On May 26, 1908, a Tuesday, an event occurred in Persia (modern-day Iran) that would change world history. Oil was discovered. George Reynolds, an Englishman, had been searching for oil in that region for seven years without success. His backers in London informed him that they would financially back him for but one more well. That well was to be drilled for no more than 1600 feet. If no oil was discovered when that point was reached, there would be no more financial backing for him. He would have to throw in the towel and return to England. At 4:00 in the morning the well reached 1,180 feet below the surface of the desert and suddenly a geyser of crude oil shot 75 feet in the air, and world history was changed at that moment.
Folks, on Tuesday, May 26, 1908 the stage was set for the balance of power to shift from the Western world to the Muslim world. One lone event, the discovery of oil in Persia, precipitated a chain of events that will yet culminate in two worlds in collision and the earth in upheaval – the collision of the Western world and the Muslim nations of the Middle East.
One lone violent event, let’s say an assassination, can change history. A series of carefully orchestrated violent events can change world history almost overnight.
Today, Sunday, September 11, 2016, was the fifteenth anniversary of the destruction of the Twin Trade Towers in New York City. We are still waiting for the other shoe to drop – as drop it will. We are now living in the most dangerous era of world history. Many may not have the eyes to see it, but there is a gathering storm, what some wit might call the perfect storm. If the curtain cloaking the future from our gaze could be pulled back for a moment, I have no doubt that some men’s hearts would fail them out of fear as they peered upon what is coming on this earth.
In 1940, while still in college, John F. Kennedy wrote a book entitled “Why England Slept.” It spoke of events that occurred in Europe that set the world stage for the outbreak of World War 2. It is America that now is sleeping. In fact, it might be said that America is not asleep, but comatose. And just as England paid a dear price in World War 2, coming to the very brink of annihilation by Hitler’s Germany, America will now pay a dear price for allowing the Trojan Horse of Muslim immigrants to enter this country by the hundreds of thousands.
As I think of what the future holds for this country in the coming decades, I inwardly weep. Our Golden Age has long since passed. Unlike Japan, we are not the land of the rising sun but rather the land of the setting sun. It is dark outside, friends, and getting darker. I pity those who are not submitted to the LORDship of Jesus Christ in and over their lives. The ground upon which they tread is sinking sand.
Christ’s Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley