The Seventh World Power

Recognize "the Sign"!

The sign of the end includes global war, "great earthquakes," pestilences," and major "food shortages." (Luke 21:10, 11; Matthew 24:7, 8; Mark 13:8) Also marking the "last days" would be a serious moral and spiritual breakdown in society.  (2 Timothy 3:1-5)   Have "all these things" occurred? (Matthew 24:8) Yes-to the point that many people fear the future.  The newspaper The Globe and Mail stated: "Some of the most respected thinkers about science and society are issuing alarming prognostications about humanity coming to an end." 

In one very important respect, however, those prognostications are wrong-humanity itself will not end. In fact, the intervention by God's Kingdom guarantees it!  When giving the sign of the end, Jesus Christ stated:  "This good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come." (Matthew 24:14) How has this prophecy unfolded?

In over 230 lands, Jehovah's Witnesses are proclaiming the Kingdom Of God. Indeed, the title of their primary journal is The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom-Jehovah being God's personal name.  (Psalm 83:18) The Witnesses' program of Bible education is helping countless individuals and families to replace harmful lifestyles with clean and peaceful  conduct that conforms to God's standards.  (1 Corinthians 6:9-11) As a  result, millions of people worldwide are confident that they will gain God's protection when his Kingdom intervenes in mankind's affairs.

Indeed, they will see with their own eyes the fulfillment of Christ's model prayer, sometimes called the Lord's Prayer, which states, in part:  "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven." (Matthew 6:10, King James Version) Have you wondered what life on earth will be like when all humans love and obey God?  The following Bible passages may help you  to understand why the expression "good news" is fitting.  

Next time: The Seventh World Power - When God's Will Is Done on Earth . . .

From the Awake! magazine