THE APOCALYPSE UNFOLDS
THE NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH
[The
following article is an excerpt from Chapter 8 of Vol.4.
“The Apocalypse in Perspective”]
“Therefore, since all the works of God were completed in six
days, the world must continue in its present state through six
ages, that is, six thousand years ... And again, since God,
having finished His works, rested the seventh day and blessed
it, at the end of the six thousandth year all wickedness must be
abolished from the Earth, and righteousness reign for a thousand
years; and there must be tranquility and rest from the labours
which the world now has long endured ... the dead will rise
again, not after a thousand years from their death, but that,
when again restored to life, they may reign with God a thousand
years. For God will come, that having cleansed the world from
all defilement, He may restore the souls of the righteous to
their renewed bodies, and raise them to everlasting
blessedness.”
“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven
and the first earth passed away, and the sea is no more.
“And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of
heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
“And I heard a loud voice from
the throne saying, `Behold the dwelling of God with men, and he
will dwell with them. And they will be his people, and God
himself will be with them as their God.
“And God will wipe away every
tear from their eyes. And death shall be no more; neither shall
there be mourning, nor crying; nor pain any more, for the former
things have passed away.’ “
Apocalypse 21:1-4.
“For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth; and the
former things shall not be in remembrance, and they shall not
come upon the heart.
“But you shall be glad and
rejoice forever in these things, which I create: for behold I
create Jerusalem
a rejoicing, and the people thereof joy.
“And I will rejoice in
Jerusalem, and joy in my people, and the
voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the voice of
crying.
“There shall no more be an infant
of days there, nor an old man that shall not fill up his days;
for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner
being a hundred years old shall be accursed.
“And they shall build houses, and
inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruits
of them.
“They shall not build, and
another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat; for as
the days of a tree, so shall be the days of my people, and the
works of their hands shall be of long continuance.
“My elect shall not labour in
vain, nor bring forth in trouble; for they are the seed of the
blessed of the Lord, and their posterity with them.
“And it shall come to pass, that
before they call, I will hear; as they are yet speaking, I will
hear.
“The wolf and the lamb shall feed
together; the lion and the ox shall eat straw; and dust shall be
the serpent’s food; they shall not hurt nor kill in all my holy
mountain, saith the Lord.”
Isaiah
65:17-25.
“Thus
you will see with your own eyes the new heavens and new earth.”
Blessed Virgin Mary to Father
Gobbi, #8532.
[What
is contained in this article is the end result of correlating
information based on Sacred Scripture, the teachings of the
Fathers of the Church, Marian prophecy, and rare scientific and
historical data. One confirms the other to prove and to show
what conditions and life will be like in the New Era of Peace to
come.]
There has been considerable confusion on the Second Coming of
Christ and the New Era of Peace. There are those who think the
Second Coming is afar off. Some think the New Era of Peace will
be a short passing as we improve our present civilization. Human
pride has blinded us into thinking things will continue for some
time yet - decades into the future. Hence, many do not recognize
the “signs of the times,” the signs of Christ’s return.
Yet, there are others who are
somewhat fanatical about these coming events, saying they are
upon us now. What one has to understand is, we are in an
interlude, a transition between ages. As detailed in a previous
chapter, this transition consists of approximately 331/2 years
and is a prelude to Christ’s Second Coming and the New Era of
Peace.
Nevertheless, there are mostly
those who simply ignore the signs and are too caught up in
life’s daily affairs to even care. Some even scoff or do not
believe that the “End Times” are coming upon us.
Father Stephen Valenta tells us,
“Jesus emphatically chided His apostles for not recognizing the
signs of the times, signs that were to direct them to an
awareness of things to come. The Apostles, being called together
away from the people, were instructed by Jesus concerning future
happenings which went beyond what He spoke to His general
audience. The Apostles shared these with Paul, and with whom we
know today as the Early Fathers, which sharing has come down
through history as teachings of the Church.” (From the Forward
to: THE ERA OF PEACE by Angelo Mazzarese). - - Furthermore, many
do not understand in what manner Christ will return. Father
Valenta reiterates the teachings of the Fathers of the Church.
