25: Judeo-Christian Values In Today's Society
By Robert C. Moore

Nuclear War: Prescription For Death
September 22, 1992

The chances are 1 out of 5 people will be killed or serious injured in a nuclear blast. There is no definite proof, but the odds of mankind surviving after the war are very slim.

Diseases will grow unchecked. Most hospitals will be destroyed, and those left standing will be severely understaffed. With the supply of clean medical equipment vanishing quickly, and the injured flocking in like sheep, they will find hardly any medical attention at all.

Rats will spread diseases as well, due to the sewer system that is unrepairable. Electricity will come from portable generators.

Most of the country will wonder when help will arrive, if at all. Although the president will tell you everything is OK, you should not believe it. There will be no help.

Within the passing weeks, the radiation count will be at 300 rads. (Four minutes outside of your shelter, and you're dead.) Most people who took shelter in one of the air raid shelter will be cremated. They were built to withstand atomic bombs, not nuclear warheads.

Nuclear winter will set in. The sky will remain dark all the time, and the temperature will plunge to some 20 degrees below zero, even in summertime. Eventually, the "winnable war" will have claimed 4 billion lives. Most of them-close to 1 billion-will die when the missile hits the ground. The rest will die from diseases, radiation sickness or cold.

To most of us, a nuclear war is one of mankind's worst nightmares. Unfortunately, it is all too real. Since WWII, we have spend the last 45 years under the treat of war. The Bay Of Pigs was the closest we ever came to the real thing, Luckily, we didn't go to war.

Although mankind said "never again" to destroying himself, it will surely happen. Just look around you and see all the wars that are going on. Not only in some far-off distant land, but right in your own neighborhood. Drug wars, crime families, people with a vendetta to kill others.

In the end it all boils down to a famous quote, "Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it."

On the surface, it would seem that a nuclear war would end life as we know it, but as Christians we know that this world is not our home. We are merely visiting this planet fore a short time. In Revelations 21:10-27, John describes a New Jerusalem, where there will be no need for sun or moon because "the glory of God illuminated it, and the lamb is the light"(verse 23).

It is a message of hope and of change. God wants all of us to walk away from evil. Unfortunately, most of us believe that the world will continue to go on forever. Conditions will continue to deteriorate and eventually it will all boil down to an all-out nuclear war. If you want to live forever, come to Christ. You can live through all the troubles of the world, and come out a winner in God's eyes.