Storm Warning: Deceptive Evil Looms on the Horizon by Billy Graham

Author:Billy Graham [Graham, Billy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-06-22T16:59:18+00:00

Part 4

The Eye of the Hurricane

11

The Bringer of War

Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword.

Revelation 6:4

Fears of the Apocalypse are as old as civilization. War, anarchy, brother against brother, neighbor against neighbor, nation against nation—the complete breakdown of sane human relationships has characterized human history. Every society since the dawn of time has known great evil and destruction, but the holocaust to come will surpass anything the human mind can imagine.

In Revelation 6, John tells of the red horse of the Apocalypse—the bringer of war. This second horseman will spark unprecedented violence and storms of destruction until the final hour when the Messiah Himself will intervene and crush the allies of Satan and the evils of Armageddon. You recall that Jesus told His disciples: “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened” (Matthew 24:21-22 NKJV).

It would be naive for anyone to ignore the fact that this ominous rider who brings war is, even now, riding relentlessly in our direction. Some say the earth has become a global village. We are all neighbors, especially now that the Cold War is over. The West won the war many contend. But we cannot afford to celebrate prematurely; the post-Cold War stockpiles of nuclear weapons still give mankind the power to destroy the earth seventeen times over in flames reaching 130 million degrees. No United Nations resolution, no peacekeeping force, no new world order can stop it when the appointed time arrives. While we all should work and pray for peace, we know that the danger is still great.

Furthermore, the number of aggressive Third World nations with dreams of glory constantly seems to be growing. There are several military dictators who would think nothing of lobbing a nuclear missile into Tel Aviv or Jerusalem if they had the capacity. So long as men live by the laws of self-sufficiency and expediency, there will be tyrants who can bring calamity upon the world.

In these tempestuous times, no one can speak of war with confident detachment. Each of us has a vision of nuclear destruction etched permanently in our mind. Before the final days of World War II, wars were more or less limited to battlefields and sea lanes. Supplies were transported over vast distances. Oceans, mountainous terrain, snow-covered highways, arid deserts, and fast-moving rivers all created natural barriers to limit war and give combatants at least the illusion of distance and safety. Especially for North Americans, wars have been something fought “over there” or “overseas.”

But the warning bell that rang in the newsroom of the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation at 8:45 on the morning of August 6, 1945, signaled an alert that changed all that.

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