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 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." (Revelation 17:8b) Earth's dwellers have admired this now colossus, operating fro its imposing headquarters o New York's East Rive. But true peace and security have  clouded the UN.  In this diabolic nuclear age, world peace has been maintained only  by the 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 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."

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