No Peace Without the Prince of Peace

By Pastor Aubrey Duncan

President Donald Trump recently announced the formation of his Board of Peace. But what is that anyway, and whom does it serve? In order to answer those questions and get a better understanding of Trump’s bold initiative, let’s recognize some facts. The United Nations Security Council approved the establishment of the Board of Peace under Resolution 2803 on November 17, 2025. Its formal endorsement was limited to a specific role in Gaza as a “transitional administration” to oversee the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip through the end of 2027.

But Trump and his board think they have a better idea, even better than Creator God. Their goal is extremely ambitious, like acting as a peacekeeper for the planet. On January 22, 2026, during a ceremony at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Donald Trump formally and unilaterally ratified the Board of Peace’s charter as an “official international organization.” The charter offers “permanent membership” for a $1 billion contribution; otherwise, member terms are limited to three years. An overwhelming majority of the board’s members are regimes ruled by authoritarians who need to protect their positions from possible opposition. Trump’s action effectively sets up a conflict between the United Nations and his Board of Peace. This brings us to the apocalyptic ramifications of Trump’s Board of Peace.

The book of Revelation, chapter 13, foretells of a final worldwide amalgamation of religious, political, and economic powers in which the church rules the state (Revelation 17:1-6). One notable actor that has been asked to join Donald Trump’s Board of Peace but has not yet decided is the Papacy. The Jesuit publication, America, reports, “We have also received this invitation, and the pope has seen it, and we are deciding what to do,” the Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, told journalists on Wednesday (Jan. 21). “I think it’s a matter that needs some time to be considered in order to give an answer,” he added, saying there were concerns for the respect of the international rule of law.

Whether the world’s longest-lasting religious/political behemoth ‘officially’ joins Trump’s Board of Peace or not, one can be sure that the Vatican will play no small role in its functioning, just as it has been playing in the United Nations.

As one peruses the global political, economic, and religious landscape, it can reasonably be concluded that the world is undoubtedly living through that period of earth’s history not only prophesied by Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, but also by other prophets, such as Daniel and John.

When asked by His disciples concerning the signs of the end of the world and His second coming, Jesus responded, “Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places … And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come” (Matthew 24:4-7, 14).

But to what Gospel was Jesus referring? It’s the Gospel that declares that He, the Creator of the Universe, the Governor of the galaxies, and the Lord of the Sabbath, is the ONLY Savior of the world who can bring peace to the human family (John 14:6, Acts 4:12).

He therefore was careful to warn about that other gospel: “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand” (Matthew 24:15). Jesus is here referring to a system of human instrumentalities offering a way of salvation outside the grace of God and without faith in Him. It’s a gospel that promises utopia without the removal of sin from the human experience. In modern times the world has experienced the results of that gospel in the programs of Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler. They all miserably failed to bring about world peace as they promised. So will this effort also.

The apostle Paul warned, “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape” (1 Thessalonians 5:3). Certainly, humanity is experiencing birth pains as a woman with child soon to be delivered. The prophet Daniel amplifies that pain before delivery: “And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book” (Daniel 12:1). Be sure that your name is written in His book of life.

God has not left us in darkness with regard to where we are in earth’s history. In fact, the Bible has been remarkably accurate in prophesying the ruling powers of the earth. It boasts a 100% accuracy rate in foretelling the nations that would rule supreme over the human family. Beginning with Babylon, some 600 years before the birth of Jesus Christ, those powers are undeniably identified as Babylon, Media/Persia, Greece, Imperial Rome, and the Roman Papacy united with the United States of America.

Though many question America’s role in world and salvation history, the facts are startling and the Biblical record unflinching. The Pilgrims had landed at Plymouth Rock. They were fleeing the persecution of the church/state union that was reigning throughout Europe. Sadly, they implemented the same policies on the shores of their newfound home. Those that did not go along with the religious tenets of these new settlers were persecuted, harassed, and killed by the state for not following the doctrines of the church. Incidentally, one of those doctrines was mandatory going to church on Sunday, a move that is rapidly picking up steam around the world.

But there rose one among them who vehemently disagreed with that concept. His name was Roger Williams, and this is what he said: “An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state confounds the civil and religious and denies the principles of Christianity and civility, and that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.” (Roger Williams [founder of Rhode Island], The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience, 1644). God always has His sentinels that would stand up for righteousness and justice in the face of despotism, cruelty, and injustice.

