An Awesome Mystery Solved

 Ascending out of the Abyss

The scarlet-colored wild beast did indeed climb out of the abyss.  On June 26, 1945, with noisy fanfare in San Francisco, U.S.A., 50 nations voted to accept the Charter of the United Nations organization.  This body was  "to maintain  international peace and security." (Which never happened, nor will as long as humans run it with Satan helping them)  There were many similarities between the League  and the UN.  The Word Book Encyclopedia notes:  In some ways, the UN resembles the League of Nations, which was organized after World War I . . . Many of the nations that founded the UN had also founded the League.   Like the League, The UN was established to keep peace between nations.  (Promises! Promises! Promises! What a load of bat dung) The main organs of the UN are much like those of the League." (If you ask me, it is the same cotton picking thing, maybe just one little change to make it look or seem different)  The UN, then is actually a revival of the scarlet-colored  wild beast.  Its membership of some 190 nations far exceeds that  of the League's 63; it has also taken on broader responsibilities than its predecessor.

Note: They want to believe all this hocus pocus of the nations doing the peace thing, when that is the last thing, they are doing.   They fool most of the people, but all of the people. 

At first, great hopes were expressed for the UN.  This was in fulfillment of the angel's words: "And when they see how the wild beast was, but is not, and yet will be present, those who dwell on the earth will wonder admiringly, but their names have not been written upon the scroll  of life from the founding of the world." (Revelations 17:8b)  Earth's dwellers have admired this new Colossus, operating from its imposing headquarters on New York's East River . But true peace and security have eluded the UN.  For much of the 20th century, world peace was maintained only by threat of  "mutual assured destruction"-MAD, as it is abbreviated -and the arms race has continued to escalate astronomically.  After almost 40 years of effort by the United Nations, its then secretary-general, Javier Perez de Cuellar, lamented in 1985:  "We are living in another age of fanatics, and we don't know what to do about it.   

The UN does not and never will haver the answers.  And why not?  Because the Giver of life to all mankind is not the UN's life-giver.  Its life span will be short, for according to God's decree,  "It is to go off into destruction."  The UN's founders and admirers  do not have their names recorded in God's scroll of life.  How could sinful, mortal men, many of whom mock God's name, achieve through the UN what Jehovah has declared he is about to accomplish,  not by human means, but through the Kingdom of Christ? - DANIEL 7:27; REVELATION 11:15.

The Un is actually a blasphemous counterfeit of God's Messianic Kingdom by his Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ-to whose princely rule there will be no end.  (Isaiah 9:6, 7)  Even if the UN were to patch up some temporary peace, wars would soon erupt again.  This is the nature of sinful men with a power to bigger and better egotistical problem. "Their names  have not been written upon the scroll of life  from the founding of the world."  Jehovah's Kingdom by Christ will not  only establish eternal peace on earth, but on the basis of Jesus' ransom sacrifice, raise the dead, the righteous and the unrighteous who are in God's memory.  (John 5:28, 29; Acts 24:15)  This includes everyone who has remained steadfast despite the attacks of Satan and his seed, and others who have yet to show themselves obedient.  Obviously, God's scroll of  of life will never contain the names of the die-hard adherents of Babylon the Great of of any who continued to worship the wild beast. - EXODUS  32:23; PSALMS  86:8-10; JOHN 17:3; REVELATION 16:2; 17:5. 

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