"The way I see it, the Good Lord created George Patton for one particular purpose. When that mission was finished, He called him home."
Interesting..... I've thought the same thing for many many years. Surprised someone else thinks the same :)
"The way I see it, the Good Lord created George Patton for one particular purpose. When that mission was finished,"
It wasn't finished - he could have walked over the
Russians, dropped one nuke on Moscow and one on Stlaingrad and saved 50 million and lots of $ and US soldiers during the cold war.
But nooooo, we needed time to get the Bomb secrets to the Russians to really F things up
Patton guided for a higher purpose? It's not that small a club. His entire life seemed to be a form of training for the fulfillment of a single purpose.
I found it to be a remarkable bit of fate that, as a lad, he should have been out riding in the foothills of the San Gabriels near his home in southern California and encountered none other than an elderly John Singleton Mosby riding horseback on the same trails.
The chance meeting led to a relationship and many succeeding visits, a nearly mystical passing of a warriors mantle.
One very fascinating aspect of Patton was his spiritual life. I believe he was mistaken when he thought perhaps he had been reincarnated, but I suspect he did experience in a dream a past life on ancient battlefields.
This may have been either from divine revelation or by a testing involving familiar spirits which was allowed, although not promoted in God's plan. I've often wondered if Gen Patton had been involved in the occult or freemasonry or the depth of his spiritual beliefs.
I tend to agree with your assessment that when it was time he was called home, although FWIW, I have also bumped into him in dreams myself, wherein he still patrols the Mojave desert on a white stallion, dressed in his field uniform with an entourage of staff and SNCOs, still quite an arrogant perspective of all other persons.
If the dream I had did indeed involve other persons in the spiritual domain, then I wonder if he is indeed saved or merely pending the consequneces of a life separated from faith in Christ.