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."  There were many similiarities between the League and the U.N.  The World 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 help keep peace between nations.  The main organs o the UN are pretty much like those of the League."  The UN, then, is actual 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 responsibilites than its  predecessor. 

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

The UN does not have the answers.  And why?  Because   the Giver  of life to all mankind is not the UN's life giver.  Its 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 name  recorded in God's scroll of life. How could sinful, mortal men, man of whom mock God's Name, achieve through the UN  what Jehovah God declared he is about to accomplish, not by human means, but throught the Kingdom of Christ? - DANIEL 7:27;  REVELATION 11:15.

The UN is actually a blasphemous conterfeit of Gods 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 patch up some temporary peacem wars would soon erupt again.  This is in the nature of sinful men.  "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 will will never contain the names of the die-hard adherents of Babylon the Great or of any who continue to worship the wild beast. - EXODUS 32:33; PSALM 86:8-10; JOHN 17:3; REVELATION 16:2; 17:5. 

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