In them we see that our Heavenly Father is in complete control of world events - shaping them to their grand culmination in the peaceable kingdom on earth. The conditions of Joel's prophecy are our headlines today. War preparations are supported with hundreds of billions of dollars that the community of nations devote to them. Especially interesting is the nature of war preparation. The lesson is that sinful man will take the very tools that could make for peace and turn them into devices of destruction.
Nuclear energy provides for power to run cities and medical treatment to heal diseases.
It is also fashioned into bombs that can vaporize a city and its inhabitants in one efficient flash of light. Chemists bring forth from their test tubes miracle drugs that save lives, nutrients that induce fabulous agricultural production and, as well, poison gases that kill without conscience. Invariably wars may be traced to one underlying cause. Lust for wealth in some form or other has seduced many nations into war. Saddam Hussein lusted after Kuwaiti money and oil and therefore took it.