{"id":677,"date":"2020-03-21T15:21:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T19:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/?p=677"},"modified":"2020-03-21T15:31:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T19:31:12","slug":"the-world-of-1910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/the-world-of-1910\/","title":{"rendered":"The World of 1910"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">More than a year before the pandemic, I was thinking about what my life would look like if I were born in 1910. It was to give perspective of how blessed I truly am. I thought I would pass it on as a reminder in these troubled times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Today we believe that our world is afflicted. It is\nnot a wrong observation. The 2109-nCov pandemic is racing around the world. We\nare cautioned about meeting in groups of 10 or more; our churches have turned\nto video conferencing to spread the word. God is, and always has been, in\ncontrol. God&#8217;s sovereignty will never change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What would my life be like if I was born in Europe\nin 1910?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">The population of the world in 1910 was about 1.5-1.7 billion compared to 7.2 today. This revelation puts the following numbers is perspective. To understand the impact of these events, if they happened today, you could see multiple everything by 3 or 4 to get the equivalent result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">When I was 12 years old, the Titanic sunk losing\n1,500 passengers. But this was only a sign of what was to come. By the time I\nwas in middle school, &#8220;The Great War&#8221; had started. It wasn&#8217;t called\nWorld War One until 1939 with the start of World War Two. Who thought there\nwould be two of them? The Great War would claim 40 million military and\ncivilian casualties, 6 million to war-related famine and disease. It left 23\nmillion wounded. It was fought in my backyards with such weapons as mustard gas\n(a vomiting agent), tear gas (affected the eyes and lungs), and barbed wire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">The Great War ended at the end of my High Schools years (although I wasn&#8217;t in High School, I was in the army) just to be followed by The Spanish Flu epidemic in which millions died, approximately 5% of the world&#8217;s population. It targeted 20-35-year-old&#8217;s, my age group. Citizens wore masks to schools, theater, and other outside events. Businesses were shuttered, and bodies piled up in makeshift morgues before the virus ended its deadly global march in 1919. By the end of 1919, the average life expectancy plummeted by a dozen years. The first vaccine was created in 1940.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">By the time I turn 39, the Second World War was starting. It would claim another 50 million lives, 20 million in Russia alone, another 12 million executed by the Germans. Five million in Poland, and 7 million in German. Again, it was fought in my back yard. Over 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded, or went missing during the Battle of Normandy alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">When I was born, life expectancy was only 46 years. If I lived through all of this, I was lucky and had maybe another 10-15 years left. I would die in the middle of the greatest military arms buildup in history. By the time I turn 60, there are over 30,000 nuclear warheads ready for deployment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">During my lifetime, over <strong>190 million people would\ndie from war and flu alone<\/strong>, very unnatural causes. This death toll had to\nmold my view of life. Today we complain of political corruption, loosening of\nmoral standards, self-centeredness, and the pandemic. We point to Revelations\nand say the end must be near. What would you say if you were a child of the\nearly 20th century?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Don&#8217;t get me wrong; our problems and perceptions are\nreal. Our world is slowly circling the drain. But God is still the God of love\nand compassion. He is not the author of evil; he is the vaccine. He and He\nalone has gotten us through a lot of worse situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\"><strong>Psalms 136:23-26<\/strong>, \u201cHe remembered us in our weakness.\nHis faithful love endures forever. He saved us from our enemies. His faithful\nlove endures forever. He gives food to every living thing. His faithful love\nendures forever. Give thanks to the God of heaven. 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