“...(T)he reign of Christ during the Era of Peace will not be by
way of His physical form in the midst of His People. His reign
will be through a greater awareness of His Eucharistic Presence
assisted physically by a multitude of His resurrected Saints.”
(Ibid).
THE NEW ERA OF PEACE
The Era of Peace is spoken of as
lasting a thousand years - a seventh age in the redemptive cycle
of time. We are now at the end of the sixth age, within the
interlude of 331/2 transitional
years, nearing the threshold of the seventh age. (See Chapter
1). The thousand years are not to be taken literally but as
approximate time.
The essential points of
millenarianism are as follows: 1. The early return of Christ in
all His power and glory. 2. The establishment of an earthly
kingdom with the just. 3. The resuscitation of the deceased
saints and their participation in the glorious reign. 4. The
destruction of the powers hostile to God, and 5. At the end of
the kingdom, the universal resurrection with the final judgment,
after which the just will enter Heaven, while the wicked will be
consigned to the eternal fire of Hell.
The Era of Peace was part of the
teaching of the Apostles and the Early Church Fathers including
St. Papius, St. Justin Martyr, St. Ireneaus, St. Polycarp, St.
Clement of Rome,
and the epilogue of the Didache (also known as the teachings of
the Apostles).
We quote briefly from a few of
these:
“After the resurrection of the
dead there will be a period of a thousand years, when Christ’s
kingdom will be set up on this Earth in material form. “
(St. Papius).
“Inasmuch, therefore, as the opinions of certain (orthodox
persons) are derived from heretical discourses, they are both
ignorant of God’s dispensations, and of the mystery of the
resurrection of the just, and of the (earthly) kingdom those who
shall be worthy are accustomed gradually to partake of the
divine nature; and it is necessary to tell them respecting those
things, that it behooves the righteous first to receive the
promise of the inheritance which God promised to the fathers,
and to reign in it, when they rise again to behold God in this
creation which is renovated, and that the judgment should take
place afterwards. It is fitting, therefore, that the creation
itself, being restored to its primeval condition, should without
restraint be under the dominion of the righteous... “
(Ireneous “Against the
Heresies,” Book 5, Chapters 32, 36).
“Then humankind will undergo the fiery test, and many will lose
their faith and perish; but those who stand firm in their faith
will be saved by none other than the Accursed (Jesus Christ our
Lord and Savior). And then the proofs of the truth will appear;
the first proof, an opening in the heavens; the next proof, the
sounding of the trumpet; and the third, the resurrection of the
dead - not of all indeed, but in accordance with the saying: The
Lord will come and all the saints with Him. Finally, the world
will behold the Lord riding the clouds in the sky.“
(The Epilogue of the Didache).
Our Lady of Fatima said, “A period of peace will be granted
to the world.” Our Lady of La Salette warned, “Suddenly,
the persecutors of the Church of Jesus Christ and all those given over to
sin will perish and the Earth will become desert-like. And then
peace will be made, and man will be reconciled to God. Jesus
Christ will be served, worshipped and glorified. Charity will
flourish everywhere. The new kings will be the right arm of the
Holy
Church, which will be
strong, humble, pious in its poor but fervent in imitation of
the virtues of Jesus Christ. The Gospel will be preached
everywhere and mankind will make great progress in its Faith,
for there will be unity among the workers of Jesus Christ and
man will live in the fear of God. “
Necedah has also given prophecy
concerning the New Era of Peace (some of which was lost in the
Van Hoof farmhouse fire of 1959). It tells of a mild climate the
year-round with extended life spans. In later revelations
(1978), it was revealed people will live to be hundreds of years
old but not age. New life forms will come into being. Mary Ann
Van Hoof saw in vision buildings built in natural geometric
forms. Most important of all, Christ’s peace will reign in the
hearts of men everywhere. At the time of the New Era of Peace
there will be one fold and one shepherd. The religious rule and
the temporal rule will be joined under one head under the
guidance of the Saints.
The above teachings of the Church
Fathers and prophecies give us a limited compartmentalized view
of the New Era of Peace. To get a better perspective of how this
will come about we need to examine prophecies concerning events
immediately after the Three Days of Darkness and the renewal of
the Earth and mankind in the Second Pentecost, the
Sanctification of man by the Holy Ghost and the Second Coming of
Christ in glory.
