The world has been ruled by Turks, Spaniards, Germans, by the French and by the English.
The Gentile nations in this special and prophetic territory have been the world rulers.
It has been peculiarly Gentile rulership and in Scripture is called, “The times of the Gentiles.”
Gentile times, Gentile rulership has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.
It has been an amazing rule.
It has been a rulership that has revealed the genius, the brilliance and the God-given powers of man.
It has been a rulership that has revealed the iniquity, the sin, the mad ambition and devil-inspired policies of man.
In all the twenty-five hundred years of this Gentile rule there have not been one hundred consecutive years of universal peace.
It has been twenty-five hundred years of war, of rapine, murder and measureless lust.
Cities have been destroyed, fields have been laid waste, women have endured the last outrage. Children have been orphaned, right has been upon the scaffold and wrong upon the throne, prison chains have been for virtue, silk and velvet for vice, civilization after civilization has been destroyed, the earth has been filled with anguish beyond the power of tongue or pen to describe, and blood enough has been shed through man’s inhumanity to man to float all the navies of the world, and money and treasure enough wasted to have provided a palace for every man and woman on earth.