In 1948, at an Armistice Celebration (Armistice was the declaration of peace at the end of World War I), it was declared Nov. 11 at 11 a.m. So 11, 11 at 11. They did that symbolically because they felt that they were at the eleventh hour. They actually felt if the war continued, the whole world would be destroyed by it. Over 20 million people were killed in World War I. It was the bloodiest, most destructive war in history up until that time. So they declared an Armistice. Even today some celebrate that.
Omar Bradley, one of the generals in World War II, went to World War I, and he remembered it as a young man. He served in the U.S. Army and became a general. Bradley actually led one of the largest armies in history during World War II. He spoke at an Armistice Day in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1948:
“With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents. Our knowledge of science has clearly outstripped our capacity to control it. We have many men of science; too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Man is stumbling blindly through a spiritual darkness while toying with the precarious secrets of life and death. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. This is our 20th century’s claim to distinction and to progress.”
In the middle of the 20th century, he made this commentary. I think that history has borne his testimony to be true. After he made this speech, we had the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and a whole group of other wars in the world. We do not know how to make peace.
But as the general said, our hope is not in world peace; our hope is only in Jesus Christ, the prince of peace. Our hope is not in better government but our hope is in the kingdom of God. Politics have their place for we must have law and order in our society.
The government’s job is to protect its citizens from those that would destroy it from without and those who would destroy order within the borders of that nation.
Our duty as Christians is not to reform government or to make a better America; our job is to preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified. The everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ is the cure for all of man’s ills and the answer to man’s greatest need. Man’s greatest need is to be forgiven for his sins so that he might walk humbly with His God. Then will a nation know peace, justice and mercy. Micah 6:8: “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”
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