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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hi, I'm Mark and I'm the Vicar of St Chadd and St Oswald on Teesside
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The last decade has seen an explosion in the popularity of post-apocalyptic fiction
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Each year it seems there are new films and TV shows where our heroes live in wrecked cities and irradiated wastelands
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brought about by environmental collapse or nuclear war, or a rampaging plague of fungus-based zombies
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Perhaps there is this obsession with post-apocalyptic worlds because people are aware that we live in one
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Certainly, that's the Bible's understanding of the world. Right at the start, the Bible sets out that there was a perfect world
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where it's been cursed and put to ruin because of human wickedness. People live and move and suffer and die in the wreckage of a beautiful creation
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This is why the miracles Jesus performs are more than just good party tricks
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The Bible says that when Jesus appears on the earth, the eyes of the blind shall be opened
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and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as a deer
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and the tongue of the dumb shall sing. For in the wasteland shall waters break out
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and streams in the desert. The church believes that what Jesus is doing
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is demonstrating that he can reverse this apocalypse. And I take comfort that one day he'll do that permanently
