The Sound of the Trumpet:  To preserve, publish, proclaim, plant, protect, and propagate the Abrahamic
Faith.  A publication of the Carolina and Georgia Conferences of the Churches of God of the Abrahamic Faith.
World Peace is Coming!

Animosity, bloodshed, and war will soon end!
The world will finally enjoy peace - through true love.


Love! Peace! The flower children of the 1960s shouted these lofty words everywhere. They protested against injustice and
bloodshed — they sang and even cried about something better.

But love and peace never came.

The days of the flower children are long gone, but the need for world peace remains. The world is on the very brink of
destroying itself!

Yes, what the world needs now is love, but not the ineffectual love of the flower children, nor any other love of this world. We
need the effectual love of God to change this world. God's true love will finally produce peace on earth.

The Cause of Hatred
Hatred destroys peace. But what causes people to hate one another? When did animosity first rear its ugly head? Let's go
back to the beginning and see.

In the Garden of Eden grew two trees: the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:9). These two
important trees represented two ways of life.

The tree of life represented the way of giving, the way of God's love, the way that will permeate the future earth. Jesus Christ
tells us that God's love has two main aspects. Listen as Jesus paints the beautiful picture: "You shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it:
You shall love your neighbor as yourself (Matthew 22:37-39).

Jesus made it vividly clear that what Adam could have gained from the tree of life covered two important areas, just as God's
law is divided into two branches. The first four commandments of the Ten Commandments teach us how to love God. The last
six show us how to love our fellowman to produce peace through love.

Wrong Tree
But unfortunately, Adam, and all of humanity with him, rejected the tree of love and the fruit of peace. Adam chose the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil, the get tree, the tree of enmity — the tree that produced the terrible world today.

When he ate the fruit of the wrong tree, Adam's mind became saturated with the attitude of competition and strife. After all, you
are what you eat! The human mind absorbs the carnal attitude toward God and neighbor, and humanity has known nothing
but hatred and death ever since. As Romans 8:6 says, "For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life
and peace. "

Why can't man find peace? "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed
can be " (verse 7). Man's very nature hates God's tree of love — the tree that leads to peace through love.

When will there be peace? When the Prince of peace is enthroned. When man stops eating of the tree of enmity and starts
eating of the tree of love. Then peace shall reign! And that is exactly what will happen in the future.

A New Era
Yes, the Prince of peace shall come! The angels shall shout: "The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our
Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!" (Revela-tion 11:15).

Jesus Christ will set His hand to bring peace to this world. He will force the nations to "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 " (Isaiah 2:
4). They will learn the way of peace.

Then will be "the times of restoration of all things" (Acts 3:21). God's Spirit of love will be poured out all over this earth (Joel 2:
28). Love and peace will be everywhere, because the love of God will be poured out in the hearts of people by the Holy Spirit
(Romans 5:5).

The Way to Peace
Love and peace will no longer be empty words. Almighty God will fill them with substance — with action. For peace will never
come by words alone, but by every act of love.  God will teach people how to love one another through His law. In the Kingdom
to come, world leaders will be eager to obey. They will say: "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house
of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths. For out of Zion the law shall go forth, and the
word of the Lord from Jerusalem " (Micah 4:2).

And you can be there with Jesus Christ teaching the nations (Isaiah 30:20-21)! God is giving you an opportunity now to learn
and live the way to peace. Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God" (Matthew 5:9).

Jesus Christ frees us from the way of competition and strife. He gives us the opportunity to love our brother as ourselves. We
must crucify selfish concerns and motivations and let Jesus Christ live His life in us (Galatians 2:20). Then we must give to our
fellowman as one in Christ (Galatians 3:26-29).  

You will teach the nations to enjoy what God has given them and not lust after what God has given their neighbors. They will
learn to praise God for his bountiful blessings — to rejoice with their neighbors rather than covet. The whole world will rejoice
in thanksgiving to God. God's law of love will form the foundation of world peace, which will be perfected through oneness.
God's love goes beyond being "your brother s keeper. " God wants you and all humanity to say, "I am my brother." Once we
reach that pinnacle of love, world peace will be perfected.

One World Under God
Love is not just what you say, it's what you do. Words of love must be backed up with acts of love (1 John 3:18). In the coming
age you will teach the nations to become one with their brothers. For people to live in oneness and peace they must accept
one another. Many people refuse to accept others because they are different. Love requires complete acceptance of others.

Imagine all the nations of the world helping and serving one another — what a wonderful world it will be!

Tree of Life Open
Almost 6,000 years ago Adam rejected the tree of life — God's peace tree. Humanity will be given another opportunity to
partake of this tree. Man will learn to love his fellowman through God's law. Men will not be mere blood brothers, but spirit
brothers — one forever. They will accept one another, admire one another and administer or serve with one another.

World peace will come through love. Let us live the way of peace now, and when Jesus Christ returns let us spread it all over
the world! Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with you! You must live it before you can teach it.