How would you answer that question?
I asked Gemini and ChatGPT AIs. Gemini answered ‘NO’. GPT answered ‘YES’. I then asked them to substantiate their replies. Gemini essentially changed the question, and answered the question, ‘Is industrialization-caused climate change in The Bible?’ The clear answer is, NO! It then set about to prove its correct reply to the wrong question.
Answering the right question, ChatGPT noted, Scripture does not present a modern scientific theory called ‘climate change’, but it repeatedly describes large-scale, often divinely driven changes in Earth’s environment, weather, atmosphere, seas, and habitability. It provided a list of Scriptures that demonstrate and predict even more MAJOR climate changes from Genesis-to-Revelation, starting with (1) how The Lord rescued Earth from its watery grave (Genesis 1), (2) the Global Flood (Genesis 7, 8), and (3) the predicted global environmental changes during and after the apocalypse—changes that will culminate in a brand new Earth, with a brand new environment, in a brand new ‘heavens’! Though many of us might not be aware of them, those points are Biblically unarguable!
Here’s My Take
Climate/environmental changes are indeed very Biblical because Scripture repeatedly describes The Lord’s promised judgments on unrepentant SINFULNESS. Earth is ‘the stage’ on which His judgments are being executed, and its environment absorbs the shocks and other ramifications thereof. This is easy to perceive when we acknowledge His judgments are principally in the form of wars, famines, wild-beast attacks and pestilences. They were:
1. Initially revealed to Moses (Deuteronomy 32 and Leviticus 26)
2. Demonstrated across the entirety of the 2nd (post-flood) age of our history;
3. Summarized to Ezekiel (Ezekiel 14:12-23), and
4. Elaborated to John in the Revelation vision, as a multi-millennial, ramping-up process that would comprise:
a. Regional judgments that (i) would be activated early in this current 3rd (post-Cross) age, (ii) would be keyed to Him opening the first 4 (of 7) seals on a scroll, and (iii) would reverberate and escalate across the Earth as this current age would unfold; then
b. Global judgments that (i) would be activated when He opens the 6th seal on His scroll, and (ii) would culminate in the apocalypse and Armageddon.
That’s a clear summary of The Lord’s plan for judging our sinfulness on this current version of Earth, pending the new one He has promised.
While most of us might miss these points when reading The Bible, here is something we ALL likely miss as we review history, and observe current, unfolding events:
Separately, each one of His judgments can be BOTH RESULTS and TRIGGERS of climatic and environmental changes. Imagine scenarios in which they operate synergistically to cause various collateral problems that are unrelated to climate and environment! Thus, when synergism kicks in, The Lord’s judgments on our sinfulness can DEEPEN, EXPAND and INTENSIFY changing environmental and climatic conditions, as well as unlimited non-environmental, collateral damages!
Friends, that is a snapshot of
our world….TODAY!
Our Problem
But who among us might accurately perceive any of what we are experiencing as …being ‘Biblical’?! My guess: Only a relative few would. The reason may be because the overwhelming majority of us effectively deny Jesus, The Lord God Almighty and Creator, as having any agency related to His creation, and especially in the affairs of modern life. We have long been lulled into thinking ‘God is ONLY LOVE and free GRACE, not judgments!’
As a result, our generally myopic thinking about things Biblical, might severely narrow our focus. That blinds us to perceiving what The Bible really is, and why The Lord painstakingly, over several millennia, orchestrated its writing, imperfect translations, preservation and distribution across the world! Reading it with our carnal minds, apart from being enlightened by The Holy Spirit (as The Lord intends), some of us may think it’s just a bunch of old Jewish stories. Thus, we largely fail to perceive and acknowledge it as having any relevance to our modern lifestyles, even as we muddle in the mud of modernity.
BINGO… devils win! We lose!
That is EXACTLY what satan desires.
Thus, we easily fall into their traps.
As you re-read and study the hyperlinks in this post, may you come to perceive everything directly and indirectly related to Earth’s climate and environment, is well within the purview and agency of Jesus, The Lord God of all creation. He IS exactly Who and what He declares Himself to be. And though He is not yet physically here, every day, His promised 3rd (not second!) return is One Day Closer! He articulated and activated His post-flood plan, and has not let up one day! Every day is a step in the direction of achieving His stated objectives. Thus, increasing climate and environmental changes merely signal that His strategic plan is …unfolding apace.
But wait!
Environmental and climate changes are just ONE aspect
of His much BIGGER CHANGE STRATEGY.
Stay tuned for a summary of that.
