Even the Best Laid Plans Fail

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!

 

Tougher Times Ahead

I couldn’t help but be struck by the article in an international periodical that outlined the possibility of the Euphrates River drying up. Eight years of drought in the Himalayas and Caucasus Mountains have not been feeding the river basins of both the Tigris and Euphrates.

Over the years Turkey has built a series of dams along the Euphrates and when coupled with diminished rainfall presents a huge problem to the region.

Some will want to attribute the water shortage to global warming, however, the scriptures many times detail drought as one of G-d’s most frequently used tools to fulfill His plans.

Revelation 16:12 states, “And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great River Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the Kings of the east might be prepared.”

Also the drought being experienced in China, Australia, South America, parts of Europe, Mexico, California and west Texas is severely hindering food production. With shortages of food driving prices higher we again look to the scriptures, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius.” Rev. 6:6b NASB

Truly current trends continue to define the relevance and accuracy of G-d’s word so even in dark times that Day Star continues to shine for all of us.