The Good News of the
Wonderful World of Tomorrow

Adapted by Charles J. Voss and Sandra K. Zawada
Based on an article by Herbert W. Armstrong

Chapter 6 - Now Picture Tomorrow’s World!

We have covered some things pertaining to the organization of the government that will rule tomorrow’s world. Picture the changed conditions. Look at the solved problems.

See now a glimpse into a world of no illiteracy, no poverty, no famine and starvation. Look into a world where crime decreases rapidly, people learn honesty, there is chastity, human kindness, and happiness--a world of peace, prosperity, abundant well-being as promised.

The Population Explosion Solved

The CREATOR predicts vast reforms everywhere in the wonderful utopian era He says will soon break out on this earth. Can you imagine it? A world making great strides in solving the most crucial problems facing mankind.

Today--the greatest and most awesome problem of all is the population explosion. Growing populations in all nations are rapidly outstripping the ability of human society and governments to sustain them.

The areas of the greatest rise in population are the underdeveloped parts of the world--the “have-not” nations of poverty, illiteracy, disease, and superstition. Remember not more than 10 percent of the earth’s surface is tillable or arable land. In addition, the latest UN figures indicate the world will be a staggering 8 billion by 2013 CE.

The daily, ominous pressure of world population is one of the truly incomprehensible problems today. Nevertheless, ETERNAL already has the solution ... and how simple it is! Simply make most of the earth cultivatable.

1) Reduce the bare snow-swept craggy mountains, raise up some of the deep arid desert valleys, and change the world weather patterns. Make all the deserts green and fertile. Open up huge slices of the earth, like the Kalahari Desert, the Lake Chad basin and the Sahara in Africa, the Gobi Desert in Asia, and the great American deserts. Make green and verdant the vast wastes of Mongolia, Siberia, Saudi Arabia and many of the Western states in the U.S.

2) Thaw out the deep ice packs and snowdrifts, the permafrost and tundra from the vast almost limitless expanses of Antarctica, North America, Greenland, Northern Europe, and Siberia. Make level the awesome Pamir Knot, the huge giants of the Himalayas, the Atlas, Taurus, Pyrenees, Rockies, Sierras and Hindu Kush--level the immense sweep of the Andes, and all the other forbidding, towering, virtually uninhabitable mountains of earth.

3) Then provide good gentle rainfall in right balance just in the right season. If those things are done what will be the outcome? Multiple millions of acres of unbelievably fertile, productive, wonderful farmland suddenly becomes available--just waiting to be discovered and pioneered. Impossible? Yes, in the hands of man. However, look what ETERNAL promises.

Isaiah 41:14-16 (TLB). Despised though you are, fear not, O Israel; for I will help you. I am ETERNAL, your Savior; I am the Righteous One of Israel. You shall be a new and sharp-toothed threshing instrument to tear all enemies apart, making chaff of mountains [governments]. You shall toss them in the air; the wind shall blow them all away; whirlwinds shall scatter them. And the joy of ETERNAL shall fill you full; you shall glory in the SOVEREIGN of Israel.

...41:17-21. When the poor and needy seek water and there is none, and their tongues are parched from thirst, then I will answer when they cry to Me. I, Israel’s SOVEREIGN, will not ever forsake them. I will open up rivers for them on high plateaus! I will give them fountains of water in the valleys! In the deserts will be pools of water, and rivers fed by springs shall flow across the dry, parched ground. I will plant trees--cedars, myrtle, olive, the cypress, fir and pine--on barren land. Everyone will see this miracle and understand that it is the SOVEREIGN who did it, Israel’s Righteous One. Can your idols make such claims as these? Let them come and show what they can do! says the SOVEREIGN, the King of Israel.

Pure Water--Fertile Deserts

Can you imagine such a fabulous scene? Deserts becoming green, fertile, garden lands of trees, shrubs, bubbling springs and brooks, mountains brought low, and made habitable. Notice how ETERNAL describes these conditions in many parts of the Scriptures.

Isaiah 35:6-7 (TLB). The lame man will leap up like a deer, and those who could not speak will shout and sing! Springs will burst forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert. The parched ground will become a pool, with springs of water in the thirsty land. Where desert jackals lived, there will be reeds and rushes!

Read the whole 35th chapter of Isaiah starting with ETERNAL’s words...

...35:1-3. Even the wilderness and desert will rejoice in those days; the desert will blossom with flowers. Yes, there will be an abundance of flowers and singing and joy! The deserts will become as green as the Lebanon mountains, as lovely as Mount Carmel’s pastures and Sharon’s meadows; for ETERNAL will display His glory there, the excellency of our SOVEREIGN. With this news bring cheer to all discouraged ones...

