100 Years

I was thinking recently about 100 years. One century. A nice round timespan. And I was thinking about all that humanity has accomplished in that time. It's rather astounding. I am an American, and so many of these items are from an American perspective, but all have had a global impact on the world.

In the last 100 years (1914-2014) we have:

Begun and ended two world wars: WWI (1914-1918) and WWII (1939-1945).
Invented the most dangerous weapon on Earth, The Atomic Bomb (1945).
Established the widespread use of commercial airplanes
Replaced horse and carriage travel with automobiles throughout the USA.
Invented the television (1927) and established the widespread use of them in American homes.
Discovered penicillin (1928) and then every subsequent antibiotic used today.
Established the widespread use of movies as entertainment in theaters and at home.
Crashed the stock market (Wall Street) (1929)
Had the first American president elected to four terms (Franklin Roosevelt) (1932-1945).
Reestablished Israel as a recognized nation (1948).
Had the first war of ideologies between two great countries. (Cold War, 1940s to 1990s).
Entered the "space age" with Sputnik, a Russian satellite, being launched outside of this planet. (1957)
Invented Rock and Roll in the 1950's.
Seen the end of systematic racism in the United States starting with the Civil Rights movement in the 1960's.
Put a man on the moon (1969).
Invented the modern computer (1940's) began to sell it to the public as personal computers (1977), then linked them all to a network known as the Internet, which came about in its modern form in the 1990's.
Globally eradicated one of the most frightening diseases known to man--smallpox. (1979)
Invented the cellular phone (1973), began selling it commercially (1983), and then added features such as text messaging (1993) and eventually led to smartphones such as the iPhone (2007).
Weathered the only two foreign attacks on US soil in our nation's history: Pearl Harbor (1941) and September 11 (2001).
Elected the first black president of the United States (2008).
I was born.
You were born.

In the past 100 years we have reached outside the borders of our planet, becoming a global society where news travels at the speed of sound from one end of the world to another and there is no hidden thing in mass media. We have drawn and redrawn the geopolitical borders of our nations. We have seen countless wars, births, deaths, extinctions, genocides, inventions, new art forms, and more. We have changed the landscape of every country, building cities and highways with skyscrapers and cement, establishing national parks, and accessing places that were before unknown. We have seen what was once considered unacceptable become commonplace, and what was once commonplace become unacceptable. We have seen America become the leading superpower of the world and now we are seeing that change. We have seen the end of most hereditary monarchies in Europe, the beginning of many dictatorships, and the continuation and expansion of democracy. We have, literally, changed the world. Someone who fell asleep 100 years ago wouldn't know the world they would wake up in today.

In 1914, the world population was approximately 1.8 billion people.
In 2014, the world population is 7 billion people. 

And if we can do all this in a century as a group of chaotic and disjointed societies without many who were following the guidance of Holy Spirit, I wonder...

What will we of Yahweh's Kingdom do in 100 years? 

In 1914, the revelation of modern day apostles and prophets establishing Yahweh's ecclesia in the Earth wasn't even spoken of.
Today, I've seen the Kingdom in action, and it is huge and only growing.