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God has promised us 1,000 years of peace. Yet human efforts to achieve enduring peace have always failed. Here is the amazing story of how God will usher in a golden age of lasting peace for all mankind.
by Roger Foster
umanity's past has been a tragic chronicle of man's cruelty to man. Our present world is a witness to several intractable conflicts: Northern Ireland, Bosnia, southern Africa and the Middle East, for example. In 1995 alone, 30 armed conflicts were in progress around the globe.
In the book of Isaiah, our Creator sums up our tragic inability to live at peace with each other: "Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their ways; they have made themselves crooked paths; whoever takes that way shall not know peace" (Isaiah 59:7-8, emphasis ours throughout).
What an apt description of our world, a world whose only times of peace are rare and brief interludes.
But it will not always be that way. Real, lasting peace is coming. But first we need a Peacemaker who is capable of enforcing an enduring peace. Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, is that Peacemaker. "For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called . . . Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end" (Isaiah 9:6-7).
God's government required for peace
Peace and good government are inseparable. To bring peace to the world, Jesus Christ must return and assume control of all the nations and peoples on earth. At that time "the kingdoms of this world (will) become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!" (Revelation 11:15).
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