Will We Inhabit Other Bodies? (Poem)

We’re pushing to select celestial bodies to inhabit,

Whether to mine minerals or just find a cleaner planet.

After raping the Earth, and then damaging her atmosphere,

Some wonder, ‘Will we just do the same beyond our stratosphere?!’

Science reports finding several possibly good candidates.

We’re honing technologies, and setting exploration dates.

International cooperation has greatly increased,

Compared to those early days when space rockets were first released.

All of this is being done under God’s ever watchful eye.

He alone will determine whether these plans of man ‘will fly.’ ¹

In His Book that chronicles our beginning and our ending,²

Let’s see what He says concerning all these things we’re pretending.

In His Book, it’s only Earth that serves as mankind’s center stage.

From start to finish, I see this written on page-after-page.

Yeah, there is mention of Heaven, and also of hell there, too,

But of mankind having another stage, there’s only one clue! ³

Celestial bodies were given to us for seasons and signs.⁴

No mention of them as natural resources for us to mine.

Just as o’er Earth’s natural resources much blood has been spilled,

Imagine headlines from space when, off Earth, the first man is killed!

As bloodshed increases from natural resource wars we’ll have exported,

And celestial bodies are militarized, not just purported, 

Pray tell, where ‘in the world’ would all of these bodies be buried??

Inter them ‘there’ or back on Earth? Who would care, or be worried?

Revelation says both the seas and hell will ‘give up their dead’ ⁴

At the end of Christ’s Millennial Reign, that is what I read. 

No mention of dead folk rising from some place other than Earth!

Then on earth, Heaven will be featured, and hell at its center.⁵

The sky and all its occupants will be rolled up like a scroll.⁶

No further need of them for lights, time, seasons and signs, we’re told.

So if you think we’ll succeed in rearranging all God’s plans,

My Friend, you don’t understand the power of His Word and Hands.

We should be concerned over the extent of Earth‘s pollution.

But consider the impact of God’s punishment solution!

Earth will be nearly unrecognizable when He gets through,

But then Jesus will return and establish all things anew.

We should be concerned about natural resource depletion.

But consider God’s power and plans for resource repletion! 

Earth, recognizable, with new life and fresh purpose supreme! 

Earth, ‘Under New Management’ by Jesus and His Church, redeemed!

We don’t know whether He’ll allow our space forays to proceed,

Let’s wait and see how He will respond to man’s resource greed.

For now, all we know is what He wrote, which is what we should read,

As we ponder whether from Earth’s limits… we’ll ever be freed.

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¹ Pun intended
² The Bible
³ Many scholars believe hell may be in a black hole or elsewhere in creation. The main point about hell is that it is a place of eternal torment for God’s demonic enemies and mankind who side with them. It represents eternal separation from our loving God, and is a place ‘you don’t wanna be!’ To understand where The Bible affirms hell will be, see: Hell: A Preview ((Series)

⁴ Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the Earth”; and it was so. (Genesis 1:14-15) Here, ‘lights’ refers to both gaseous stars and the planets and other bodies that reflect starlight.

⁵ Revelation 20:13

⁶ Isaiah 34:4 and Revelation 6:14