Some years ago in a dry dusty canyon deep in the profusion of hills between Bakersfield and Los Angeles, California, a minor earthquake struck. The proprietors of a small resort, now almost totally ignored, and nearly always deserted because of the parched conditions of the area were considering closing up and moving elsewhere.

Suddenly, a groaning jolting earthquake rippled through the arid hills. Not long after the earth rocked and groaned beneath their feet, they heard a faint gurgling sound. They ran to the dry, dusty creek bed that coursed through their property--and were utterly amazed to see water flowing swiftly along. As the creek gradually cleared up, they found the water crystal clear and pure--sweet and refreshing to drink.

Needless to say, their business picked up. Somehow, the earthquake had broken open an underground water source sending it cascading through their property.

Think about the vast wastes of this earth. Does it sound incredible or unbelievable that ETERNAL could make them blossom like a rose? Well, why should it?

The mountains were formed. Great forces caused gigantic upheavals, huge cracks, and slippage in the crust of the earth. Massive blocks of granite lunged up into the sky--the earth rocking and reeling in the throes of the greatest earthquakes in its history. Mountains were made--they did not just happen.

The CREATOR of all power formed the hills and mountains (Amos 4:13; Psalm 90:2). He will re-form them and He will re-shape the surface of this earth.

Read of the huge earthquakes yet to strike which will directly accomplish much of the rehabilitation of the land surfaces (See Zechariah 14:4.). Scripture also says:

Nahum 1:5. The mountains quake at Him, and the hills melt...

Land Beneath Sea Reclaimed

Reclaimed land in Holland

Man recognizes much of the wealth of the world lies beneath the seas. Oil, gold, silver, and dozens of minerals--these all remain unobtainable today lying untapped deep under the vast oceans. Also, seawater contains a great deal of gold and most of the world’s gold supplies are under the oceans.

Many areas of the earth are ravaged by tidal action--by the ceaseless pounding of the surf that gradually wears away frontal land. The lowlands of Europe, Holland in particular, consist to quite an extent of land reclaimed from the sea.

Think of the multiple millions of additional acres available to mankind if some of the world’s oceans were reduced in size. Now notice what ETERNAL says they shall be. Notice it…

Isaiah 11:15. ETERNAL will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt; with His mighty wind He will shake His fist over the River, and strike it in the seven streams, and make men cross over dry-shod.

Nahum 1:4 (TLB). At His command the oceans and rivers become dry sand...

Sounds incredible--but it’s true!

Today, the United States realizes water shortages are becoming critical. Wasted water through the huge consumption of industry, through pollution, and through the prodigious amounts used by each person each day mean the ominous approach of that day when water is scarce. In the twisted weather patterns there are drought areas that have never been drought areas before.

Consequently, additional huge dams are planned--fantastically expensive seawater conversion plants are being constructed. So far, however, the cost of desalinization is completely prohibitive. Yet ETERNAL describes a wonderful era of discovery and invention in the Wonderful World of Tomorrow--major portions of the earth reclaimed and put to productive use.

The problems of the population explosion are real and manifold. Not only does mass starvation face millions within the near future but also government leaders recognize there is an immediate concern. Food wars.

Witness what happened in India. Government troops once battled 100,000 people who were rioting because of the slaughter of “sacred” cows in their country--done in part in an attempt to stave off starvation for those same rioters.

You see there are more cattle in India than in the U.S. Yet because of religious beliefs the cattle are not eaten. They wander about the fields and into the villages and towns eating prodigious amounts of food some of which would be edible for humans. The cattle are not used for any constructive purpose.

In addition to this, terrible floods and long-term drought in many areas have produced grain shortages more severe than normal. Fully half of third world crops are traditionally lost through lack of adequate transportation and storage facilities, to rodent and insect damage, and by being siphoned off to the black market. Consequently many countries have asked the United States for help.

In the latter part of the 20th century the largest peacetime armada in all man’s history was assembled--over six hundred ships--and began plying the oceans between US ports and India. In a short amount of time the vast wheat reserves of the United States were depleted. However, the famine in India was only barely staved off but is now full rage in many parts of Africa. The recent sudden disasters in American wheat areas could mean threatening famine in the United States--because she has insufficient reserves.

What about the coming years with the extremes in world weather? Government leaders fear huge food wars will be fought--each nation struggling mightily to possess the dwindling means of survival--food and water.

Sickness and Disease Feared

A horrifying “solution” to the population explosion may right now be in the making unless ETERNAL averts it.

With growing malnutrition and starvation comes the macabre threat of disease epidemics of massive, worldwide proportions. Already officials warn of the threat of vast epidemics of cholera, typhoid, tuberculosis, small pox, flu of various kinds, or even the dread “black death” (bubonic plague) that took the lives of millions in Europe during the 15th through the 17th centuries and in the huge plague that ravaged England in 1664 and 1665.

