TRUE PEACE--FROM WHAT SOURCE?

Mankind's Failed Efforts

For centuries, men and nations have spoken about peace, have debated peace, have signed hundreds of peace treaties. What has been the result? In the last 80 years, there has virtually never been a moment when some nation or group has not been at war.Clearly, peace has eluded mankind. So the question is, Why have all men's efforts to establish international peace failed, and why is man incapable of bringing about true peace that will endure?

The simple answer is that mankind has not turned to the right source for true peace. Under the influence of Satan the Devil, men have created organizations that fall victim to their own weaknesses and vices-their greed  and ambition, their lust for power and prominence.  They have gone to institutions for higher learning and have established foundations and think tanks, which have only  thought out more means of oppression  and destruction.  To what source have humans been directed?  Where have they looked?

Back in  1919 the nations put their trust in the League of Nations to establish permanent peace.  That hope was shattered by Mussolini's  invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 and the civil war in Spain beginning in 1936.  The League sank into oblivion with the outbreak of World War II in 1939. The so-called peace had not even lasted 20 years. 

What about the United Nations? (worthless in my opinion as well)   Has it provided any real hope of lasting peace earth wide? Hardly, over 150 wars  and armed conflicts have been fought since its inception in 1945! It is no wonder that Gwynne Dyer, a Canadian student of war and its origins, described the U.N. as "an association of  poachers turned gamekeepers, not an assembly  of saints," and "a largely powerless talking shop." -Compare Jeremiah 6:14; 8:15. 

Next time: Conclusion of  Mankind's Failed Efforts

From the Watchtower magazine, 1997