TAKE COURAGE AS DELIVERANCE DRAWS NEAR - No Deliverance by Humans

No Deliverance by Humans

Can human endeavors deliver us from these bad conditions? God's Word answers: "Do not put your trust in nobles, nor in the son of earthling man, to whom no salvation belongs."  "It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step."  (Psalm 146:3; Jeremiah 10:23)  Thousands of years of history have been verified those truths.  Humans have tried (and miserably failed) every political, economic, and social system imaginable, but conditions worsen.  Had there been a human solution, it would have become evident by now.  Instead, the reality is that "man has dominated man to his injury." -Ecclesiastes 8:9; Proverbs 29:2; Jeremiah 17:5, 6.

A few years ago, former U.S. national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski said:  "The unavoidable conclusion of any detached analysis of global trend  is that social turmoil, political unrest, economic crisis, and international friction are likely to become more widespread."  He added:  "The menace confronting humanity [is] global anarchy."  That assessment of world conditions is even more valid today.  Commenting on this era of increased violence , an editorial  in the New Haven, Connecticut, Register declared: "We seem to be too far gone to be able to halt it."  No, there will not be a halt to this world's  deterioration, for the prophecy about these  "last days"  also said:  "Wicked men and impostors will advance from bad to worse, misleading and being misled." -2 Timothy 3:13.


Humans cannot reverse these trends (no matter what some president says or thinks) because Satan is "the god of this system of things."  (2 Corinthians 4:4)   Yes, "the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one." (1 John 5:19; see also John 14:30)  Rightly the Bible says of our day:  "Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing he has a short period of time."  (Revelation 12:12)  Satan knows that his rule and his world are about to end, so he is like "a roaring lion seeking to devour someone." -1 Peter 5:8) 

Next time: TAKE COURAGE AS DELIVERANCE DRAWS NEAR - Deliverance Near - For Whom?

The Watchtower, 1997