True Optimism Prevails!

What, then, about our future? The Bible book of Revelation tells us about "things that must shortly take place."  Among them, a rider on a fiery-colored horse, depicting war, is revealed "to take peace away from the earth." -Revelation 1:1; 6:4. 

A popular-and optimistic-opinion held in Britain during World War I  was that it would be the last major war.  In 1916, British statesman David Lloyd George was more realistic. He said:  "This war, like the next war, is a war to end war." (Italics ours)  He was right.  World War II only accelerated the production of more fiendish methods of mass destruction. Over 50 years later, still no end to war is in sight.

In the same book of Revelation, we read of other horsemen-symbolizing famine, pestilence, and death.  (Revelation 6:5-8) They are further aspects of the sign of the times. -Matthew 24:3-8.

Next time: Conclusion of True Optimism Prevails! 

From the Watchtower magazine, 1998