Why Do Some Pillars Fall? - Victor Root - January 1982

Victor Root

The apostle Paul wrote that God's people should be "stedfast, unmovable" (I Cor. 15:58). How can we develop this quality of stedfastness? Every visitor to the ruins of ancient Persepolis in southwest Iran is struck by the sight of 13 soaring stone pillars. Of 100 original columns in Darius the Great's apadana, or audience hall, only these 13 have stood firm and unmoved through two and a half millennia of ravaging desert winds, scouring sandstorms and exhibit hunters from various museums! Why did a few pillars remain standing, while others fell? No one knows for certain. Even the best architect could only venture an educated guess at whatever mysterious combination of chance and physical law was responsible. Yet what if we apply this same question, by analogy, to God's Church today? - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library