War: Past, Present and Future*
While we do not know the day nor the hour of Christ's return, we belevers are expected to know the signs of the times, if we are to be obedient. Jesus told His disciples the signs that would signal His return and the end of the age, and we should understand them: "And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet . For nation (ethnicity) shall rise against nation (ethnicity), and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows." (Mt. 24:1-8). All of these signs are just the beginning. The end is not yet at hand. Often in modern history, people have mis-identified a war as "the last war", but it has not been so. Jesus continued, warn...