Many people are looking at our world and are concerned by what they see.
Is there any hope that our world’s problems will ever be solved?
We need a person or group of people with the wisdom, authority and power to implement a solution despite the inevitable opposition.
We will explore whether this is ever likely to happen.
Let’s look at the job specification for a world ruler to see what sort of person this would have to be. An advert might read like this:
WORLD PRESIDENT. Applications are invited for the most important job in the world.
Who then can fill this apparently impossible job?
There is a person whose teaching and wisdom turned the world upside down. There is good reason to believe the record of his life and actions. The person is the Lord Jesus Christ and the record of his life and teaching is in the Bible.
If we look at the Bible, we will see that there are very good reasons to trust its message. The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ has the character required in the “World President” job specification. It also tells us of a rescue plan for our earth. The plan involves the return of the Jesus Christ to the earth to sort out the problems in our world.
The Bible also tells us that we can be involved in this wonderful rescue plan.
Jesus Christ had remarkable powers of leadership. Many men have laid down their lives willingly for his sake
Enforcing his decisions would be no problem. When he was here before, the force of his personality was awe-inspiring. A detachment of armed guards was once sent to arrest him. They came back empty handed, pleading:
“No man ever spoke like this Man!”
John 7 v 46
No one will be able to criticise his behaviour. While he was on earth he threw out a challenge to his opponents:
“Can any of you prove me guilty of sin?”
John 8 v 4
Although they hated Jesus they were never able to take up the challenge. Above all, Jesus Christ is the only great figure in all history who was completely untainted by the love of greatness, power or material possessions. The Bible makes it plain that he always sympathised with the weakness of others. Without doubt, Jesus is the only man who would make a satisfactory world president.
The Bible makes it plain that Jesus Christ is coming back to the earth. When he left the earth, his followers were told:
“This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven”
Acts 1 v 11
The Bible’s rescue plan involves sorting out our world’s problems including:
Here is one section of the Bible that talks about this rescue plan
“The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He will judge between many peoples and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide. They will beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore. Every man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, and no one will make them afraid,”
Micah 4 v 2 to 4
On a personal level, the Bible tells us that we can be involved in this plan. If we die before Jesus comes, we can be raised from the dead.
You can learn more about this rescue plan in the What is the meaning of life? section.
If you would like to explore the Bible message further then have a look at the Learn More about the Bible message page.
