The News Beats

These days several global warming scientists are probably wishing they could get a way for a while.  Since the scandal of the global warming hoax broke, warming conspirators have been taking a lot of heat, and some who have been complicit in the cover-up are even considering suicide.  Before doing anything rash, scientists should take time to relax and, like the earth has been doing, cool down.  Now would be a good time for them to take a second look at the Maldives.  The Maldives are a collection of beautiful islands in the central Indian Ocean.  The shimmering coral sand beaches and the turquoise waters have made them a popular destination for vacationers for years.

The Maldives also became popular some year ago with global warming scientists.  The reason they became enamored with the islands was not for their tropical paradise, few actually visited the islands themselves, but it was their topography which interested them.  The islands at their highest elevation above sea level are only just over 6 feet.  This geological detail proved irresistible for scientists seeking to prove anthropogenic global warming, and several years ago they trained their complicated, though inaccurate, computer climate models on the islands.

The scientists comfortably nestled in their armchairs thousands of miles away easily tweaked the data for their models and got the results that they wanted.  Their findings were then published in the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in 2001.  What the scientists determined was that the sea level had been rising around the islands, and they predicted the Maldives would disappear in the near future due to flooding as a consequence of global warming.  Some scientists claimed the islands would be gone as early as 2030.

They based their claim for rising sea levels on two effects of global warming temperatures: 1) thermal expansion of the sea water, and, 2) melting glacial ice adding to the sea volume.  Clearly, something had to be done to save the world from global warming, and that meant that something had to be done to save the Maldives, too.

The remedies that were suggested are two in the standard global warming playbook. They are: 1) the discontinuance of fossil fuel use, and, 2) the imposition of global restitution taxes on industrial nations who caused global warming in the first place.

To stop fossil fuel use, Jim Hansen of NASA called for taxing the oil companies out of existence.  Hansen played with our expensive equipment over at NASA, and he was sure sea levels were rising even faster and higher than the IPCC report forecasted.  Only last year, Hansen gave an interview in which he claimed President Obama had only four years to save the planet by following Hansen’s advice.¹

To make reparations to the citizens of the Maldives for sinking their islands, an organization by the name of Bluepeace called for all industrialized nations responsible for global warming to pay to build new islands for the Maldivians (no kidding).²   These are examples of how ridiculous and absurd the policies of global warming theorists are; aside from the ludicrous notion that humans can actually control the climate.  It seems, however, that the only problems facing the theory of global warming are the facts.

The sea level at the Maldives isn’t rising; it’s falling.  A particularly large sea level fall took place in the late 1970s early 1980s.  The scientists who discovered this were not relying in computer models, but actually spent time accumulating field evidence on the Maldives.  The main reason for this sea level fall is an “exceptionally high rate of evaporation” over the Indian Ocean.³ Interestingly, this evaporation is linked to the monsoon rains that can bring up to 60% of India’s annual rainfall.  One might expect such a strong climate correlation to be accounted for in original climate models relied upon by global warming researchers, but significant climate data is always missing from models when it doesn’t support warming theory.

While it can’t be said the warming scientists are quick to acknowledge evidence that falsifies their theory, they can be very swift to spin that evidence if it somehow leaks out.  After the Maldives hard evidence study on falling sea levels was accepted in 2004, warming scientists soon adopted regional evaporation and falling sea levels as proof, again, of global warming.⁴ The incredible interpretation these scientists posit is that two opposite reactions, one predicted and the other actually occurring, that happen in the same place simultaneously, prove global warming.  What this really proves is that warmists live in a parallel universe with laws that are opposite of reality.  If they would confine themselves to its vacuum we could spend less time ridiculing them, and less money suffering them.

Notes:

^1. Robin McKie, ‘We have only four years left to act on climate change - America has to lead“Gaurdian.co.uk,January 18, 2009.   http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/18/obama-climate-change

^2. Chris Morris, “Seeking solutions for sinking Maldives,” One World South Asia, April 6, 2009.

http://southasia.oneworld.net/opinioncomment/finding-solutions-for-sinking-maldives

^3. Nils-Axel Morner, Michael Tooley, Goran Possnert, “New perspectives for the future of the Maldives,” Global and Planetary Change 40, 1 - 2 (2004): 181.

^4. Al Gore, “We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change,” Op-Ed Contributor, New York Times, February 27, 2010.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28gore.html

There are too many big problems with no quick solutions for the new president to appear competent as he begins his first term.  Global warming is a perfect distraction.  Firstly, success on this non-existent crisis is guaranteed because results are measured solely by obedience.  If increasing numbers of people are towing the Green party line, then progress is being made in the war on global warming.  Actual figures can follow easily because climate models are notoriously flawed, and the numbers can be tweaked to produce any graph desired (e.g. the hockey stick graph).Secondly, as the cash strapped Federal government continues to nationalize businesses, the population will need to begin feeding on itself as it goes socialist prior to collapsing.  Here, global warming is set to become the largest tax ever levied on merely the condition of being alive (evidenced by producing carbon dioxide and methane gas).  It has already begun over at the Environmental Protection Agency.  The EPA is proposing to further the fight on greenhouse gasses by levying a tax on livestock.  For example, a dairy cow would be taxed $175, and beef cattle would be taxed $87.50 per head.¹

Of course, animals don’t pay taxes so we would suffer the new taxes in the increased cost of food.  In the beginning, the only thing the tax would do is act as propaganda for public consumption; another blow against global warming.  On the back end, the government raises revenue by the existence alone of bovine.

