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September/October 2002

Vol.5, No. 8

Contents

Worldwide Weather Chaos: What Does It Mean?
by John Ross Schroeder

Restoration: Shadows of the World to Come
by Darris McNeely

Palestine/Israel--Whose Land Is It, Really? Part 2
by Cecil E. Maranville

The Citadel and the Caravan
by Melvin Rhodes

The Millennium, an Eternal Idea
by Darris McNeely

This Is the Way...Who Is My Neighbor
by Robin Webber

The Millennium, an Eternal Idea

The teaching of the Millennium, which dates from the earliest statements in the Bible, continues to hold the imagination of many despite the attempts to stamp out and destroy it.

by Darris McNeely

I
n 1972 President Richard Nixon made a historic trip to China and met with the Communist chairman Mao Tse-tung (Ze-dong). President Nixon observed that "the Chairman's writings moved a nation and have changed the world." Chairman Mao more realistically replied, "I have not been able to change it. I have only been able to change a few places in the vicinity of Peking (Beijing)." This was the assessment of one of this century's most powerful rulers about the lasting effect of his ideas and reforms upon the world's most populous nation.

In a later reflection, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger reflected that Mao "could not escape the nightmare that shadowed his accomplishments and tormented his last years: that it might all prove ephemeral, that the exertions, the suffering, the Long March, the brutal leadership struggles would be but a brief incident in the triumphant, passive persistence of a millennial culture which had tamed all previous upheavals, leaving little more in their wake than the ripples of a stone falling into a pond."

What a commentary about one of the 20th century's most significant political ideas. Communism, like so many other human ideas, has risen and fallen upon the tides of time. Like many other movements, Communism may yet see itself fall into the "dust bin of history." Another human effort at creating a "utopian" world will have been tried and found wanting.

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