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 International trading in arms is soaring beyond $1,000,000,ooo,000 each year, while hundreds of millions of humans are deprived of life's necessities. That is bad enough. But armaments appear to be a basic support of the world's economy. On April 11, 1987, an article in London's Spectator reported: "Counting only directly related industries, some 400,000 jobs are involved in the U.S. and 750,000 in Europe. But curiously enough, as the social and economic role of building weapons has grown the actual question of whether the producers are well defended of has slipped into the background." Huge profits are made as bombs and other weaponry are traded all over the earth, even to potential enemies. Some day those bombs may come back in a fiery holocaust to destroy those selling them. What paradox! Add to this the graft that surrounds the arms industry in the United States alone, according to the Spectator, "every year the Pentagon inexplicably loses $900-million worth of arms and equipment. It is no wonder that the merchants of the earth come up unfavorable mention in Revelation!

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