Here we see the make believe crisis is bad for industry and the consumer, but there is always much more danger in absurd theories when people in power act on them.  Ludicrous is not a strong enough word to describe the theory of man made global warming: tyranny is closer.  This is because the theories can never be separated from their zealots, and these same zealots (useful idiots) are relied upon to provide the arguments to serve as facts for the government to justify taking action.  The zealots must be hired as advisors, and even promoted to positions of power in order for the government to reap greater rewards.  Like the dawning of a socialist economy, however, dangerous theories embraced as opportunities by government implode with catastrophic consequences.  The zealots will have their rewards too, and the government will be unable to stop them after authenticating their views and codifying them into laws.

The politicians may only have wanted the revenue and the opportunity to claim a success.  The zealots want the results their theory calls for.  The only tangible ones they can obtain, next to models obtained from dial-a-climate, is the actual reduction of the threat.  Today, the United States Department of Agriculture is trying to put the voice of reason against the zealots at the EPA.  The USDA reports that the new all-encompassing livestock regulations would effectively shut down 1.9 million smaller farms.  “These operations,” the USDA explained to the EPA in a written report, “simply could not bear the regulatory compliance costs that would be involved.”²  The danger isn’t that the EPA is reckless; it’s that the EPA could figure that out with their own computers.

As the global warming charade continues, taxes will be increased with the goal of phasing out bovine completely, and the boot will be laced to stamp out the larger contributor of greenhouse gases, hominids.  By then, what’s left of rational government will be along for the ride, having no power to intervene.  The phase out of select humans could begin the same as the cattle tax.  It could start as a per person tax on greenhouse gasses; with more for athletes and meat eaters, and less for sedentary and compliant vegetarians.  It will increase until one could no longer afford to exhale, and the right to exist will be foreclosed upon.  The zealots and global warming faithful will at first be relatively safe from the green crusade as they will all be employed by then by the government (even if their employment is only informing on their neighbors).  Will it go that far?

It has gone that far.  Nazism and social Darwinism came together under Hitler, and in order to have a more perfect union of citizen and the world millions had to be murdered.  First to go were the ones deemed unable, and those unwilling to contribute to the grand design.  Finally the sub-human, the people who had not evolved enough, had to be removed from the earth.  The similarities between problems that existed then and ones that exist now are remarkable, but what’s more astonishing is that the same level of gullibility exists in people to put their hope in a human leader to solve their problems for them.  It is the same which precedes fanatism. In the years surrounding the rise of Hitler, this level of fanatism was largely confined to Europe.  With America under the same sort of spell as the rest of the world there will be no forces to muster against a coming world leader who will be much more evil than Hitler was.  Whether this new administration is the one that presides over America’s demise is a small detail.  America’s disintegration is well under way, and explains why prophecy buffs cannot find her in end-time Bible prophecy, and also why the Antichrist’s rise to power is unopposed by something resembling a strong America.

Notes:

^1-2.  Jeff Poor, “EPA ‘Cow Tax’ Could Charge $175 per Dairy Cow to Curb Greenhouse Gases,” Business & Media Institute. December 30, 2008.   http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20081230165231.aspx

I recently received a solicitation for a book endorsement from a writer who claimed to have familiarized himself with my work and implied that we held harmonious views on the subject of climate change.  After reading only a few pages of the work it was easy to see that the author was either unfamiliar with the concept of research, or was disingenuous.  I do not name the author or his work because I do not wish to promote it in any way, but can by its classification reveal all that there is of pertinence to know about it. It is another installment in the gospel of Green Evangelism, and I am prompted by it to identify some of the characteristics of this newest religious cult.  Foremost in their divergence form the faith is a singular characteristic that unites all the Green Evangelists.  It is this: they perceive the book of Revelation to be a book of warning; instead of the prophecy that it is. They have determined that the plagues, famines, wars, and catastrophic changes in the atmosphere, and on earth, that include those caused by meteorite impacts and violent upheavals of the sun, can be prevented.  They espouse nothing less than another gospel whose great commission is to preach environmentalism to all the world as a savior of mankind, and to baptize converts in the name of the earth, the wind, and the fire.

When these cultists represent them selves as Christians, they are found to play lose with the Holy Scriptures; using any two words they can find together to support their theories, and abounding in misapplications and anachronism.  Most will cite God’s command to mankind after He placed him in the garden of Eden to “dress it and to keep it” (Gen 2:15) and apply it as a standing stewardship obligation over the whole earth that is both his primary responsibility, and is still within his power to control.  By this contention they neglect the subsequent modifications to the original arrangement brought about by sin- mankind’s fall from his preeminent position of authority and power, the expulsion from the garden itself, and the resulting curse laid upon the remaining and forthcoming gardens everywhere.

The curse was not merely the inconvenient bother of weeding the newly created thorns and thistles from our plots that we now had to labor over to produce our food.  Because of the curse death entered into the world, and all of mankind has been dying and returning to the ground from whence he was taken ever since.

The only hope for the environment is the reconstitution of the earth to be made by the Lord Jesus Christ upon His return (Isa 65:17; Zec 14:4-7). Then “the wolf and the lamb will feed together” (Isa 65:25), a person of a hundred years will be reckoned as a child (Isa 65:20), the waters will be healed (Zec 14:8; Rev 22:1), and the trees will produce fruit that will heal the nations, and their leaves will be used to cure all disease (Rev 22:2; Eze 47:12).

