Perfect Peace on Earth - A possible, imminent Reality

By Ayebanoa Opuifie Digitemie

“PERFECT PEACE ON EARTH”
Man everywhere in the world; rich, poor, young, old, black and white is in dire need of peace. The struggle for peace in the world by governments, organizations and individuals with the huge resources plunged into the course is accommodating enough to have yielded the needed peace. However, the results have always been a far cry from reality with despair and frustration weighing in on humanity by the day. In effect, what a man does not know completely renders him foolish and incapable of being ahead and on top of situations dictated by the principles surrounding such phenomenon.
The wrong step can never yield the right result. This truth is incontrovertibly fundamental. Humanity holds peace as the mere absence of war but this is utterly imbalance, peripheral, shallow and literally a misleading grasp of the true concept of what peace is all about. The lack of the full grasp of peace, which is the universal phenomenon that mothers every other phenomenon in creation, is the nerve charging and recharging the futility of our efforts and struggles for peace.
This book “Perfect Peace on Earth – A possible, imminent reality” gives in-depth meaning to the phenomenon of peace to bring humanity update with the true value and worth of peace, in the bit to equip man properly in knowledge to be able to tackle every crisis and institute peace in its perfect sustenance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Sep 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781716612824

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PERFECT PEACE ON EARTH

(A POSSIBLE, IMMINENT REALITY)

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SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, DO NO EVIL

DEDICATION

I am humbled for the opportunity of this knowledge availed me to author this book, which addresses peace, undeniably the most topical issue of global concern. I admit in full measure that this knowledge is absolutely God’s inspiration.

It is on this ground that I dedicate this book entirely to His Holiness Olumba Olumba Obu, the Sole Spiritual Head of the Universe, King of kings and the Lord of lords, Leader of the Unified Universal Theocratic Government, the Chairman and head of Administration, Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, Worldwide.

Father I thank You for fulfilling Your divine promise to man; coming on earth with Your eternal kingdom, the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star. Most importantly for choosing the lowly placed in society and bringing them into the accurate knowledge of the truth. You have indeed, hidden the secrets of life from the wise and prudent and has revealed them to the babes and the suckling; again in fulfilment of Your divine promise.

Father, be thou eternally glorified.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This work is absolutely the act of God. I sincerely and wholeheartedly acknowledge the Holy Father, the Holy Son and the Holy Spirit, Three-In-One God Olumba Olumba Obu for everything He did as God to bring this work to fruition. Father, it is to Thy glory and praise.

To my father in the United States of America, Dr Kurt Stephan and his team members, notably Sylvester Stallone, Richard Panzar and others in the umbrella of his Donor Culture organisation, I am forever grateful. The heavenly Father who brought you my way will always bless and increase you. God did enable you to sacrifice for me all that I needed to get this work done. Furthermore, you paid for the production of the first five thousand copies, which was later stepped up to ten within a week of the printing work. Through DHL services, all at your expense, the distribution of these ten thousand copies, packaged with customized envelopes to world leaders, diplomats, top government functionaries, the United Nations’ arms and religious leaders was realised. For my delay in delivering the work as agreed with the Speed Masters Printing house in Soweto South Africa, you bore an additional burden of Thirty Thousand US Dollars to place the work on express delivery. This is beyond the realms of charity and I remain eternally indebted to you. Thank you immensely.

To my dear wife, Constance Ayebanoa-Digitemie and all my six children, thank you for being there for me all the way, enduring the many years of my absence in the house with you. Your sacrifices and support have paid off. To my mother, brothers, sisters and extended family members, God bless and unite us the more for His glory.

I will not forget the burdensome duty of proofreading and editing this work under the tenseness of time-bound conditions that Ambassador Sunny Tamuno Joshua with Dr Deji Ayinde and Bassey Effiong Orok, both Archbishops, happily shouldered. By the energy dissipated on this work in the manner of complete personalization, you convinced me beyond every doubt that perfect harmony and unity amongst men is possible. Not only is it possible but capable of yielding every fruit of bliss; which is the whole essence of this work. Thank you for being there when I most needed support.

Finally, Reverend Agbor Martins Black Diamond who is the link between Dr Kurt and me is indeed an asset to the world and I am just lucky to have him as an elder brother. Thank you.

FOREWORD

In these moments of global calamities, the truth is all that matters in the success and peace we seek. Challenges are inevitable situations of life, but the biggest challenge is how to gain the knowledge that avails the secrets of the challenges we face by which means we can conveniently overcome them within tolerable limits of costs and bruises. It is for this reason that I am impressed with both the author of this book and the book itself that expressly renders the detailed secrets of peace, bare.

