The earth is dying. Massive increases in earthquakes. Depletion of the ozone layer. Oceans becoming toxic dumps. A billion people starving. Global warming, creating climatic changes in epic proportions. An exploding population. Chemically–depleted soils. The destruction of the rainforests. Industrialization of third–world countries. The whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth (Rom 8:22). Contractions that are growing in intensity. Contractions that point that a momentous twinkle, where the sons of God will be revealed and the Creator of the universe returns to rescue a world that is in the throws of death.

Unless mankind learns how to work together, we could be facing extinction. The United Nations has been a catalyst helping countries to work together toward a better world. But it does not have the authority that a single world government would need to bring about positive decisive world–wide changes. Political posturing has created an inefficient bureaucracy that is unable to make quick, efficient decisions that are so desperately needed. Democracy may be the fairest way to govern, but totalitarianism is the most efficient. Unless man is able to move in concert with decisive efficiency, we are facing ecological disaster. The herd is in desperate need of a powerful shepherd.