In the days and weeks following the armistice that brought World War I hostilities to an end, the World’s leaders were hard at work. Not only did they need to find a way to penalize Germany both financially and territorially but an infrastructure would have to be put into place to keep Germany from reviving and have national pockets of resistance to insure a buffer zone of land mass and people should the need arise.
During this process a young Indo China representative asked for an audience with the quorum of world leaders but Ho Chi Minh did not get one. Another man that did not receive a warm reception form the same group found himself in the favor of another outsider Benito Mussolini.
While all of this was unfolding a strong right-wing element in Germany was already promising a renewal of the Fatherland sitting in the ashes of defeat. In fact, the world was counting on American President Woodrow Wilson and his League of Nations to be the guarantor of world peace and safety.
Ironic, within twenty years the world was again at war on a much larger scale than previously and the rise of men such as Hitler, Mussolini, and Ho Chi Minh, once spoken of in obscurity, would be the ones dictating the tempo of international events.
The world leaders divided the national boundaries of Europe and Africa, as well as the near and far east, hoping for peace. But eighty years later there is a different truth. All of the manmade efforts fell exactly into place with what G-d’s word had predicted millennia before, and we realize unless the Lord builds a house they that build it labor in vain!
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