Doomsday Clock moved closer to midnight
http://www.cnn.com//2015/01/23/us/feat-doomsday-clock-three-minutes-midnight/index.html
Interesting article. However, do we have cause for total alarm? It is true that we need to care for our planet, and strive to live peaceably with one another. We have the ability to display love, justice, wisdom and power. But we were also created with free-will. And with free-will comes decisions that don't always work for the good of all ... that is ... if left in the hands of imperfect mankind.
We must remember: "It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step." Jer.10:23. Fortunately, mankind need not worry much longer. 6000 years of human existence has given man the time necessary to try and govern himself. To try every form of government to see what is the best for all mankind. And this is where we stand: three-minutes-till-midnight. So the question was raised: Can Humans Guarantee A Happy Future?*
Yet, it is not totally man's fault. "The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one." 1 John 5:7. And we were created to look to a higher authority than ourselves for guidance in life. That Authority is God. Isaiah 33:22; Acts 4:19; 5:29.
So, yes ... sadly, "man has misused God’s beautiful gift to the point of ruination. Yet, the Creator’s purpose has not changed. A man of old said: “God is not a mere man who tells lies, nor a son of man who changes his mind. When he says something, will he not do it?” (Numbers 23:19) In fact, rather than allow the earth to be ruined, the time is rapidly approaching for God to “bring to ruin those ruining the earth.”—Revelation 11:18."#
Then notice what God promises next: "And the One seated on the throne said: “Look! I am making all things new.” Also he says: “Write, for these words are faithful and true.”" Rev. 21:5. Does this statement give us reason to fear?
*http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102008161?q=man+to+direct+his+step&p=par
#http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2014642?q=bring+to+ruin+those+ruining+the+earth&p=par
