All flesh is "grass." The accomplishments of modern man have created as many problems as they have solved. The engineering marvels of the twentieth century will one day be rubble. Atomic fire may yet burn on the earth for years at a time. AIDS very well may be the forerunner of more potent viruses, although in the present hour AIDS alone is capable of wiping out the population of whole countries. All the inventions, learning, and philosophies brought forth in modern times will soon be forgotten as mankind brings itself into terrors beyond imagination.

The breath of the Lord will blow on the earth, and when it does the works of civilization will wither, die, and vanish as do flowers after they have shown their beauty for a brief season.

The world is proud of its achievements. The libraries are full of the records of the accomplishments of the arts and sciences of civilization. God's witnesses of the end time will proclaim that all such advancements are as grass. All flesh and the accomplishments of the flesh are nothing more than flowers that appear today and are as dry grass tomorrow. Who of the world will hear and perceive that this is the truth? As our Lord said, "the flesh profits nothing."

Many Christian people of our day do not understand the temporary nature of the present world—that the earth and the heavens are destined to be tossed aside as worn-out clothing.

They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. (Hebrews 1:11,12)

Why do we labor for vanity? Why do we act in the present world as though it were not passing away with the using of it?

The Word of our God shall stand forever. He who does the will of God shall stand forever.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. (I John 2:15-17)

"He that doeth the will of God abideth for ever."

God's witnesses will warn the people of the world that all of their accomplishments, their feats of engineering, their scientific knowledge, their computers and other information systems, have never brought them and can never bring them the love, joy, and peace every human being craves. Some people may hear and appreciate the truth of what is being stated. No doubt others will mock the Lord's witnesses as knowing nothing and being worthless members of society.

To be continued.