Hey guys, my name is Johnny Ardavanus, and this is Dial-in.

In this series, we are looking at the attributes of God,

and in this episode we will consider and explore the holiness of God.

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In 1812, the French emperor was Napoleon.

And after conquering nearly all of Europe, he had one prized piece of land left unconquered.

Russia.

Napoleon led his Grande army of 680,000 men on a full-on invasion of Russia. This was the largest army Europe had ever assembled.

And during the opening months of the invasion, Napoleon was forced to contend with a Russian army

in perpetual retreat. The Russian general Mikhail Kutov refused to engage Napoleon's

superior army in a full-scale confrontation, so he

burned supplies and provisions as his army retreated deeper and deeper into Russian territory.

On September 7th, the indecisive battle of Borodino was fought, and on September 14th,

Napoleon arrived in Moscow, intending to find

much supplies, but instead finding that almost the entire population of the city had evacuated

and all of the Russian food had either been taken or burned. After waiting a month for a Russian

surrender that never came, Napoleon's army began to starve to death.

And faced with the onset of the upcoming Russian winter, Napoleon and the French army retreated the same way they had come.

During the French retreat, the suddenly aggressive and merciless Russian army

began to slowly pick off Napoleon's army. The starved and decimated French army reached the

Beresina River late in November, but found its route blocked, and from there, Napoleon's

retreat had become a route. Napoleon lost nearly 500,000 men, not to superior opposing

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