still , where these roaring breakers of antagonism - imperiled and obscured the very hope of the soul , where the impending dangers , hostilities and obstacles were heaped up higher than the mountains surrounding jerusalem , one man stood to defy all the crushing opposition , in doing so , he inscribed what was anything but a footnote upon the pages of eternity , but rather a blazing and compelling beacon , an enduring and monumental testimony to a god who never fails those who put their unreserved trust in him .