The exceptional display of intellectual prowess in this book on the subject of peace, coming from someone with an engineering background is unimaginable. The timing of the book as well, appears to be a magically perfect coincidence. It is truly coming in handy at the most appropriate time when humanity is in dire need of help to overcome her burdens of life. The non-denominational approach with the wide range of interests covered in the presentation makes it universally acceptable to all categories of leaders, politicians, animists, scientists, religionists, etc. I consider the book as the golden key to peace, because it contains the clues about how to unlock the sting of every crisis. In all circumstances of the application of this golden key, peace will sure yield in unfailing bountifulness.

The advance information conveyed by this book in espousing how stifled humanity will be by the increasing wave of crises, if she does not act fast, is not what a civilized and advanced society as ours, want to treat with levity. No one ever plans to get into trouble but trouble comes every now and then, commonly in the most devastating manner, utterly unwarranted and unannounced. This is unarguably so, because humanity is an indivisible whole and the mistake or goodness of one man affects the entire family of man. We seem only to be theoretical without being practical about this truth. As part of his presentation, Digitemie has carefully elucidated the true picture and attendant consequences of this mediocre act of humanity. He digested it to mean being theoretical with peace, which is why our results of all attempts to institute peace are disappointingly unsatisfactory.

Everything we do, is a strive to prepare ourselves and the world for a better living, however, the results are never commensurate in any way to measure our intents and efforts. In full support of the submissions of this work, I also feel that we have advanced well enough to the extent where it should not cost us a dime, with no further waste of time, to realise that we are not doing the right things, which is why we are not getting the right results we expect. The fundamental of life is, garbage in, garbage out, so we should not act surprised that crises are tossing us this heavy.

Every human being is a leader, whether potential or in some serving capacity. Therefore, as leaders, every one of us has the duty to look at life as a privilege and NOT as a right, in order to fashion our respective life’s engagement with the highest sense of decorum. This is indeed, the wisest pro-peace counsel and Digitemie has established it in detail, in this literature. Without a global sense of common purpose, we cannot win the battle of peace. There must be compromises and sacrifices to find common grounds, which is the only fertile substrate of perfect peace. Remember, some operate a right hand driving system while others, left hand. This implies that what is good for one man is wrong for another. No one can therefore, under the conditions of privileged position or might, conscript or compel another person to act as him against the person’s tradition, if peace must prevail in our society. This is where sacrifice and compromise yield enduring unanimity to deliver sustained peace.

This masterpiece of a book, with its pure and natural marrow-frame of overwhelming peace, is a special gift to the super powers, various governments of the world and man in general. Its proposal for peace is exclusive, demanding no cost relatively, and bearing no rigorous conventions in the proposed course that will bring peace to fruition. The recommendations are simply bothering on the exigent need for man to be true to his idealness, and live ethically in the upright, brightest and excellent standing of conscience. This brings man to remember his origin and root: God. The exigent and inevitable need, always, for man to refer back to God for every of his affairs is most critical. God is our sure foundation and we know too well that nothing ever functions without a foundation. Our degree of civilization, advancement in science and technology cannot subvert this truth. Therefore, the SOS alert conveyed in this work for governments, organizations, institutions, every assembly of man, and man in general to navigate the path of life in divine companionship is a huge password for accessing and attaining sustained peace. 

I endorse my highest recommendation for this book to receive the attention of operators of the United Nations, world governments, leaders, General Overseers of Churches, other religious leaders, Non-Governmental Organizations, etc. because peace is conditional for progress; and every man needs it.

To this end therefore, I advise that The Almighty God, being the only source of peace be recognized and appreciated. Mind you, the best way to recognize and appreciate God is not to be a nominal member of any religion but to be a distinguished conduit of peace.

His Grace,

Archbishop Bassey Effiong Orok.

PREFACE

The literature for man’s desire and struggle for peace is self-introductory in his routine ordeals and daily affairs. Peace is everything in existence as detailed in this work. It is the concern of every man beyond the bounds of language, race, colour, status, etc. In reality anything good or bad, by the rating of man, which defies known physical and spiritual boundaries to constitute a general need or concern for all men, could only have a divine lustre. This is my reasoning and presentation of peace as God in this literature.

All the religionists rely on God and are doing everything possible to meet religious standards in order to receive God’s blessings, yet without peace, God’s blessings make no meaning in anyone’s life. Every man, religionist and non-conformist alike, is praying to God or working assiduously to secure a decent and guaranteed life for himself, yet without peace, life can never be decent or guaranteed in any way. Many who believe in God pray to Him, while others who do not believe in God and prayers the efficacy of payers struggle to succeed, yet without peace, there can be no progress and development. If God is the only entity who approves and no one else disapproves, then He alone can truly do and undo. If there exists no other alternative except that peace is the only medium through which development manifests then peace must be God. This is true because it is with Him (peace) alone that the crystallization of development with everything good ensues. Therefore, if the absence of peace stampedes humanity to an inalterable and unsubvertible condition of no-development, then this virtuous ambience of serenity referred as peace simply equates God; and because nothing other than God alone equates Himself, peace is God.

