH THE CANDLE LIT
Seven Centuries, Three Horsemen, and the Roots of Restoration
(Excerpt)
“To Sweep Out the Leaven”
There comes a moment in every wandering when the only way forward is to look back—fully, with all the lights on. This is that moment.
For centuries, those who called themselves children of the promise scattered across continents, seeking shelter, meaning, or profit—sometimes unwitting exiles, sometimes willing traitors to their own covenants. It is easier, when the house is dark, to ignore what grows in hidden corners. But as the ancient Passover teaches, before liberation comes the uncomfortable work of scouring the house: You must see the leaven before you can sweep it out.
This is a chapter for returning—returning to the tangled beginnings of our present age, to the 1st seven centuries after Messiah, to a world passing through faith, ambition, confusion, invention, and loss. To understand where we are, and what must be restored, we must see with unfettered eyes what has been built—and what has spoiled—upon the foundations left to us.
It has taken combing through the centuries, and profoundly personal suffering, for me to see what was always there: our homecoming, both as peoples and as individuals, cannot happen without facing the hidden, the neglected, the uncomfortable truths about what has come before. This is the necessary cost of light. No one can sweep out the leaven blindfolded.