It’s a Matter of Timing

In the closing days of World War I, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson put all of his faith in his concept of the League of Nations and man’s ability to create a safe prosperous environment for the world. So positive was Wilson’s belief that he boldly asserted, “I will give you a League of Nations and an everlasting peace.”

The core of this alliance was compromised of Wilson, Britain’s David Lloyd George, France’s Georges Clemenceau, and Vittorio Orlando, and each one had promised their respective nation’s money, real estate and unparalleled peace. Interesting that within two years Wilson and Clemenceau would be dead, Orlando replaced by a dictator and Georges would go without reelection; none neither gaining the personal satisfaction nor realized the dream.

There is nothing wrong with desiring peace, but creating the perfect environment for people and expecting them to do right just because, just isn’t reality.

Though man’s efforts fail and it seems there can be no peace,never forget the prophetic promise of the coming Messiah. Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

Alliance, promises even guarantees cannot be the basis of peace which will come but only in God’s time according to His word and that’s the only guarantee you can count on!

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!