Pete Garcia: Wars And Rumors Of War

Wars and Rumors of War

 Pete Garcia

In responding to the questions poised to Him, Jesus lists out a series of signs that would herald the end of the age and His return in power. Interestingly, most of these signs are not signs in and of themselves, but rather, would be indicative of how they come. That is the sign. Not so much the what, but the how. They would come like birth pangs upon a pregnant woman, increasing in frequency and intensity and converging upon a single generation.

Of the items listed, and with respect to warfare, the Twentieth Century has been the bloodiest and most violent century on record. While skeptics will attribute this ghastly reality to the rapid population explosion, or the development of weapons of mass destruction, or the introduction of new kinds of warfare (e.g., air, space, subterranean, cyber, etc.), the mind-numbing body count simply belies the reality of something far more ominous; we are that generation.

It is true, wars and rumors thereof, have been a mainstay in the human condition since time immemorial. However, as I stated above, the 20th (and now the 21st) stands alone as the bloodiest and most terrifying on record for a reason. Modern technology has afforded mankind terrifying new levels of executing violence upon each other. Furthermore, while mankind has always existed in a sinful state and prone to violence on an individual level, it takes something more to rally whole nations to brutally murder each other. It takes large-scale motivation to galvanize the wrath of a nation into taking up arms against another. This motivation almost always comes in the form of some kind of state-sanctioned propaganda.

Technological advancements, media, government mass propaganda, and information warfare have created an almost impenetrable fog of war that has become part of the new normal the world has endured for the past 70 years. There is an old Russian joke that says “The future is certain; it is only the past that is unpredictable.” Thanks to historical revisionism, faulty calendars, and newly discovered translations, it is not just the Russians who are wondering about the past any longer.

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