Jw.org posted a front-page attention-grabber titled “Jesus Will End War.”
It is only three paragraphs, and one paragraph is a passage from the 72nd Psalm that says: “He will rescue the poor who cry for help, also the lowly one and whoever has no helper. He will have pity on the lowly and the poor, and the lives of the poor he will save. From oppression and from violence he will rescue them.”
We might wonder, when will God put an end to war? If the nations are to beat their swords into plowshares, wouldn’t that have to be before Armageddon, since there will be no warring nations after the war of the great day of God Almighty?
Jesus foretold that nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. The Watchtower claims this is history. But according to Jesus, those living when the Son of man is revealed “will see all these things.” No one living today was alive to “see” the outbreak of the First World War. Jesus also went on to foretell that there will be a great tribulation, unlike anything that has ever occurred or will ever occur again. For years and years, without ever offering any scriptural support for their assertion, the Watchtower claims the tribulation will begin when the United Nations liquidates organized religion. Presumably, according to the WT’s eschatology, the tribulation segues into Armageddon. If that were true, though, why would God be compelled to intervene to save mankind from annihilation? No doubt a sizable portion of the world’s population has no religious affiliation. Why, then, will they face extinction without divine intervention?
Isn’t it more reasonable that God will cut short the tribulation that will be in the form of a nuclear war? That is when God will rescue the poor from violence and oppression when they cry to heaven for help.