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True Peace and Security Near!True Peace and Security—How Can You Find It?
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3 An interesting Bible prophecy stated that the time would come when world leaders would actually proclaim “peace and security!”a In fact, when the United Nations declared 1986 an “International Year of Peace” it asked that organizations everywhere make a special effort from that year on to promote the goal of “peace, international security and cooperation.”1
4. If any arrangement for peace and security is to benefit you, what problems must it solve?
4 But would this be a true “peace and security”? Would it reach into your neighborhood and into your home and deal with the problems that affect you personally? Would it solve the problems of increasing crime and drug addiction, rising food costs, heavy taxation, spreading pollution, and the steady decay of family ties? As long as any of those situations continue, they threaten your personal peace and security.
5, 6. On the basis of your own experience in life, do you believe that men are going to solve those problems?
5 True, men hope that they can overcome these difficulties. They say that, freed from the crushing financial burdens of war, they could redirect all that wealth, research, and manpower into solving such problems.
6 Do you really believe that? Is there any solid evidence to show that humans can ever bring lasting solutions? What does history show? Indeed, what does your own experience in life tell you?
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True Peace and Security Near!True Peace and Security—How Can You Find It?
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10 Interestingly, the Bible’s prophecy about “peace and security” noted earlier includes these features: “Whenever it is that they are saying: ‘Peace and security!’ then sudden destruction is to be instantly upon them.” (1 Thessalonians 5:3) So whatever peace and security human leaders proclaim will evidently be of very short duration. For the prophecies indicate that immediately thereafter all human rulerships will be crushed out of existence, to be replaced by one government for all the earth—God’s Kingdom.
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