Morning in the Camp

Chapter 2 - The Sound of Despair

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Morning in the Camp

The logical consequence of the preparation for nuclear war is nuclear war.

–Dr. Helen Caldicott

 

Below is an excerpt from the second chapter of Morning in the Camp.

THE SOUND OF DESPAIR

 “The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”

--Albert Einstein

 …As the sound of Latter Rain worked its way through the 1940s, another sound—the sound of despair, burst forth. What began at 8:15 A.M. on August 6, 1945, I consider to be a major event in end-time prophecy. This momentous event possibly raised the curtain on the last act of the drama of Gentile domination of this planet. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, may well have marked the beginning of the falling away that Paul wrote about in his letter to Thessalonica:

           Let no man deceive you by any means:

for that day shall not come, except there

come a falling away first, and that man

of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

II Thessalonians 2:3

          When pictures of what happened on that morning, in that faraway place, began to be seen, the hopes of mankind for lasting peace and security in the present world system began to diminish. The hope of post-World War II peoples for a home, beautiful lawns, and white fences must now also include plans and provisions for a bomb fallout shelter. My father and I, as builders, would become quite familiar with these blueprints during the 1950s….

          With bomb shelters no longer a viable source of protection, the fear of atomic bombs and nuclear missiles has replaced hope with bitterness, the root of many of the world’s problems….

          Is this fear of nuclear annihilation justified?…

…This horrible reality remains: if all land-based war machinery on both sides were melted into plowshares (Isa. 2:4), one single Trident Submarine would still carry the destructive equivalent of over 2,000 Hiroshima bombs….

 Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

--Dwight D. Eisenhower

 …So there is no question in my mind about the possibility. No question in my mind about the probability of its happening soon, in view of the corruption and violence that fills our everyday evening news.

There is an encouraging note in Revelation Chapter 18, for a certain group of folks:

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. –Revelation 18:4

 Sounds like somebody is going to be leaving the scene just before the destruction begins!…

                        For which I am

an ambassador in bonds:

              --Ephesians 6:20

           Have you ever noticed that just before any nation goes to war with another, it always brings home all of its embassy personnel stationed in that land?