At the 2005 World Summit, what would have happened if the UN had placed three of their logos side-by-side?  Well, as you may know, they actually did. It happened at the room where the Quartet -- after their meeting on the sidelines of the Summit -- met for their press conference.

You may think I'm reading too much into this occurrence. And, I may be. But, this morning I awoke early and soon was following some news reports Read about it here  I  And here that led me to what happened at the UN back in 2005, and even earlier in 2000.

If you have read my book, you may recall I write about the UN's 2000 Millennium Summit. What basically happened in 2000 is the world's leaders decided the time had come to completely overhaul the UN. And it turns out the UN's 2005 Summit was a follow-up to the decisions taken at the UN's 2000 Summit Read about it here. By way of reminder, here is some of what I wrote about the 2000 Summit:

It was a mess. 197 world leaders, each with their own motorcade, invaded New York at one time. It was the largest gathering of heads of state in history. They were there to attend the three-day Millennium Summit at the UN headquarters, starting on September 6, 2000. 

Yet, the week earlier, the scene at the New York Waldorf-Astoria Hotel was even stranger. Here we had spiritual leaders representing more than 50 religions gathering together for their own summit – the World Peace Summit. In addition to Western clergy, there were African drummers, Hindu chanters and tribal holy-men.

The religious gathering had been organized by a group of interfaith activists with a little help from their friends – New Age billionaire Maurice Strong and Time-Warner’s chief, Ted Turner. The purpose of the gathering was to find a way the world's religious leaders could contribute to the UN’s quest for world peace. 

The following week, the world’s political leaders met in the same assembly hall. The meeting began with a moment of silence for three UN staff members who had recently been killed in East Timor. This moment of silence set the stage for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to make his appeal to the world leaders. He asked them to support his and the Security Council’s proposals to strengthen the UN’s peacekeeping ability by giving them their own military forces.

Like I said, in 2000 a decision was made to completely overhaul the UN. The overhaul would be comprehensive. Instead of just providing the international body with stronger enforcement capabilities, it would provide the body with better economic, cultural and even new religious capabilities. In 2005, a major recommitment to those goals was taken. And in his very first speech to the General Assembly, the UN's new Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, made it clear that he would follow through and finish the job. Ban was reported to have said: "I will make it my priority to strengthen the U.N.'s ability to play its role to the fullest extent in conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding” Read about it here.

Friends, what we seem to have before us is exactly what the Bible foretold. The UN is now creating "peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding" methods that included international police, military, economic and religious mechanisms. And to make it all legal, international law has been changed to included "humanitarian interventions" UN pdf1  I  UN pdf2.

Ready for world peace?