As we move into Veterans Day on Monday Nov 11, Here is a document of particular historic interest and a historic prophecy of universal interest.

First the “Witness Echoes” publication of the Norwegian Evangelical Free Church (now First EFC) of 649 66th Street, Brooklyn, NY around March 1945.  These notes and letters from World War II service men, chaplains, and church folks provides an interesting look into the faith and experience at the time.  Enjoy:

1945 05 Witness Echos Publication 66th Street Church

Second, our hope lays in a savior that will one day render war obsolete.  This passage reminds us of his Kingdom Coming: Isaiah 2:1-5

This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.  He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.  Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore. Come, descendants of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the Lord.