Human eyes reduce the ruin of the temple to a simple tragedy of a fallen strongman blinded by betrayal. Chained inside the massive hall of Dagon, the mocked champion stood between the central stone pillars while thousands of captors cheered their victory. The enemy assumed they had permanently won behind prison walls. But human pride hits a hard wall when the Lord of hosts manages a room. Samson cried out to God, took hold of the stone, and forcefully brought the entire ceiling down under a weight of sudden destruction.
“And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.” Judges 16:30
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