Earthquakes in the Lord's Day - Tremors in Human Society

World War II brough another wave of upheavans.  And smaller wars along the international terrorism continue to shake the earth. The fearful threat of terrorists or states using weapons  of mass destruction has many people wondering.

Other things  besides wars, though have shaken human society to its foundations since 1914.  One of the most traumatic upheavals  was triggered by the U.S. stock-market of October 29, 1929.  This brought on the Great Depression, which affected  all capitalist countries. That depression bottomed out between 1932 and 1934,  but we are still feeling its effects.  Since 1929 an economically sick world has been patched up  by  makeshift schemes.  Governments indulged in deficit financing. The oil crisis of 1973 and the stock market plunge of 1987 added to the shakeings of the financial empore.  Meantime, millions of  buy largely on credit.  Countless numbers of victimized by financial gimmicks, pyramid schemes, and lotteries and othter gambling subterfuges, many of which are sponsored by governments that should be trying to protecting the people. Even Christendom's television evangelists stretch out their hands for their multimillion-dollar share! - Compare JEREMIAH 5:26-31.

Earlier, economic troubles had opened the way for Mussolini and Hitler to seize power. Babylon the Great lost no time in courting their favors, and the Vatical entered in concordats with Italy in 1929 and Germany in 1933.  (Revelation 17:5)  The dark days that followed were surely a part of the fulfillment of Jesus' prophecy about his presence, which would include "anguish of nation, not knowing the way out . . . while men become faint out of fear and expectation of the things coming upon the inhabited earth." (Luke 21:7-9, 25, 31)  Yes, the quakes that began to shake afer human society in 1914 have continued with powerful aftershocks.  

Next time: Earthquakes in the Lord's Day - Jehovah Does Some Shaking 

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