You May Survive Armageddon into God's New World

 Proclaiming the Good News

Sunday afternoon, July 26, 1953, the sun shone brightly on the home of the permanent headquarters of the United Nations at New York, city. On a marble wall that faces on the United Nations plaza stood carved in larger letters the words: "They shall their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. 

Those words had not originated with any of the framers of the United Nations. They are words far older that have echoed down through the previous twenty-six centuries from the lips of the ancient prophet of the Near East, Isaiah the Hebrew. The designers of the United Nations buildings had merely taken the words to themselves from the prophet's book found in that sacred volume known as the Holy Scriptures, the Holy Bible. Without authority they had copied them and carved them into the marble of the United Nations structures as symbolizing the United Nations purposes "to maintain international peace and security; (What a joke and a bunch of phonies they are) and . . . develop friendly relations among nations and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace." (note: they wouldn't know universal peace if they had a note telling them what it is and means.) Halfway round the world at Panmunjom, Korea, Monday, July 27, was already dawning, and that day representatives of the United Nations amies were preparing to sign with the communist army representatives a truce to end the three-year-old Korean war that had come dangerously near to embroiling the nations in a third world war. However, it was not from this international organization's buildings there on the East River waterfront, between 42nd street and 48th street, of New York city that the good news was to be proclaimed to representatives from ninety-seven lands this memorable Sunday afternoon.

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