On November 11, 1918, a little after 5 in the morning, a peace treaty was signed between Germany and the Allies to end all fighting in World War I.

The treaty agreed for all fighting to stop at 11am. But in those last few hours, many French and American generals still sent their men into battle, costing a total of 2,738 lives, many of whom were take in the final 30 minutes before 11am. Of this war Winston Churchill said that his nation’s young men were engaged in “the hardest, cruelest, and the least-rewarded of all the wars that men have fought.”¹

Almost three thousand lives taken...for nothing. Our world has known billions of deaths taken for no reason at all. But Christ’s death is one death that was not in vain. By His death on the cross, He purchased souls from hell, souls from sin, souls from Satan, and set them free!

Endnotes

1. Joseph E. Persico, Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour (New York: Random House, 2004), xvii.