Chapter Twenty-Eight/Contending With Two Ferocious Beasts - The Death Stroke - Continue

 What was the death stroke? Later, it is called a sword stroke, and a sword it a symbol of warfare. This sword stroke, administered early in the Lord's day, must relate 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 the war, said of it: "Everyone agrees in 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, everything was called into question. The event was to exceed both instinctive forebodings and reasonable anticipations, Enormous, chaotic, monstrous, it still drags us in it wake." -Maurice Genevoix, member of the Acade'-mie Francaise, quoted in the book Promise of Greatness(1968).

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