Cyclic Nature in History II (Ez 6)

There are three signs of mankind's judgement; death by war, starvation and disease. These three signs were all present in greatness in its worldwide effects on the early twentieth century as; the Great war, the Great Flu Epidemic and the Great Depression. The Great War took somewhere between 9-15 million lives, The Great Flu Epidemic took some 30 million lives, and in the Great Depression took some 12 million lives. These figures are hard to comprehend in that over 50 million lives were taken within a decade, much of this apparently originating out of the USA (incl. the Spanish Flu and the World Stock Market Crash) worldwide deaths amounted to the equivalent of half of the existing US population at time of the 1920 census (106M).

Ez 6:11 establishes these things as the outcome of the wickedness of mankind saying, "Strike your hands together and stamp your feet and cry out 'Alas!' because of all the wicked and detestable practices of the people of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine and plague." Then we hear in Ez 6:12 the following verse, "One who is far away will die of the plague, and one who is near will fall by the sword, and anyone who survives and is spared will die of famine. So will I pour out my wrath on them."

One amazing fact is that the Great Flu Epidemic and the Great War (Great Depression?) left mainly older people who were the ones who would have perpetrated the wickedness and should have known better as they took mostly young people who wouldn't as yet have formed their own ideas. This should have been the great sign that mankind turn to the God of all the universe. The reason for the resurgence of domesticity and religion of the 1940-50's following another World War could well follow this time of relearning that the Lord will be God no matter mankind's reasoning concerning the truth of His existence.

Ez 12:16 God makes it clear, "But I will spare a few of them from the sword, famine and plague, so that in the nations where they go they may acknowledge all their detestable practices. Then they will know that I am the LORD."  Once again it is make clear by the Lord in Jer 29:17 'Behold, I am sending upon them the sword, famine and pestilence, and I will make them like split-open figs that cannot be eaten due to rottenness. Rev 6:8 reiterates these truths in the dialogue of the four horsemen of war, famine, pestilence and followed by death. Why can't mankind learn from the cyclic  nature in history under the watchful eye of God who, rather than the theorising prophets of science, is the one and only answer to the woes of Earth?

 

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