We have a choice

WE HAVE A CHOICE

Deuteronomy 30:19 (KJV) I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/today.htm

This passage from Deuteronomy, written by Moses in 1600 BC, speaks directly to us today. Heaven and earth are witnessing against us. There is a big hole in the ozone layer. The planet is heating up. We are running out of fresh water; many species are becoming extinct; storms, floods and fires are more frequent. These threats to the biosphere are directly the result of our greed, carelessness and stupidity. They are curses resulting from bad choices by humanity.

God gives us a choice, and tells us to CHOOSE LIFE for ourselves AND OUR CHILDREN. The mandate to look out for future generations as well as for ourselves is clearly stated in this passage and many others. If we ignore it, we are choosing death, and will be cursed.

Like the people of Nineveh in Jonah's day, we can still repent.

Jonah 3: 8-10 Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish. When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction he had threatened.

We are threatened with annihilation from nuclear war, eco-catastrophe, famine and disease. There are prophets of doom among us who interpret the Bible as condemning the biosphere to destruction.

The rapture cultists would have us believe that passages in First Thessalonians, Second Peter, Revelation, and the Gospel of Matthew predetermine us to extinction. They say that that true believers (Bush voters) will be "called away" by Jesus to some other realm, and the rest of us will be consigned to a fiery hell on earth, along with all the other living creatures.

2 Peter 3: 7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.

1 Thessalonians 4:17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Bush's anti-environmental and pro- nuclear war policies are leading us to that end. How convenient that this interpretation of prophecy enables him and his corporado cronies (the beast) to plunder and pillage with impunity, nay with the blessing of a large, misguided body of Christians!

We have a choice on how to interpret the Bible.

Mark 2:27 Then Jesus said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath."

The same applies to the Bible. It is made for us, not the other way around.

My understanding of such passages is that they refer to spiritual events, not physical ones. Meeting Jesus in the clouds refers to a change of consciousness which will take place world wide, probably via the internet, when people, especially in the US, "get it" that if we accept Jesus' way of love, we can stop wars, reverse global warming, clean up pollution, and all get along.

The new Jerusalem will replace the Israeli government, which is the synagogue of Satan, and make Jerusalem truly the city of peace. This can't happen if there is a nuclear war in the Holy Land.

The people of the US have allowed Bush another four years in office, through a combination of stupidity, venality, trickery and greed. If we continue on this path, the biosphere is doomed. If we wake up, impeach Bush and start cooperating with other countries, if we start beating our swords into plowshares and stop studying war, we can save ourselves and all the other living creatures over which we have dominion.

Deuteronomy 30:19 (KJV) I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/today.htm
In the name of the Prince of Peace, Carol Wolman