The Single Most Critical Event of the 20th Century

Do you know what the single most critical event of the 20th Century was? Writing on The Omega Letter, Jack Kinsella makes a strong case that the assassination of Franz and Sophie Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip, which precipitated World War I, was that event. This assassination triggered a sequence of events that has set the stage for the return of our Lord, Jesus Christ, and unlocked the Books of Revelation and Daniel. Read it, you will be fascinated!

Lessons From History
In Defense of the Faith
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Jack Kinsella - Omega Letter Editor

I've always been a keen student of history, as far back as I can remember. Even before I understood the logic of the question, "how can you know where you are going if you don't know where you have been?", the history of man has fascinated me.

I would learn some new historical fact that would explain the reason for some contemporary situation and, bingo! The lights would come on and it would all make sense.

I was always fascinated with the way all the tiny details had to fit together exactly, and what a difference a single change could make to the Big Picture as it exists today.

What if Gavrilo Princip had not shot Franz and Sophie Ferdinand to death on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo?

(Who? I'm glad you asked.)

Gavrilo Princip was a member of a Serbian nationalist terrorist squad. Franz Ferdinand was the Archduke of Austria, Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.

His assassination precipitated the Austria declaration of war that triggered the First World War.

What if Princip was captured or killed before he could do the deed that ultimately killed more than thirty-eight million people? That single event forever changed the course of history, brought down empires, and freed the Holy Land from centuries of Islamic rule.

So, what if Gavrilo Princip missed? What if his weapon misfired? Jerusalem would have remained a minor city in minor province of the Islamic Ottoman Empire. The modern map of the Middle East would not exist. Germany would have no need of a Jew-hating rabble rouser demanding vengeance for its defeat in a war that didn't take place.

A single act by a single person on a single day that essentially created modern history. Who could have predicted such a thing? Yet had this one thing not happened, the world as we know it would not exist.
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