The wave of terrorism currently sweeping across the world, including Nigeria, will soon end, Jehovah’s Witnesses have said.

A Public Discourse delivered yesterday as one of the highlights of the final day of the first in a series of the 2012 “Safeguard Your Heart!” District Convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses held at Ota, Ogun State, South-West Nigeria, listed terrorism as a temporary problem.

Entitled “The Former Things Will Not . . . Come Up Into the Heart,” the talk was based on Isaiah 65:13,14,17-19, 21-23. It emphatically listed problems such as terrorism, sickness, economic hardship and environmental pollution among those to be eliminated by God’s Kingdom, for which Christians pray in accordance with Jesus Christ’s admonition in Matthew 6:9,10.

“Lives are no more safe,” observed Olatunji Idowu, who delivered the talk. “If it’s possible for humans to work 24 hours to take care of themselves, they would dos so.”

The speaker described the aforesaid problems as well as others currently afflicting mankind as signs of the last days, saying that they are in fulfillment of 2Timothy 3:1-5, that predicted “critical times hard to deal with.”

Quoting copiously from the Bible, according Revelation 21:3,4, he declared that none of the problems confronting mankind today will exist in God’s Kingdom.

The kingdom will bring “prospects of everlasting life in perfect conditions. The former things will not come to heart anymore,” Idowu stated. He, however, added that only the righteous will qualify for life in the promised new earth and urged his listeners to do their best to display fear of God in their everyday life.

News Express reports that over 5,000 delegates, many of them non-Witnesses, attended the convention, the first in a series of eleven such gatherings billed to be held each weekend at the Ota Assembly Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses from September 28 to December 7, 2012.

A total of 250 conventions are scheduled to hold in 32 cities across Nigeria. The programme begins at 9:20 a.m. each day and, as disclosed in a statement by the Convention News Service Department, “admission is free as conventions of Jehovah’s Witnesses are supported entirely by voluntary donations.”

*Photo: A cross section of the audience singing at the convention.

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