THE
SECOND PENTECOST
Immediately after the Three Days
of Darkness the Earth according to several prophecies, including
La Salette, will be “desert like,” a vast cemetery, etc. As the
Earth is renewed (its aurora strengthened) during the advancing
Pentecost, according to revelations given to St. Padre Pio, it
will be as “springtime.”
So the Earth immediately after
the Great Purification will remain (for a time) a wasteland,
desert-like, covered with cadavers where isolated, small groups
of people will think they are the only survivors until they meet
up with other little groups of survivors. Life will be hard for
the remnant Faithful of Christ but they will be completely
united in the love of Christ.
The comet after its passage will
leave a great deal of trace minerals deposited from its tail
upon the Earth which will enrich the soil tremendously. At first
the atmosphere will be poisonous and not fit to breathe for
approximately 49 days, but on the fiftieth day (an approximate
time period) the air will become pure as the Second Pentecost
begins to unfold. The Earth itself, will have its magnetic field
renewed and strengthened and the atmosphere and all living
things who have survived will be rejuvenated. People will then
be able to venture outside their homes and shelters.
At this point in time, as the
Second Pentecost renews the Earth, a simple agriculturally based
true Christian society and culture will develop. Gone will be
the high technological-corporate fast-paced competitive world
economy based on the almighty dollar. A man will build a simple
dwelling for himself and his family and will be able to sustain
his family on what he grows himself. This is what is indicated
in the quote from Isaias at the beginning of this article. They
shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and
another eat...”, etc.
The natural world will live in
complete harmony, (“the wolf and the lamb shall feed
together...” etc.) with evil forced back into the subterranean
recesses of the inner earth (“and dust shall be the serpent’s
food.., etc.). A veritable paradise, a “heaven” on Earth will be
established with a new natural order ordained by God Himself in
place.
On
June 24, 1986,
Father Stefano Gobbi in a speech at the International Meeting of
Priests in San Marino,
clarified the Church teaching on the Second Pentecost and the
Second Coming of Christ’s glory. He states about the Second
Coming and its meaning: “Christ is in
Paradise. He returns because He has already been
here in-the human nature.
He comes again in a relative way because, Jesus - in His
divinity and, of course, also in His human nature - is already
present in the Eucharist. He comes again, as far as He wants to
reveal Himself in glory to this world and bring His Kingdom upon
this world.”
Father Gobbi further states that
Christ in His Second Coming brings in unison the following
elements:
1. The prayer will be entirely fulfilled, which Jesus
taught us to pray in the Our Father: “Thy will be done on Earth
as it is in Heaven.” All creatures will do God’s will in a
complete way. That is why the Kingdom of the Divine Will will
come on this Earth.
2. It will coincide with the Second Pentecost.
3. It will be the greatest miracle of divine mercy or, to
say it differently, the
triumph of the merciful love of Jesus, Who will open up a new
era for this world, a new civilization in order to finally get
to know the civilization of love.
4. Especially, however, the triumph of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, through the Second glorious Coming of Christ,
will coincide with the coming of the Eucharistic Kingdom of
Jesus.
Father Gobbi tells us that although Christ destroyed the power
of Satan, the weakness of human nature will remain but it will
be supported to do good.
At the Coming of Christ in Glory
the Second Pentecost will take place over the entire world.
According to the Necedah Secret Christ will come in a great
shining glory that will outshine the Sun. Christ (hypostatically
united to the Holy Trinity through the Word to God the Father
within the Spirit of God the Holy Ghost) will transform the
world through the Second Pentecost.
Father Gobbi received the
following locution on June 4, 1995:
“Tongues of divine fire will bring warmth and life to mankind,
which has become icy through egotism, hate, violence, and war.
“So the dried out earth will open itself to the breath of God’s
Spirit Who will transform it into a new beautiful garden where
the Holy Trinity will then permanently reside.
“Tongues of fire will descend to
illuminate and consecrate the Church, which is going through the
dark hour of Calvary.
“The divine fire of the Holy Ghost will heal all their
illnesses, cleanse them of all blemishes of unfaithfulness clad
them in beauty and shine over them so that they will revert to
their oneness and holiness, and then it will - for the whole
world to hear - give complete testimony for Jesus.
