New Church Life Sep/Oct 2014 | Page 17

     Three Spiritual Revolutions The uniqueness of being the place where both of the Lord’s advents have taken place is due to the uniqueness of having language in written form. But what accounts for this uniqueness? This brief history of technology on earth has been outlined for the sake of a comparison with the parallel spiritual history. For the invention of writing happened in the era of the transition from the Most Ancient to the Ancient Church. The development of Greek philosophy and science prepared the way for the Lord’s first advent and the establishment of the Christian Church. Finally, the modern scientific revolution set the stage for the second advent, while industrialization,