How can wars, famines, and revolutions still leave the world exactly where God intended it?
God grants individuals and nations free exercise of the will, yet He remains sovereign over history. Even through wars, famines, insurrections, revolutions, and civil government, after six thousand years the world is still right on schedule and exactly where God intended it to be.
Les explains that from the Garden onward God turned over to human choice His exercise of free will, not only for individuals but also for nations. Despite that freedom, after 6,000 years of human history, God's program is right on schedule. Les calls it amazing that through wars, famines, insurrections, and revolutions, the world is still exactly where God intended it to be. God also establishes civil government in a way we cannot understand or comprehend. Believers are to live peaceably under government, resisting only when it goes contrary to Christian experience and the commands of Scripture.