A Millenium of Peace on Earth?

1000 years of peace on earth, that the world should be entirely free from all armed conflict. Is this something that the world has truely been promised? Is this something that we should really expect?

At the present moment in time it seems that just about no-one in the world today, of any significant authority, is even considering the possibility of beating swords into plowshares.

But if you really want to see peace then we must begin to prepare the world for peace, and to not prepare the world for war. We should be teaching our young men and women to be diplomats and psychologists rather than killers and murderers. The world may just seem far to dangerous for us to begin to let down our guard, but you can not solve the problems of violence with violence. We are not createing a safer more secure world by fighting a war. Converting the whole world to Representative Democracy may not be in the best interests of all the people, but it certainly seems to be in the interest of some of the people. The people in the world who are favored to become representatives in a Democratic government have thier own interests at heart all of the time. And the people who are supposed to be represented, may not be represented as well as they should be. For the most part, most of the people don't really know what is in their best interest, and may not even be aware of what decisions are being made that may influence their own lives.

But I believe that 1000 years of peace on Earth is a promise that Heaven will make good on.
All the people of the world will be united under a single monarchy, one man will rule it with an iron rod. This man will have the power of Heaven behind him, so that he will be able to make a very persuasive arguement in favor of peace. This global community will finally be realized as one single nation and one single species and one single community. All barriers of language and race and culture may finally be overcome. These things which exist in the world to divide us from one another are all human creations. We have classified and catagorized and segmented the world around us to such a degree that it even extends into the structure of our societies. We have concieved the heiarchy, a way to divide up our labors into parts so that a large work may be undertaken. Heiarchy is the perfect way for us to organize a group effort, but are the people at the top of our heiarchies really more important than the people further down? We choose to divide our daily work into individual tasks, and we assign those tasks some level of importance. This method is so effective that we go right on to assign some level of importance to the people around us as well. We often judge one another by the careers they perform, some careers are more important that others, or at least more in demand or may require more qualifications.

One place in the world is most Holy and another place is less Holy; the whole idea of holiness is just a way to divide people and places from one another. From my point of view, the entire Earth is God's temple; every square inch of it, and no structure that may ever be raised by the hand of man will ever rival the Earth in sheer beauty (or holiness). One person is more important than myself, and some other people are less important than myself. My immediate family and friends and co-workers are most important to me personally. Some people living elsewhere in the world are entirely un-important to me personally. Some people are more intelligent and some less. Some people are physically handicapped and some perfectly healthy and fit and strong. There are certainly differences between us, but do these differences make us unequal?

From Heaven's point of view, I believe that all of these differences do not make us unequal. It is just like the founding fathers of the US Declaration of Indepence put it, "All men (and women) are created equal." But we hate people who are better than us. We hate people who are different from us. We hate people who dissagree with our own beliefs and feelings. The things that some people do may be very harmful to the welfare of the community, and we hate people who missbehave. Hatred because there are differences between us, and fear because of things people do - these things are driving the world to the brink of insanity. We have been taught insanity, even if we do not realize we are suffering, we may be causing others suffering. We may cause suffering by our lack of action, and some of us may purposely act to be such a cause in the life of another. When we are angry, we want the people in our community to know we are angry, we want other people to suffer with us. And when we are very angry we may easily be inspired to violence. The rest of the world seems to be telling us that violence is ok, violence may be the solution to our problems, this is how other problems get solved in the world today! That the large majority of us are suffering from a condition of insanity and poor understanding is a very serious problem. But it is a problem that may be solvable via education, its possible for the people to get a better understanding. But for the most part this one root cause goes unadressed in the world, the one main problem of our human condition is mostly ignored.

If the world could be freed from violence then perhaps we may have a better chance to address the issues of hatred that motivate so many of our lives. If we have no more reason to fear one another then perhaps we can come out and talk about the things that truely concern us. We need to learn social responsibility, companionship is a basic neccessity of human life. We need to make sure that everybody has companionship in their lives. Offering our attention and our friendship to the person who is being most ignored by the community is a good and worthy thing. Everybody needs to be socialized and it is everybodies responsibility to see that they are.

The 'Prince of Peace' has come and gone in the world, so many years ago, yet still there is no peace. It is time now for the King to come and judge all the nations of world and rule them. A King to turn the world away from the path of violence. A King to command dissarmament, to commence the work of beating swords into plowshares. A King to inspire the people to be motivated by Love and not Hatred, a good father to all the people without reservation. This world is ruled by the nature of the beast, and if the beast can not be tamed it must be destroyed. Like a dog that has been trained to attack by its owner. The responsible members of the community must sieze that dog and destroy it lest it break out of the yard and harm a young child. And the dog's owner should be held accountable if that dog does harm. The one true King will come and gaurentee the children of this Earth 1000 years of peace, and if that guarentee can not be made good then the world must be destroyed. This King may rule the people as a tyrant rules, and the people must show this man meekness. For it has been promised all the land of the Earth to be inhierited by the meek. Those people who all love violence because it empowers them; those people who want the world to be ravished by war because it keeps them in authority, those people may be killed by the power of Heaven itself.

