We sat at the center table below the President's name plate in the impressive Security Council Chamber. She spoke articulately about the United Nations' Millennium Goals.

The goals she described to improve the lives of billions of people seemed incredibly modest. I wouldn't want my children to live like the bottom two billion people on this UN agenda even if its goals are achieved. Neither would most of the readers of this article. Most at that level of poverty likely do not even have access to read what I am about to say.

Imagine a world in which the continent of Africa is as prosperous as America, every country in Asia and South America as wealthier than any nation in the world of the past century, and the financial flow of wealth to the Middle East as so vast it could literally pave streets in gold. Such a world appears beyond our human ability to believe.

Is such a world impossible? Not if you believe what Jesus Christ has said about the future!

But the vision projected in the official goals of the UN is far more limited. Not that there is anything wrong with its goals—except that they provide no hope for hundreds of millions left to languish and die.

The United Nations Millennium Goals define a series of specific global possibilities for human progress. UN planners say these are attainable. However, many people—even in fabulously wealthy America—suspect they are impossible dreams.

But it is encouraging that at least a serious discussion of an eventual end of poverty on earth is now emerging. Having come from West Africa herself, Ms. Aggrey compassionately explained the value of the currently limited but critical UN goals for many hundreds of millions of people.

By 2015 world leaders hope to cut in half the number of people with income of less than one dollar a day, eliminate poison from the water supply of the poor populations of the world, cut in half the number of people experiencing severe malnutrition and then by 2020 remove hundreds millions of people from desperate slum conditions. Yet, these projections will still leave a half billion people behind.

It is important to note that human leaders have laudable goals of helping all human beings achieve their potential and be relieved of desperate poverty, hunger, disease, and abuse. But we must understand that they are tinkering with a human race profoundly flawed by its selfishness. The United Nations can do little to alter that problem.

But God has a Millennium Manifesto that will fix that critical flaw.

God's Millennium Prophecy at the United Nations

The United Nations itself acknowledges the existence of this divine millennial prophecy. It is displayed in the wide circular stairway which leads up to the street called United Nations Way, across from the main headquarters building.

On the wall facing the United Nations building the famous Isaiah prophecy of the biblically projected Millennium surrounded me as I walked from my appointment with Ms. Aggrey. It is the icon of the hoped for reality behind the vision of the United Nations charter, endorsed by all the nations of the world today. It is complemented by the famous quote from Isaiah on the statute donated by the Soviet Union in 1959 and rests in the park along the east side of the Headquarters building along the Hudson River.

Celebrating the literal disarmament of all nations of the world, it refers directly to the future administration of Jesus Christ as prophesied in Isaiah 2:2-4: "For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations and rebuke many people. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore."

In this wonderful "world to come" (Hebrews 2:5), the trillions of dollars spent on military efforts in our world today will then be diverted to human development, not destruction.

What a future for the world!

This prophecy is real. It existed prior to the United Nations and its Millennium Goals by more than 2,500 years.

Which is the more powerful vision, the greater hope? Which will you believe?

Be a believer of the best. Be your brother's keeper.