Written by Kingdom Kutz Media Picture an old man sitting alone by a city gate. He's blind, or close to it. He can't fight anymore, can't ride out to the battlefield himself, so all he can do is sit by the road and wait for someone to come tell him what happened. Hours pass. Then a runner appears, torn clothes, dust on his head, the universal signal in that world that the news is bad. Watch reel here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DdVDn1xvJWd/ The old man's name was Eli. He'd led Israel for forty years. And the moment the runner told him the Ark of God had been captured by the Philistines, Eli fell backward off his seat, broke his neck, and died right there by the gate. "And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years." 1 Samuel 4:18 (KJV) The City Behind the Story That gate belon...