{"id":2401,"date":"2022-12-25T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isaiah.school\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2026-10-06T14:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:53:13","slug":"historical-reflections-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isaiah.school\/historical-reflections-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Reflections 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2401\" class=\"elementor elementor-2401\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-521f526 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"521f526\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cf4e6e7 elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"cf4e6e7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Historical Reflections - 2023<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f82e667 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f82e667\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-17c1226 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"17c1226\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2446 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"1278\" height=\"308\" data-src=\"https:\/\/isaiah.school\/my_content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IT-1.gif\"><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">The Baton of Ages<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">From heaven\u2019s throne the Kingdom crashes down,<br \/>An angel\u2019s war cry shakes the starry crown.<br \/>The buried prophets, murdered dreams reborn,<br \/>Rise through their visions, ancient oaths now sworn.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Heaven storms forth in fury, fierce and free,<br \/>\u201cThe Kingdom comes!\u201d\u2014it reigns eternally.<br \/>Lightning cascades across the trembling lands,<br \/>While thunder roars and trumpet voices stand.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">From every shore and city voices rise,<br \/>From every realm the same fierce answer cries:<br \/>\u201cWoe!\u201d it spirals, grinding earth to dust,<br \/>As sky and world convulse in sacred thrust.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">The mighty thrones are toppled, cast aside,<br \/>Yet in the seer\u2019s gaze the truth abides.<br \/>Though mortal eyes may never pierce the veil,<br \/>The end of ages burns\u2014it shall prevail.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Soli Deo Gloria.<br \/>\u2014the school of Isaiah<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baton of Ages\u2014Opening of Isaiah.school<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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