The Horrible Folly of Unbelief

By Al Baker - Posted at Forget None of His Benefits:

“God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes to see not and ears to hear not, down to this day. . . Let their table become a snare and a trap, and a stumbling block and a retribution to them.” -Romans 11:8,9

Shortly after seven a.m. on February 21, 1916. . . an eight mile sector of the German lines a hundred and fifty miles east of Paris erupted in a blaze of artillery the likes of which the world had never seen. More than twelve hundred guns, among them thirty of the gigantic mortars that had destroyed the Belgian forts at the start of the war and naval cannon capable of firing two-thousand pound projectiles twenty miles, suddenly began blasting away at French positions on the eastern bank of the River Meuse. All through the morning and most of the afternoon they sent up a hundred thousand rounds of high explosives, shrapnel, and gas per hour—12,500 shells hourly on each mile of the front.[1]

By December of that year both the Germans on the one hand and the French on the other, gave up battling over the town of Verdun. Prior to the last assault, however, French troops sat in their trenches, waiting for the battle to begin as they would throw their flesh against machine guns which fired six hundred rounds per minute. As they waited, hundreds of them began to bleat like sheep, Baaaa, Baaaa, knowing they were like sheep going to the slaughter. When the mindless fighting at Verdun was finished, the Germans had 337,000 wounded or dead, the French 400,000, and over 300,000 men were killed in action.

I have long been dismayed at the abject folly, pride, stubbornness, and stupidity of politicians and generals on the German and Austro-Hungarian side and those on the English, French, and Russian side at how the so called Great War started and was then waged. Utter madness. The Allies lost 5.7 million soldiers and the Central Powers (Germany, Austro-Hungary) lost 4 million soldiers. Ten million civilians were killed.

How could this happen and what should we learn from it? Keep in mind that every one of these nations claimed to be Christian nations...

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• We Must Have Biblical, Spirit Anointed Preaching – FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITS (home.blog)