Extreme Climate Change!

Climate change is a common topic these days.  Australia has made an effort to "go green," reducing carbon emissions and creating a "carbon price" (a tax, in other words!).  I am no expert when it comes to researching scientific studies conducted to prove our climate is indeed changing permanently or we are in the middle of a long term cycle.  I support conservation and efforts to keep the air, water, and land clean that God has provided us.  I am convinced, however, that God has marvelously created the earth to cool, clean, and maintain itself.  Man didn't make the earth, and his best efforts to preserve it will prove fruitless in the end.  Using less electricity in Australia is not going to keep the polar ice caps from melting.

I have been reading through the book of The Revelation lately, the last book in the Bible.  When the just wrath of God is poured out upon the earth and its inhabitants it will make the most apocalyptic movie created seem silly in comparison.  Chapter 16 describes when vials of God's righteous judgments are poured out upon the earth.  By that time, all people will be firmly entrenched in survival mode.  The sea, rivers, and fountains of water will turn to blood.  The sun will be increased in strength for the purpose of scorching people.  People will be afflicted with painful sores in darkness.  Catastrophic earthquakes will rend the earth and divide cities.  Entire islands will be removed into the sea of blood.  Great hail will fall, and the weight of a stone will be about 25 kilos (Rev. 16:21)!

I am convinced these biblical predictions will someday take place.  I also believe that people will try to explain them away as "natural" phenomena.  Instead of repenting of their sins and trusting in Jesus Christ, men will blaspheme the God whose just wrath is being poured out.  Can you imagine the stench from the oceans turning to blood and all the creatures in the seas dying?  People risk their lives to save whales from harpoons:  what will they do when all the whales die in one moment?  Is it an act of cruelty, that God would allow whales, fish, and crustaceans to die?  No.  It is an act of righteous, divine justice.  Revelation 16:3-7 reads, "Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man; and every living creature in the sea died. ⁴ Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. ⁵ And I heard the angel of the waters saying: "You are righteous, O Lord, the One who is and who was and who is to be, because You have judged these things. ⁶ For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. for it is their just due." ⁷ And I heard another from the altar saying, "Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments."

Death is a grave tragedy, the ultimate effect of sin.  Should you be angry that animals die or that God is blasphemed daily by people He created and loves?  God has gone and goes to great lengths to save people from their sins, sending His own Son Jesus to die in the place of all who will repent and believe on Him.  It is sad that most people value the environment over the God who created the universe and gave them life!  The gift is loved and respected more than the Giver.  Day by day man adds to his guilt and a time will come when God's just wrath will be poured out upon the earth.  No government, scientist, tax, or collective effort of men will be able to undo the destruction which man will rain down upon himself through unbelief and disobedience.  Only one Man will make it right upon His awesome return:  Jesus Christ.  He will establish His rule in righteousness, and will make all things new.

Can you imagine being on a Greenpeace ship when the waters turn to blood?  As far as the eye can see on every side - blood!  Imagine the reek and dead fish, sharks, and whales bob to the surface, slowly suffocating in the blood.  Frankly I cannot imagine the horror.  The world has a lot of blood on its hands.  From the blood of Abel, Christ, and those martyred today for the testimony of God, from the drug cartel slaughters in Mexico to the blood sucked up of a unborn baby in a sanitised examination room, God is keeping tabs.  A day will come when it is time to answer for the bloodshed.  Praise God He has made the way of salvation through the cleansing blood of Jesus Christ, so we might be forgiven and free!  Let us be in agreement with the angel:  "Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments."