When discussing how to recognize false prophets, Jesus said that you would be able to tell a tree by its fruits. Christian fruitage is the result of following Christ. So, first we must know what Christ taught; then, we ought to be able to discern who is following his teachings and who isn't.

Take Christ's teaching that we must love our neighbor as an example. One of Jesus' apostles, John, wrote the same thing at 1 John 3:10-12. It reads in the NIV: "This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the Devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother. This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous."

Now, of the multitude of religions that claim to be following Christs' teachings, how many of them actually do? Nearly all so-called Christian religions and their followers participate in war. In fact, millions have been duped by their clergy into supposing that they are doing their Christian duty by suiting up as soldiers and slaughtering those whom they are told are their enemies. The Watchtower has written an excellent article that you can read online that exposes Christendom's rotten fruitage in this regard.

On the other hand, it is well known that Jehovah's Witnesses absolutely refuse to do military service, no matter the personal cost. We would rather be killed than become killers. So, just on this one issue there is an enormous contrast between Jehovah's Witnesses and the religionists of Christendom. While there are a handful of sects and Christian individuals that call themselves pacifists, nearly all of Christendom's religions, from Catholics to the evangelical fundamentalists, are more than willing to march to the beat of drums of war. (Here is a link to a BBC special article that discusses the ethics of religion and war.)

For those who are bewildered by the multitude that claim to be following Christ, considering how the various religions measure up just on the one issue of war should narrow the field down considerably.

Revelation 13:15 says: "And there was granted it (the two-horned beast) to give breath to the image of the wild beast, so that the image of the wild beast should both speak and cause to be killed all those who would not in any way worship the image of the beast."

The verse says that the image comes to life and not only begins to speak on its own, but it causes to be killed those who do not worship it. So, the two-horned beast, which we believe appropriately symbolizes the present Anglo-American dyad, empowers an organization that is an image of the seven-headed imperial beast, which likely is the United Nations—of the future. Reasoning on the matter, the United Nations has no authority or power except what is granted it by the collective nations. In order for the United Nations to acquire the kind of power the prophecy seems to be foretelling, the now-ruling powers, particularly the Anglo-American duo, must empower it further by transferring a vast portion of their own political and military power over to it. That is basically what the so-called new world order is all about.

That is a very good question. We can discern the Bible's answer if we appreciate the fact that Jehovah's Will has always been done—in heaven and on earth. Consider what Paul said at Romans 8:20-21, which reads in the NIV as follows: "For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God."

We know that it was not God's Will for Adam and Eve to have eaten the forbidden fruit and bring ruination upon themselves and their unborn offspring. But, according to Paul, it was the Will of Jehovah that the human creation be subjected to the consequences of our first parents' wrong choice. So, in that respect at least, God's Will has been done on the earth.

The same thing can be said about Jehovah's Will being done in heaven. Consider the account in the book of Job: The book relates how Satan was present among an assembly of God's sons because he had an issue with the way Jehovah runs the universe. But, please notice how Satan did not initiate the encounter. God called Satan forward and challenged him to say exactly what was on his mind. In fact, God apparently read the Devil's mind because he asked him straight out: "Have you set your heart upon my servant Job?"

God has never shied away from confronting evil. But, in his wisdom, Jehovah has allowed the rebellion against him to fully develop, which has required that God not immediately impose his Will upon creation. The predicament arises when men and angels go contrary to the express Will of God. It has never been God's Will for either his heavenly sons or earthly sons and daughters to rebel against him; however, because God endowed his intelligent creation with the gift of free will, the potential will always exist for God's creation to go contrary to him. But, it is evident by God's response that he is more than up to the task of permanently resolving the controversy raised by the misuse of free will. In order for the issues to be completely settled though, God has allowed rebellion to exist for a time, both in heaven and on earth. So, in that sense God's Will has always been done.