JUDGMENT DAY

JUDGMENT DAY

The chickens are coming home to roost. After years of polluting, plundering, and devastating the earth, we have upset the balance of nature, and nature is sitting in judgment upon us.

Daniel 18: 25 "He gave me this explanation: 'The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on earth. It will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing... 26 " 'But the court will sit, and his power will be taken away and completely destroyed forever.

We are destroying God’s good creation.

Genesis 1: 31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.

We were put in charge of the biosphere, and are responsible.

Genesis 1: 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

We refuse to listen to warnings of the ecological havoc we are wreaking.

Jeremiah 6:8 Take warning, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you and make your land desolate so no one can live in it."

We worship idols: money, power, glamor, prestige.

Ezekiel 23: 49 You will suffer the penalty for your lewdness and bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD ."

Money, SUV’s, nuclear weapons cannot save us from global warming.

Zephaniah 1 18 "Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the LORD's wrath. In the fire of his jealousy the whole world will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live in the earth."

We must repent and change our wasteful ways.

Jeremiah 18:8 and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.