‘A Better World is Near’

Former pro football player Windlan Hall will be joining fellow Jehovah’s Witnesses in Burnsville, Minnesota, to participate in a global campaign during the month of November.

The Green Bay area will be one of the thousands of communities that will receive a powerful message of hope this month as Witnesses embark upon a special campaign focusing attention on the Bible’s promises for a better world.

The goal of the campaign is to distribute a special edition of The Watchtower magazine containing the cover series, “A Better World is Near.” More than 36 million printed copies of the magazine are expected to be distributed in some 230 languages to communities in 240 lands around the globe. In addition, the digital publication is available on various platforms in nearly 400 languages.

The magazine addresses the age-old “doomsday” question “Is this world going to end?” with a comforting answer that may surprise many readers. While many religions have predicted the “end of the world,” the magazine reveals the Bible’s clear message: The earth is here forever and will never end! However, the magazine also explains the powerful truth that wickedness will soon be gone, quoting the Bible book of Psalms where it promises that the “lawless one” will be no more. (Psalm 37:10, Rotherham translation)

Hall is one Christian who gained a sense of purpose in life after learning the Bible’s message.

“Playing professional football was always just a dream growing up,” he said. But when he earned a football scholarship and started playing for Arizona State University, his childhood dream finally felt attainable.

Achieving success in the sport, Hall was drafted into the NFL in 1972. Over the next six years, he went on to play for the San Francisco 49ers, Minnesota Vikings, and Washington Redskins – even competing in the 1977 Super Bowl.

Despite being at the pinnacle of his career, however, he still felt that something was missing. “I was just living for myself,” he said. “I needed to get serious about life. I needed to focus on something else that was more important to me.”

His younger brother, who had become one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, started studying the Bible with him. When Hall learned of the Bible’s promise for a better world, he finally realized this was the key to what he had been searching for. “Your purpose in life changes,” he explained. “There are answers for all the things that are going on in the world.”

This positive message has been the hope of millions around the world who have prayed for ‘God’s Kingdom to come,’ a familiar refrain of many Christians taught by Jesus in what some refer to as the Lord’s Prayer.

“People are longing to hear a positive message and this is the best news possible,” said Robert Hendriks, U.S. spokesman for Jehovah’s Witnesses. “A better world is not just a dream, it’s inevitable. In fact, it is the central theme of the entire Bible.”

Hall, now a resident of Burnsville, volunteers his time to share that hope with others in his community.

“God's Kingdom is what the whole Bible is written around,” he said. “This is the solution to all of mankind's problems.”

The Watchtower has been carrying a similar message about God’s Kingdom for more than 100 years and remains the most widely translated and circulated magazine in the world. The No. 2 2021 issue is available for free online at jw.org, where anyone can also request a free printed copy by scrolling down on the homepage to “Request A Visit.”

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Click below for a direct link to the online version of the magazine:

https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/watchtower-no2-2021-may-jun/