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It was the spring of 1963 in Birmingham, and it looked as if the civil rights movement would suffer yet another defeat. The powers that be had more jail space than the civil rights workers had people. But then one Sunday, reports historian Taylor Branch, 2,000 young people came out of worship at the New Pilgrim Baptist Church and prepared to march.
The promise of Isaiah 65 is that God is doing a new thing. What's taking God so long?
Going into the temple of the Lord would never be taken lightly. Still, Isaiah could not have imagined what was about to happen.
Isaiah refuses to pretend anymore.