Reassuringly ETERNAL says disease and sickness will finally be conquered.

Man seeks to find cures for sickness--cures for flu and the common cold--cures for cancer, sclerosis, heart disease, arthritis, deafness and blindness, muscular dystrophy, epilepsy, and all the other pain-ridden debilities of man.

Let’s understand the real meaning of this word “cure.” Do you realize that cures for diseases already contracted merely mean rendering ETERNAL’s laws ineffectual? It means ignoring the cause--allowing people to perpetrate the cause--and then treating only the effect. It means continuing to break nature’s health laws which ETERNAL has made to operate in the human body and then trying to prevent nature’s laws from exacting their penalties.

However, the SOVEREIGN shows that when His Kingdom is in rule, He will teach people to obey His natural laws and thus stop causing sickness and disease. In other words, stop disobeying the CREATOR’s Laws including the Health Laws. An example is the health laws of Leviticus 11.

ETERNAL reveals a great result of the increased productivity of the land and the abundance of right and good foods--together with right knowledge and education in health laws--will be good health for all.

The dream of conscientious doctors may be to put themselves out of a job by finding cures for every sickness and disease. But the truth is that most ignore the causes and merely treat the symptoms--whereby tacitly encouraging people to continue causing sickness and disease by neglecting to educate them in the SOVEREIGN’s Way and teaching human’s way (humanism)--resulting in perpetuating the medical profession. Can we have utopia with people causing themselves sickness and disease secure in the delusion that medical “science” can remove the penalty?

In ETERNAL’s new Wonderful World of Tomorrow there will probably be a place for doctors. They could be teaching people to keep well by avoiding the causes of disease. That will require an entirely new type of medical education--only we shall then drop the term “medical.” A very good doctor friend once said to me: “We physicians have been kept so busy treating sicknesses and diseases that we haven’t had much time to do extensive study and research into the causes of these troubles.” In the SOVEREIGN’s New World, they will be given ample time for that.

In the Wonderful World of Tomorrow there actually will be utopia. There will be universal good health.

How can such utopian dreams come true? It’s simple. Remove the cause of disease. Okay, so how is that going to be done? Two ways:

First, by right education. Cause people to know that the CREATOR did not design the human physical body so that it must be getting sick all the time and catching continual diseases.

Sickness and disease occur only when nature’s laws are broken. It is not natural to be diseased--it is unnatural. Educate people in the laws of good health and in proper diet. The CREATOR designed certain foods for good health. Some things that grow are not designed for food. Some are poison to our bodies. Educate people in sanitation, hygiene, and required amounts of sleep, pure water, fresh air, sunshine, and exercise.

Secondly, when people in spite of this education do get sick or catch a disease it can be healed--ETERNAL’s Way.

The medical equation is this: One poison in your body plus one poison in the form of medicine equals no poisons. One plus one equals nothing? That is not the way they teach second grade arithmetic.

The CREATOR’s equation is different. ETERNAL supernaturally removes the poison in the body. One minus one equals nothing. Even second-graders could figure that one out.

The combined force of right education about true health and healing of all sickness when it is repented of, will mean perfect, utopian health. Notice how ETERNAL describes it.

Isaiah 33:21-22, 24. But there the majestic ETERNAL will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will sail, nor majestic ships pass by (for ETERNAL is our Judge; ETERNAL is our Lawgiver; ETERNAL is our King; He will save us)... And the inhabitant will not say, “I am sick”; the people who dwell in it will be forgiven their iniquity.

Listen to this wonderful promise…

Isaiah 35:3-6. Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, be strong, fear not: behold, your SOVEREIGN will come with vengeance, even the SOVEREIGN with a recompense; he will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing....

ETERNAL describes the rewards for obedience to His laws of mercy and love. Notice…

Isaiah 58:8. Then your light shall break forth like the morning, your healing shall spring forth speedily, and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of ETERNAL shall be your rear guard.

Happiness in Health

In describing the conditions of good health and plenty to be ushered in upon the earth, ETERNAL says:

Jeremiah 30:17. For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds...

Jeremiah 31:12-14. Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, streaming to the goodness of ETERNAL; for wheat and new wine and oil, for the young of the flock and the herd. Their souls shall be like a well-watered garden, and they shall sorrow no more at all. Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old, together; for I will turn their mourning to joy, will comfort them, and make them rejoice rather than sorrow. I will satiate the soul of the priests with abundance, and My people shall be satisfied with My Goodness, says ETERNAL.”

Why not have good health for the people? Why should we be so willing to believe such a perfect state of health and joy is impossible? There are blessings for observing the laws of health--absolute guarantees good health will result--and that sickness and disease will become a thing of the past. Notice what the SOVEREIGN promised His people.

