Thank you for the question on the future one-world government, “Do you believe a future one-world government, as implied in the Bible, is a good or a bad thing?”
The one world government implemented by the Antichrist is a reign of terror while the one world government implemented by Jesus Christ is a reign of righteousness. Thus there will be two contrasting world rulers and two governments.
Revelations 13 says this, “The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. 6 It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. 7 It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. 8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world…15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. 18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man” (NIV).
Under the rule of the Antichrist, there will be no political, economical, or religious freedom. It will be a one world dictator whom the heads of government will give him the authority to rule over the Earth. During this time period, “natural” calamities will occur upon the earth whereby the call for a one world government to deal with the crisis at hand. Perhaps the Covid pandemic is a precursor of what it may be like when individual freedoms will be suspended for the good of the world’s people. Sadly, death is the penalty for refusing to obey or worship the Antichrist. Those who refuse to receive the mark or identification of this new world government will have to survive underground until the ruler, government or the situation changes.
The contrasting other world government is under the rule of Jesus Christ. It will be a one world dictatorship whom the heads of the government will give him the authority to rule over the Earth. There will be no political, economical or religious freedom. During this time period, there will no natural calamity, diseases, crime or war. There is world wide peace and individual peace. There will be sufficiency for everyone without anyone being deficient. The individuals in this one world government will freely recognize that he is the rightful ruler over the earth and its rules/policies or just and righteous.
Revelations 22 describes the new world government in this manner, “Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’[b] or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away… I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. 24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. 25 On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. 26 The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. 27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life” (NIV).
Given the comparison or contrast between the rule of the Antichrist or the rule of Jesus Christ, each person has to decide which ruler and government one wants to live under. For myself, I want to live in the Kingdom of God where the ruler is just and compassionate, the absence of evil desires and crime, where love and acceptance is given and received by everyone, where the environment is restored and wholesome, where death is defeated and life is abundant. To be able to see the King in his amazing glory and brilliance and to be with him forever and forever.
SUMMARY: Man dreams of a perfect Ruler and a perfect world. It is within his reach in the Kingdom of God.
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