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First the End of Empire
Now the End of Britain?
Are we witnessing the end of the
nation whose people, "relative to their numbers, contributed more to civilization
than any other people since the ancient Greeks and Romans"?;
by Melvin Rhodes
I
can still remember when the news came over the radio.
It was a Sunday morning in late January 1965. Sir Winston Churchill had died.
His funeral was the following Saturday. He was only the second commoner in the history
of Great Britain accorded a state funeral, normally reserved for royalty. The first
had been for the duke of Wellington, the military genius who thwarted Napoleon's
plans for world conquest at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, thereby ushering in a
century of Pax Britannica.
Sir Winston had defeated an even greater evil, Hitler's Third Reich. He didn't do
it single-handedly, of course, but without him the outcome could have been entirely
different.
I remember the silence after the funeral. It was the only time I can remember all
the television and radio stations closing down in honor of the great old man to whom
Britons owed so much.
Buckingham Palace, London residence of the queen, symbolozes the former gretness of the British Empire. Questions abound about the future of Britain. |
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of the British Empire? How - and why - did the world's greatest empire disappear
in only a few short decades? Does Bible prophecy give us any indication? Strange
as it may sound, this remarkable turnaround was written well before it happened -
in the pages of the Bible almost 3,500 years ago. |
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