2015 - Planet Earth Moving Toward Peace
- Terry James - http://www.raptureready.com/rap16.html
The new year, 2015, is full of promise. The people of planet earth are moving toward an era of peace. That is a promise from the very Word of God. As a matter of fact, even now the world is in the process of producing the peace diplomats, potentates, and populaces of every strata of societies and cultures around the globe have wished to achieve.
This is not to say that it will be achieved in the year just ahead. But, each and every tick of the clock is taking this generation of earth dwellers nearer the peace that is even now coming dramatically into view. Let's look at some of the preparations for this peace toward which 2015 is, like a conveyor belt, guaranteed to take mankind.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- From the skies of the Baltic to the South China Sea, a new era of confrontation with Russia and China is pitting US and allied pilots against their counterparts on a scale not seen since the Cold War era. It is, current and former officials say, a major shift for air crews who by and large have spent more than a decade flying largely uncontested missions over Afghanistan and Iraq. Lying behind the aerial sabre-rattling are high tensions between the West and Russia over Moscow's perceived role in Ukraine's separatist conflict. And China, as it builds up its military on the back of economic growth, has become more assertive over multiple maritime boundary rows with neighbors, some of them allied by treaty with the United States. ("From Baltic to Asia, East-West aerial confrontations heat up" | Reuters, Dec. 24, 2014) Another story tells of global activity that provides impetus toward this peace that is inevitable. The Islamic State is a serious threat to Iraq from the outside, former military officials agree. But Shiite militias, which are gaining influence, threaten from within, they say. A former aide to General David Petraeus warns that as the Pentagon prepares to send another 1,500 US troops to Iraq to help "destroy" the Islamic State fighters, there may be an even greater danger that forces face: Iranian-backed Shiite militias. ("Worse than Islamic State? Concerns rise about Iraq's Shiite militias," Yahoo News, 12/24/14)
And the buildup toward peace continues, as this excerpt proves.
ALGIERS (AFP) -- Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas warned on Tuesday that his administration would "no longer deal" with Israel if a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a final peace deal fails. "If the Arab-Palestinian initiative submitted to the Security Council to put an end to (Israeli) occupation doesn't pass, we will be forced to take the necessary political and legal decisions," Abbas was quoted as saying by the Algerian APS news agency. "If it fails, we will no longer deal with the Israeli government, which will then be forced to assume its responsibilities as an occupier," he added. The Palestinian draft resolution sets a 12-month deadline for wrapping up negotiations on a final peace settlement and the end of 2017 as the timeframe for completing an Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian territories. A final peace deal would pave the way to the creation of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as a shared capital, according to the text. Speculation has been mounting since the death in December of a Palestinian official who was struck by an Israeli soldier that the Palestinian Authority could suspend security coordination with Israel in the West Bank if the resolution fails to pass. ("Abbas says to cut ties with Israel if UN move fails," Yahoo News, 12/23/2014)
We could look at news in every direction and find this buildup toward the sort of peace to which I refer. We could, for example, talk about the building racial crisis in America, in which there seems to be no reasoning with those who would have the police tried and the criminals given passes upon being confronted with their evil. The growing insanity has at its center the cry to "kill the cops." What they are really wanting is to do away with law and order.
Everywhere one turns at this present hour there can be observed potential for acts of terrorism and war-making. Yes...this strange peace to which I allude is definitely on the way to being achieved. It looks like that peace could come to fruition in the very near future.
My facetious play on the term "peace" is meant to show just how rapidly things are building toward the biblically prophesied era of Tribulation--the last seven years immediately following this Age of Grace. Issues and events of our time are herding all of mankind into that period in which history's most despotic tyrant will foist his brand of peace upon the hapless earth-dwellers of the post-Rapture world.
It will, the prophet Isaiah foretold--be peace that is made with death and hell (Isaiah 28:15, 18). It will be a peace the prophet Daniel predicted would "destroy many" (Daniel 8:25).
When the Church is removed to Heaven by Christ, world crises will reach maximum intensity. There will be a cry for peace. The "prince that shall come" of Daniel 9:26-27 will step forward on the world stage to give people that peace. But, that peace will turn to unprecedented cruelty by the most horrendous regime of human history.
However, God's Word promises the peace that passes all understanding. This is found only within the Prince of Peace--the Lord Jesus Christ.
To experience the peace in this new year that will last for all eternity, rather than enduring the peace designed by Satan to destroy everyone and everything it touches, each person must follow the formula for heavenly peace found in God's Word--the Bible: "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation" (Romans 10:9-10).
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