AntiChrist RZ 12/02 - Tomorrow's World

The Ten Commandments
to the rule of God’s law of love. Dwight D. Eisenhower once said:
“Man’s hope for world peace does not rest in opposing armed
camps, but in an idea. That idea is the concept of a rule of law as
the means of settling disputes among sovereign states.” Whether
this former President realized it or not, he pointed out the fact
that only the government of God, based on His laws, will solve the
problems of men and nations! But meanwhile, true Christians
must work and pray for God’s Kingdom of peace, and we must
realize that the spirit of war is the spirit of murder—and avoid it
with all of our strength.
Speaking before the League of Nations, American clergyman
Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick years ago put this thought in a very
powerful way that still rings true today: “We cannot reconcile
Jesus Christ and war—that is the essence of the matter. That is the
challenge which today should stir the conscience of Christendom.
War is the most colossal and ruinous social sin that afflicts
mankind, it is utterly and irremediably unchristian; in its total
method and effect it means everything that Jesus did not mean
and it means nothing that He did mean; it is a more blatant denial
of every Christian doctrine about God and man than all the theoretical
atheists on earth ever could devise. It would be worthwhile,
would it not, to see the Christian Church claim as her own this
greatest moral issue of our time, to see her lift once more as in our
fathers’ days, a clear standard against the paganism of this present
world and, refusing to hold her conscience at the beck and call of
belligerent states, put the kingdom of God above nationalism and
call the world to peace. That would not be the denial of patriotism
but its apotheosis.”
The essence of the matter is that Jesus Christ is against the
spirit of murder in every form. He is against war—and someday
He will put an end to it forever! He is against all malice and envy
and hate. Jesus Christ taught the dignity of mankind and the
sacredness of human life—”Created in the image of God.” And the
great Father of Jesus Christ, the Almighty God who governs the
universe from His throne in heaven—that God thunders at an age
of violence and rebellion: “You shall not murder.”
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