TRUE PEACE--FROM WHAT SOURCE?

Conclusion of  Mankind's Failed Efforts

Despite their talk of peace, the nations continue to invent and manufacture arms.  The countries that sponsor peace conferences are often the very ones that lead in the manufacturing of weapons. Powerful commercial interests in these countries promote the production of death-dealing armaments, including  diabolic land mines that every year kill or main some 26,000 civilian adults and children. Greed and  corruption are motivating forces. Bribes and kickbacks are part and parcel of the international arms trade. Some politicians enrich themselves from this source.

In December 1995 Polish physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace Joseph Rotblat called on the nations to end the arms race.  He said:  "The only was to prevent  [a new arms race] is to abolish war altogether."  Do you think that this is likely to happen? (Note: No!  not with Satan in charge of this world right now.  Man is not capable of fixing anything.  This world would be in better shape; and God, and not Satan would be the governing body of this world, the way it was suppose to be before Satan challenged God's integrity and sovereignty ) From 1928 onward, 62 nations ratified the Kellogg-Brian Pact, renouncing war as a way of settling differences.  World War II clearly demonstrated that the pact was not worth the paper it was written on.

Undeniably, war has been a constant stumbling stone on mankind's pathway of history. As Gwynne Dyer wrote:  "war is a central institution in human civilization, and it has a history precisely as long as civilization."  Yes, virtually every civilization and empire has had its revered military heroes,m its standing armies, its famous battles, its sacrosanct military academies, and its stockpile of weapons.  However, our century has been marked by war more than an other, both in destructiveness and in loss of life.  

Note: These s0-called men, call themselves macho and cannot stand the thought of being outdone by anyone else, nation or country.   Which is why they cannot stop having wars. They are trying to prove just how much tougher they can be over others. It does not work and it never will.

It is obvious that the world's leaders have ignored the basic wisdom of Jeremiah 10:23:  "I well know, O Jehovah, that  to earthling man his way does not belong. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step."   Without God in the picture, there can be no true peace. Doe all of this mean, then, that war is inevitable in a civilized society?  Does it mean that peace-true peace-is an impossible dream? 

Next time: TRUE PEACE-FROM WHAT SOURCE? -Getting to the Root Cause

From the Watchtower magazine, 1997