Terry Dashner……………..Faith Fellowship Church PO Box 1586 Broken Arrow, OK 74013

Think of dominoes falling and not luck happening. What am I saying? Consider this. The milestones of human history are not free-standing monoliths, occurring by luck. They are, however, like dominoes—one event of time affecting another until milestones arise and provide a signature by which we identify human history. Does that make sense?

Listen to this. Author Bill Yenne in his book entitled, 100 Events That Shaped World History (Bluewood Books 1993), “…the Battles of Salamis and Plataea were significant because they prevented annihilation of Greek civilization. This in turn allowed a great flourishing of Greek culture which gave rise to philosophies whose thought would come to form basis for Western culture. The Battle of Waterloo and World Wars changed course of history. So did invention of steam engine and airplane. The flights of interplanetary spacecraft have cast a whole new perspective on our relatively tiny planet.” I agree with Mr. Yenne about hodgepodge of events culminating into one great event, marking history for posterity. But, again, I seem to be in minority group of people who are screaming loudly, “Hey! Things don’t just happen. There is an over riding hand of Providence, working throughout human history. Please, somebody, tell us this.”

Since they won’t tell you that God rules over universe and nations—directing them by counsel of His Sovereign will—I will tell you. In this brief document, I’m going to state a few of history’s milestones and tell you what could have happened had they not occurred. And since they did occur, God was in them working out His will to consummate all things under authority of His only begotten Son Jesus Christ. The nations of world will become nations of our God.

Terry Dashner……………….Faith Fellowship Church PO Box 1586 Broken Arrow, OK 74013

Evening services have concluded. Let me get back to what I was arguing earlier. The events of history didn’t happen by luck. They were guided along by hand of Providence. God is bringing all things into swallow of His Glorious Kingdom. After all, we’ve been asking God to bring forth His Kingdom on earth “…as it is in Heaven…” for 2000 years. He does hear and answer prayers you know; therefore, He’s over riding events of humankind for His Sovereign purpose and will until earth becomes His Kingdom completely. God always gets what He wants.

Consider this. What if Phoenicians had not been sea lovers? How far would Reformers have traveled had they not built on sea-voyaging expertise of ancient Phoenicians? Once again author Bill Yenne writes, “Early human civilizations had little contact with cultures other than those immediately adjacent to them geographically. This continued to be true even after rise of great civilizations in Egypt and Mesopotamia.

“The Phoenician fleet—which included military as well as commercial vessels—visited practically every port of any size on both sides of Mediterranean. The fleet sailed beyond Straits of Gibraltar into Atlantic Ocean and called at ports in northern Europe and down coast of Africa.”