It’s the feeling triggered by a familiar sight or sound, and you feel you have experienced it before - the French tell us to call it déjà vu (meaning, already seen). Somewhere between 60-70% of people in good health experience some form of déjà vu in their lifetime, and most of these times happening between the ages of 15-25 years old (apparently your as your memory begins to diminish so does your feeling of memory). Stress, fatigue, and travel call all increase the occurrences. Most déjà vu feelings disappear quickly. But in ancient Palestine circa 25 A.D., a whole community began to experience the feeling that they had seen what they were seeing before. It reminded them of the past while pointing to the future through the present. It was a time like few others, as John the Baptist paced the banks of the Jordan River. According to Jesus, the greatest of the prophets, is worth our attention.
