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Governments

"And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people" (Daniel 2:44).

In this section, find out more about the governments of the world, their prophesied role in future events and the final government that will supersede them all.

  • by Fred Nance, John Ross Schroeder
A recent article in Foreign Affairs, titled "The New Population Bomb," shows that one problem with the current population explosion is not so much how many people there will be in the future, but where this increase will be located.
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  • by Melvin Rhodes
Great powers come and go. For more than six decades the United States has been the world's dominant power. Seventy years ago, Great Britain—with its vast empire—was the world's greatest power. Is the United States following Britain's path to decline, to be replaced by another power? Are we seeing the first stages?
  • by Darris McNeely
Europe will go through many more changes before its "dream" and destiny will appear.
  • by Good News
A Newsweek article related a common viewpoint in its introduction, stating, "It's become all fashionable in Washington, Moscow and Beijing these days to dismiss Europe as an aging continent in terminal decline" (Nov. 16, 2009). But the writer, Stefan Theil, did not agree with that assessment—his piece being titled "The Modest Superpower."
  • by Larry Walker
Mankind has to learn the bitter lesson that no human being can solve the many problems that plague us—not only in the United States but in countries all around the world. Who then can save us from the many and serious problems that face mankind?
  • by Darris McNeely
Good personal relationships. Working through sincere differences of opinion. This is what life is all about.
  • by Ronald Kelley
Sadly, in our world today, it seems our children are destined to endure pain because of the selfishness and greed of the generation preceding theirs.
  • by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
With apologies to Mark Twain, it seems the rumors of the death of the European Constitution have been greatly exaggerated. The latest approvals of the Lisbon Treaty signal the coming of a United States of Europe.
  • by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
Files recently smuggled out of Russia freshly reveal former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's and the late French President François Mitterrand's true views of German reunification. Actually Mrs. Thatcher had previously mentioned them herself in her own memoirs (The Downing Street Years, 1993, pp. 792-793).
  • by Darris McNeely
Iran is getting closer to having a viable nuclear weapon capable of reaching Israel and Western nations. The nation of Israel knows that when this day arrives, their existence is in grave danger.
  • by John Ross Schroeder
This historic demand, delivered by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987, came to symbolize the Eastern European revolt against Communist slavery in 1989. Nearly 2 1/2 years after the president's epochal visit, the Berlin Wall collapsed on Nov. 9, 1989. What are the prophetic implications indicated in God's Word?
  • by Melvin Rhodes
Great powers come and go. For more than six decades the United States has been the world's dominant power. Seventy years ago, Great Britain—with its vast empire—was the world's greatest power. Could the United States follow Britain into decline and be replaced by another power? Are we seeing the first stages?
  • by Darris McNeely, Don Hooser
Turkey has been a longtime strategic ally of the West—including Israel—having the second-largest military force in NATO. But Turkey is "signaling it's leaving its Western friends" with its "embrace of extremist neighbors" (Jill Nelson, "Switching Sides," World, Nov. 21, 2009).
  • by Darris McNeely, Don Hooser
World markets went into a near panic during the recent Thanksgiving weekend over news that Dubai World, a key subsidiary of the nation of Dubai, could default on $60 billion of debt. It appears that Dubai's oil-rich cousins in the Persian Gulf region will step in and prevent a total collapse of Dubai.