Looking at the citizens of the globe at this time, just before 2000 AD, is a melancholy affair! We can sympathise
with these unsaved people in a way, they are afraid and in despair about the state of our fallen world. They want
no more war, the sight of broken bodies, limbless children, the rubble of cities destroyed and the thought of
nuclear weapons is so sickening that they will do anything to bring peace. The world wants an environment
which is not polluted, they want the paradise that was lost at Eden. The world is tired of greed, grasping
selfishness, intolerance, and the rich oppressing the poor. But the world is not tired of immorality, lust,
pleasure-seeking and unholiness. They want to have what can only be had from GOD, but they do not want God.
They want peace without the Prince of Peace. They want paradise without the Holy, Pure Creator being in
Sovereign control. They want the effects of the fall of creation to be done away with, but they don't want the purity
of Jesus Christ's life to dominate in His Millennial Reign. They want sin to be ignored, "love" to be all, but the
greatest act of love the universe has ever seen they regard as ghastly and vile - the act when God gave His only
Son as a blood sacrifice for the sin of the world.

The world yearns for what it can never have on its own terms! The majority will not bow to the Almighty God! All
the things they want are a description of what GOD is and gives. The foolish lost humans are going further away
from the treasures of peace, love and paradise that they seek. Now they are intent on rejecting the Saviour of
the world in greater fury and arrogance than ever before. Yet, He was the only way out for them. Thank God He
is bringing judgement on this planet soon, for that is the only way that multitudes will ever listen to the voice of
the Creator, and He loves them so much.
 

"For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world through him might be saved."

THE WICKED NATIONS ARE PAGAN!
The year 2000 AD will bring a new millennium which is marked by
neo-paganism, and utter rejection of the One True God. The Lord God Almighty, who knows already what the
future will bring, has revealed what will occur shortly. There will be a great outpouring of God's wrath in the
Tribulation, (Revelation 6-19), and then (Isaiah 45: 16-25) those who have escaped the Beast, who have never
worshipped this Antichrist, will make worldwide acknowledgment of God. After the Restoration of Israel, when
they will receive Jesus Christ as their Messiah ( Ezekiel 36:25-28), there will an enlightenment and a
deliverance of the Gentile nations. In v.20, these words appear in the stupendous prophecy of Isaiah 45:16-25:
"Assemble yourselves, and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations..."

All the evil worshippers of the Beast and his image have been removed from the earth, in preparation for the
Millennial Reign - which they will not take part in! There has been a Divine judgement through angelic ministry
(Rev.14:9-11; cp. Matt.13:49). God declares to the whole universe that the evil New World Order with its
Interfaith multi-gods, and its rejection of the Son of God's shed Blood, will be no more. God's scathing remarks
in Isaiah 41:22,26 show what He thinks of these false gods and their worshippers, He challenges them to
foretell the future, these idols cannot! God alone can tell the future events: "Shew the things that are to come
hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it
together...

Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforehand, that we may say, He is righteous?
yes, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that heareth your words."

In Isaiah 45:18 God says: "I am the Lord; and there is none else."

In verse 21 He says: "and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me."

When the worldwide acknowledgment and worship of the Lord God Almighty comes, God's Divine purposes
will be fulfilled at last. In verse 23: "I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness,
and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear."

God has purposed in His Might and Wisdom, and has sworn by Himself, He has made an oath, that in the early
Millennial conditions, every person will be in subjection to the Lord's authority, they will confess with their
tongues the inerrancy of justice of God's judgement on the earth, and His right to absolute Sovereignty! GOD
has spoken this, His word has already gone forth, and it "shall not return", it cannot be altered! See also Isaiah
55:11: "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall
accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it."

Verse 24 shows that in the Millennial Reign the people who reImages on earth will voluntarily give honour and
homage to God, notice the "in the Lord": "Surely, shall one say, IN THE LORD have I righteousness and
strength..."

The enemies of God will also bow the knee as shown in another passage, Philippians 2:10: "That at the name
of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth."

These words apply right now to the Interfaith and One World Church supporters: "They shall be ashamed, and
also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols....they have no
knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save....and all that are
incensed against him (God) shall be ashamed." (Isaiah 45:16,20,24).

What about the Church Age believers? We too will bow the knee, and every one of our tongues will confess the
Lord, as we stand before the Judgement Seat of Christ. See Romans 14:11: "For it is written, As I live, saith the
Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God."

The phrase "as I live" is a form of the Divine oath, which expresses His power, majesty and authority.

"AS I LIVE": "But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord." ( Numbers 14:21).

"See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and make alive; I wound, and I heal; neither is
there any that can deliver out of my hand.

For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever." (Deuteronomy 32:39-40).

The One World Church and the One World Government will be short-lived, the vows of the Almighty will soon
come to pass: "Men will come to Him from every part of the world; antagonists will be put to shame. The seed of
Israel will be justified (made righteous), not by the works of the Law but "in the Lord", in a joyous
acknowledgment of their Messiah by virtue of their relationship to Him. In Him they "shall glory", not in their
superiority and prowess. And Israel will have a spiritual seed, all being justified on the ground of the atoning
sacrifice of Calvary. That which is now being wrought out among Jew and Gentile in this day of gospel grace for
the formation of the Church, will have its counterpart in the redeemed on earth in the Millennial Kingdom."
("Isaiah" by W.E. Vine, p.134).

"In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory." (Isaiah 45:25).

W. B. Howard ...Editor of Despatch

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