While it had its funereal aspects, this event need not be a matter solely of sorrow and regret. It is human to have these emotions but it is divine to grasp the positive implications and to capitalize on them. While we would rather have gone forward in an orderly fashion, perhaps it is best that we have been challenged with an emergency. People seem to react more quickly, more positively, more sacrificially in a situation of some severity. This is a reality of human nature.
History is full of examples.
And we want our history to have such an example. We would like to see that example at the beginning of Book II of our history. We would like to see a people moved to righteousness by the symbolic purifying effect of the flames. I hope that we will all understand what this sign means. Our future is in front of us.