World War III has been raging among us for years. I call it the silent war. Just looking at the number of deaths alone will blow your mind and dwarf the impact of other wars throughout history. Taking nothing away form the tragedies of earlier times, our contemporary slaughter of innocent life is the greatest and ugliest desecration of human creation in the history of the planet. Looking at death tolls alone, the first great war we find in recorded history is the end of the Han Dynasty in China (184 to 280). Called the Three Kingdoms War, the estimated death toll was between 36 and 40 million people. The An Lushan Rebellion (755 to 763), a conflict among the Chinese and Vietnamese saw between 13 and 36 million deaths. The Mongol conquests between 1206 and 1368 produced between 30 and 40 million deaths. Then between 1519 and 1632 the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire brought about 24 million deaths. We estimate about the same death toll between 1616 to 1683 during the transition from Ming to Qing Dynasty in China. The years 1346 and 1353 was devastating in Europe with the Black Plague taking about 50 million lives. It is estimated that World War I took up to 65 million lives. And World War II created another hell where about 85 million lives were lost. Yet taking nothing away from all these hells experienced on earth, there is another number that is virtually ignored in our culture today. That number is 1.5 Billion murders of unborn children world wide since 1980 (http://www.numberofabortions.com). This is World War III. Our world places attention on the planet, wanting to save oceans, trees and warning us about the condition of the air we breathe. That is logical and important; however, we have been blinded to those who inhabit the planet–God’s people. God made us to inhabit the planet not the other way around. We are more important than nature becasue we are flesh created by Spirit and our Spirit lives forever. Our culture is obsessed with global warming but we are also killing our own at a rapid and culturally decaying rate. What are we doing to make people aware of the most brutal war in human history?
World War III