Only then will the curse God leveled in the garden be lifted: “And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it: and his servants shall serve him.” (Rev 22: 3).  Until that day “we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now” (Rom 8:22).  That groaning will continue until after the prophecies concerning the catastrophic climate changes in the Revelation are fulfilled.  Why?  It is a period of time appointed for “the wrath of God” to be poured out upon the earth and all those who worship, among other things, demons (Rev 16:1; 9:20); and the gospel of Green Evangelism is a doctrine of demons who will seduce many in the latter times (1 Ti 4:1).  It will be the environmentalist’s nightmare come true as the seas, rivers, lakes, and streams are turned to blood as God pours out His judgment on those who spilt the blood of prophets, and saints, and gives them blood to drink in return (Rev 16:3-6).  The ungodly always hated the prophets, for it is they who testify of Jesus; and they particularly hate the last book of prophecy for it is the Revelation of Jesus Christ.

Every religious cult, including this new cult of Green Evangelists, will have at least one of two things in common: they will deny the humanity of Christ, or deny the deity of Christ.  God said that, prior to the Lord establishing His Kingdom on earth, “the earth will wax old like a garment” (Isa 51:6). The earth is deteriorating; it is fading, wearing thin, fraying, developing holes, and ripping and tearing apart at the seams. Jesus Christ claimed to be God, saying: “I and my Father are one” (Joh 10:30).  The Jewish leaders, familiar with the scriptures, and the law, understood Jesus perfectly well, and were so impressed with His seriousness each time He made the claim that they attempted to stone Him for blasphemy at least four times on three different occasions (Joh 5:18; 8:59; 10:31,39).

The book of Revelation is “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John” (Rev 1:1; emphasis added). Simply put, anyone who denies the certainty of the prophecies of that book coming to pass is not only denying the word of God, they are denying the deity of Jesus Christ who gave it.

This is paramount because, just as the only hope for the environment is the work of Jesus Christ, so to is the work of Christ the only hope for mankind.  If you deny Christ, you deny His work: all of it.  This explains why the Green Evangelists do not preach the gospel of salvation. They will patronize it, give it an obligatory mention, and claim it as a supporting role in their larger work, but they are calling Christians away from “the grace of God unto another gospel” (Gal 1:6).  This other gospel is a perversion of the gospel of grace; adding to it works as a requirement of salvation.  First, they have equated the salvation of the planet with the salvation of man, and then they prescribe all the works that are necessary for the Christian to perform for this salvation. I won’t produce the litany here, but only a few that are high their altar.

In addition to going as agrarian as you can, there is the carbon sabbath the must be observed, a day in the week when you use no mechanization other than manpower.  There are dietary laws to be observed, or various degrees of vegetarianism.  Devotees must achieve as nearly as possible cohabitation with all faiths and persuasions in an effort to reduce travel to work, and size of living quarters. If elective travel is engaged in, or meat is consumed, the selling of indulgences has been revived so that these sins may be atoned for.  A tree can be planted, or a buy can be made in the fiat economy of carbon credits.  All of this religious ostentation to blot out the individual and collective sin of carbon footprint.  To the saints who are being troubled by these cultists and false brethren who are trying to impose their environmental circumcision on you, I echo Paul; I would that they were even cut off (Gal 5:12).  As it was then, so it is true today that in the near future: “he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be” (Gal 5: 10).

And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

(The Revelation 16:8-9)

Most scientists agree that the Earth is experiencing a warming trend, but many are sharply divided as to the causes and whether humans have a significant, or even measurable, effect on them. Some propose that human behavior is responsible for the onset of an apocalyptic catastrophe called global warming, and claim is can be diverted by all but discontinuing, or dramatically reducing, the use of most forms of energy and building new communities remarkable similar to agrarian subsistence in their simplicity. Others note that history shows that climate variations are cyclical, fluctuating between warming and cooling periods, and that it is both presumptuous and preposterous to suggest we can control them.

Environmentalists: Get Crossed, Federal Government Eyes New Christianity

Over the years, the ranks of the former camp have swelled with ideological factions having convictions resembling those of religious tenets. They have organized politically to enact laws, set restrictions, and entice by special privileges in order to force citizens to comply with behavioral changes that would save the world as we know it; according to their theory. Up until recently, the one thing that was missing from their religious fervor was the presence of a popular, main stream, religious arm.

That began to change in the nineties with the emergence of a new twist on Christian stewardship emphasizing environmentalism. It wasn’t long after that the entirely new gospel of Creation Care evolved which is centered on a faith in humanity to restore the earth to its garden of Eden purity, and usher in the Kingdom of God on earth. By 2002, the Environmental Protection Agency took note of this emerging trend towards Green Evangelism, and begun soliciting ways to include churches who promote environmental causes into the ranks of those eligible to receive federal, faith-based funding. The EPA was looking for ways to tie the original intention of faith-based funding designed to meet basic social needs to perceived climate needs as well.

