ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROBLEMS MANY POOR NATION FACE TODAY is the so-called “debt crisis.” They unwisely borrowed billions of dollars from the richer nations, thinking that these loans would enable them to produce more goods and make more money and then they’d pay back their debts, but the rich who loaned them all of this money surely must have known that the poor countries would never be able to pay them back. The Bible says, “The borrower is servant to the lender” (Proverbs 22:7), and that’s the real reason why the rich loaned them the money in the first place—to make slaves out of the poor.
Even though some of this borrowed money has helped the poor nations to produce more goods from their factories and farms, the rich countries have selfishly refused to pay fair prices for these goods, forcing the debtor nations deeper into debt. This heavy burden of debt is crushing many of the poor nations, causing more people to be without jobs, more people without enough food, and more disease, misery, and unhappiness than ever.
But thank God, relief is on the way in the form of God’s love and salvation! After Jesus’ return (the “Second Coming”), Heaven will come to Earth, literally. The great golden city foretold in the Bible—a city over 2,000 km (nearly 1,500 miles) wide, high, and long—will descend from God to Earth, and at last there will be peace and plenty for all.
But before this can happen, the Bible tells us that there must first arise a Devil-possessed dictator, the Antichrist, who will set up an anti-God world empire and rule for seven years (2 Thessalonians 2:1–9; Revelation chapter 13).
Then, at the end of the Antichrist’s reign, Jesus Christ will return “in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory” to rescue the “saved”—all those who have received Him as their Savior (Matthew 24:29–31). The bodies of the saved who have died will be resurrected, and the saved who are still alive will be instantly changed and rise up to meet Jesus in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:15–18). Then all the saved will go with Him to a great victory celebration in Heaven.
Meanwhile, the armies of the Antichrist will gather in Israel to fight the armies of the nations who have refused to yield to his government. But Jesus will return again—this time with the armies of Heaven—to conquer and destroy the Antichrist’s worldwide kingdom and to rescue all those who are fighting against him in the Battle of Armageddon (Revelation 16:13–17; 19:11–21).
The Lord and His heavenly forces—His angels and the resurrected saved—will then work together with those on Earth who survive the Battle of Armageddon to build a wonderful new world, the Kingdom of God on Earth. At last, “Your Kingdom come. Your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven” will be a living reality (Matthew 6:10). This period will last for 1,000 years, and is therefore known as “the Millennium.”
It will truly be one world, ruled in love by the King of kings, Jesus Christ Himself. There will be no more war, no more poor, no more cruel and unjust governments, and no more oppressed developing world then—only a beautiful, glorious, just, and merciful reign of Heaven on Earth by Jesus and His angelic and saintly servants who will police and govern the Earth’s people.
Would you like to be one of the supernatural, resurrected citizens of God’s Kingdom who will rule with Jesus over all the Earth in that day? Well, you can be! All you have to do is receive Jesus, God’s Son, as your personal Savior by asking Him to come into your heart. You can do it right now by praying the following prayer:
Jesus, I believe that You are the Son of God and that You died for me. Please forgive me for all my sins. I now open the door of my heart and I ask You to come in and give me Your gift of eternal life. Amen.