Climate Change

There have been cycles of significant temperature and climatic fluctuation in the past. The world is undeniably, experiencing unseasonable storms and adverse, extreme weather events now. This current environmental crisis plaguing the world has been termed global warming, but is now more loosely being called climate change. Scripture describes this vividly saying “The whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth…” (Rom 8:22). The dire predictions in the 1970's was global cooling with a new ice age being the primary scare tactic. This has swung the other way with global warming now portrayed as the primary risk.

Human activity and pollution have had a detrimental effect on the earth that we were charged to look after yet it is debatable if we are the sole cause (Gen 2:15). The greenhouse gas emissions concept leading to ‘green laws’

A strategy to bring in crippling restrictions

and technologies developed in the hope of protecting ‘Mother Earth’ have created financial gain and political power for a small minority. Climate change is one of the major focuses of the World Economic Forum/One World Government. The western world has embraced the narrative to bring about restrictive limitations on industry and agriculture to meet unscientific objectives. Such measures impose unnecessary and ill-founded burdens, impoverishing many people in the process of trying to fix it.

While it can be advantageous to explore renewable sources of energy and reduce our carbon footprint our priority, as Christians, should be proclaiming the gospel. This has the power to save souls for eternity, not just the world that will ultimately be destroyed for in the end-times, God will destroy the present heaven and earth with fire and replace them with the New Heavens and New Earth (2 Pet 3:7-12; Rev 21:1,2). Our responsibility is not to divert our attention away from the real issue of sin within the human heart but to share Jesus with people as He instructed us (Mt 28:19,20; 1 Cor 9:16; 2 Tim 4:2).