At a symposium held in Washington D.C. by the Worldwatch Institute entitled “Invoking the Spirit: Religion and Spirituality in the Quest of a Sustainable World,” Jerry Lawson, an EPA director, called for environmentalists to come up with ideas to expand church participation in faith-based programs to include green causes for which they could receive the federal funds.[i] Lawson claimed in an interview with CNSNews.com at the time: “What I am doing and other people at EPA are doing is looking at the programs we have available today that can benefit faith-based groups.”[ii] Lawson admitted, however, that the real relationship that would be created is one in which the government would “work through your faith-based group to achieve” EPA goals.[iii]

The prospect of the federal government nationalizing churches for environmental causes also appealed to Gary Gardner, director of research at Worldwatch, who at the time said: “There is a role for the government to bring religious groups and environmental groups together.”[iv] While Gardner neglected to cite which article of the Constitution supports his contention, the lure of federal funding held out by the EPA could be a reason why churches are lining up to enlist in Green Evangelism faster than anyone could recite the First Amendment’s clause prohibiting the federal government from establishing a religion. By 2005, the EPA’s division of Environmental Justice was administering the Environmental Justice Grant Programs to 501(c) (3) non-profit organizations,[v] and for which grants churches were trading volunteered service hours for cash in return.[vi]

Mankind In Control: Wrestling the Scriptures

Today, there are a plethora of Christian Green groups preaching the gospel of Creation Care, and prophesying doom caused by human induced global warming. Evangelical Environmental Network is one the larger organizations, and lists as their partners, among many, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, World Vision, and Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. The EEN is headed by Rev. Jim Ball who authored the “What would Jesus Drive” campaign intended to promote the selection of more fuel efficient automobiles “to protect our health and God’s creation from vehicle pollution.”[vii] While the EEN attempts to justify its radical environmentalism[viii] with the Bible by emphasizing a clean earth must exist for the future, they fail to be struck by the operative clauses in their references to the coming millennial and perfect ages.[ix]

The EEN reference the future Kingdom of Jesus Christ in which there will be a great restoration of the earth and its creatures, including harmonious living between man and beast (Isa.11; 65), but without seeming to notice that it is Jesus Christ who returns and sets up His kingdoms and makes those changes. They also point out that a new heaven and new earth are in the future (Rev. 21), but here they fail to likewise note that this completely renovated earth occurs at the conclusion of Christ’s millennial reign, and is accomplish by God setting fire to the entire globe (2 Pet. 3:10, 12). In none of these instances is the Father or the Son reliant upon mankind’s efforts or cooperation. In fact, the Bible says just the opposite: “But the heavens and earth which now are, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men” (2 Pet. 3:7; emphasis added). One might expect that these important details would be beyond the powers of discernment of an apostate organization preaching a false gospel, but even learning institutions which claim Christian education as their mainstay are showing signs of this biblical illiteracy.

Dereliction of Duty: Christian Colleges and Universities

There is evidence that Christian Colleges and Universities are becoming seminaries for future Creation Care preachers by offering Creation Care study programs. Biola University in California explains the purpose for their overseas offering “is to provide Christian-based undergraduate education that is cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, with a focus on the welfare of all God’s creation, both human and nonhuman, through the sustainable stewardship of the Earth’s interconnected systems.”[x] They go on to say that this new “mission” of the Christian University “is accomplished by the interconnected dimensions of ecology, theology, culture, and Christian discipleship.”[xi] In fact, if they become much more “interconnected” with the surrounding worldly cultures whose theology is ecology based, it will become impossible to distinguish Biola’s brand of Christian discipleship from Gaia (mother earth) worshiping environmentalism, or Baalism which was a combination of fertility cult and nature worship of rebellious Israelites.[xii]

This emphasis on interconnecting relationships embraced by Green Evangelicals, among others, is designed to foster the world’s view of communitarian equality with, and acceptance of, cultures diverse from Christianity. Young people who are in these programs are acquiring a new reverence for simple life forms in order for the cult of Gaia to promote acceptance of simpler, lowered standards of living in an interconnected world community collectively fighting global warming. Shadow boxing was never so sinister; for instead of being taught to resist the arch enemy of the Church, Christian students are being trained to fight one that does not exist.

The Mask: Who Christian Administratos are Selling Out To

For its creation care studies, Biola uses an organization called Creation Care Study Program, and they are only one of several Christian schools to do so. Azusa Pacific University, Bethel University, Wheaton College, and others, are also among Creation Care Study Program’s participating institutions.[xiii] Creation Care Study Program offers both a South Pacific Program, including Samoa and New Zealand (for which the New Zealand Tourist Board provides material and images for the CCSP website), and a Belize Program in Central America. The CCSP advertises with luring idyllic images on their website showing students petting lizards and fondling invertebrates in exotic getaways. Nevertheless, they assure prospective students that their course “is a high-caliber academic semester abroad connecting Christian faith with the most complex, urgent global issue of the coming decades.”[xiv] It is one thing to devote a semester of foreign study for cultural understand, but a four month emersion in new theology “learning about sustainable development and Christian creation care”[xv] in New Zealand and Samoa “to develop a theology of creation that understands humans as stewards of the earth” is conversion therapy for a new religion.[xvi]

Universities that utilize CCSP have gone far away from warning Christian students: “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?” (2Cor. 6:14). Indeed, their emphasis on interconnecting them with heathen earth worshippers, subservient in their stewardship role to Gaia, deprives them of the admonishment: “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.” (2Cor. 6:17-18). While this may seem a harsh rebuke, a look at one of CCSP’s affiliations makes it easier to appreciate the similarity between the Gaia religion of Christian sponsored Creation Care and this neoBaalism.

