“The probability” that modern culture would be threatened by another culture “stood at one in a million,” and yet they keep coming. Over the generations, in the process of human-cultural development, history is full of crisis events, changes, or upheavals. “The probability that anything comes from Mars is vanishingly small, but still it comes.” These words from the narrator in the famous musical’s opening monologue can be transferred surprisingly easily to our present time. “Nobody would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized as someone might scrutinize the creatures in a drop of water under a microscope.” These are the words with which Jeff Wayne’s 1978 musical “War of the Worlds” begins.
Human arrogance, feeling technologically superior to everything, brings about their downfall. The music conveys how quickly the order of a civilization can turn into chaos and panic. It is like a critique of civilization in H. G. Wells’s original idea....
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As the words of God tell us over and over in the Old Testament when Israel turned their back on God he allowed the enemy to come in to chastise them. So it is with the Western world. The only reason I think God hasn’t dumped the nations yet, is because of the true believers washed in the blood of Jesus Christ. But the Tribulation is not far away!