Today in 1918, as family history had it, Pop Murray was on a train to Dough Boy boot camp and was told to "get off" because the Armistice for World War I had been signed. The hand grenade casing on my office desk is a family heirloom from his days working at a malleable fittings foundry that retooled to make grenade casings and shell casings.
In any event, what WAS Christian Presbyterian President Woodrow Wilson thinking when he described the conflagration that took 40 million lives in 4 years as a "war to end all war?!!" He was raised as a Bible believing Christian and certainly could discern that there will NEVER be peace until the Lord returns, and then peace will only be for His Elect unto salvation. Those who spend eternity in Hell will have NO peace...EVER!!
Oh, by the way, the Lord struck down somewhere between 40-100 million the next year with the Spanish Flu Pandemic. The stats are so widely variant because of the miserable way statistics were kept around the world "back in the day" but the resultant death rate knocked out a larger portion of humanity proportionately with pestilence than with "the sword" of WWI.
Wikipedia further states that WWII killed off 70 million people as the deadliest conflict in human history. Gee, 40 + 70 (an average) + 70 = 180 million in 30 years. From '73 to today Mom's have killed 1 billion babies through abortion worldwide. Don't think we're gonna seen an Armistice between God and us for some time as a species, given His proscriptions against sin in the Bible. Guess we'll have to settle for individual peace treaties signed with the Blood of the Lamb and applied to us in His time and way.
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