From: allan-sv@algonet.se   
      
                           The conclusion of this age   
      
   In Daniel 2nd Chapter we can read about the king Nebuchadnezzar's   
   dream and the image he saw. The verses 34 and 35, "Thou sawest till   
   that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon   
   his feet that were of iron and clay, and break them to pieces. Then   
   was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to   
   pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer   
   threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was   
   found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great   
   mountain, and filled the whole earth."   
      
   The verse 44, "And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven   
   set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom   
   shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and   
   consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever."   
      
   We are there now. The Lord will set up his kingdom on the earth,   
   and other kingdoms come to a rapid end. Jesus' coming and the   
   establishment of the Kingdom of God on this earth is something so   
   tremendous great and revolutionary. Anything similar has never   
   happened in the history of the world. This we have now quite   
   before us. Soon this age comes to conclude. What do the Viewing   
   people know of that? They sit and look at a censored TV, and mean   
   that they inform them and move with the times. With entertainment,   
   playing sport and film the people are lulled into a sense of security.   
   They dream about, and are planning for a future about which they   
   know nothing.   
      
   People speak very much about peace, but they avoid talking about   
   the direct cause of the danger of war. Therefore, all peace negotiations   
   come to failure in the end. The effort to achieve peace comes to   
   failure because of the fact that the people are not willing to repent   
   and convert to the Lord.   
   When God has all power and authority, why cannot God create   
   peace on the earth? He can do it. Why is he not willing to do it?   
   He wants to do it. Why then does, he not does it? Because the   
   people are unwilling. Jesus came unto his own, and his own   
   received him not. John 1:10-11. So it is still today. The world   
   does not believe in God and has left his power out of account.   
   People will have nothing to do with Jesus and they will not   
   come to the light because their deeds are evil.   
      
   Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name,   
   he gave the right to become children of God. So it is still today.   
   Those who receive Jesus as their Saviour get his power to live   
   in victory over the sin, the devil and the world, for everyone born   
   of God has overcome the world. This is the victory that overcomes   
   the world, even our faith. 1 John 5:4-5.   
      
   Why does not God put an end of the devil's power and create peace   
   on the earth? It is just this that God has promised to do. For God   
   sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the   
   world through him might be saved. John 3:17. Yet, the world will   
   not receive the help that God wants to give. The world will not   
   return to the Lord, but wish too rather serves the devil and believe   
   in his lies. Therefore, God's word says: Love not the world, neither   
   the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love   
   of the Father is not in him. 1 John 2:15. Friendship of the world is   
   enmity with God. Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world   
   is the enemy of God. James 4:4.   
      
   The world will not humble itself before God and therefore God   
   must judge the world before he can create peace on the earth. What   
   now is taking place in the world, and what that comes to happen,   
   is what the Christians all the times have been longing for. This   
   age of evil gets an end and this ungodly world gets its Judgement,   
   and that Jesus comes to restore his kingdom on the earth. Already   
   now we Christians can live in victory over the sin, the world and   
   the devil, because Jesus is with us, even unto the end of the world.   
   Matt. 28:20.   
      
   Even if many people try to make disarmament and speak about   
   peace, yet this age comes to conclude according to God's word.   
   A short work will the Lord make upon the earth. Rom.9:28.   
   After that it will be peace on the earth.   
      
   Allan Svensson   
      
      
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