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Show IT WAS PROVIDENCE THAT DECLARED THIS WAR Comparatively few realize that these are the last days, even the last of the last days. The world-wide warfare, the famines, the pestilences, the commotions and confusions were told of, even detailed long, long ago in the bible book of Joel and other prophetic books. Most bible authorities are agreed that this prophet gives the whole picture of the time of the end of the present age, the fulness of the times of the Gentiles; the battle of Armageddon, the regathering of Israel and the setting up of the Kingdom. The prophet Joel tells us very plainly that this war was decreed and proclaimed by the Almighty and that He will lead His chosen people to execute judgments upon the nations for their sins. The Lord said to Joel: "I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehosaphat (Armageddon) . . . Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all men of war draw near, let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears." Thus was world war I and H, and perhaps HI, declared. People are literally doing this, giving their scrap metal, their tin cans, even their kitchen utensils that they may be made into guns, swords, tanks and munitions. Beware how you oppose the plans of Providence. |