The Face Behind The Mask: Defending the Indefensible

Creation Care Study Program promotes the religious group Restoring Eden, Christians for Environmental Stewardship, which also has local chapters on Christian University campuses nationwide. Members of Restoring Eden seemed happy to obtain Senator Barack Obama’s endorsement, and were smiling in a group picture with him which appears on their website. At least they rightly captioned the photograph “Inconvenient Christians,”[xvii] for there could be nothing more inconvenient then standing for both the defense of blunt-nosed lizard, and in favor of the murdering of human babies at the same time (the latter course also publicly endorsed by Obama). Such alliances add a new meaning to their admission that they make “hands dirtier” in the service of their mother earth.[xviii] Like the EEN, they also make misapplications of scripture to justify their religion.

Restoring Eden cites as biblical instruction for serving the earth Proverbs 31:8, which should be taken in conjunction with verse nine also, and from the King James reads: “Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy” (Pro 31:8-9). Certainly it is a great day of deception and perversion when an admonishment from the word of God to defend and protect the disabled, the poor, the widows, and the children is used to justify turning a blind eye to their destruction. This is exactly what Restoring Eden’s twisted doctrine changes about this scripture by assigning it to plants and animals, and what Restoring Eden upholds by their liaison with Obama.

Vile Affections: The Result of Worshipping Creatures

These religious groups, and those organizations affiliated with, or endorsing them, are those who are deceiving and being deceived. In these apostate hours, their behavior and delusion is remarkable similar to the description found in Romans:

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. (Rom 1:22-25)

The pernicious gospel of Creation Care is much more antithetical to God’s word than might at first be realized. It is one part in a couplet of depravity; the extreme of which is exhibited after this paganism is allowed to progress unrestrained. Then, the second tendency of their sentiments manifests. This happens when, ultimately, God no longer restrains them and the creature worshippers plunge into gross immorality:

 

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; (Rom 1:26-28)

This record of vile affections is already evidenced in the organizations which have joined with the doctrine expressed by Restoring Eden, as promoted by CCSP, and endorsed by Christian Universities who participate by sending their students to CCSP for indoctrination. For example, the Episcopal Church is active in preaching the creation care doctrine of environmentalism,[xix] and also ordains homosexual bishops and is actively promoting same-sex unions.[xx] The United Methodist Church has struggled with defrocking lesbian ministers, not supporting their ministers who have taken a biblical stand on homosexuality,[xxi] and being sharply divided over same sex unions; and they also are active in preaching creation care environmentalism. The National Association of Evangelicals’ has vice president Richard Cizik who seems to preach creation care environmentalism exclusively for that organization. Cizik might be described as a global warming activists as he attends many green evangelism events; including leading the intercessory prayer for the environment at the Washington National Cathedral’s Earth Day Service last April.[xxii]

It will be interesting to watch Cizik’s activism in the future. It will be remembered that his predecessor, and former NEA president, Ted Haggard also came to support Green Evangelism, and was later forced to resign when news of his leaving the natural use of the women surfaced. History, however, is not on Cizik’s side. By the time revival occurred under King Josiah, the creature worshippers had also aligned themselves closely to a pretense of holiness. When Josiah put down the nature worshiping priests and break down the houses of their sodomites, they were right beside the house of God. The NEA claims 30 million members, and if they are not to be given up by God to vile affections also, they should be setting up and taking note of NEA’s continued global warming advocacy. They should be clear on exactly what is meant by global warming, what real scientific discoveries are pointing out in regards to climate change, and what the word of God says about coming climate changes.

Good Science: Looking at the Big Picture

The term global warming has become synonymous with anthropogenic causes (e.g. humans burning fossil fuels) for the increase in global temperatures for the last half of the 20^th century. Natural phenomenon for global warming, such as solar activity, has been largely discounted by the major scientific societies, but not all scientists agree with this theory. Indeed, top scientists have pointed out flaws in the popular climate models; some of which have been tweaked to show two-thirds of all warming in some instances caused by human activity.[xxiii] Other scientists have successfully performed experiments proving how natural influences from beyond our own solar system dramatically affect global temperatures on earth. According to Roy Spencer, former National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist and currently a principal research scientist at University of Alabama in Huntsville, existing climate models are not only too sensitive, they don’t accurately take into account the effect that precipitation systems have on temperature.[xxiv] Furthermore, Spencer contends that there is still too little known about the what happens in the earth’s atmosphere to stabilize climate,[xxv] and a discovery by Danish scientists supports Spencer’s claim that hitherto unknown natural causes of climate variation not only exist, but are far more influential than was previously imagined.

Another explanation for Earth’s climate variation, dubbed a “missing link in climate theory,” has been found: exploding stars.[xxvi] When stars in the in our Milky Way galaxy explode, they send out high-speed atomic particles that enter the Earth’s atmosphere. These particles, know as cosmic rays, react in our atmosphere by releasing free electrons which accelerate the formation of cloud nuclei, and have a significant effect on low-level could formation. Low altitude clouds play a substantial role in cooling the surface temperature of the Earth. Up until last year, the influence of these cosmic rays on the Earth’s climate was only a ten year old theory. Then in October, 2006, a team of Danish scientists at the Danish National Space Center’s Sun-Climate Research division performed an experiment that proved that these cosmic rays are a causal mechanism for producing certain molecules that assist in cloud condensation. The original theory was based “on data showing a strong correlation between variation in the intensity of cosmic radiation penetrating the atmosphere and the amount of low-altitude clouds.”[xxvii] The DNSC experiment yielded such dramatic results that director Henik Svensmark said they “were amazed by the speed and efficiency with which the electrons do their work of creating the building blocks for the cloud condensation nuclei.”[xxviii]

The question naturally arises, if global temperature has been warming, what has caused a reduction in the cosmic rays entering our atmosphere? In reporting on the experiment’s results, the DNSC provides the answer to this question also:

Climate is subject to influences by both natural and human forces, including greenhouse gases, aerosols, solar activity, and land use change. The climate system is extremely complex and any estimate of the human contribution to climate change is very uncertain.

