The world is about to explode, and something must be done to stop it.

March 5, 2018

The world is about to explode, and something must be done to stop it.

This was the general consensus of experts at the February 2018 Munich Security Conference. But at the end of the three-day conference, these foremost international relations experts from around the world found themselves with lots of problems—and no solutions.

Wolfgang Ischinger, chairman of the Munich Security Conference, said on the last day of the conference (emphasis added): “The motto of this conference was ‘To the Brink and Back?’ I was hoping when I opened this conference on Friday that in concluding the conference, I would be able to say we can delete the question mark—in other words, we are back from the brink. I’m actually not sure we can say that. I have not been fully reassured by the discussions over the last two and a half days. We have heard excellent analytical work. We have heard what’s wrong. We have heard what the challenges are, what the nuclear risks and dangers are. We have also heard some wonderful visions, nice ideas about the future of Europe. …

“We know we want to get away from the brink. My friends, the bad news is, we haven’t heard enough [about], at least as far as I’m concerned, what are the CONCRETE STEPS that our leaders—those who have spoken here and those who have not spoken here—what are the concrete steps that are actually going to be taken in order to implement the good visions and in order to prevent the bad perspectives that we have been discussing here.”

This is Ischinger’s big takeaway from his own conference!

Jeremiah 17:9 states that the mind of man is “deceitful above all things, and DESPERATELY WICKED; who can know it?” In Jeremiah and the Greatest Vision in the Bible, my father writes that “desperately wicked” means dangerously or incurably SICK! Our nations, diplomats and international relations experts are products of an educational system that teaches that the human mind is generally good. But THAT IS NOT WHAT GOD’S WORD SAYS!

Herbert W. Armstrong said in a World Tomorrow program in 1980: “But do you know we can’t solve our problems? We’re absolutely helpless when it comes to our problems. We can’t get along with one another: husband can’t get along with wife, parents with children—children with parents. We can’t get along with our neighbors. Management and capital can’t get along with labor. And nation can’t get along with nation. We have troubles. This world is full of troubles. It’s full of violence, full of war. And our troubles are all SPIRITUAL IN NATURE.

“Now the law of God is a spiritual law. And that law is love—out-flowing love: love to God and loving your neighbor as yourself. Oh it’s alright to love yourself as long as you also love your neighbor as yourself. Not very many do. Do you? Not very many do. And so we’re in a world filled with troubles—a world just absolutely filled with troubles.”

My father writes in his booklet Jeremiah and the Greatest Vision in the Bible: “The greatest need is to understand God—to let Him reveal our own sickness and heal it. Until we learn this lesson, we are living under a curse (Jeremiah 17:5).” The greatest lesson that any of us can learn, he writes, is that we are sick and we need God. But our carnal minds are enmity against God (Romans 8:7).

In a 1980 sermon, Mr. Armstrong discussed how he spoke with numerous national leaders, saying: “I’ve known them all over, and I talk to them in the terms that are simple. And they understand. ALL THE TROUBLES IN THE WORLD, ALL OF THE EVILS IN THIS WORLD, HAVE COME FROM LIVING THE WAY OF GET!”

Mr. Armstrong visited more heads of state in their own offices than any other diplomat or ambassador of his day. He was an unofficial ambassador for peace, an ambassador without a portfolio or an international relations degree. But he knew a lot more about international relations than the experts of his day—and many world leaders recognized that fact.

In 1973, Mr. Armstrong was invited to address the International Court of Justice at The Hague. There, he rubbed shoulders with the same kinds of people who were in Munich this February—and he said exactly the same thing that today’s experts said after Munich. They recognized lots of problems, but they had no solutions.

Human beings have developed the International Court of Justice, the United Nations, the Munich Security Conference, and other systems to try to produce peace between nations, but they haven’t worked. Mr. Armstrong wrote: “World-renowned scientists say the world’s only hope, now, is for a WORLD GOVERNMENT—one superpower—one single military force—to rule all nations. In the same breath they say that’s impossible.

“I say, at the same time, the world’s ONLY HOPE of survival is to change human nature! And man is just as powerless to do that!”

There is a way to peace, but as Isaiah 59:8 says, man just doesn’t know that way. He is powerless to change his own nature. That is why we have so many problems—and no solutions.

A “strong hand from someplace” is coming, not from Munich or Brussels or Washington, but from God. God is going to create that single world government and enforce His divine spiritual law, forcing mankind to live the way of peace and happiness. Human nature will change (Joel 2:26). That is the only way we will ever have peace.

To understand more on this subject and Mr. Armstrong’s unique perspective on international relations, read Ambassador for World Peace, by Gerald Flurry.

Stephen Flurry
Executive Editor, theTrumpet.com