It Will Not Always Be So

Happily for earth's inhabitants, the miserable state of affairs producing today's epidemic of bad news will  not always exist.  In fact, we can say with confidence that the days of continual bad news are numbered.  The situation is not hopeless, despite what may appear to be the case.  The end of all bad news is close at hand and will come without fail in God's due time. 

We can be sure of this because the last days are prophesied to climax or conclude with God's destruction and removal of all causes of bad news.  He will  remove the wicked human fomenters of strife who refuse to change and turn from their wrongful course.  This climaxes in the war of the great day of God the Almighty, commonly known as the battle of Armageddon.  (Revelation 16:16) Immediately after that, Satan the Devil and his hordes of demon forces will be put out of action.  Revelation 20:1-3 describes the binding of Satan, the originator of all bad news:  "I say an angel coming down out of heaven with the key to the abyss and a great chain in his  hand. And he seized  the dragon, the original serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a  thousand years.  And he hurled him into the abyss and shut it and sealed it over him, that he might not mislead the nations anymore." 

Following these  dramatic events, a time of unprecedented good news will come for the earth and its inhabitants.  These inhabitants will include the millions who have survived the final war of Armageddon and the billions who  will be resurrected from their sleep of death in the graves.  This best-of-all good news  is described  in the last book of the Bible:  "The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his peoples.  And God himself will be with them.  And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore.  The former things have passed away." -Revelation 21:3, 4.

Can you imagine that happy time?  Indeed a glorious future where bad news no longer exists.  Yes, all bad news will have ended and will not be heard again.  Good news will then reign supreme, and it will abound for all eternity. 

Next time: WHY WORLDLY RELIGION WILL END

The Watchtower, 1996