Jonathan Edward's view of History

Jonathan Edwards wrote in the treatise "A Call to United Extraordinary Prayer" about how God is driving history to its ultimate end of God establishing His Kingdom of truth and righteousness.

...All the changes brought to pass in the world from age to age, are ordered by infinite wisdom, in one respect or other to prepare the way for that glorious issue of things, when truth and righteousness shall finally prevail, and he whose right it is shall take the kingdom. All the creatures in all their operations and motions continually tend to this. As in a clock all the motions of the whole system of wheels and movements, tend to the striking of the hammer at the appointed time. All the revolutions and restless motions of the sun and other heavenly bodies, from day to day, from year to year, and from age to age, are continually tending thither as all the many turnings of the wheels of a chariot in a journey tend to the appointed journey's end. The mighty struggles and conflicts of nations those vast successive changes which are brought to pass in the kingdoms and empires of the world, from one age to another, are as it were travail pangs of the creation, in order to bring forth this glorious event. And the scriptures represent the last struggles and changes that shall immediately precede this event as being the greatest of all as the last pangs of a woman in travail are the most violent.