“Tongues of fire will descend on
all of you, My poor children, who have been so deceived and led
astray by Satan and all evil spirits, who have achieved their
great victory during these years. So you will be illuminated by
this divine light and recognize yourselves in the mirror of
God’s truth and holiness. It will be like a small judgment,
which will open the doors of your hearts in order to be able to
receive the gift of divine mercy.”
Christ’s outpouring of power will bring about the Triumph of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sanctification of the human
race. This Sanctification through the descent of the Holy Ghost
upon the remnant survivors will be worldwide.
From the above description of
this event (the Second Pentecost) given in this prophecy,
definitely appears to be a separate event from the Purification
itself. This third descent of “fire” upon the Earth (the Great
Warning being the first and the White Fire of the Purification
being the second) is more of an energizing and rejuvenating
pulse of energy (possibly another galactic wave of energy from
deep within the center of the Universe interacting with our Sun)
that descends as “tongues of fire” through the Earth’s aurora
(causing them to light up) over the entire Earth.
This energizing fire of the
Second Pentecost will restore mankind’s former glory as before
the Fall (but as to what degree we cannot be certain).
Man’s powers of the senses and his awareness will be made
much greater than now through the strengthening of the energy
centers of the human aura for the aura is the glorious light
radiating from the soul. (For a better understanding of this
subject see “The Essence of the Soul” in the Appendix B, Vol.
1). In short, our souls will be sanctified and our bodies
strengthened while our minds will be increased in awareness and
power of thought. Thus we will be made aware of the Divine Will
of God and will live according to it.
As Father Gobbi tells us unity
will finally come about in the establishment of Christ’s
Eucharistic Kingdom on Earth where it will manifest itself
within us. He states in his summary: “At the end the most
holy Eucharist will unfold its complete divine power and we will
get to know the joy of experiencing all the effects of paradise,
which the triumph of the Eucharistic Kingdom of Jesus will bring
about. We will be on the Earth and we will be beyond it. We will
not yet be in paradise but it will be a paradise on Earth which
our Lady is preparing for us through the triumph of Her
Immaculate Heart in this world.”
THE CANOPY RESTORED
Prophecy
points to a time when man will have an increased and extended
life span, that people will become healthier, stronger with much
greater awareness and power of mind. Vegetation will be in
continuous flower and fruit. Temperatures will be even and
moderate with no extremes, no violent storms, droughts or
monsoons.
How will it be possible for these
conditions to exist? Obviously it will be through the Will of
God altering the laws of nature, but how will it be made
manifest? The secret is in the canopy being restored in the
firmament (the arch of heaven) to its pristine state.
This canopy of water vapor is not
to be confused with the Earth’s present atmosphere especially
the troposphere where weather changes occur. The canopy of water
vapor we speak of is high in the firmament above the Earth and
consists of a number of layers or bands of vaporous clouds (not
the usual clouds but translucent watery layers that are luminous
in the Sun’s rays). These at one time before the Great Flood,
covered the entire Earth with the exception of portals at the
poles. (That is why the ancestors of Noah lived to such great
ages).
Aqueous clouds forming the canopy
still exist in our solar system. Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
and Neptune show evidence of a canopy world while Mercury,
Earth, and Mars are without. The Earth, however, is the only
planet with a substantial atmosphere to produce an active
weather system without a canopy. But there is ample evidence the
Earth once did possess one. As always we need to probe the past
in order to understand the present and the future.
From the 1870s on through the
turn of the century this topic was extensively studied primarily
by Isaac Newton Vail but also by Dr. Herbert A. Parkyn, W.E.
Brokaw, and others. Much of the works were published by the
Annular World Company.
What was discovered proves very interesting concerning our once
canopied skies. Mr. Vail through his research reaffirms “the
certainty that primitive man saw the last remnants of the
Earth’s Annular System revolving over him as a great world-roof
of watery vapors, and that it involved him in a world
environment necessarily Edenic in character, and catastrophic in
its close, and that the narrative of the Flood is a simple and
truthful account of the fall of that `upper deep” of waters, as
the memory of surviving humanity deposed.” (THE MISREAD RECORD
by Isaac Newton Vail, p 8),
Mr. Vail also points out “it is a
well-known fact that the races of men in different parts of the
Earth have left records that point unmistakably to the skies as
a source of waters.” He points out the Hindus, the
Greeks, the Hebrews, the Japanese, and others give testimony to
a canopied world.
