Historian: Conditions are ripe for another world war (SCW #453)

1. According to The Independent, an internationally respected historian is warning that today's world bears a number of striking similarities with the build-up to the First World War.

2. According to the Jerusalem Post, ex-navy chief Vice-Admiral (res.) Eliezer Marom says that Israel has defenses in place against the supersonic Russian- made Yakhont anti-ship missile, days after The Wall Street Journal reported that Hezbollah has been smuggling the weapon to Lebanon in pieces to evade Israeli strikes.

3. According to the Daily Mail, while much of America is in the grip of a 'polar vortex', Canada is changing the game when it comes to cold weather phenomenon as reports of 'frost quakes' emerge from around Toronto and across Ontario.

4. According to The Associated Press, US Secretary of State John Kerry spent Sunday jetting around the Middle East and attempting to shore up support for a US framework plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace, calling the endeavor a challenge that could still fall apart.

5. According to The Associated Press, Pope Francis will travel to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan in May, his first visit to the Holy Land which comes amid a new U.S. push for peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

Jesus Christ said in Matthew 24:37-39: "But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."

Our Second Coming quote for today is from William Gurnall. He said: "Christ hath told us he will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle."

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