Eighty years from now, what will the world remember about this time in history? None of us will be around to answer that question because Psalms informs us, “Seventy is the sum of our years, or eighty, if we are strong; Most of them are toil and sorrow; they pass quickly, and are gone.” Even though the future is not ours, we can look back eighty years and remember what the world was like then.
On June 6, 1944, the United States and the Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, the beginning of the liberation of the European continent. This year marks the eightieth anniversary of the D-Day invasion, which would prove to be the beginning of the fall of Hitler’s maniacal tyrannical desire to enslave Europe.
Forty years ago today, President Ronald Reagan commemorated the sacrifices of fellow citizens asked by their country to don a military uniform and head directly into a barrage of bullets and artillery with a great chance of certain death. Reagan’s words, now twenty years old, are as remarkable today as they were then.
Reagan remembered, “The Americans who fought here that morning knew word of the invasion was spreading through the darkness back home. They fought — or felt in their hearts, though they couldn’t know in fact, that in Georgia they were filling the churches at 4:00 am. In Kansas they were kneeling on their porches and praying. And in Philadelphia, they were ringing the Liberty Bell.
Something else helped the men of D-day; their rock-hard belief that Providence would have a great hand in the events that would unfold here; that God was an ally in this great cause. And so, the night before the invasion, when Colonel Wolverton asked his parachute troops to kneel with him in prayer, he told them: “Do not bow your heads, but look up so you can see God and ask His blessing in what we’re about to do.” Also, that night, General Matthew Ridgway on his cot, listening in the darkness for the promise God made to Joshua: “I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.”
What will our successors remember of the time we are living in? If they recall history honestly, they would have to acknowledge that the invocation of God to help with human problems was nowhere to be found. The last visible plea to God was seen some 23 years ago after the 911 attacks. Churches were filled with a lot of folks praying in unison after the horrible attack. For twenty-plus years, the left’s attack on appealing to God through prayer has undermined our society and deemed unnecessary for human progression.
Will future generations see the nihilism of the same-sex mania rampant across the globe? Will they reflect on the blood lust and wonder how civilized people would willfully kill their babies just because they came at an inconvenient time?
Eighty years from now, will the intellectually honest wonder how people could claim to change their gender at will by disregarding all science and natural law? Will they wonder why children were abused physically and emotionally in homes and schools?
People of the future will be the judge and jury of our present. They will struggle to understand the lunacy of those promoting marriage as structural racism of white heteropatriarchal supremacy. Perhaps they will try to understand why students spend so much on a university education, which proved to be nothing more than propaganda factories.
Eighty years from now, Americans may be angry that their right to know the country’s history without bias was never taught to them or their grandparents.
Eighty years from now, no one knows what our country will look like. There is a possibility that future generations burdened by tyranny might look back in anger, cursing their ancestors who willingly gave up their freedoms without a fight.
We pray that never happens.