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What is happening to the world?

The world today is far different from the world of sixty years ago, what has changed so much? In the 1950’s and 60’s places like Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan were modern thriving nations with a mix of Christian and Muslim citizens working together and living side by side. The 1947 UN partition and 1948 formation of Israel as a Jewish state had seen Jews expelled from all Muslim majority lands and the invasion of the fledgling state of Israel by Jordan who promptly renamed Judea and Samaria the “West Bank”. It is not just this conflict that has seen global culture change but the growth of apostasy, or a turning away from the Biblical tenets that had made peaceful and civilised nations in every corner of the world. There are six hundred and thirteen commandments in the five books of law as given to Moses, three hundred and sixty-five say thou shall not and two hundred and forty eight say thou shall. Ten of these commandments were spoken directly by the Almighty, the f