Making All Things New-As Foretold

"The One seated on the throne said: 'Look! I am making all things new.' Also, he says: . . .'These words are faithful and true.' " -Revelation 21:5. 


HAVE you said or thought, 'Who knows what tomorrow will bring? You can understand why people hesitate to guess what the future will bring or to trust in those who might brashly claim to foretell what lies ahead. Humans simply do not have the ability to predict accurately what will occur in the months or years to come.  

The magazine Forbes ASAP devoted an issue to time.  In it, TV documentary host Robert Cringely wrote: "Time  eventually humiliates us all, but no one suffers at the hands of time more than prognosticators. Trying to guess the future is a game we nearly always lose. . . .Still, the so-called experts continue to make predictions."  (Note: Because they think that they can out do God. Wrong, on all counts )

You may have observed that with so much attention being paid to the new millennium, It may seem that more people are thinking about the future.  At the beginning of last year, Maclean's magazine said:  "The year 2000 may be just another year on the calendar  for most Canadians, but it could happen  to coincide with a truly new beginning."  Professor Christ Dewdney of Your University gave this reason for optimism:  "The millennium means that we can wash our hands  of a really terrible century." 

Does that sound like mere wishful thinking?  In Canada only 22 percent of those who responded to one poll "believe that 2000 will usher in a new beginning for the world."  In fact, almost half  "expect another world conflict"-world-war-within 50 years. Clearly, most sense that a new millennium cannot banish our problems,  making all things new.  (You think? Of course not, only God has that power and when  he is ready. It will happen and most people will not know what hit them)  Sir Michael Atiyah, former president of Britain's Royal Society, wrote:  "The rapid pace of change . . . means that the twenty-first century will bring crucial changes to our whole civilization. The problems of population growth, resource limitation, environmental pollution, and widespread poverty are already upon us and have to be grappled with as a matter of urgency."    

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From the Watchtower magazine, 2000