SEEK TRUE PEACE AND PURSUE IT!

"He that would love life and see good days, .  . .let him turn away from what is bad and do what is good; let him seek peace and pursue it." -1 PETER 3:10, 11.

"THEY will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war anymore." (Isaiah 2:4)  Even though this famous text is displayed near the world headquarters of the United Nations in New York City, that world organization  has not by any stretch of the imagination  carried them out. However, as part of the unfailing word of Jehovah God, that declaration will not be without result. -Isaiah 55:10, 11. 

The words found at Isaiah 2:4 are actually part of a marvelous prophecy, a prophecy about true peace-and it is undergoing fulfillment right in our own time. Before proclaiming the thrilling prospects of no more wars and weapons of war, the prophecy says:  "It must occur in the final  part of the days that the mountains of the house of Jehovah will become firmly established above the top of the mountain, and it will certainly be lifted up above the hills; and to it all the nations must stream. And many people will certainly go and say:  'Come, you people, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will walk in his paths.'  For out of Zion law will go forth, and the word of  Jehovah out of Jerusalem." -Isaiah 2:2, 3.

Next time:  SEEK TRUE PEACE AND PURSUE IT! -People Can Become Peaceable

From the Watchtower magazine, 1997