As an elementary school student in the late 1960s and early 1970s, we were subjected to regular bomb drills. Hide under the desk and cover your head because we were about to get bombed by the Soviets. Fast forward more than 50 years later and it never happened, but the seed of fear was planted with all of us.

In 1979 when the hostages were taken in Iran, I was in high school and that event was all everyone was talking about. Since then, we have been barraged with fear over the growing Iranian threat, the terrorism, and the constant drum beat of fear. Over 40 years later, they still never attacked us, the dooming over nuclear weapons never came to be but the seed of fear was planted with all of us. That fear changed all of us who were alive during that period of time and it has terrible and adverse effects on the long-term health of a society. If you are not free from fear and unable to live your life the way you choose, it is a demoralizing and sometimes deadly slog.

Today however, what I am seeing is unmistakably biblical.

The fear of world war and surprise military attacks seems to be lessening. Entire nations who have yearned for freedom throughout my entire life, have started to find it, in mass. It seems everyone has jumped on the peace train, and in this man’s opinion, we are heading for a glorious new future of peace and prosperity, one that no other human has ever experienced before.

Thank God and count your blessings that you are here today to witness all of this. You are not here by mistake because God‘s glorious plan has always included you and I.

Revel in it, give thanks and be happy that you are alive as His witness to one of the most consequential moments in human history,

Second only to Christ, his death and resurrection.