Today is marked as “Remembrance Day” on our calendars. It was a day that began as “Armistice Day. It was the result of the Armistice that was signed on Monday, November 11, 1918 at 5:00 am. At that time, Germany and the Allied Forces gathered in Paris to set the terms for the ceasefire that went into effect at the 11th hour of the same day. A year later, in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson established the first commemoration of Armistice Day in remembrance of those who died in WWI. In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill to expand Armistice Day to include a remembrance of all American veterans.
The agreement signed in 1918, did not end all wars. The expansion of that memorial in 1954 did not end all wars either. There is something going on that is much deeper than what those who signed these agreements understood.
The Bible declares that God is the Author of true peace. Unless a person knows the true God, he cannot know His peace. Adam and Eve knew God’s peace for a short time in their lives. They soon chose to reject that perfect peace and chose to try to invent their own peace. They failed miserably. Their son, Cain also rejected God’s peace and his descendants could not find peace either. Abel knew the peace of God in his heart. The war that took place between Cain and Abel was Cain’s fault, not Abel’s. Many people wrongly assume that if we would get rid of religion, we could live in peace. Religion is simply a form of belief. Everyone has a form of belief. The world tries to find peace through compromise. History shows us that this has been an exercise in futility. Interestingly, due to the stubbornness of man, every generation still insists in finding peace on its own terms.
God has been merciful and given every generation access to His truth. In every generation, He has had a few godly individuals to proclaim His truth to society. In the Old Testament, God’s primary means of proclaiming His truth was designed to be the nation of Israel. Sadly, the nation of Israel did not appreciate God’s peace and thus they could not find peace within their own boundaries, nor outside their nation.
Jesus Christ came unto His own and His own received Him not. The nation of Israel rejected the Lord Jesus Christ as the Messiah and Saviour. As the result of this rejection on their part, God implemented the next phase of His plan. He established the church upon the Lord Jesus Christ. This church is not a universal church. As we see in the Bible, the first church was in Jerusalem, but due to the rejection of the truth by the majority of the people in Jerusalem, the centre for the true churches moved to Antioch. God directed the apostles to go into all the world and establish churches in many different places. This command was not just for the apostles, but is important for others in every generation. Ephesians 4:11 tells us that God uses apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers to establish true churches everywhere. The apostles and prophets are found in the Word of God. There are no living apostles and prophets today.
There are evangelists who work in their home country and also travel abroad to help establish true churches. Pastors need to be appointed to lead a local church in the way of God’s Word. Pastors also need to be teachers. A pastor needs to know how to preach the Word of God. He also needs to be able to teach the Word of God. The true local church is the most essential place in a community. It is of greater importance than anything else. The true local church is not built on compromise, but rather, is built upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ is not divided. He has given us His Word. We can know how to walk and what to believe.
In our world, this is scoffed at. However, as we read in our verse, without a right foundation, nothing else will last. We have witnessed this in our world.
Today we read of doctors and nurses who are in court trying to defend their right to believe the truth regarding the shots and the virus. There are also pastors who still have tickets that were written in defiance of the truth of God. The government, the medical establishment and the courts have agreed to prosecute those who hold to the truth.
After the second world war, the world agreed to what became known as the “Nuremberg Code”. This code was established to protect the citizens of the world from any government being able to use human beings as guinea pigs. Hitler had used Jews and others as guinea pigs to test drugs on. Many died due to the experiments conducted on them.
I believe many soldiers who died seeking to defend our country from the tyranny of Hitler, would be deeply saddened to see the present state of our governments in Canada. Many soldiers died seeking to defeat the dictatorship of Hitler. Yet today, many are embracing a dictatorship in our own country.
We see history repeating itself because we have refused to build upon the true foundation of the LORD. Jesus stated it this way:

Matthew 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.