Who Will Bring Lasting Peace?

World Peace Near at Hand 

Jesus told his disciples that the end of this wicked system of things and the beginning of a new human society  would be preceded by a remarkable set of   world-shaking event, which would occur together during the same era.  (Matthew 24:3, 7-13)  Many of these events -wars, food shortages, earthquakes, to cite just  few-have risen from time to time in every era. Never, though, have they plagued mankind all at once and on a global scale as they have in our era. And the effects of such calamities are far more disastrous than they once were because the earth is more densely populated.  

Another event predicted by the Bible is the ongoing destruction of the environment by mankind.  (Revelation 11:18) What is more, before the foretold end, a worldwide warning work is to be accomplished, the preaching of the "good news of the kingdom."  Today, Jehovah's Witnesses are carrying out that work worldwide. -Matthew 24:14. 

The fulfillment of those prophecies means good news for faithful mankind.  A prophesied  new world of total peace is at hand!  That will guarantee the complete and final disappearance of hate and terrorism.  The Bible explains:  "They will not do any harm or cause any ruin in all my holy mountain; because the earth  will be certainly be filled with  the knowledge of Jehovah as all the waters are covering the very sea." -Isaiah 11:9.  

Next time: Who Will Bring Lasting Peace? - Prayers to Which God Listens

From the Awake! magazine, 2002