You are going to hear the noise of battles. All the world seemed to be at war during this time. Tacitus, the Roman historian, says: "It was full of calamities, horrible with battles, rent with seditions, savage in peace itself." At least five major earthquakes took place; along with epidemics of disease in which thousands died; and famines (see Acts 11:28).

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