Moving a little closer, we see a band of revolutionaries, no doubt influenced, if not inspired, by the pronouncements of Roger Williams, rose up to cast off the yoke of the British church/state enterprise that controlled the lives of the people in the New World for more than 100 years. They would eventually not only succeed in their rebellion to separate from that system of tyranny but also establish a country that would be founded on a principle of a completely different sort.

Enshrined in their founding documents is the principle that would be its strength and power for as long as it exists. It is the separation of church and state—a country without a king and a church without a pope. It is profoundly rooted and grounded in this seemingly simple but profoundly powerful statement: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” (1st Amendment of the US Constitution).

As we take an even closer look at our not-too-distant past, we see a man by the name of John F. Kennedy who embraced that principle. He was the great-grandson of one of those families that fled the European continent to establish a better life for themselves in the land born out of Roger Williams’ idea and solidified by James Madison and the Revolutionary Founding Fathers of this great nation we call the United States of America.

JFK was a gentleman and a war hero who was reared in a culture of public service. He wanted to be president of the country for which he fought and risked his life. But he had a problem. He was Roman Catholic. Americans, ever since the days of its founding, had educated their children to abhor Catholicism (not individual Roman Catholics), but the usurpation of civil and religious liberties for which the system stands. It was the system from which millions fled to a place where the worship of God according to the dictates of their own consciences was promoted.

In his quest for the presidency, JFK had to convince the leading Protestant ministers of the land that he would not govern the nation according to the demands of his church. And that he did. In his most memorable speech, given to those ministers gathered in Houston, Texas, on September 12th, 1960, young John Kennedy declared, “I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference; and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.” He was elected the first Roman Catholic president in November of the same year.

But what a contrast we are experiencing today. Leading ministers, both Protestant and Catholic, are imposing their will upon the people based upon the dogmas and doctrines of several sects. Historical and spiritual amnesia has steeped in. Like never before, the church and state are having a love affair such as has not been seen since the Dark Ages, when untold millions lost their lives for not abiding by the pronouncements of the European Ecclesiastical Establishment.

Former Roman Catholic priest Charles Chiniquy had predicted this moment in the nation’s history. In his book, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, Chiniquy related the subject of discussion at a meeting of Roman Catholic priests and bishops held in Ontario, Canada, in the year 1852. The attendees were told of a rather focused and comprehensive plan to take over the United States. Chiniquy cited the object of that plan, “Then, yes! Then, we will rule the United States and lay them at the feet of the Vicar of Jesus Christ, that he may put an end to their godless system of education and impious laws of liberty of conscience, which are an insult to God and man!” (Charles Chiniquy, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, Page 476).

He continued, “Liberty of conscience is proclaimed by the United States as a most sacred principle, which every citizen must uphold, even at the price of his blood. But liberty of conscience is declared by all the popes and councils of Rome to be a most godless, unholy, and diabolical thing, which every good Catholic must abhor and destroy at any cost.” (ibid., pg. 478).

That mission is almost accomplished. The question is, what happens next? Former Pope Francis laid it all out in his encyclical, Fratelli Tutti (All Brothers). It’s his, and by extension his church’s, prescription for world peace and unity, based upon his inspiration of a dead Francis of Assisi and not on God’s word. Here are a few highlights:

• Full unification of church and state. The church is becoming the conscience of the state. Desecration of the 1st Amendment and, by extension, the destruction of the American experiment—destruction of the wall of separation of church and state.
• Denial of individual property rights, since all property is for the common good as determined by his church.
• His church becoming the only means of salvation, accepting Mary as the mother of the church and his church as the mother of all churches.
• Sunday sacredness.
• Sugar coated with a little Jesus spread out here and there’

On the contrary, however, James Madison, the one who is credited for being the main architect of America’s founding documents, wrote to a friend, “In the Papal System, government and religion are in a manner consolidated, and that is found to be the worst of governments. In most of the governments of the old world, the legal establishment of a particular religion, with or without very little toleration of others, makes a part of the political and civil organization, and there are few of the most enlightened judges who will maintain that the system has been favorable either to religion or to government.” (James Madison, Letter to Jasper Adams).

Regardless of who wins the conflict between Trump’s Board of Peace and the United Nations, the result will be the same: a period of tyranny, championed by the Papal system, fueled by AI, accelerated by Christian Nationalism, and followed by the nations of the world such as has never before been seen in the history of the human race. John the Revelator explains, “These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful” (Revelation 17:13-14).

Be sure you’re on the side of the Prince of Peace, your Only Shelter in the coming storm.

About: Follow Pastor Aubrey Duncan at his Unfolding Prophecy Page.