Many Christians see the providential hand of God in many of the things which happened.
Dunkirk 1940
On May 27, the German High Command announced: ‘The British army is encircled and our troops are proceeding to its annihilation’.
Churchill said: ‘I thought — and some good judges agreed with me that perhaps 20,000 or 30,000 men might be re-embarked. . . The whole root and core and brain of the British army . . . seemed about to perish on the field or be led into captivity.’