Hi Pastor John,
I’ve been reading quotes from the leaders and generals of the civil war. It’s amazing how both sides knew (to some extent) that God was in charge, and equally knew that “His will”, would be done. From Lee, to Stonewall Jackson, to Lincoln and others . . . all prayed for what they knew and what knowledge they had of God at the time– both sides read from the same bible, etc., and yet, both sides put their whole hearts to be the players that God wanted them to be.
I believe that the Civil War may have turned out somewhat differently if Stonewall wasn’t shot by his own troops; he is one that the Union had no answer for and Jesus wanted him off the battle field. When God was finished with Lincoln, he was removed from office (quickly) and killed by John Wilkes Booth.
After you sent out Daniel 4, where God is the one who sets kings in place and takes them out, that knowledge brings another light for me in world history. We know this, but it just keeps clearer along the way.
I think how my grandfather’s generations in Lebanon that survived the warring middle-east for all of the centuries, for him to migrate to America in the 1920’s so that I would be born and receive the holy Ghost in 1980, because I was predestined to do so. What love of God I feel now to think on these things.
God is a good God!
Billy M
