Summit of Military Power
By Leroy Edwin Froom
REFERRING to the appointment of Field Marshal Von Hindenburg as chief of the General Staff, with "supreme command over the Austro-Hungarian as well as the German forces," the Independent says: "This gives Hindenburg more numerous and more powerful armies than any man ever had before since the world began." This striking sentence is tremendously significant when viewed in the light of the divine word of prophecy proclaimed twenty-five hundred years ago. Foretelling the mighty war preparations, the mammoth army, the immense munition factories, and the fighting forces of hitherto unknown proportions, the prophet Joel delineated in advance, with unerring accuracy, the events of these days. His words follow: "Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about. . . . Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. . . . Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of concision [margin]: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision." Joel 3: 9-14. L. E. F.