The UN Millennium Manifesto
A commentary by Howard Davis
Host of the Tomorrow TV program, Portland, Oregon
My interview with the charismatic Ghanaian
Marian Aggrey of the United Nations' Public Information Department
last month in New York was an eye opener.
We sat at the center table below the President's name plate in
the impressive Security Council Chamber. She spoke articulately about
the United Nations' Millennium Goals.
The goals she described to improve the lives of billions of people
seemed incredibly modest. I wouldn't want my children to live like
the bottom two billion people on this UN agenda even if its goals are
achieved. Neither would most of the readers of this article. Most at
that level of poverty likely do not even have access to read what I am
about to say.
Imagine a world in which the continent of Africa is as prosperous as
America, every country in Asia and South America as wealthier than any
nation in the world of the past century, and the financial flow of wealth
to the Middle East as so vast it could literally pave streets in gold.
Such a world appears beyond our human ability to believe.
Is such a world impossible? Not if you believe what Jesus Christ has
said about the future!
But the vision projected in the official goals of the UN is far more
limited. Not that there is anything wrong with its goals—except
that they provide no hope for hundreds of millions left to languish and
die.
The United Nations Millennium Goals define a series of specific
global possibilities for human progress. UN planners say these are attainable.
However, many people—even in fabulously wealthy America—suspect
they are impossible dreams.
But it is encouraging that at least a serious discussion of an eventual
end of poverty on earth is now emerging. Having come from West Africa
herself, Ms. Aggrey compassionately explained the value of the currently
limited but critical UN goals for many hundreds of millions of people.
By 2015 world leaders hope to cut in half the number of people with
income of less than one dollar a day, eliminate poison from the water
supply of the poor populations of the world, cut in half the number of
people experiencing severe malnutrition and then by 2020 remove hundreds
millions of people from desperate slum conditions. Yet, these projections
will still leave a half billion people behind.
It is important to note that human leaders have laudable goals of helping
all human beings achieve their potential and be relieved of desperate
poverty, hunger, disease, and abuse. But we must understand that they
are tinkering with a human race profoundly flawed by its selfishness.
The United Nations can do little to alter that problem.
But God has a Millennium Manifesto that will fix that critical flaw.
God's Millennium Prophecy at the United Nations
The United Nations itself acknowledges the existence of this divine
millennial prophecy. It is displayed in the wide circular stairway which
leads up to the street called United Nations Way, across from the main
headquarters building.
On the wall facing the United Nations building the famous Isaiah prophecy
of the biblically projected Millennium surrounded me as I walked from
my appointment with Ms. Aggrey. It is the icon of the hoped for reality
behind the vision of the United Nations charter, endorsed by all the
nations of the world today. It is complemented by the famous quote from
Isaiah on the statute donated by the Soviet Union in 1959 and rests in
the park along the east side of the Headquarters building along the Hudson
River.
Celebrating the literal disarmament of all nations of the world, it
refers directly to the future administration of Jesus Christ as prophesied
in Isaiah 2:2-4: "For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the
Word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations and
rebuke many people. 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."
In this wonderful "world to come" (Hebrews 2:5), the trillions
of dollars spent on military efforts in our world today will then be
diverted to human development, not destruction.
What a future for the world!
This prophecy is real. It existed prior to the United Nations and its
Millennium Goals by more than 2,500 years.
Which is the more powerful vision, the greater hope? Which will you
believe?
Be a believer of the best. Be your brother's keeper.
 Put
yourself in the picture of Jesus Christ's Millennium Manifesto.
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