This concept introduced me to grasping why peace has been generally evasive. Beyond being ghostly, it became also clear that we had grossly underestimated peace to be the mere absence of war and annihilations. Of course, if peace, as has been proven, is God, then it cannot merely be the absence of war but far much more than what we imagine it to be. It means that peace must be the advance consideration of man’s entire endeavours. The literary presentation made of peace here, entails its in-depth and advance meaning from which I have made the peace-yielding submissions.

There is something about peace, very frightening that man has not come to terms with. It forms part of the advance perspective of peace, which we are ignorant or oblivious of. However, because ignorance is no excuse, we suffer its consequences. The dreadful characteristic quality of peace is its ability of regeneration or self-restoration, which is again an attribute of God. This characteristic quality of peace makes it an elastic constant with unbreakable tensile endurance limit to infinity. No matter how much and for how long it is strained, it never breaks and regains fully from every rupture. Its ability to regain shape and form, at its good time comes usually with a condemning crush and devastation upon every single element contributory to its initial restrain, deformation and puncture.

Make a research back into history and develop the statistics to present day, and you will find out that no matter how badly robbed society is, of peace, a time comes when peace restores itself. Nevertheless, a stampeding, large-scale devastation usually precedes this restoration. The recent coronavirus global pandemic is a tall example of this self-restoration quality of peace. Before the advent of the coronavirus pandemic, wars, agitations, annihilations, sectarian battles, political squabbles, social upheavals, religious antagonisms, nuclear threats, etc. saturated the globe. Without United Nations vetoes and sanctions, every war has come to a halt; there are no nuclear testing and threats. We can go on to sighting many more cases and instances, all testimonial of the unprompted brokered peace, to the credit of the pandemic that has claimed the lives of millions. This is the frightening aspect of peace. It is true that nature is capable of descending on humanity in a much deadlier scale that might not even avail us the space to proffer any sort of relief measure, as we had in the cases Ebola, SARS, COVID-19, etc.

Crisis depend on man exclusively and not the other way round. Humanity can therefore, dispense all crises, possibly and conveniently. The fact is every crisis is the result of man’s presumptuous and inordinate attitudes. Since one can control what comes from him, humanity can control, curtail and possibly extinct crises in society. This is a possibility, and only men like you and I with scruples and audacity, will accept that humanity, in its finest moral disposition, can achieve this reality easier and faster than one can imagine. We need to achieve it and we will do, otherwise the time will sure elapse when peace will auto-prompt to undo its recoil, effect rebound and assume its natural serenity, by which means billions of us would have died horrible deaths. Because man understands and very easily adapts to the language of misery, these circumstances as they arise, duly compel man in maturity reason and fret to comport himself to absolute peace.

Man is generally treacherous. This treachery dates back to the fall of man in the Garden of Eden and ever since, we have lived in imperfection, generation after generation. Every generation meets with times like this when society suffers severe peace-drought. In moments like these, God never fails in attending to the needs of men, either directly or through a chosen prophet to bail man out. However, there is this mistake that man makes consistently in every generation, to disregard the free and sure source of providential help. I have brought this to the remembrance of my generation, to wake up from slumber, and ensure we do not make those silly mistakes of the past. This is not a charge to compel or woo any one to enrol as a nominal member of any church organisation; whosoever feels good about doing so is at liberty. I am rather reminding humanity that every individual is a church, and that peace is the religion, common to all men. As the sanctuary of peace, which is the ultimate religion, the sole duty of man is to live up to the expectation of breeding peace in all conditions; and be the true and legitimate child of God.

Our leaders act to absolve themselves from the blames of crisis in society to create the image of all-wise worthiness that seeks to place them without blames for whatever goes wrong but attributes to themselves all accolades for everything good. A leader is the head and of necessity must take responsibility for everything; good or bad. This work brings every leader to task in this regard. The head must function effectively for all parts of the body to be in good shape and even when a part of the body malfunctions; it takes a head in good working condition to engage in critical analysis of what is at stake to restore situations.

The attention of every leader is here drawn to reminiscent the full stretch of the meaning, making and duties of a leader taking examples from past leaders to be guided appropriately to do the right thing at all times. A leader at whatever level is God’s own surrogate at that level. He therefore must recognise the defined inelastic relationship between him and God identifying his bargain in the relationship as the servant portal, which realistically places every leader as a servant; to ensure that every subject under the reach of his authority is served to be at peace just as God Himself serves man to be at peace. A leader must lead his followers to understand and walk in the ways of God, which is purity, oneness and love.

