Imagine - No more war?

Question

Imagine if there was no more crime. Not having to lock our homes or our cars everyday and night. No annoying car alarms. Imagine letting your children go outside and play without worrying about child molestors or kidnappers. Imagine not getting sick anymore, no cancer, no AIDS, no flu or cold, nothing! Imagine if we did not have any war, no more sending family members off with the possibility we may never see them again. Imagine if we were at peace even with the animals. How would you like to playfully wrestle a bengal tiger or swim with a killer whale? Imagine if we could live forever and never had to worry about dying. All the things we could not get done in our short lifetime, we would have forever to get to it. Imagine no borders, no separating of the human race, you could just go wherever you please, no passport required, enjoy the earth! Imagine no more people being homeless and no one going hungry anymore. Is it just me or does this sound appealing to anyone else?

Answer 1

Accomplishing all that would require a perfect government.

Jehovah's Witnesses understand the Scriptures to teach that God's Kingdom will soon replace all earthly governments.
(Daniel 2:44) God of heaven will set up a kingdom... It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite

That Kingdom will rule over the vast majority of mankind, most of whom will have been raised from the dead after Armageddon.
(John 11:23,24) Jesus said to her: “Your brother will rise.” Martha said to him: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.”
(Acts 24:15) There is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

Until that resurrection, there is no suffering in "hell", or the grave. Sometime after the resurrection, death and "hell" will themselves be destroyed.
(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all
(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]
(Revelation 20:14) And death and Hades ["hell"] were hurled into the lake of fire

While a limitted number of humans will be resurrected to heaven to share in ruling over mankind, the vast majority (literally more than 99.9%) of Jehovah's Witnesses expect an EARTHLY hope, the same hope given to Adam and Eve.
(Genesis 1:28) God blessed them and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many and fill THE EARTH and subdue it [caps added]
(Genesis 2:17) You must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die [so never eating from that tree means never dying]

Interestingly, the Scriptures are full of references to this earthly hope.
(Psalms 37:11) 'the meek will possess the earth'
(Proverbs 2:21) 'upright will reside in the earth'
(Isaiah 45:18) 'God formed the earth to be inhabited'
(Matthew 5:5) 'the mild will inherit the earth'
(Revelation 21:3) The tent of God is with mankind

Jehovah's Witnesses' official website:
http://watchtower.org
http://watchtower.org/library/jt/index.htm

Answer 2

Are you a Jehovah's Witness? I figure by the way you talk of playing with the lion or tiger that you probably are. Do your elders know that you are preaching on line? I think that they say being on line preaching is not the right way. Your suppose to go door to door. The Internet is not recommended. The society frowns on it.Be careful before you get brought into an elders meeting and talked to.

Answer 3

Imagine if John Lennon hadn't been a heroin freak -- he might have been able to affect change the world with realistic solutions rather than spout the drug induced - rose colored glasses -- polyanna crap instead.

I don't want to be at peace with the animals, because I likes me a big hunk o steak.

Answer 4

When the LORD comes back we wont have to IMAGINE. All those who truly believe will have all that you just talked about. All we have to do is just believe and walk in the LIGHT OF THE LORD.

Answer 5

Imagine waking up and realizing that none of these things will ever come to pass.

Answer 6

It Is very appealing and also very true according to scripture. Allso whether i am there or not, i choose paradise on earth! love to play with a big old panda! :)

Answer 7

difficult 2 acheiv but not imposssible. nothin is impossible if god wills.

if this happens then this peice of rock dangling in solar system will b heaven on earth. and i 4 sure will b happy 2 c smilin faces after a long while of wat i c now (pain, suffering and sorrow)

Answer 8

You bet and I look forward to that during the millennium.

Answer 9

There IS a place like that....its called HEAVEN.

Answer 10

Its sounds nice most of it sounds l ike Kenya. lol.