Yessirree, Bob...on this day in 1588 God finished off His work in smashing the Spanish Armada's attempt at invading England. The day before the English did a decent job by using fire ships and cannon balls to blast away at the Spanish, but the following day...July 29th...severe storms in the North Sea pretty much finished off the fleet and caused many of the sailors to end up in Scotland. I wonder if they were treated to a dinner of haggis and made to dance among the thistles?!!In any event, The One Year Book of Christian History points out that this was the turning point in keeping England Protestant under Elizabeth I; which continued to foster the Reformation in that land and shape its history for the rest of history, so to speak. I guess since England remained Protestant, it gave birth to Protestors who eventually got shipped to the New World and chucked a bunch of tea in Boston Harbor...all due to the fact that the Lord sent a storm a couple of hundred years earlier, as He says he does with all weather in Amos 4:7. I guess the storm "fell on the righteous and the unrighteous" that day, too!
Oh, and FYI...the Spanish started the fight on SUNDAY the 28th, statistically a not-so-bright-idea as my past research has shown...67% of the time the attacker loses when starting a ruckus on Sunday, breaking the Christian Sabbath. For you newbies, let me mention a few battles where the attacker lost on Sunday...Bannockburn, New Orleans, Waterloo, Pearl Harbor, Gallipolli, and Little Big Horn.
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