Critically espoused also in this work is the undisputable reality that man never remains in the dark without the ever-abiding comfort of God’s providence, which provides the needed succour and security at every point of distress. God is a constant of an omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscience standing, which practically made man to benefit maximally in taking after this divine nature. While civilization or anything else should not distort this supposed posture of man if peace and security must linger uninterrupted, man is quick to abandoning his own side of the bargain in the accord at the slightest comfort and this trends bankrolls generation after generation. The need for us to remember that no degree of civilization will change the existence of man in relation to how he inhales and exhales oxygen for life support comes here abundantly clear. In like manner, no material advancement of life changes the tie between God and man, which obviously scales not in being some fanatical nominal members of religious, cult or any form of organization. Whether leader or servant, rich or poor, black or white, man or woman, etc. has this responsibility to guide zealously.

Perfect peace on earth is a possible imminent reality, and we can only attain it when all men come together in pure and unconditional love. This can only happen when we shed all differences that keep us far apart, divided. We must institute and uphold the universal brotherhood of man in practical terms where anybody is everybody. When we attain this height, the composition of organisations like the United Nations for instance, will change to reflect idealness; where every nation on earth will have her representation in permanent capacity and not what obtains now. Only five nations out of the one hundred and ninety-five countries of the world have permanent representative capacity in the United Nations Security Council. This is an imbalance and a loud declaration of class distinction that is a catalytic factor of crisis. No matter the degree of incapability, disability and general disadvantage, we are all equal as human beings. No man is independent except God. When advantages balance disadvantages, privileges complement under-privileges and prudence covers up for foolishness, peace then ensues boundlessly.

This generation is the most advanced and informed generation in all spheres of human endeavours. It is indeed, the luckiest of all generations because we fit into the timing of the fulfilment of all God’s promises, which is perfect peace on earth as it is in heaven. God Himself is to dwell with men on earth and He is here now to wipe all tears away. There is the responsibility on the shoulder of every man to build himself to merit the credit to be the true son of God (attaining Christhood). Our science and technology will advance tremendously, life will be free of eventualities and finally peace will linger all the way, with God being our father and we being His children.

Let us collectively work our way into the new era of perfect peace and not allow the era to work us into it. Either ways, it is a sure reality, but it will be most profitable if we work ourselves into it. In this measure of consciousness, we will conveniently evade its sublime filtration that will tolerate no ignorance and lackadaisical composure to the course of peace.

His Grace, Archbishop Digitemie Ayebanoa Opuifie

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      iii

Acknowledgement      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      iv

Foreword      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …

Preface      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …

Table of Contents      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …

Chapter 1: Peace in Content and Context      …      …      …      …      …      …      1

Chapter 2: The Universality of Peace      …      …      …      …      …      …      …

Chapter 3: Man and Peace..      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …

Chapter 4: Foundation of Collectivism      …      …      …      …      …      …      …

Chapter 5: Limits Within and Without Possibilities      …      …      …      …      …

Chapter 6: Divine Will of Peace      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …

Chapter 7: Crisis      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …

Chapter 8: Credit in Crisis      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …

Chapter 9: General Relationship for Peace      …      …      …      …      …      …

Chapter 10: Remaking Man Perfect      …      …      …      …      …      …      …

Chapter 11: Universal Religion, Language and Culture      …      …      …      …

Chapter 12: The Unforgivable      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …

Chapter 13: Ultimate Example of Perfect Peace      …      …      …      …      …

Chapter 14: World’s Approach to Crisis Management      …      …      …      …

Chapter 15: Divine Civilization      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …

Chapter 16: The New Age      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …

Chapter 17: Are We Right on Course?      …      …      …      …      …      …      …

Chapter 18: Conclusion      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …

Bibliography      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …      …

CHAPTER 1

PEACE IN CONTENT AND CONTEXT

If there is anything lacking in the context of human fundamental requisite condition for a meaningful coexistence, it is nothing less than peace in its rightful expression, definition and form. In accord with the principles of peace from the standpoint of purpose, peace oriented action begins from the individual divinely connected to his creator. Global problems relating to peace require complex solutions with unavoidable consideration of religion, ideology, philosophy, culture, history and science. This is due the expansion of history and the world in territory similar to an ever-expanding cosmos. So also is religion in the inclusion of, or with the birth of philosophy in multiple environments of evolving new cultures propelled by rapid growing science and technology.

