New York is where Barack Obama the youthful student, while at Columbia in the early 1980s, opted for a profession in the field of community organization. The first stop on that career path was in Chicago’s black communities, where a young Obama worked as a ground-level activist. Later, as everyone now knows, that path led him into the world of politics—through Springfield first, then Washington.

This week, Barack Obama the president returned to his roots in New York, armed with the same radical activist ideology. This time, however, the message was aimed at bringing the international community together.

In his address to the United Nations General Assembly, after all the obligatory apologies for the America that existed before 2009, President Obama said, “[I]t is my deeply held belief that in the year 2009—more than at any point in human history—the interests of nations and peoples are shared” (emphasis mine throughout).

In actual fact, the interests of nations and peoples have never been so deeply divided. And no institution highlights this ugly reality quite like the United Nations, which is run by a corrupt bunch of bureaucrats who rarely agree on anything except their naked hostility against Israel and the United States. The UN’s disastrous record of failing to enforce resolutions and keep the peace has been thoroughly documented.

Added to that, no nation, one can just as easily argue, openly displays such deep-seated division quite like the United States. Far from being a high-water mark for sharing the common interests of all Americans, 2009 may well be noted most for the hundreds of thousands of angry protesters at “tea parties” across the nation, a congressman shouting down the president during a nationally televised speech and a major media establishment completely selling out to a radical government.

For his part, President Obama’s message of sharing and working together must surely ring hollow to those who have been repeatedly snubbed and/or abandoned by the new administration—an ever expanding list that already includes governments in Britain, Israel, Poland, the Czech Republic, defenders of democracy in Honduras and producers at FoxNews, to name a few.

On the other hand, Obama’s message of organizing a world where everyone shares and has an equal voice must surely be a lovely melody in the ears of America’s enemies.

“In an era when our destiny is shared,” Obama said on Wednesday, “power is no longer a zero sum game. No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation.”

Had that been a line from Robert Fulgum’s All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, it might not seem so dangerously naive. But this is coming from the leader of the free world—one who is seemingly oblivious to the fact that mankind’s entire history has been heavy-laden with violence and war, nations rising against nations and world-ruling empires exercising dominion over subservient peoples.

The worst part of it is, Jesus Christ prophesied that man’s savage treatment of fellow man would only intensify in the latter days! “For then [just before Christ returns] shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved …” (Matthew 24:21-22). This, sad to say, is mankind’s legacy.

And weak leadership in the United States, Britain and Israel is only hastening along the fulfillment of this prophecy. Read the first three verses of Isaiah 3 and see what qualities of leadership are prophesied to vanish from our “modern” age: vision, prudence, judgment, wisdom, honor and eloquence. “And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them” (Isaiah 3:4). God is talking about leaders who degenerate to a child’s level of understanding.

Statements like these prove just how up to date Isaiah’s prophecy is: “No world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will succeed.” America’s government in Washington and its many enemies around the world are about to get what they yearn for—a world free of American dominance.

And God says that massive power vacuum will be quickly filled by an empire forming right now in the heart of Europe—and one that will impose its will on the entire world!

We are about to see an unfathomable amount of destruction explode all over the Earth. It’s as dangerous as this world has ever been, and yet, this is the unmistakably weak and childish message the United States of America is sending to the world: We have fully abandoned our position as lone superpower and international policeman. We are but one nation among many in the community of nations. We have no moral authority to impose our will on any other nation, no matter how dangerous that nation or its leadership might be.

And what about the message we have for our traditional allies? President Obama said, “The traditional division between nations of the south and north makes no sense in an interconnected world. Nor do alignments of nations rooted in the cleavages of a long-gone Cold War.”

History, in other words, is over. Within the organized community of nations, America’s traditional allies shouldn’t expect any special treatment from Washington.

This new world, the way America sees it, is like kindergarten—where all people and nations, with mutual interests and mutual respect, play fair and share everything, and where international bodies—certainly not the United States—maintain order and peace.

This new worldview, though, is about to be smashed by the hard reality of old alignments and divisions, as prophecy forewarns and the pages of history books have recorded. For students of history, in fact, it’s an all-too-familiar storyline. “It falls into that long, dismal catalogue of the fruitlessness of experience and the confirmed unteachability of mankind,” Winston Churchill once said. “Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong—these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.”

The end of this fruitless and calamitous cycle, however, is actually near! For the elect’s sake, Jesus said in the prophecy mentioned above, those days of tribulation shall be shortened. This is when the God of heaven will set up a Kingdom on this Earth that shall never be destroyed (Daniel 2:44). It’s when the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of Jesus Christ (Revelation 11:15).

It’s when God will elevate His government above all the nations of the Earth!