Monday, November 1, 2021

Is Climate Change a Thing?

So is Man Driven Climate Change a thing? From a Christian Perspective I think we are suffering from a hangover of the End Times centric Christian discourse of the Seventies and Eighties in the Twentieth century. The result is that we are overtly sceptical of anything that comes from global government sources.

As a result it would seem that the majority of evangelical Christianity does not accept that there is Climate Change. This is understandable but I wonder if they really think that there is no Climate Change or if they are really just rejecting the current globalist agenda?

The globalist agenda seems to be largely set on achieving the reduction of the Worlds population and ushering in a global socialist state. So it’s no wonder Christians feel sceptical of its motives and are vocal in their opposition. It is unlikely that any of this will be good news to Christianity given the secular focus on atheism and it’s generally Antichristian aims.

However, the Earth would seem to be generally suffering under the weight of humanity. If we look at the way that God set the Earth up when He created it everything was in balance. That balance resulted in a flourishing biodiversity. Even after the fall things were in a state of perpetual balance and rebirth. Humanity has violated the Earth with impunity for millennia. We have cleared away forests to farm. We have built cities to match our own desires and needs. We have preyed on species to meet our requirements to the detriment of the planet and the extinction of so very many species.

Today the planet isn’t even a shadow of its former self when God created it. The reality is we have decimated the land and polluted the oceans. We have destroyed our planets ecosystems. Trees and the oceans produce oxygen which we need to breathe to survive. They take carbon dioxide in and put oxygen out. If there is insufficient forest and the oceans are too heavily polluted this cycle is put in danger.

Another thing that man has done is to use the surface of the Earth however he chooses without consideration for the consequences. I’m talking about farming, mining and the wholesale devastation of the surface with no plan for the future. I know this is just restating what I said earlier in the piece but I’m coming from the point that when Yahweh Elohim finished creation and commissioned Man to oversee it all. He gave him responsibility to care for all of nature and to be shepherds of all creation to the glory of God.

Sin had perverted Man and Nature but humanity is still to be held to account for the lack of care we have taken of the planet that God has given into our charge. Part of this is that humans have not made God their Lord and King. We have followed the ways f the devil and rebelled against Yahweh.

We have not repented in the name of Jesus Christ. So much of humanity appears to have rejected him. In a time when the consequences of our rebellion and our lack of concern for the impacts of our foolish ways on the planet are about to come home to roost. Never has there been a more important time for humanity to turn back to the Creator, Yahweh Elohim.

Instead we are now heading into a time of judgement and a great part of that judgement is going to come as a result of the actions of our own hands. At the same time as the planet reels from the destruction of systems that could have brought healing to the natural world and helped to restore it to what it was when Yahweh made it. In the words of the prophet “Sow the wind. Reap the whirlwind,” (Hosea 8:7).

So is Climate Change real? I’m not totally convinced of the globalist narrative of carbon dioxide driving a heating of the atmosphere. But the the biosphere is decimated and over the coming centuries unless it is restored it is going to die at the hands of mankind. Unless genuine action is taken to change humanities ways. 

Sow to righteousness and bring the glory to God and you will see the Earth restored. God has a plan to bring about his Kingdom and to dwell among His people. The foolishness that man has endured will be done away with and a new time of peace and righteousness will come about. The Earth will be restored and the creation will no longer labour under sin and unrighteousness.

Matthew 19:28 Jesus said to them,“I tell you the truth, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. NIV

Revelation 21:5,6 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new.” Then He said, “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.” NIV

The Seventh Bowl Judgement. The final judgement and the beginning of the restoration of the Earth through a an earthquake stronger than any ever known. Greater than the 9.5 Richter Scale quake off Chile in 1960 and the 9.3 Richter Scale earthquake in Alaska USA in 1964. Hard to imagine the severity of this earthquake which will be felt around the World.

Revelation 16:17-21 The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, “It is done!” Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake. The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath. Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found. From the sky huge hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds, fell on people. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible. NIV

The restored Earth of the Millennial Kingdom

Isaiah 41:18-20 I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs. I will put in the desert the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive. I will set pines in the wasteland, the fir and the cypress together, so that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it. NIV

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