The current growing global disorder in its many forms makes the case for a reimagined international peace project, albeit a very different one from that of a century ago. Perfect peace became absent in the community of humans when their spiritual evolution went through the wrong orientation. This accounts for the absence of universal divine law from the very unset of human existence, unprincipled motives propelled disorder of peace that got installed in the world and several strange new alien peace cultures void of God’s divine order. For this reason and more, it will be catastrophic if we have to revive peace as a strictly political idea. It certainly needs handling with care because its disordered roots heavily steep in spiritual disorientation that we must reverse using the same words that was from the very beginning rejected by man. Although it is part of our discovery that life with its essence is the divine universal law itself.

Peace in whatever way it is considered is peace. It is perfect, holy, pure, unalloyed, unblemished, true, lovely, irresistible, soothing, colourless, priceless and boundless, expressly the sole universal phenomenon, which consists in all things in the universe. Peace is the only phenomenon common to life, death, animate, inanimate, seen, unseen, big, small, man, woman, rich, poor, black, white, negative, positive, day, night and all things in the entire creation. The following chapter elaborates on the meaning of peace being everything in content.

Peace is everything. This is what defines its characteristic universality, existing in overwhelming lavishness in all realms and planes and as well enjoyed by every single thing, known and unknown. In appreciation of this immutable fact, we can without much ado, make out with absolute ease how much humanity has misconstrued, under-estimated and narrowed the colossal phenomenon of peace to merely the absence of rancour, bitterness and war. Indeed, this is the obvious reason for which we record mostly futile efforts in the general struggle for peace, by way of payback for the ignorance of the facts and secrets of peace.

In very clear terms, perfect peace already exists on earth and will continue to exist in all realms to eternity, whether there exists this gross lack of the expertise and knowledge about issues of peace or not. Liken peace to a precious stone as diamond or gold covered with a coat of dust, representing crisis. No matter the thickness of the coat of dusts, the quality of the precious stone is not affected. The moment the dustcoat is removed the lustre of the precious stone radiates without decay or diminishment. We must know that peace is a constant to infinity, already existent on earth. We only do not have the detailed grasp of its true meaning and fundamental demands, and so, make no impactful achievements in our quest to keep and even sustain it.

This is what this book sincerely, in its entirety seeks to divulge with scrolls of the strongest notes of recommendations that need to be earnestly followed-up in order to wisely re-align with the already existent peace on earth to enjoy the much desired sustained peace for humanity and therein, adequately gain of its full dividends on earth.

Our world is at its best. In world’s history presently, we are living in an era of highly sophisticated degree of landmark scientific, philosophical, metaphysical, esoteric, economic, social, geological, political, religious and sundry phenomenal achievements, all of which man has succinctly planned and sacrificed to put in place for the sole reason of living a better life. These monumental achievements should ordinarily reflect the positive degree of the Peace of the Society. However, the reverse clearly proves to be the case and as a matter of fact, these achievements, by man’s conscientious efforts, ascent in progressive upgrade and by the day we make advancements in all spheres of life, but only without a commensurate reflection of the peace of the society.

In being very frank with ourselves, we all will agree that peace, in the sense we know it, is not flowing or growing but rather ebbing or getting withdrawn by the day, explaining why the security budgets of many nations are hitting an all-time record high in the history of man’s existence. Again, this is clearly indicative of the so-to-say, diminishment of peace (a priceless gift of nature, as free as the air) now needing so much expense to pay for its maintenance/sustenance, annually. Peace is everything, and indeed the greatest gift of God to man. The peace we manage to institute by means of diplomacy upon money and material wealth is fake, transient and therefore unfounded.

Peace, as has been said earlier, is already existent on earth. It is not by any of man’s efforts but by the excellent design of God. It is rather most appropriate to state that man and his irrational desires to meet his insatiable quest for power and wealth destabilized the divinely instituted peace from the very beginning of creation. Without mincing words, even though it is free peace is now the most important and urgently desired commodity in the world, yet the most grossly misconstrued, and so, has become the most evasive phenomenon.

The earth’s dwindling prospects of peace with its peculiar nature of unpredictability makes it the world’s most demanding target goal now in dire need to achieve and of course, it is so because, peace remains the only foundation upon which development and everything good including life itself, thrives. The reality and possible existence of the perfect state of Peace in these circumstances, where peace itself is a delusion in the world today, therefore presents quite a vivid mirage. This is particularly clear especially considering the number of years and amount of resources, both human and material, that world-class organisations and renowned billionaires the world over, including national governments have sunk into the project of peace keeping/building without the least corresponding attainment of it.

In absolute terms, the evasiveness of peace has sent every earth dweller to be at comfort with the impression that Peace or Perfect Peace is impossible on earth, unless and until somehow one dies. Evidently, man has done nothing to substantiate this utterly vague sense of consolation, which rather seems to have encouraged the negative beliefs of many people in their unwholesome attitudes and behaviours, acting inhumanely with impunity only to die in tune with this impression to gain perfect peace upon death. This vague sense of consolation globally held by humanity finds an authority in the remarks of honour accorded deceased ones; may his/her gentle soul rest in perfect peace.

