Is "New World Order" biblical?

[nordskoven]

Is the phrase “New World Order” biblical? It’s more Masonic than Catholic, I feel…

Pontiff urges world to unite against terrorism and other blights
Last Updated Sun, 25 Dec 2005 13:37:28 EST
CBC News

Pope Benedict urged people to unite against terrorism, poverty, pandemics and environmental destruction, in his first Christmas Day address from the Vatican.

He also called for a “new world order” to correct economic and ethical imbalances, and appealed for protection for people suffering from “tragic humanitarian crises” in the Darfur region of Sudan and elsewhere.

Despite cold weather and drizzling rain, tens of thousands of people cheered and called out the Pope’s name as he came to a balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square at noon on Sunday.

 

[Daniel_Marsh]

sounds like he is calling for change for the better to me, nothing sinister to see here.

 

[BayCityRickL]

Sorry but I haven’t seen the specifics of what the Pontiff meant.

“new world order” seems like an over-used term, to me. It’s been around for a long time. I’m sure it means different things to different people.

I believe it means, to some, to shift power to the Far East and to the Middle East. It doesn’t particular bode well to the poor and the disenfranchised, for example.

When I was in Catholic elementary school, those were the days when I could go into the church for prayer at noon times. I was alone with Jesus in the tabernacle. I was struck with awe over this intimacy. I privately bemoaned that I was the only one there. It seemed to me even at age 12 that the world’s best chance would be if everyone acknowledged Christianity, so they could get along better with each other. The more they embraced Christ, the more they could embrace each other.

I left those moments of meditation over 40 years ago. I don’t feel that I was wrong then. Sadly, we don’t find unity even within our own church.

Perhaps the Pope’s power is in giving us an example to follow and a goal to orient ourselves to.

But, more often than not, we find people aligning themselves with political power and money, rather than with spiritual values. I would like to think that what the Pope said would happen. I just don’t feel very hopeful right now.

 

[Della]

The Holy Father is just trying to get us all to see things from a broader view–one in which the focus is not on what is wrong but on making things right.

It is so easy to concentrate on the problem we see 2 feet in front of us rather than on the possible future 5, 10, 20 years from us. We have to take a longer view in order to set goals not just focus on immediate difficulties. At least, that’s what I got out of his words.

 

[BayCityRickL]

My second thought is that anything that is equivalent to the “last days” of the NT is ok with me.