In the first chapter of Genesis
when the Elohim (God) made the heavens and the Earth an expanse
or firmament was made and “God called the firmament, “Heaven”
(Genesis 1:8) and the firmament was “made amidst the waters; and
let it divide the waters from the waters.” (Genesis 1:6). Some
of the waters were below the firmament (heavens) on Earth and in
the atmosphere and some of the waters were above the firmament
in the annular-layered canopy of “the deep.” This is what
Genesis 1:7 tells us. “And God made a firmament, and divided
the waters that were under the firmament, from those that were
above the firmament, and it was so.” The “Great Deep” referred
to in Genesis 7:11-12 is this same canopy of the firmament. This
“Great Deep” is the vaporous annular system found in the
“heavens” surrounding the Earth.
The Hebrew word for Heaven is
“Shamayin” meaning simply “there waters.” This canopy of
vaporous waters formed above the firmament (heaven) concealed
the true heavens and hence the Sun, moon, and the stars. Bible
students conclude that the Hebrew words “or” and “maorim” refer
to the Sun and the moon. They really mean “light” and lights.”
The word, “Shemesh,” translated as “sun” really means “strength”
or “light of the Sun.”
“Shemesh,” then refers to the
strength or light of the Sun or a Sun’s regent but not the true
Sun itself. The canopy of vaporous waters shielded the Earth
from the direct rays of the Sun (and moon). Hence the reason as
Mr. Vail points out they “are silent characters in ancient
Biblical thought until after the Flood.” “Shemesh,” for certain,
refers to the “regent of the Sun,” which simply means the Sun’s
rays illuminated the canopy. The canopy in turn as the “regent”
for the Sun, shown its reflected and refracted light upon the
Earth. The same process would be true for the moon’s light.
Furthermore, the illuminated canopy or “regent of light” would
reflect and deflect the Sun’s rays with an even “soft”
illumination but not a bright burning glare as today. It would
even illuminate to a certain degree the so called shadowed side
of the Earth. Hence, the term “day and night” do not have the
same meaning as they did then. Daylight then was a nice even
illumination, bright enough but not as intense as now nor were
the nights as dark as now but merely “shadows” of what we have
today.
Such filtered light rays produce
a greenhouse world of even and mild temperatures, balanced
humidity; a world watered by dew and mists (not by rainstorms)
where the Sun’s damaging ultra violet rays will no longer age
and weaken man and beast. Vegetation will grow much more
luxuriant as that in a greenhouse but will be even larger and
healthier. Plants will produce flower and fruit at a more
gradual rate continuously all year-round. Flower, green fruit,
and ripening fruit will be found simultaneously on trees all
year long. We would not have plants producing flower and fruit
in the hurried seasonal cycles as we have today.
How much more would man, animal,
and plant flourish in this perfect “greenhouse” of God’s
Paradise on Earth? All this paradise under God’s
protective “roof’ - this canopy will stabilize the atmosphere
establishing a calm and tranquil environment. Because of the
stable atmosphere (with even humidity and temperature) there
would be no direct and uneven heating of the Earth’s surface to
produce windstorms. There would be no violent conditions of any
kind: no drought, no tropical monsoons, hurricanes, severe
thunderstorms, tornadic activity, blizzards, or deep cold, etc.
The Earth would be caressed by gentle air currents and watered
with dew that would precipitate as a gentle rain. It will be the
Garden of Eden restored.
But how will this canopy be
restored? We get our first clue in Apocalypse 21:1: “And I
saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the
first earth passed away, and the sea is no more.” A
footnote to this verse says, “The quality of the Earth will be
changed but not the substance,” which fits with prophecy. But
note the “sea is no more.” Why?
Today the sea (the five great
oceans) cover more than 70% of the Earth’s surface. Much of this
water originally came from the collapsing canopy which created
the Great Noachian Flood that ended with a clear blue sky; a sky
in which wind, rain, and rainbows were made manifest for the
first time in ages. We know the rainbow was a sign of God’s
Covenant with man that “the waters would no more become a
flood to destroy all flesh.” (Genesis 9:15). Why? Because
after the canopy collapsed there was a new order to nature and
no longer was there a source for waters to produce a great
flood.