This general impression held today of perfect peace by almost everyone, the world over, would mean that perfect peace is a state beyond the bounds of earthly struggles, hustles, hostilities, pains and worries, which can only be attained beyond the earthly realms of living while it utterly contradicts divine establishments of immutable truth. How can anyone justifiably detail that the perfect state of peace is only, possibly experienced beyond living?

However, there is actually a complementing sense of uprightness and excellent credit in this generally held impression wherein it states that peace is heavenly but the misleading note it holds is the aspect of peace being beyond the dwelling of earthly realms. I am of the knowledge like many other people, that all things which are heavenly are also here on earth and if not yet activated, will so well be activated and replicated in due course on earth; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven as recorded in the bible book of Matthew chapter 6, verse 10. Incidentally, the only common knowledge we all have about heaven is that, it is a place of absolute tranquillity and thus perfect peace and nothing more.

I presume no one has given an account of the structures in heaven to substantiate how and why peace prevails in an absolute term up or rather out there. There has been no account of the type of delicacies, why hunger, pain, diseases and death do not exist up there. No account of hustles and bustles, work and wages, yet the most serene and perfect sense of life and living devoid of want and lack prevails. None has told us what the constitution of heaven is, how its government operates; and we do not know whom the officers are and what they look like.

Outside the skeletal visions and prophesies given by prophets like Elijah, Isaiah, Daniel, John, Mohammed, etc. about the place called heaven there are no distinct parameters of assessments. In this sense, it is completely misleading to impress or hold that perfect peace is only heavenly and not in any sense possible on earth when the same institution that made the heaven the way it is perceived, as a state of perfection, also made the earth and gave man to inhabit it. It is more so because the institution, which made the heaven and earth, did not specify the heaven to be a place of peace and the earth a place of crisis; we rather read that He (God) made all things and all were good and perfect, as nominated in the Bible Book of Genesis chapter 1. Truly, we find the day good as well as the night, the land good as well as the seas and so on.

In my investigations to know if truly perfect peace is prevalent only upon death as erroneously held by humanity, I clearly came to understand the vagueness in this impression from the very many different and incoherent explanations gotten from a wide variety of men and women of different backgrounds and beliefs in society.  No single person had anything else to say than that once you die, you are relieved of all earthly struggles where your soul thereon goes to dwell with God Almighty and just superstitious things as such. This led me to conclude that humanity has had to live with this misleading impression as a means of consoling itself in its failure to provide a formula to its most deriding challenge of Peace.

I insist in my argument of the very possible existence of sustained peace on earth and do submit that we have only not been able to find the right solution to this challenge of peace or better still, we are bereft of the right ideas that are peace yielding; and therefore, have resorted to consoling ourselves with this meaningless impression. After all, if our forbearers whose generation never had the opportunity of manufacturing planes and flying one, had this as a challenge as at that time, they would also had consoled themselves to say that it is only a scenario that is possible in heaven and not in the earthly realm.

As has been previously mentioned, peace has more than one meaning. The context in which the world perceives and holds peace is the absence of war, disease, hunger, every humanly limiting circumstance for the prevalence of tranquillity is just but one aspect, which is merely literal or superficial and therefore secondary or better still appear so inconsequential. The pursuit of man for this goal of achieving peace has remained in perpetual dislocation such that yielding tangible results is far below expectations. The only probable reason for this unmet challenge is the fact that man has not been able to focus on the prism of peace from its very respectively distinct angles, all of which present their variedly unique dimensions that of necessity must be appeased or squarely attended to if needed results of peace must be achieved.

Our standards and approaches to peace as we have them now, merely address only the superficial (secondary or physical) dimension of forestalling war, hunger, disease and the likes without touching the taproot (primary or spiritual). Again, even these approaches, are usually embellished or guided by a grotesque sense of biased judgement in delivery as we see them play out in diplomacy for self-aggrandisement, prominently executed in the most inhumane mannerism, which rather than improve, degrades peace eventually. This completely imbalanced approach to peace has brought about several institutions, organisations, unions and collaborations of people of different races and colours dating back to almost the very beginning of man; the primitive era.

Going through the length of human history in synopsis, humanity has passed through different eras to be where she is today. Pathetically, the pattern of progress clearly shows that the higher, or the more civilised and knowledgeable man becomes, the harder, insensitive and more barbaric he becomes in his relationship with fellow man (implying the diminishment of peace as we currently refer to it). In fact, one can gainfully argue to conclusion that humankind enjoyed a more reasonably lavish degree of peace on earth in the era of primitivism than any other dispensation in human history. Profoundly, our generation for sure ranks top in crises records.

