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The Fascist and Nazi experiments were snuffed out by the second world war, but government continued to be a fiery issue, and the human sea continued to churn and throw up new revolutionary governments. In the decades since 1945, these have been installed in many places, such as China, Vietnam, Cuba and Nicaragua. In Greece an experiment in military dictatorship failed. In Kampuchea (Cambodia) an excursion into fundamentalist communism resulted in a reported two million and more deaths.

That "mountain burning with fire" continues to make waves in the sea of mankind. Ongoing struggles over government are reported in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific islands. Many of these struggles are taking place in lands of Christendom or where Christendom's missionaries have become activists. Roman Catholic Priests have even joined up with and fought as members of communist guerrilla bands. At the same time, Protestant evangelical groups have worked in Central America to counter what they call the communists' "vicious and relentless thirst for power." But none of these convulsions in the sea of mankind can bring peace and security. -Compare Isaiah 25:10-12; 1 Thessalonians 5:3.

The second trumpet blast reveals that those of mankind who got involved in revolutionary conflicts over government rather than submit to God's Kingdom are blood guilty. Particularly Christendom's "third of the sea" has become as blood. All living things therein are dead in God's eyes. None of the radical organizations floating like boats in that third of the sea can avoid ultimate shipwreck. How happy we are that millions of sheep like people have now heeded the trumpet like call to separate from those who are still wallowing in the narrow nationalism and blood guilt of that sea!

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