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Have You Been True To The Trust He Left Us?
The atomic experts tell us that unless we came to some sort of a peace league, that unless we invent or evolve some sort of an international organization that will definitely control the nuclear bomb, the result will be that nuclear weapon misuse will destroy the world. I do not believe it at all. The reason these experts seem to believe it is because they do not study the Word of GOD. Nuclear bombs are not going to destroy the earth. That is reserved for the Lord. GOD is going to destroy it when He gets ready. Our nuclear weapons will act just as did gunpowder, or dynamite, or TNT, or cannons, or poison gas, or, before that, bows and arrows, or any other weapons.
It will just make one more mess for us to get into. That is all. It is not going to solve any problems. It is not going to stop any wars. It is not going to make wars quicker or easier. Those of us who are waiting and watching for the imminent coming of the Lord JESUS CHRIST are constantly saying that the world will be on fire at His coming. We forget the fact that in many ways the world is on fire already. I believe we have in some way missed this point.
This world of ours is on fire right now nationally. There is no great nation on earth that is fully at peace, not even our own United States of America. Think of the strikes, of the race problems, of the awful and many difficulties that beset us in our land. Multiply them by the tremendous burdens that are weighing down every other nation and you will see that I am justified in saying that the world is on fire. Think of England. Think of France. Think of Spain. Think of Germany and Japan. Think of the internal conflicts waging in Asia. You will agree with me further that this world of ours is on fire internationally.
Nations are at odds, at loggerheads, with each other, seemingly unable to come together on any sort of peace terms. I remember very distinctly, at the end of World War I, some of our preachers even went so far as to say that there never would be any more wars, that the League of Nations would solve, and dissolve war forever. They prophesied that the death-dealing destruction of the awful days between 1914 and 1918 taught mankind a lesson that would preclude forever the chance of our engaging again in any such bitter cataclysm. Now we all know better. We know that wars do not - cannot - prevent wars. Neither can elaborate and impressive peace treaties. Nothing can. My Bible teaches, as does yours, that there shall be wars and rumors of wars until the Lord JESUS, the Prince of Peace, comes to establish peace.
