Coming: A World Safe for Children

Posted July 25, 2008

A commentary by Erik Jones

Amber Alerts flash across our highway signs. Our local television newscasts report yet another terrifying child abduction in America!

In the United States, 85 to 90 percent of reported missing persons are under the age of 18. From 1982 to 2000, missing persons reports increased by 468 percent to an astounding 800,000+ each year (klaaskids.org).

Sadly, this is one tragic part of the overall breakdown of the family structure in our world today. Even more troubling is that juvenile abductions are so often linked to the selfish, violent and perverted act of sexual abuse.

Child abduction is just one danger that children face in the world today. Negative media influences, an oversexualized culture, inadequate education, poor celebrity examples, parental neglect and eating disorders are a few of the serious dangers facing young people today in the Western world.

One clear function of the human family should be to protect and guard the safety and purity of children. Vertical Thought is committed to proclaiming to the world that there is a solution to the seemingly insoluble problems that endanger today's youth. The world can and will be made safe for children.

Two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ walked the earth speaking about the good news of the Kingdom of God (Mark 1:14). He came to earth bringing a message of a new world that He would establish in our near future.

Bible prophecy predicts with certainty that in the Kingdom of God child abductions and sexual abuse will not happen—no more Amber Alerts!

As ruler of all nations then, Jesus will put a great focus on educating children. He will personally lead a worldwide educational system designed to build and develop the mental and spiritual knowledge base of children. "All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children" (Isaiah 54:13).

During His human ministry Christ spent time and energy personally interacting with young children (Matthew 19:13-14). As a result of His righteous leadership and government dedicated to educating and protecting children, the world will be a place where children can grow and play without fear of abductions and other negative influences.

The Bible paints a beautiful picture of this safe world to come: "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play by the cobra's hole, and the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper's den" (Isaiah 11:6-8, emphasis added throughout).

Soon this evil world will be transformed into a world made safe for children! The wild nature of animals will be changed—but even more impressive and vital will be the change in the nature of society and adults. Instead of seeing constant news of the abuse and mistreatment of children, we will look on a world where "the streets of the city [Jerusalem and all cities by extension] shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets" (Zechariah 8:5).

Your safety and that of other young people and children is just one way the world will change when Jesus Christ establishes His Kingdom on earth.

To learn more about how this world will be transformed, take a look at "The Promise of a Coming Kingdom." Actively anticipating that new world of the future can lead to huge changes in your life now! VT