Are We Nearing Armageddon? - HOW WE KNOW WE ARE GETTING NEAR

 Without a doubt, the time period that Jesus and inspired Bible writers such as Paul pointed toward is that in which we now live! In fact, it has been in progress since the "turning point" of modern history, the year 1914, which saw the outbreak of World War I, many historians correctly point to that year as the piviotal one for mankind, because that is when the world entered a period of difficulty never before experience on an earth-wide scale. World War I was an evidence of this, since it was so much worse than any war that had ever preceded it, which is why, at the time, it was called "The Great War." It was the first global or world war. It was total warfare and affected every country on earth. 

Regarding World War I, Martin Kieffer writes in the preface to the book The First World War, published originally in France by General Richard Thoumin under the title La Grande Guerre (The Great War): "The blood and tears of the First World War changed the face of the earth." The general also wrote: 

"When in November 1918 the arms were laid down at last, ten million men had lost their lives, and twice that many had been wounded or crippled. Little wonder that the conflict should be called the 'Great War' . . .

"The unique 'greatness' of the First World War . . . was one of scope and numbers, of industrial output and material destruction. . . . Never before had so many countries and such large armies faced each other in such gigantic battles never had such high proportions of combatants been killed or maimed; never had men gone to war with such powerful weapons." 

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