Deuteronomy 28:1-5. Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of ETERNAL your SOVEREIGN, to observe carefully all His Commandments which I command you today, that ETERNAL your SOVEREIGN will set you high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of ETERNAL your SOVEREIGN: Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country. Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Notice that we are not receiving those wonderful blessings today. Instead, we are under a curse.

Our cities are festering sores filled with the clangor and confusion of jangled traffic, riots, racial hatred, crime, pornography, air pollution, and an unhappy, wretched populace that seeks fast money so it can escape the obnoxious environment of the big asphalt and concrete “jungles” of our time.

Our fields are cursed--cursed with upset weather, drought, flood, insect damage, and disease--cursed with chemicals and man-made blight.

In the United States in 1970 one out of nine (10.7%) of all babies were illegitimate. The percentage of births to unmarried mothers rose to one out of three babies (36.8%) of total births in 2005. ³⁹

In the United States about 3% of babies are born with birth defects. ⁴⁰

The latest figures on birth defects show that one of every 33 babies is born with a birth defect. A birth defect can affect almost any part of a baby’s body. ⁴¹ Many of these are blighted at birth with a serious defect; cursed with blindness, dumbness, deafness, malformed limbs, or terrible diseases even from the womb. Some babies are born each year with cancer!

Our basket and our store is cursed as the foods we purchase have no nutritional value due to depleted soil and what we do have is irradiated to kill bacteria but which also kills the nutritional value. In addition, we are cursed with genetically modified food which in many cases our bodies cannot digest.

The national reserves of food and raw material in the USA are now gone and we face shortages here which will only get worse. These reserves were given to starving peoples of impoverished nations (to nations that rarely if ever back U.S. policies) in an admittedly temporary effort--only delaying the starvation facing millions.

Whether we like to admit it or not--our peoples are under a curse today.

Soon the great SOVEREIGN will force us to take the blessings. He will impose His warm and merciful rule on rebellious, stiff-necked mankind, and bring us compulsory joy. He will insist on happiness for us; demand plenty of goodness in our lives; command us to be healthy, and filled with a sense of well being and contentment.

ETERNAL will stop the frightening, manifold problems of the population explosion, bad weather, sickness, and disease, and all problems relating to the population rise. This population rise results in symptoms such as over-crowding, pollution, rising crime, and the psychological pressures from big-city living--all these will be solved--and in our time. Can we give thanks to our wonderful SOVEREIGN Who will soon set up His Kingdom and His Mashiach as the King of kings?

What about Distribution of Populations?

Will there be room for the multiple billions of humans on earth? Of course there will!

Remember only 15 percent of the surface of the earth is habitable today--and not more than 10 percent is cultivatable. But when ETERNAL makes all the earth inhabitable, even changing the whole weather patterns of earth, the ocean currents, and flow of arctic air, the jet streams, the pattern of mountain ranges and placement of continents, all of the earth will be occupied.

The SOVEREIGN shows individual races returning to their own lands repopulating them.

Isaiah 27:6. He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

ETERNAL says the wastes will be rebuilt.

Ezekiel 36:9-11 (NIV). I am concerned for you and will look on you with favor; you will be plowed and sown. And I will multiply the number of people upon you, even the whole house of Israel. The towns will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt. I will increase the number of men and animals upon you, and they will be fruitful and become numerous. I will settle people on you as in the past and will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am ETERNAL.

Notice a few verses later what else ETERNAL states...

...36:33-35. ...On the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will resettle your towns, and the ruins will be rebuilt. The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through it. They will say, “This land that was laid waste has become like the garden of Eden; the cities that were lying in ruins, desolate and destroyed, are now fortified and inhabited.”

Moreover, what about all other nations? Notice…

Isaiah 19:23-25. In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will serve with the Assyrians. In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria; a blessing in the midst of the land, whom ETERNAL of hosts shall bless, saying, “Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.”

Isaiah 49:6-7. “...And to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give you [Israel] as a light to the Gentiles, That you [Israel] should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.” Thus says ETERNAL, the Savior of Israel, their Righteous One, “To him [Israel] whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to the Servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise, Princes also shall worship, because of ETERNAL who is faithful, the Righteous One of Israel; and He has chosen you [Israel].”

What a utopian prediction that is. Egypt and Germany are pictured in loving, respectful, serving cooperation with the very peoples they contended with in the past. Now that’s real progress.

So the Scripture reveals nations that still exist--and in specific places. Scripture also reveals re-population of waste places rendered temporarily useless by the ravages of war and plagues. Sounds as though the Wonderful World of Tomorrow will be just that -- WONDERFUL!

Read the Chapter 7 - …And All Speaking the Same Language