However, if the canopy is to be
restored, where will the water vapors which are needed to form a
canopy come from? We turn to the Third Secret of Fatima which
according to Monsignor Conrado Balducci, says in part: “The
waters of the ocean will turn to vapor, and the tide will rise
and submerge everything... “ Here we seem to have an answer
but yet an apparent contradiction: the oceans vaporize yet still
rise.
If the waters rise, it will be
because of the melting polar ice caps and
because ocean waters will
be thrown out of their beds by the violent shaking and even
shifting of the Earth’s crust. This is only temporary as the
main destruction will be by fire. This great fire has been
described as “a sheet of fire” or as “the Great White Fire.” It
will be so intense in heat as to melt rock and vaporize the
waters of the oceans. This fiery conflagration will cover the
entire Earth and as given to Julka of Yugoslavia and to Mary Ann
in Necedah, cause the very atmosphere to burn white-hot. The
waters will become so hot that people who take refuge in them
will burn instead of finding relief. A tremendous amount of
water will vaporize into steam or mist and rise up into the
heavens above the Earth.
This brings us again to the Third
Secret of Fatima. There are two very similar accounts of this
event in the Third Secret that have been given but have been
“put down” by Fatima experts and suppressed. A close study of these
accounts reveal that the Third Secret confirms the above to be
so and fits with all other prophecy on the subject. The first we
will quote is from Emmett Culligan released in the 1960s:
“Then fire and smoke will fall from the sky and the waters of
the oceans will turn to steam - hurling their foam toward the
sky... “ The second account we take note of appears to be a
more accurate translation and much in keeping in how this event
will take place. According to the transcript of the Third Secret
by Tamisha Belarion: “Fire and smoke will fall from the sky.
The waters of the oceans will change into steam, and the steam
will rise and overflow everything.
The waters of the ocean will become mist. “
This transcript eliminates the contradiction we mentioned
earlier, for it is the mist (or steam) that will overflow
everything. This transcript then, is much more in line with the
actual process of turning the waters into vapor or mist to form
a canopy. These oceanic waters worldwide turning to steam or
mist will rise high into the upper realms of the atmosphere and
gradually condense into the vaporous annular bands or layers
forming the new canopy. The process may take some time but as
sure as “what goes up must come down,” in this case, “what comes
down, must go up.”
SPIRITUAL
ADVICE IN TIME
OF TRIBULATION
Words of PIUS XII
May 13, 1942 –
“Let us rekindle in ourselves the spirit of love; let us hold
ourselves ever ready to collaborate with our faith and our
hands, after the most extensive, disastrous and bloody cataclysm
of all history, to reconstruct from the pile of material and
moral ruins a world that bonds of brotherly love will weld in
peace, a world in which, with the help of the Almighty, all may
be new hearts, words and works.”
June 29, 1941 –
“Trust in God means abandonment of oneself….in spite of all the
doubts suggested by appearance to the contrary, to the wisdom,
the infinite love of God.
It means believing that God can permit, at times here
below, for some time the preeminence of atheism and of impiety,
the lamentable obscuring of a sense of justice, the violation of
law, the tormenting of innocent, peaceful, undefended, helpless
men. It means
believing that God at times thus lets trials befall individuals
and peoples, trials of which the malice is the instrument in a
design of justice directed toward the punishment of sin, towards
purifying persons and peoples through the expiations of this
present life and bringing them back by that way to Himself; but
it means believing at the same time that this justice always
remains here below the justice of a Father inspired and
dominated by love.”
“…It means
believing finally that the fierce intensity of the trial, like
the triumph of evil, will endure even here below only for a
fixed time and not longer; that the Hour of God will come, the
hour of mercy, the hour of holy rejoicing, the hour of the new
canticle of liberation, the hour of exultation and of joy, the
hour in which, after having let the hurricane loose for a moment
on humanity, the All-Powerful Hand of the Heavenly Father, with
an imperceptible motion, will detain it and disperse it and, by
ways little known to the mind or to the hopes of men, justice,
calm and peace will be restored to the nations.”