Despite such self-centered attitudes, the need for a great change, a global change, becomes daily more evident. God’s solution to the grave problems facing mankind is to replace the wicked old system with the righteous new one of His design. The whole social and economic system of the present must be terminated with the grinding destruction of human rule by God’s kingdom as promised. “Look! I am making all things new,” says the Sovereign Ruler who authorizes this new government.​—Rev. 21:5.

If you truly love your Creator, your neighbor, your family, yes, your own life, you will be anxious for that change to come. You will not be disappointed either, for its coming will mean many more essential, yes, delightful benefits.

FINALLY​—THE END OF ALL WAR

Under the new administration of God’s kingdom, “nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more.” (Isa. 2:4; Mic. 4:3) What a blessing this will be! No more bombing of cities, no more killing of innocent men, women and children. Earth wide, people “will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.”​—Ps. 37:11.

God’s purpose to bring peace is not dependent on negotiations with any other government, nor is it hindered by their stockpiles of weapons. Jehovah is the Almighty, and all the forces of the universe are at his disposal. It is by means of his kingdom that “he is making wars to cease to the extremity of the earth.” (Ps. 46:9) This he will do by removing all peace disturbers.

As we have seen, this means the destruction of selfish political governments, but that is not all. The Bible also shows that those who personally indulge in strife, hatred and fits of anger, as well as those who disrupt relations with their fellowman by practicing fornication and adultery, “will not inherit God’s kingdom.” (Gal. 5:19-21) So, if we personally want to enjoy the peace that God’s kingdom will bring, we need to take steps now to root such tendencies out of our own lives. That is something that we can do by a conscientious study of the Bible and earnest application of its principles.

NO MORE FALSE RELIGION

The coming of God’s kingdom also means the end of all false forms of worship. Do you know that this too is what you are praying for when you repeat the Lord’s Prayer?

Your Grand Creator tolerates no rivalry. As he states in the Ten Commandments: “You must not have any other gods against my face [or, “in defiance of me”] . . . because I Jehovah your God am a God exacting exclusive devotion.” If Jehovah insisted on such devotion when he ruled over Israel as Judge, Statute-giver and King, no less can be expected when his rule is extended over all the earth.​—Ex. 20:3-5; Isa. 33:22.

This means that drastic changes will come with the take-over of earth’s affairs by the Kingdom, for, as in Paul’s day, so now “there are those who are called ‘gods,’ whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many ‘gods’ and many ‘lords.’” (1 Cor. 8:5) Why, India alone is said to have 330,000,000 gods and goddesses, and these plus many others are worshiped by many persons among the more than two and a half billion of the world’s population who are no part of Christendom. Obviously, if there is to be one united world the divisive forces of all such polytheistic worship must be removed.

Jehovah will likewise soon put an end to the hundreds of different so-called Christian denominations that make up Christendom’s sectarianism. There can be only one way of worshiping the one true God, the way he alone approves. The apostle writes, there is “one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all persons.”​—Eph. 4:5, 6; 1 Cor. 1:10-13.