We don’t have a crystal ball, but we do have something far better-God’s Word. It also has by far the largest territory of any nation on earth-with almost twice the land mass of the world’s second-biggest country, Canada. It is one of the great world powers, with one of the world’s most formidable, modern and well-equipped militaries. Naturally, many readers will want to know what the Bible has to say about Russia. Europeans and other neighbors are quite alarmed by this aggression, and they fear it can spill over to other European territories neighboring Russia, such as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.įearing more Russian aggression, the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, recently called for the formation of a united European army, since “a common army among the Europeans would convey to Russia that we are serious about defending the values of the European Union” (Andrew Sparrow, “Jean-Claude Juncker Calls for EU Army,” The Guardian, March 8, 2015). Now a part of Eastern Ukraine is in armed conflict, and Ukrainian troops are fighting pro-Russian forces aided and armed by Russia. Jesus Christ is returning to put an end to human politics, greed and war.
There is good news for Russia-and the rest of the world. In 2014 the Crimean peninsula, also part of Ukraine, was taken over and annexed by Russia, violating a 1994 treaty in which Russia had committed to respecting Ukraine’s existing borders. Ukraine, once a part of the Soviet Union, has been rocked by turmoil from Russian-backed factions. Russia has been in the news a lot lately-mostly for negative reasons.
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