And if you want to teach people Sanity, I could be perfect for the job.

One King to Rule It

According to the Biblical New Testament book of Revelation, one King will appear in the world and rule it with an iron rod. The world has produced a few great kings in our past history, but never before has one man ruled all the people and every nation. And the timing for our world to produce this King couldn't be much better than it is right now.

The book of Revelation seems to be making us some terrible predictions, seems like a lot of bad things have to happen if we follow the story. But the story ends with an amazing victory for all the people in the world, the promise of a resurection and to immortal life. Personally I don't know of any other place in the Christian Bible that promises anything like a resurection. I have no personal knowledge that the promise of a resurection was ever a part of any other major world religion. But if you believe that Jesus raised the dead and himself was raised up from the condition of death, then I suppose its only natural to expect a general resurection. For it was said that Jesus by his sacrifice broke the chains of death that bind us. We don't really know what kind of person this John, the author of the book, really was. He may simply have been prone to wishful thinking, its entirely possible that he suffered from a medical condition that made him more prone to entertaining fantasies. It happens in the modern day that such people do live, and suffer bouts of insanity, and can be diagnosed and treated with psychiatric medications. But no matter how the story originated, it has become a popular and well known story. Perhaps the expectations of the masses have some influence upon the fabric of reality?

But why should a King appear right now? Well Israel has become a soverign state again. Truth be told, Jesus never lived up to the Jewish expectations of a messianic figure. Consider that King David earned his place by liberating Israel from having to fight a terrible war, with a single sling-shot stone. Many of Jesus's supporters no doubt believed that he would liberate Israel from the oppression and occupation of the Roman Empire. But to be perfectly reasonable, an armed revolt against the power of Rome would have been unwinnable at that time. But in addition to the fact that Jesus did not call the Jewish people to armed revolt, he was also a rebel against the authority of the Jewish Establishment. By supporting John's Babtism, Jesus was saying that you didn't even need to go to the temple to be cleansed of your sins. Thats what the power of the temple was all about, making the people pure before God. But Jesus said, no no no you don't have to go there and make a burnt offering, all you need to do is take a bath. You can go down to the river or the sea and take that bath, anybody could afford to take a bath, you don't need to own livestock in order to do it! And not only will the bath cleanse you of your sins, one bath is good enough for life! This could be dissasterous for the authority of the temple priests.

Now the one thing that true believers desire above all else, of the Jewish people in Israel and around the world, is to see the temple rebuilt in Jerusalem. And it must be rebuilt in the exact same spot on temple mount because traditionally it was on that very spot that Adam was first formed from the clay. That spot where God formed Adam is the one place on all the Earth where man can be closest to God. Not only that, but the temple ordinances must be reinstituted in order for the Jewish people to ever have a hope of obtaining a condition of purity. In fact, many Christian believers would love to see the temple rebuilt as well. But one small problem, the Moslem shrine is currently in that spot. Now to the people of Islam, it should be noted that this Dome over the Rock is considered to be 3rd most holy site. But to the Jewish people the site is 1st most holy. If one man comes along now and makes it possible for the temple to be rebuilt, without threatening a terrible war with the people of Islam, then that man would most certainly be considered the true messiah.

Again why now, what is so important about this moment in time? Well according to the Jewish calander the 7th Millenium will commence in about 200 years from now. This is the 7th Millenium since Adam was born and the world was formed. As many of you may be aware the 7's are most holy in the traditions of Judaism, the 7th is the Sabbath and a day of rest. Traditionally all work must be completed prior to the Sabbath, and no labor can be performed on that day. And in the same sense the Sabbath Millenium must be a time to advance spiritual pursuits rather than worldly concerns, all of our worldly concerns should be taken care of. In addition to this timing, it has also been seen that a red hefer was born in Israel. The significance of the red hefer is that such cattle must be used in the burnt offerings for the forgivness of the sins. There has not been a red hefer born in Israel for a very long time, in fact an American fellow was offering to import the animals to Israel. But before it could be done, suddenly a red hefer was born naturally; only just recently this has happened.

Now I would like to remark that even the Moslems will agree that Jesus was a messenger, and what are the contents of his message. Among the messages of Jesus we find two promises that interest me in particular with respect to the need for a King. One, Jesus said that all the land of this Earth would be promised to the meek. Two, Jesus said that one man by the power of faith would be able to move mountains. Many people have assumed that he did not mean literal mountains; but this is also the man who turns water into wine and walks on water. I assume that Jesus might have believed that literal mountains could be moved. And of all mountains that need to be moved, the temple mount in Jerusalem is a prime candidate.

If one man could safely move the temple mount; the the people of Islam will say, "Behold, the mountain comes to Mohamed!" And so the Moslem people will not be angered. And the high place of the Jewish people will be laid low, but the way will be made clear for the rebuilding of the temple. If it is possible for one man to get power over the modern world; and rule every nation with an iron rod, then it will be neccessary for that man to have the power of Heaven at his call. In order for the current world leaders to submit to one man's authority, it will require a very persuasive argument. Just about the only kind of argument that has any influence in the World today is the power to destroy.