WILL WAR AND SUFFERING EVER END?

WHY THE QUESTION ARISES: War continues to claim untold numbers of human lives. All of us have been touched by human suffering.

WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES: God foretells a time when he will establish peace earth wide. Under his Kingdom, a heavenly government, people will not “learn war anymore.” Instead, they will “beat their swords into plowshares.” (Isaiah 2:4) God will bring an end to all injustice and suffering. The Bible promises: “[God] will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things [including today’s injustices and sufferings] have passed away.”​—Revelation 21:3, 4.

See also Psalm 37:10, 11; 46:9; and Micah 4:1-4.