{"id":1089,"date":"2013-08-01T15:21:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T15:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watchmanmedia.org\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2017-05-27T17:51:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T17:51:40","slug":"tell-us-when-will-these-be-there-will-be-wars-and-rumors-of-wars-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"Tell us, when will these be? There will be wars and rumors of wars\u2026.."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mountofolivespanoramic\"<\/a>Continuing with His discourse and a sense of progression regarding the last days, Jesus said, the world will be characterized by wars and rumors of wars (Matthew 24:6). We\u2019ve seen two kinds of wars: political wars and ethic wars. \u00a0It is undeniable that World War 1 and World War II were both essentially political wars fought by world powers to establish their dominion. But what has been forgotten \u201capart from the genocide of the Jews, racism remains one of the great neglected subjects of World War II.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus said, For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. (Matthew 24:7) The word nation in Greek is ethnos, from which we get the word ethnic. The nations will be afflicted with internal political strife that will lead to civil wars.\u00a0 Before World War I began in 1914, there was an ethnic war between the Turks in the Middle East and Christian Armenians. The Turks massacred one million Christian Armenians. This was not a political a war; it was an ethnic war.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today ethnic wars are breaking out everywhere. Along with war, there will be famines, pestilences and earthquakes. All these represent the beginning of birth pangs of the coming kingdom. \u00a0Today there is also famine in many areas of the world and wherever there is famine; pestilences are more likely to follow. Earth quakes have also increased in frequency and intensity in the last fifty to hundred years.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was after World War 1, that the League of Nations was formed to ensure that another 10 million people would not die in another global conflict. But the League of Nations was powerless to prevent World War II. This war brought more suffering to humanity than any other event in the 20th <\/sup>century. Nearly 60 million people died throughout the six years of that war that included atomic bombs, cities completely destroyed and the Jewish Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n

The atrocities perpetrated by fascist Germany against the Jews, minorities, and other independent-minded individuals before and during World War II triggered shock and horror across the world. When the war ended, the victorious nations met to adopt measures intended to prevent a repetition of these murderous acts and to forward peace. The result was the founding of the United Nations in 1945 which has also failed to prevent the numerous wars taking place throughout the world<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Out of this nightmare of war sprung the dreaded atomic age<\/span>. Aleksander Solzhenitsyn<\/span><\/span><\/a> described it as a \u201cgodless embitterment\u201d that could have moved ostensibly Christian States to employ poison gas, a weapon so obviously beyond the limits of humanity. The same kind of defect, the flaw of a consciousness lacking all divine dimension, was manifested after World War II when the West yielded to the satanic temptation of a nuclear umbrella.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This was indeed a godless embitterment considering the infamous words of Bob Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay, following the detonation of a first nuclear weapon. My God what have we done? What had they done, indeed?<\/span><\/p>\n

Scientists tell us there is enough nuclear explosive material in existence on earth to destroy the entire human race fifty times over. As Solzhenitsyn had noted that it was equivalent to saying:<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s cast off worries, let\u2019s free the younger generation from their duties and obligations, let\u2019s make no effort to defend ourselves, to say nothing of defending others-let\u2019s stop our ears to the groans emanating from the East, and let us live instead in the pursuit of happiness….. If danger should threaten us, we shall be protected by the nuclear bomb; if not, then let the world burn in Hell for all we care\u2026.. The pitifully helpless state to which the contemporary West has sunk is in large measure due to this fatal error: the belief that the defense of peace depends not on stout hearts and steadfast men, but solely on the nuclear bomb…Today\u2019s world has reached a stage which, if it had been described to preceding centuries, would have called forth the cry: \u201cThis is the Apocalypse!\u201dYet we have grown used to this kind of world; we even feel at home in it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

History tells us that evil governments did wipe out 170,000,000 innocent non-military lives in the 20th<\/sup> Century alone:<\/span><\/p>\n