JESUS THE HOPE FOR THE WORLD

When Jesus returns to rule as King, he will restore the world. There is no future without him. As each year passes while we wait for the King, as each generation comes and goes, the evil in the world increases. Now that we find ourselves in the early 21st Century, when communication has become so easy, hardly any of the world’s secrets can continue to be kept from our eyes. This fulfils Daniel 12:4 that says that at the “time of the end many will increase their knowledge.” This knowledge is vital to our understanding of the world today, and we need to heed the warning of Hosea 4:6 that, “my people are destroyed by lack of knowledge.”

We now know the secrets of those who work for the Devil, who carefully guarded their plans decided in their protected palaces and private chambers, and how they thought that their darkness would never be exposed to the light. An increasing number of people are coming to the truth, both believers and unbelievers, both the lost and the found. They can now identify the evil people for who they really are, and they are fearlessly revealing their plans to the world. Many more will follow them, and come to see that the world is truly in the grip of the Evil One (1 John 5:19). This is what the Lord promised, written in Luke 8:17, “For nothing is private which will not be public; nor kept secret which will not be known and come to be made public.”

It has become increasingly apparent that the forces of evil are dedicated to the insane destruction of everything; the people, the animals, and even the planet itself. After centuries of wanton destruction, now more prevalent than at any other time in history, it can scarcely be imagined that God the Father will allow many more years to pass without our Lord Jesus returning.

When he does intervene, he will change peoples’ hearts. They will live in peace. Strife and conflict leading to death will cease. War and the spilling of innocent blood will cease. Blind hatred of people who have different beliefs or cultures, or even because they have different faces, will cease. No more children and babies killed to make heartless war profiteers richer. No more deliberate spreading of disease and illness to make the cruel health merchants richer. All of those things will disappear. No more lies about the origins of life that hides behind the guise of science. No more mockery of the truth. No more denial of the existence and greatness of God. Everything that dishonours God will never be seen again. All blasphemies will disappear. All monuments of men decorated with symbols of the Devil will be turned to dust.

When God first raised his hands to judge the world, everything created by man in the days of Noah was destroyed; totally wiped away without a trace. It is unlikely that this current world will face complete destruction, since we know that there will be survivors, the “sheep,” who will live on in the Messianic Kingdom, so there must be some part of the 21st Century that will remain.

This is worth repeating: There will continue to be kings in the world, for he is the King of kings, and they will have their own nations. Will they be the same nations of today, or will they be new creations? How much of today’s culture will remain? How much of it is worthy, and how much of it is worthless? Only what is good and what is pure will remain to be a part of his Kingdom, for that is what is from God. As Paul said in Philippians 4:8, “Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is inspiring of reverence, whatever just, whatever pure, whatever acceptable, whatever of good repute, if any virtue and any praise, reckon on these things.”