It is a lesson minuscule gods wish not to hear and see, so they stop their ears and erase the blackboard. God has created physical laws that ordinarily cannot be violated. Men cannot reverse aging or gravity-they can deescalate the former and temporarily escape the latter, but they can reverse neither. God imposes political, social, and moral restraints no less than physical restraints. The Pax Romana and Third Reich are always overthrown.
Socialism always fails.
The wages of sin is always death. With man, thank God, all things are not possible. This historical restraint, however, goes in the opposite direction, much to the chagrin of pietistic conservatives, most of whom are amillennial and who misleadingly equate any historical optimism with Fifth-Monarchy fanaticism. They are less inclined to see that God and history equally restrain thoughts of eternally timeless pessimism. He is the ancestor comfortably stowed away in the rocking chair, the male softened by the kindly touch of time.