Actually, in the primitive era, man in succumb to his ordinary nature was largely content with himself, managing whatever was available to him. The primitive man lived by the day, the moment and circumstance(s) and with that contentment had a serene lifestyle, anticipative of nearly nothing, which never left him worried about anything such that man was living an almost problem-free (peaceful) life. However, no sooner than he transited into discoveries, inventions and experimented conquest, problems and restive lifestyle came in to confront him in the face.

From primitivism, humanity entered the era of war and conquest; then passed into the era of imperialism; advanced to the era of slavery, through the era of colonialism. To be truthful about it is to say that contemporary society is the era of neo-imperialism cum neo-colonialism (whichever is more appropriate and applicable).  In all of these eras after the era of primitivism, peace has drained in steady progression to a near irreversible scale consequent upon selfishness, greed, tribalism/nepotism, extreme quest for materialism (or capitalism) and carnality; losing complete grip of the spiritual essence of life which hinges basically on spiritual values (the very substance of all existence and physical manifestation).

Our civilisation therefore, is in other words the art or game of rebranding wickedness in human relations in the name of innovation that might is right for which we have built our constitutions and laws to uphold and effectively institutionalising hate, division, oppression and criminality (the best and most effective tools of war) in the society. Many people would say this is the most uncharitable remark on our civilization, yet nothing has been more uncharitable than the inherently grotesque evil tentacles of hate which man’s egoism has introduced to the world through the vehicle of civilization. This ought not to be, yet it is and indeed the bane of our society. In summary, the peace, which has eluded us, is entirely a self-inflicted injury.

We will recall that through wars and conquest from their local environments, some nations or countries progressed to the global scene and platform as world powers; and they came one after the other in succession. Some of these ‘World Power Nations or Countries’ among others included the Babylonian Empire, Medo-Persian Empire, Roman Empire and British Empire and presently the United States of America. As was the norm, that is, the art of war and conquest, the early twentieth century (1914-1918) witnessed the Great War or World War 1. The end of that war brought to the global political platform, the emergence of fresh twin world powers – the United States of America (USA) and the Union of the Socialist Soviet Republic (USSR). At the same time, because of the bitter experiences of the war, an inter-governmental and international peacekeeping organization called League of Nations (LN) became operational from the 10th January 1920 resulting from the Paris Peace Conference in France that ended World War 1.

With headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the League of Nations’ platform served as a forum for resolving international disputes between countries. The League of Nations came into being after the end of World War 1, with the task to ensure that war never broke out again. The member nations of the League of Nations were desperate to avoid a repetition of the horrors of the First World War. The main aim of the organisation included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation and diplomacy, and improving global warfare and make the world a better place by improving people’s working conditions, and by tackling disease.

After the turmoil caused by the Versailles Treaty, many looked to the League to bring stability to the world". As ironical as it appeared, Woodrow Wilson, at that time the President of the US, was at the helm of the League’s affairs, yet, the US was not a member of this international peace-making organization. Rather, the US invoked a ‘Policy of Isolationism’, and kept away from any involvement in European affairs. With the alleged seeming overbearing influences of England and France coupled with disrespect by powerful countries not playing by the rules of the game, crisis ensued which led to the disintegration of the League, more especially with the outbreak of another large scale war engulfing the entire globe; that is, World War 2. At last, on 20th April 1946, the League of Nations ceased to exist, giving way to a new one, the United Nations Organization (UNO).

Chartered in August 1945 at the instance of USA with headquarters at New York, the United Nations gave birth to twin monetary institutions – the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) or the World Bank. The UN Security Council is the organ permanently in charge of peacekeeping with restricted member-nations. The few member-nations, which are belligerent and rivalry, rather than making and keeping peace, used that visually monopolised platform of power to create wars between nations to their advantage(s) evident in some pattern of divide and rule with behind support for under-developed countries to continue their rivalry in cold contention, indeed leaving the entire world divided.

This divide brought about the creation of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in 1949 led by the USA while the Warsaw Treaty Organisation, formed in May 1955, is Russia’s diplomatic machine. These two bodies rather plunged the world further into the so-called Cold War Regime – a period of destruction when the underdeveloped and weak countries and peoples of the world were used as guinea pigs to experiment and determine the potencies and effectiveness of deadly weapons of mass destruction in battlefields.

Although some achievements have been made, but operating by the core ‘Principle of Might is Right’, the world used her hands to drive peace far away from herself by her habitants. There is insecurity and restiveness on earth because man has turned out to be an insensitive beast, brutish and takes pleasure in the undoing, suffering, torturing and death of his fellow man.

