Posted on 10/03/2011 7:32:50 PM PDT by giant sable
...Another Model 1910 is one of the most notorious weapons in history. That pistol was used in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914 by the 19 year-old Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Austrian Arch-duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife – the event that triggered the First World War.
As it happens, I’ve been thinking about Princip lately – not the pathetic little man – but what he represents. When, amazed at his luck that the Imperial motorcade had stalled in front of him, Princip pulled out that pistol and started shooting, he unknowingly tripped a series of switches in palaces and ministries across Europe – and eventually around the globe – that would lead to a four year war that would pull down the royalty of Europe, murder millions of soldiers and citizens, and set the stage for an even greater slaughter a quarter-century later. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at ricochet.com ...
Barack Hussein Obama.
Hope and Chance.
WWI would have happened anyways. Something a week or a month later would have set it off if Franz Ferdinand didn’t catch his bullets...
Under the “Black Swan” proposition, we don’t know who or what is out there that will cause the next seismic societal change. I Pray that it is a peaceful one.
While I may be considered silly and simplistic; I choose to believe that God is still in charge; that those who attack Israel will receive their comeuppance, and that everything is going to wind down.....or up.....exactly as God’s Word says it will.
Gen 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
And then Christ returns!
ping for later read....thanks for the post.
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