In the next chapter we’ll discuss the extraordinary spiritual unity this planet will experience before the end of days. The seeds of that unity, and of a true global awareness of the God center in each of us, will be planted in the next twenty years or less, accompanied by some dramatic changes in the world of organized religion.
Pope Benedict will be the last elected Pope. His reign will be succeeded by a new Catholic practice of selecting a college of cardinals, essentially a triumvirate of popes who will collectively share papal responsibilities.
Between 2015 and 2018, a union of Protestant faiths will be organized, finally acting on the fact that there really is strength in numbers, to tackle such worldwide problems as hunger, poverty, homelessness, and the need for universal medical care.
By around 2025 the strength-in-numbers approach will be successful enough to inspire a voluntary coalition of all religions that care to participate. This powerful coalition will be unified by its yearning for more depth and substance in its connection to its Creator, and by its willingness to abandon traditional counterproductive bureaucracy and countless committees and instead take an active, hands-on approach to feeding, clothing, housing, curing, and spiritually nurturing those who need God’s heart at work through His children for His children.
This 2025 global interfaith coalition will result in the worldwide construction of Healing Centers—compounds of four pyramid-shaped buildings staffed entirely by volunteers and generously equipped with donated supplies, offering around-the-clock food, clothing, shelter, basic personal hygiene and laundry facilities, medical care, crisis counseling, legal aid, and anything and everything else the populations of surrounding communities can’t provide for themselves.
Of particular significance to the massive spiritual awakening later in this century will be the Healing Centers’ Dedication Schools, which will offer, among other things, extensive courses in world religions and will require the completion of each of those courses prior to graduation.
By 2040, thanks in large part to these Healing Centers and efforts inspired by them, we’re going to see a great unity of global faiths, based on an educated awareness that their similarities far outnumber their differences, and on the conspicuous impact their combined humanitarian efforts are having on this earth. And as we’ll discover in the second half of the century, this unity of faith is only the beginning of a worldwide spiritual transformation.
The year 2020 will mark the end of the U.S. presidency and the executive branch of the government. Let’s just say the American public will finally be fed up by then and leave it at that.
The legislative branch will essentially absorb the responsibilities of the executive branch, with a streamlined body of elected representatives, an equal number from each state, forming the new legislature, which will be known simply as the Senate. The “party” system of Democrats, Republicans, Independents, et al., will un-complicate itself into Liberals and Conservatives, who will debate and vote on each proposed bill and law in nationally televised sessions.
Requirements for Senate candidates will be stringent and continuously monitored. For example, senators will be prohibited from having any past or present salaried position with any company that has ever had or might ever have a professional or contractual connection to federal, state, or local government, and each senator must submit to random drug and alcohol testing throughout his or her term.
The long-term effects of this reorganized government and closely examined body of lawmakers will be a return of legislative accountability and public trust, and state governments will follow suit no later than 2024 by becoming smaller mirror images of the national Senate.
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