To safeguard themselves; a third organisation taking a neutral and impartial stance called Movement of the Non-Aligned Nations also came into existence in late-1955 following the Bandung Conference in Indonesia. Vincent Harding (2008) in his work, Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero puts it this way; Bandung, Indonesia, was the setting for the first Conference of Non-Aligned Nations. This primarily represented the formerly colonized peoples who were asserting their sense of international solidarity and expressing their refusal to join the camps of either the Soviet Union or the USA in the Cold War that was then deepening. These were primarily people of colour from the African and Asian Continents. Yet, at long last, the same few member-nations of the UN Security Council succeeded in dividing this union of the oppressed and wretched of the earth to serve their purpose(s) on unfulfilled and empty promises of hope most unfortunately, rendering despair rather than bringing and sustaining peace.

This made the world so vulnerable, volatile and insecure as crises upon crises erupted round the world through arms struggle with every nation and race of people seeking self-determination over the other. Indeed, humanity is very confused even with the presence of civilisation, modernisation and technological and scientific advancement cum sophistication.

We have intoxicated ourselves thoroughly with hate and crisis that it is only most appropriate to state that humanity is struggling to unseat itself from the time bomb it conveniently planted in her sitting room. Now, everywhere in the world the exploration for peace has transcended religious and cultural bounds with hundreds of organisations involved in the prospect, engaging tens of hundreds of men and women as Peace Corps ranging from the local individual/group level to the international philanthropic (individual donors)/corporate organisational levels of the UN and the like.

For reasons of bias, partisanship, egoism and all such factors, brokering peace at almost every levels shrouds in dismal diplomacy, which mostly plays out to a game of the survival of the fittest. With these imbalances that have always marked peace operations in the past and even to this moment, the loftiness of general peace operations becomes gravely undermined, with one party being suspicious of the other, jeopardizing the entire peace process to failure eventually, in almost all cases.

In very many cases round the world, Community Based Organisations (CBOs) or Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have done so much well to improve the living standards of people and as well settle warring parties in various societies where they operate. Also in some parts of the world, especially in some countries of Africa, particularly in my home country of Nigeria, many individuals exploit the condition of crisis in the world to enrich themselves. They have found the inglorious occupation of getting rich through this channel of leading Community Based Organisation (CBOs) or floating Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to attract wealth from well-meaning funding organisations and donors. It is also interesting to know that as many as they emerge to take advantage of situations, peace being the greatest force in heaven and on earth in the end rises against every such scoundrel, scallywag or carpetbagger.

There are no contentions that the proprietary of this world is God’s eternal heritage. As we can all see, no organisation x-rayed above will be able in any sense to breed peace that will be sustainable. It is true because bias and selfishness come over and above the general good of humanity, all in a bid that one party struggles to gain power and control over the rest. Rather than focus on the unification of the human family, class distinction fuels racial riots to dissolve the graceful ambience of peace. It is so impressive and exhilarating to know that at these times of irreconcilable differences amongst the various human races, which simply implies the impossibility of breeding and sustaining peace, the Almighty God in the most timeous manner has established His Tabernacle of peace on earth with men as nominated in the Bible Book of Revelation chapter 19. Peace is sure to superimpose itself on man, no matter how sophisticated our civilization and knowledge of science and technology gets.

Looking at peace from the eye of the general human society preoccupied in the settling of crisis only when they occur, peace is a great and precious value, the object of our hope and the aspiration of the entire human family. As a human attitude, our hope for peace is a mark of an existential tension that makes it possible for the present, with all its difficulties, to be lived and accepted if it leads towards a goal, if we can be sure of this goal and if this goal is great enough to justify the effort of the journey. The virtue of hope inspire and keeps us moving forward, even when obstacles seem insurmountable.

Our human community bears, in its memory and its flesh, the scars of ever more devastating wars and conflicts that affect especially the poor and the vulnerable. Nations of the world no matter where, find it difficult to break free of the chains of exploitation and corruption that fuel hatred and violence. Even today, dignities, physical integrity, freedom, including religious freedom, communal solidarity and hope in the future is a mirage to a great number of men and women, young and old as rights denied. Many are the innocent victims of painful humiliation and exclusion, sorrow and injustice, to say nothing of the trauma born of systematic attacks on their people and their loved ones.

The terrible trials of internal and international conflicts, often aggravated by ruthless acts of violence, have an enduring effect on the body and soul of humanity. Every war is a form of fratricide that destroys the human family’s innate vocation to brotherhood.

War, as we know, often begins with the inability to accept the diversity of others, which then fosters attitudes of aggrandizement and domination born of selfishness and pride, hatred and the desire to caricature, exclude and even destroy the other. A perversion of relationships by hegemonic ambitions, abuse of power; fear of others and by seeing diversity as an obstacle fuel war. These are in turn, aggravated by the experience of war.

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