Changes in the Sun contribute to climate change. Solar activity has been exceptionally high in the 20th century compared to the last 400 years and possibly compared to the past 8,000 years. When solar activity is high, the flux of galactic cosmic rays is reduced due to increased magnetic shielding by the Sun. The cosmic rays may influence Earths climate through formation of low lying clouds …

Climate models only include the effects of the small variations in the direct solar radiation (infrared, visible and UV). The effects of cosmic rays on clouds are not included in models and the models do a rather poor job of simulating clouds in the present climate. Since cloud feedbacks are a large source of uncertainty, this is a reason for concern when viewing climate model predictions.[xxix]

Once again a causal mechanism for climate change, this one actually causing global warming, is identified as a natural phenomenon, and popular climate models are called into question. The Sun’s magnetic field, which shields the earth from cloud forming cosmic rays, more than doubled in the 20^th century causing a sharp reduction in cosmic rays entering the earth’s atmosphere,[xxx] and hence a reduction in earth-cooling cloud cover. Far from managing the life-cycles of distant stars in the universe, the Creation Care environmentalists must at least be able to control the magnetic field of our own star the Sun if they are to have even a hope of affecting climate change. Yet they continue in the height of arrogance and conceit to assert that they can, and must, save the world from out of the feeble hands of God. This attitude has also been identified by a top official at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA administrator Michael Griffin doesn’t question that the “trend of global warming exists,” as in measurable climate change, but he questions the assertion that we should try and do something about it.[xxxi] “I am not sure that it is fair to say,” Griffin said in a NPR interview, “that it is a problem we must wrestle with.”[xxxii] To appreciate Griffin’s commentary, he must be quoted at length:

To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of Earth’s climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever have had and that we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn’t change. I guess I would ask which human beings — where and when — are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now is the best climate for all other human beings. I think that’s a rather arrogant position for people to take.”[xxxiii]

It is as arrogant a position as suggesting we control the Sun’s magnetic field to change the current warming trend.

The Truth About Warming: The Future of Climate Change

The fact that this real solution to climate change is completely unattainable does not, however, deter Creation Care disciples because it has nothing to do with the actual problem they are really seeking to solve. Creation Care, like its predecessor Baalism, is a manmade religion. As such, it is in conflict with God’s word and God’s people. For the high priests of that religion this means one thing: competition. To compete with Christianity, Creation Care offers alternatives. Their alternative to letting the Word of God speak for itself is to take it out of context, change the subject, and misapply it. They have an alternate plan of salvation based on good works which appeals to the flesh through pride and self esteem. To make disciples, they threaten with defective climate models and skewed data, and they force by legislation to alter human behavior. It is all for vanity. No one or anything shall be saved by environmentalism. The church of Creation Care is destined for destruction itself.

While there is no truth to global warming, there is truth to catastrophic climate change taking place in the future. A time known as The Day of the Lord is prophesized in the Bible as containing a period of seven years wherein judgments are poured out upon the earth and all its inhabitants (Joel 3:14-16; Isaiah 13:9-11). While these punishments take the form of wars, plagues, and famines (Rev. 6:3-8), they also include mega asteroid and comet impacts that will result in huge fire storms, noxious lethal gases released into the atmosphere, and tsunamis (Rev. 8:8-9). The impact on the earth’s environment will be so severe that thirty percent of all rivers and springs will become poisoned, but many will die from drinking the waters because they will be overcome with thirst (Rev. 8:10-11). The millions of tons of debris ejected into the atmosphere will block out a third of the Sun’s light (Rev. 8:12), but conversely there will be no long nuclear winter traditionally forecasted for such an effect. Instead, the Sun will go into a solar maximum and erupt with massive solar flares caused by exploding sunspots[xxxiv] that will shower the earth with intense coronal mass ejections which will not only reek havoc to any remaining technical infrastructure, but will also scorch men with great heat (Rev. 16:8). If this seven year period were to begin today, based on the formulas given in the Bible and a total population of six billion people, over three billion will perish under the combined plagues and judgments that will be unleashed. Much of the extinction will be due to climate change, but a very large portion of it will actually be brought about by obvious supernatural means and agents so that it will be clear that the judgments are from God (Rev 9:13-21).

As pronounced and prolifically described an event as The Day of The Lord is in the Bible, it need not overtake anyone unaware. For all who trust in Jesus Christ, who are born again (Joh 3:3; 1Pet. 1:23), they will meet Him as “the bright and morning star” (Rev. 22:16). If they be here on earth when that day dawn, to them the morning star will arise first with transformative power in their hearts, (2Pet. 1:19) bringing them forth to meet the Lord in the air by translating their mortal bodies in the time it takes the day star to twinkle in their eyes (1Cor. 15:51; 1Thess. 4:16-17). What follows for those who remain upon the earth is the wrath of God (Rev. 6:15-17), which the Church is not appointed to (1Thess. 5:9).[xxxv] When will this all happen? Two thousand years ago, Jesus said: “And behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give to every man according as his work shall be” (Rev. 22:12). Therefore, pay no heed to false teachers. Turn to God from idols to serve the living and true God; “And wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.” (1Thess. 1:10)

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[i] Marc Morano, “EPA Faith-Based Grants For Green Causes,” CNSNews.com, December 20, 2002.

