God’s Powerful Answer to the Failure of Human Government

Scripture provides us with some perspective on the whole matter of human governments versus God. In Psalm 2:1-6, we read this:

Why do the nations rage,

and the people plot a vain thing?

The kings of the earth set themselves,and the rulers take counsel together,

against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,

“Let us break Their bonds in pieces

and cast away Their cords from us.”

He who sits in the heavens shall laugh,

the Lord shall hold them in derision.

Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,

and distress them in His deep displeasure:

“Yet I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion.”

God is in the heavens laughing at the fools who plot vainly to take counsel against Him. Every earthly kingdom will fail. When Christ returns, He will establish His global empire in Zion, in Israel.

Ephesians 6:12 tells us who we are really battling against: “We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” So while people are the face of the push for a global kingdom, it is the powers and rulers of darkness that are motivating them to think they can create paradise without God. But that’s impossible. Every past effort has ended in ignominious defeat, and every future attempt will end the same way—including the antichrist’s empire.

Psalm 37:1-2 says,

Do not fret because of evildoers,

nor be envious of the workers of iniquity.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass,

and wither as the green herb.

The evildoers who have been plotting and scheming for thousands of years to create a one-world government apart from God have been and will be cut down. A few verses later, the psalmist says, “For yet a little while and the wicked shall be no more” (verse 10). Their efforts are in vain, and God will destroy them.

THE GLORIOUS ONE-WORLD GOVERNMENT OF CHRIST

Now, thereis a good one-world government coming. After the tribulation, Christ will return and set up His kingdom here on earth. He will reign for 1,000 years over what is known as the millennial kingdom (Revelation 20:4-6). He will establish His perfect global government in Jerusalem, from which He will rule all the nations. At last, the utopia only the Lord Himself can bring will be here, and wars will finally cease. The prophet Isaiah says of this time,

They shall beat their swords into plowshares,

and their spears into pruning hooks;

nation shall not lift up sword against nation,

neither shall they learn war anymore (2:4).

Even the animal kingdom will know true peace:

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,

the leopard shall lie down with the young goat,

the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;

and a little child shall lead them (11:6).

What a glorious time this will be!

None of mankind’s attempts to bring peace and prosperity has ever worked, from the Tower of Babel to the world empires of history to the League of Nations, Council on Foreign Relations, and United Nations. That’s because all of them have been and continue to be godless. You cannot succeed when God is left out. Only Christ’s earthly kingdom will bring what people have longed for.

Revelation 11:15 tells us that during the tribulation, when the seventh trumpet sounds, loud voices in heaven will proclaim, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!”

Yes, the Lord Jesus Christ will reign forever and ever. His millennial kingdom on earth will last for 1,000 years, after which He will usher in the new heavens and the new earth and rule for all eternity.

God has incredible plans for the future, and we who are His children are part of those plans. We have much to look forward to—hallelujah!