Global Warming is God's Will
I normally do not enter the realm of speculation as to current events. I am suspicious of any attempt made to assign prophetic significance to ANY current entity or event or person. I just don't think we can be sure about things like that. If we press certain identities (Pope as the Beast, for example) we are surely going to be embarrassed later. Better to not try to supply what God has not supplied.
But there is an angle to Global Warming that is not being given enough attention. The first aspect I would like to cite is that there was some of this in the late Middle Ages. There was a "Little Ice Age" in the northern hemisphere. Did you hear about it in European History courses in school or college? Yes, in fact the very same kinds of events that are predicted in sensational media DID occur. It is responsible for many migrations of peoples, for several inventions, and for various cultural developments. But it was not caused by human activity. Mainly, this is true because there were so many fewer people on earth than now and those who were here didn't do anything like what we are doing today to the environment. It just happened.
The other aspect to this issue is that the prophecies of the end time in the Bible are full of allusions to cataclysmic events. These are surely going to happen. God is not thwarted by man's efforts. Either the efforts we are trying to undertake in Kyoto or Bali will fail, or they will never be implemented. The end will still be the same. We will have the plagues of Revelation because God WANTS to have them. It is his will. They WILL happen.
A guy named Craven has a popular little 4-Square diagram that gives mankind four choices. You can find this presentation via google, I am sure. He leaves out the most important eventuality of all: what if Global Warming is true, we do everything we can and it still doesn't help?! We have economic catastrophe as well as the natural catastrophes. What then?
Craven says we should spread the word about his findings and his little scenarios. I say we should rather spread the Gospel. That is the message the world really needs. That is the message that it is resisting to its real hurt. Being in Hell is far worse than being caught in a Little or Major Ice Age.
But there is an angle to Global Warming that is not being given enough attention. The first aspect I would like to cite is that there was some of this in the late Middle Ages. There was a "Little Ice Age" in the northern hemisphere. Did you hear about it in European History courses in school or college? Yes, in fact the very same kinds of events that are predicted in sensational media DID occur. It is responsible for many migrations of peoples, for several inventions, and for various cultural developments. But it was not caused by human activity. Mainly, this is true because there were so many fewer people on earth than now and those who were here didn't do anything like what we are doing today to the environment. It just happened.
The other aspect to this issue is that the prophecies of the end time in the Bible are full of allusions to cataclysmic events. These are surely going to happen. God is not thwarted by man's efforts. Either the efforts we are trying to undertake in Kyoto or Bali will fail, or they will never be implemented. The end will still be the same. We will have the plagues of Revelation because God WANTS to have them. It is his will. They WILL happen.
A guy named Craven has a popular little 4-Square diagram that gives mankind four choices. You can find this presentation via google, I am sure. He leaves out the most important eventuality of all: what if Global Warming is true, we do everything we can and it still doesn't help?! We have economic catastrophe as well as the natural catastrophes. What then?
Craven says we should spread the word about his findings and his little scenarios. I say we should rather spread the Gospel. That is the message the world really needs. That is the message that it is resisting to its real hurt. Being in Hell is far worse than being caught in a Little or Major Ice Age.
posted by Biblical Christianity at 8:57 AM
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