Where does climate change fit into this picture presented to us in the book of Revelation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The following is from NASA\u2019s website, Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/evidence\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n TAKEAWAYS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The problem is if you should type in \u201cClimate change debunked\u201d in the Google search line, the only articles that come up are those that support the theory. No dissenting articles appeared in my search that I could find. Additionally, it appeared to me that the conclusions were drawn from computer models which have been notoriously wrong in the past. I would warn Christians to be careful with this. The blind acceptance of man-made global warming theories is just one sign of the times \u2014 a sign of how deception and coercion works today. I believe it\u2019s effectively being used to undermine the Bible, its message, and therefore the Christian faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, I am struck by the apocalyptic language that is being used from all quarters to describe the catastrophic consequences of climate change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Fox News Article, January 22, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/al-gore-history-climate-predictions-statements-proven-false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n During remarks made Wednesday at the World Economic Forum summit<\/a> in Davos, Switzerland, Gore warned that continued carbon emissions into the atmosphere would destroy the planet and lead to widespread calamities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We\u2019re still putting 162 million tons [of greenhouse gas] into it every single day and the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth,” Gore said. “That\u2019s what\u2019s boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts, and melting the ice and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gore then noted a prediction that the number of climate refugees worldwide would surge to a billion within the century. He added that such a surge would lead to nations losing their “capacity for self-governance.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n Gore is not alone in the use of such language. I hear it regularly today. Here\u2019s where I think the Christian needs to be level-headed and biblically grounded. I do believe it\u2019s entirely possible that global warming is taking place at an accelerated pace. I also think it\u2019s possible that man in his hedonism and greed is doing damage to the earth over which we are to be stewards and not plunderers. The question is how much has man contributed to the problem. Not nearly as much as Al Gore and those like him would suggest I\u2019m sure.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The question is who it is that is ultimately to blame for it. Whereas man-made climate change advocates see man as the guilty party, namely through his abuse of the environment, we as believers, without discounting the validity of climate change, might want to consider that God is behind it, and yes, due to man\u2019s sin, but not entirely, or even mostly, due to\u00a0 his abuse of the environment, but due to his rebellion against God in every category imaginable as evidenced by his having been given over to a depraved mind (more on this in a later post).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another way of saying it might be this: The climate is indeed changing. It is warming faster than anything we\u2019ve ever seen before. At this pace, combined with the drying up of major water aquifers under the earth\u2019s surface (a fact established by satellite imaging), we could be facing severe draughts and apocalyptic famines in the not too-distant future. Consider this article written by Lucas Besire, who doesn\u2019t appear to me to be a radical environmentalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Besire, Lucas. The Atlantic, The Next Disaster Coming to the Great Plains<\/em>, December 21, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2021\/12\/kansas-aquifer-ogallala-water-crisis-drought\/621007\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n GARDEN CITY, Kan.\u2014A century after the Dust Bowl, another environmental catastrophe is coming to the High Plains of western Kansas. The signs are subtle but unequivocal: dry riverbeds, fields of sand, the sound of irrigation motors straining to pump from dwindling aquifers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe face a fundamental choice,\u201d Connie Owen, the director of the Kansas Water Office, said to a group of state legislators, lobbyists, groundwater managers, and experts who assembled here last summer to debate the future of the region’s groundwater, now in steep decline due to overuse by industrial agriculture. \u201cWhat hangs in the balance is even more than the loss of livelihoods, communities, or an entire region\u2019s economy\u2014it is the character of who we want to be as a people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar conversations are under way across the American West, as an unprecedented water crisis<\/a> comes into sharp focus. It is no secret that one of the worst droughts in 1,000 years is intensifying heat waves and megafires<\/a>; that historic drops in surface-water levels coincide with historic spikes in demand as the region grows hotter, drier, and more populated; or that conflicts are escalating over who gets to use how much of what remains. Acute scarcity drives the search for water underground. But the West\u2019s major aquifers are in trouble, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aquifers are essential resources for human survival. Groundwater provides the only source of drinking water for one-third of the world\u2019s people and supports nearly half of the planet\u2019s irrigated agriculture. Yet far more groundwater is being pumped out than can be naturally replenished. Most dry-area aquifers are vanishing<\/a>. These include the two primary groundwater systems in the western United States: California\u2019s Central Valley aquifer and the Ogallala Aquifer, which underlies America\u2019s heartlands from South Dakota to Texas. If we lose these aquifers, we lose nearly 20 percent of the world\u2019s grain crop<\/a>, more than 40 percent of our nation\u2019s beef production<\/a>, and about 40 percent of the vegetables, nuts, and fruits<\/a> consumed in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The main cause for this warming climate and depletion of the aquifers could be God\u2019s judgment against man\u2019s sin in general<\/em>. If man want\u2019s to prevent the \u201cunnatural\u201d global warming we are experiencing, the answer is not in the green movement placating mother earth, but in man repenting from his sins and turning to the Creator of all things.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n We as Christians don\u2019t have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. We don\u2019t need to overreact to the Al Gores of this world\u2019s claims that it\u2019s all due to man\u2019s abuse of the environment and that man can fix it through radical tactics in reducing fossil fuel emissions and all the other social justice nonsense associated with the Green movement by rejecting everything they are saying. Satan doesn\u2019t lie without mixing it with truth. That\u2019s his MO and that\u2019s how he\u2019s been so productive since the beginning. This is what it means to be wise as a serpent \u2014 to know his ways \u2014 and yet be innocent as doves. We don\u2019t have to reject everything that comes out of the mouth of radical evironmentalists. Truth is truth whether it\u2019s on the lips of Satan or men. Our responsibility is to filter out the error from the truth and deal with it from God\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Where does climate change fit into this picture presented to us in the book of Revelation? The following is from NASA\u2019s website,<\/p>\n\n