I could not have expressed it better. As I always say, if the Humanists are
worried about what MAN is doing to this planet, they ought to read
Revelation and see what God has planned for the environment. Oh, brother,
where's Al Gore when you need him!!
The Bible and 'global warming'
Posted: November 5, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Joseph Farah
© 2007
I can certainly understand why neo-pagans like Al Gore believe, despite
overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary, man-made, catastrophic
global warming is the gravest threat to the planet.
What I can't understand is why people who claim to believe in the Bible as
the inerrant, inspired Word of God do so.
Even more difficult to comprehend is why some evangelical Christians are
caught up in the notion that government and international action are the
proper methods to fight this phantom threat.
First of all, in Genesis 8:22, we're told of a promise by God never to use
global floodwaters again as a means of destroying life on Earth. In that
promise, the Bible explicitly states: "While the earth remaineth, seedtime
and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night
shall not cease."
In other words, no more cataclysmic floods – the result Al Gore promises
in the near future as a consequence of global warming. Just as
importantly, there is another promise there that cold and heat shall not
cease.
What does that mean?
It means God controls the world's temperature, not man. God controls the
climate, not man. God controls the earth's "eco-system," not man. God
controls our environment, not man.
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It is so presumptuous and haughty of believers and non-believers alike to
think man is in control of the destiny of the planet God created for us.
If it were so, would he not have warned us? With all of the prophecies in
the Bible, should we not expect to be told that such matters are actually
in our hands? Why would we be told exactly the opposite throughout
scripture?
It's not that the Bible tells us there are no consequences for our actions
on the planet. In fact, it quite explicitly does. But it is not the
production of carbon dioxide that God finds offensive. It is the
commission of sin. Nowhere in the Bible does God ever suggest that
producing CO2 is sinful.
Keep in mind, it is not a pollutant. It is a naturally occurring gas –
just like oxygen. God created CO2, not man. And nature's God still
produces a lot more of it than does man.
In Isaiah 49, in a passage evangelicals believe represent the words of
Jesus Himself, there is another promise – that those who follow Him would
never perish from the heat of the sun.
"They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor the sun
smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the
springs of water shall he guide them," it says in Isaiah 49:10.
If cataclysmic global warming represented a real threat to believers,
would God have made such a promise through Isaiah?
That is not to say heat will never be used as a means of judgment. In
fact, it will be according to the Bible.
We are told in Revelation 16:9: "And men were scorched with great heat,
and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and
they repented not to give him glory."
What this means is that scorching heat will be used as a judgment against
non-believers, and, most importantly, that God and God alone has the power
over such calamities.
Yes, there will come a time when the Earth is destroyed – and intense heat
will be the mechanism God employs. But we are not talking about a rise of
a few degrees over centuries. We're talking about heat so severe it melts
the very elements that comprise the Earth.
That comes in a day that sounds very much like the time in which we live.
It is described in 2 Peter 3:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days
scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the
fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the
beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God
the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and
in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water,
perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are
kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and
perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is
with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count
slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any
should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the
which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the
elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works
that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner
of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God,
wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the
elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens
and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be
diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and
blameless.
Are today's evangelicals who agree with the worldly that the greatest
threat to mankind is represented in catastrophic, man-made global warming
without spot and blameless?
It is sheer folly and ego for man to believe he controls the destiny of
God's creation. But it is even more disgraceful when those who claim to
believe His Word preach a false gospel of global warming that directly
contradicts the entire body of scripture.
David Molina