 

[ii] Ibid.

 

[iii] Ibid.

 

[iv] Ibid.

 

[v] U.S Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Justice, “Grants,”

http://www.epa.gov/compliance/environmentaljustice/grants/index.html

 

[vi] Greg Peterson, “Clean Sweep for Mother Nature,” Episcopal Church, Environmental Stewardship, June 1, 2005.

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/1829_62395_ENG_HTM.htm?menu=undefined

 

[vii] Evangelical Environmetal Network, “Campaigns/Projects,” WWJDrive, WWJDrive Tour, Press Room, FAQs,

http://whatwouldjesusdrive.org/tour/faq.php

 

[viii] Radical environmentalism being the sort that elevates all living things to the same value as mankind; thus making him subservient to them.

 

[ix] Evangelical Environmental Network and Creation Care Magazine, Scripture,

http://www.creationcare.org/resources/scripture.php

 

[x] Biola University, “Creation Care Study Program,” Biola off campus study programs,

http://www.biola.edu/offcampusprograms/programs/creation-care.cfm

 

[xi] Ibid.

 

[xii] Merrill F. Unger, Ungers’s Commentary on the Old Testament (Tennessee: AMG, 2002) 316, 1924.

 

[xiii] Creation Care Study Program, About the Creation Care Study Program,

http://www.creationcsp.org/about.html

 

[xiv] Ibid.

 

[xv] Creation Care Study Program, South Pacific Program.

http://www.creationcsp.org/programs.html

 

[xvi] Creation Care Study Program, Belize Courses, “God and Nature” (course description: 4 credit hours, 300 level course).

http://www.creationcsp.org/belize.html

 

[xvii] Restoring Eden, “Inconvenient Christians,” Welcome to Restoring Eden,

http://www.restoringeden.org/. (accessed April 22, 2007).

 

[xviii] Ibid.

 

[xix] The Episcopal Ecological Network (EpEN), “Caring for God’s Creation: Called to be Stewards,”

http://eenonline.org/about.htm

 

[xx] Lillian Kwon, “Episcopal ‘Desertion from Anglicanism’ Prompts Call for New Church.”

The Christian Post, March 26, 2007.

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070326/26536_Episcopal_%27Desertion

_from_Anglicanism%27_Prompts_Call_for_New_Church.htm

 

[xxi] Alan Cooperman, “Lesbian Minister Defrocked By United Methodist Church,” Washingtonpost.com, November 1, 2005.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/31

/AR2005103100971.html

 

[xxii] Michelle Vu, “Churches Preach Creation Care on Earth Day,”

Christian Post,April 23, 2007.

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070423/27037_Churches

_Preach_Creation_Care_on_Earth_Day.htm

 

[xxiii] MSNBC, “Climate models: Humans fueling hurricanes:

Tests show strong correlation between warming ocean, rising emissions,”

September 12, 2006.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14787234/

 

[xxiv] Wendy Reeves, “Scientist: Warming not caused by humans,” The Huntsville Times, al.com, April 19, 2007.

http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/

base/news/1176974192195090.xml&coll=1

 

[xxv] Ibid.

 

[xxvi] Space Daily, “Exploding Stars Influence Climate Of Earth,” October 6, 2006.

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Exploding_Stars

_Influence_Climate_Of_Earth_999.html

 

[xxvii] Ibid.

 

[xxviii] Ibid.

 

[xxix] Danish National Space Center, “Climate change and cosmic rays,”

Research Areas & Projects. (emphasis added).

http://www.spacecenter.dk

/research/sun-climate/other/global-warming.

 

[xxx] Space Daily, “Exploding Stars”.

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Exploding_Stars_Influence

_Climate_Of_Earth_999.html

 

[xxxi] Clayton Sandell, Bill Blakemore,”NASA’s Top Official Questions Global Warming:

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin Questions Need to Combat Warming,”

ABC News, Technology & Science. May 31, 2007.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3229696&page=1

 

[xxxii] Ibid.

 

[xxxiii] Ibid.

 

[xxxiv] “Solar Superstorm,” Solar Physics, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/23oct_superstorm.htm

 

[xxxv] Church, ἐκκλησία, ekkleÌ„sia, ek-klay-see’-ah - called out ones, a calling out, that is, (concretely) a popular meeting, especially a religious congregation (Jewish synagogue, or Christian community of members on earth or saints in heaven or both): - assembly, church. (Strongs).

