REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty Eight -The Death Stroke - Continue

 What was the death stroke? Later, it is called a sword stroke, and a sword is a symbol of warfare.  This sworod stroke administered early in the Lord's day, must  relate to the first world war, which devastated  and drained Satan's political wild beast.  (Revelation 6:4, 8; 13:14) Author Maurice Genevoix who was a military officer during that warm said of it:  "Everyone agrees ub recognizing that in the whole history of mankind, few dates have had the importance of August 2, 1914.  First Europe and soon after almost all humanity found themselves plunged into a dreadful event.  Conventions, agreements, moral laws , all the foundations shook; from one day to the next, everythin was called into question.  The even was to exceed both  instinctive forebodings and reasonable anticipations. Enormous, chaotic, monstrous, it still drags us in its wake.--Maurice Genevoix, member of the Acadeie Francaise, quoted in the book Promise of Greatness. (1968) . 

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