The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

(The Revelation 8:7-11)

 There is coming a time when the Gospel of the Grace of God will cease.[i] The ambassadors[ii] who are now preaching this gospel of reconciliation between man and God through Jesus Christ[iii] will be called home to their far country.[iv] The work of their ministry continues now for a short space to turn “strangers and foreigners into fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God.”[v] The end of this gospel will come suddenly when this class of ambassadors will be called away so quickly and unexpectedly that the action is described in the Bible as taking place in the twinkling of an eye, and as if it were accomplished by a thief in the night.[vi] The reason explained to them for seizing them away from this world is twofold: “Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.”[vii]

The time of this hour will be at least seven years long, and it will be marked by cataclysmic environmental changes brought about by such things as supernatural meteor showers, huge asteroids and comets impacting the earth, and changes in our sun’s solar radiation. The effects of these catastrophes with include the incineration of entire forests, or deforestation on a scale here before unimagined. Famine will be widespread due to the earth’s crops being consumed while they are even yet green by the intense inferno sweeping the planet. Air quality over large areas of the world will be unfit to support human life, and there will be few safe harbors to flee to for safety. The earth’s waters will become so polluted by the poisonous gases and boiling temperatures from the fiery impacts that a third of all sea life will perish. The superheated currents of the oceans will alter their courses, and stagnation and putrid decomposition will be common for beach resorts and shorelines

Because they will have nothing else to drink but the poisoned water from earth’s streams and rivers, a large part of the human population left to undergo these tribulations will die from water poisoning. Many more will suffocate from the heavy, noxious, bitter asteroid gases that will spread out over the surface of the earth like a blanket poisoning multitudes. During this time men, even though they remain unrepentant, will recognize God’s hand in their tribulation; and their despair will cause them to say to the mountains: “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?”[viii]

So today these ambassadors fervently preach the gospel of grace to save men; not only from this pending judgment to fall upon the inhabitants of the earth, wherein some will still be saved who are to pass through it, but more importantly to save them from an even worse final judgment determined for those who die without accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior. They will be judged by the law, or by works of the law, and none will be found righteous by that standard.[ix] Their fate is Hell, and then the Lake of Fire for all eternity.[x] All of this is a serious enough circumstance, and an appreciable prompt, for preaching the gospel of grace.

There be some, however, that possess a puerile understanding of Christian doctrine, and who preach another gospel. They prompt with a blasphemous question that reduces Christ to a mere consumer shopping for an energy efficient automobile, and ask: “What Would Jesus Drive?”[xi] They have named their gospel “creation care,”[xii] and belong to groups like the Evangelical Environmental Network. According to its founder Reverend Jim Ball, their environmental religion is one in which they “are called to be ministers of reconciliation, and that means caring for all things.”[xiii] These things would ostensibly include the rain forests, and caring for them would be evidenced by adhering to a religious behavior dictated by faith in the theory of global warming,[xiv] a theory that posits that humans will cause widespread environmental devastation on biblical proportions by, among other things, burning fossil fuels.

The Green Evangelicals have neither the knowledge of scripture, nor of human history, that even a first century Pharisee named Gamaliel had.[xv] A doctor of the law, Gamaliel could recognize the alignment of events to the scriptures and the futility of denying them.

In regards to their contradiction of the gospel of grace ambassadors, he would certainly say to the creation care disciples today: “Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.”[xvi]

Gamaliel’s original counsel at the time he gave it was to prevent religious leaders from slaying the Apostle Peter and other Apostles. He knew enough of history and prophetic scripture to know that these Apostles could very well be telling the truth as to Jesus being the Christ. Of course, Gamaliel was right, and more scripture comprising the New Testament was penned for us by these and other Apostles. It is from these same scriptures that this article’s epigraph is taken, and which say for a certainty that these heretical creation care preachers will be found as a blade of grass facing a blast furnace.

That is the answer to the question of their environmentalist gospel if they choose to wait for it. If they hear the answer from the gospel of grace now, they will no longer be found to fight against God; instead, they will be found in His Son Jesus Christ to escape the wrath which is to come.[xvii] The answer to enquiring as to Christ Jesus’ will for mankind is made possible by rephrasing the question for accuracy: What Would Jesus Have Driven?

Jesus would have driven, by Roman soldiers, three nails, or spikes, through his hands and feet to hang on a cross, and have the sins of the entire world laid upon him.[xviii] He would have it that he would hang there until he died an excruciating, substitutionary death; for all who would believe on him, and accept the salvation he made possible by His once and forever sacrifice, “not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”[xix] While His payment also reclaimed the title deed to the whole earth,[xx] which man forfeited at the fall, He didn’t do it for the rain forests.

“The earth is the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods” (Psa 24:1-2). He will do with it as He pleases, and it has pleased Him to warn us, and make a way to save us. The Green Gospel can’t save you, but God’s Grace can. Which gospel have you staked your life on?

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[i] Acts 20:24

 

[ii] 2Cor. 5:20

 

[iii] 2Cor.5:19; Heb. 2:17

 

[iv] Heb. 11:13-16 1Pet. 2:11

 

[v] Eph. 2:19

 

[vi] 1Cor. 15:52, Rev. 3:3; 1Thess. 4:13-5:2

 

[vii] Rev. 3:10; see, Isa. 13:9-11

 

[viii] Rev 6:16-17

 

[ix] Gal. 2:16

 

[x] Rev. 20:11-15

 

[xi] Laurie Goodstein, “Living Day to Day by a Gospel of Green,” The New York Times, nytimes.com, March 8, 2007.

Http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/08/garden/08ball.html?_r=1&oref=… (accessed March 8; requires membership).

 

[xii] Goodstein, “Gospel of Green.”

 

[xiii] Ibid.

 

[xiv] Ibid.

 

[xv] a Pharisee and president of the Sanhedrin, Gamaliel had been the Apostle Paul’s master, Acts 23:3.

 

[xvi] Act 5:38-39.

 

[xvii] 1Thes. 5:9.

 

[xviii] Isa. 53:5.

 

[xix] 2Pet. 3:9; see, Mat. 20:28; Act 4:12.

 

[xx] Rev 5:1-14.