What About Global Warming?

By Mike Demory

IT seems the world has gone crazy in their attempts to save the whales, the rain forests, this tree, that insect, etc, etc. Now their focus has been shifted to a global scale—the idea that the temperature is rising and that in fifty years at the most the United States will be under water. Mr. Al Gore (the inventor the internet), has opened the eyes of the world with his recent documentary film “An Inconvenient Truth,” in which he scares the public and apparently many scientists into believing that the polar icecaps are melting at such rapid rate that it may be irreversible. Only twenty-five years ago we were told that the earth was cooling and rapidly heading toward another ice age.

Many denominational churches are jumping on the band wagon, showing their congregations Mr. Gore’s film and establishing committees to examine how they may encourage better stewardship of our doomed planet. Please don’t get me wrong, I believe that God does require proper stewardship of all that He has placed into our care. As a former HazMat team member, I have seen first hand how the improper care of chemicals can wreak havoc on community infrastructures. But we as Christians must remain focused and not allow our mission to get sidetracked. We are in the soul saving business, not the earth saving one!

Is the temperature of the earth rising? Very possibly. Has it risen in the past, or even dropped? While I can’t be certain since there are no records, I would venture to answer in the affirmative. Just as there are cycles in drought and rain patterns, it would be only logical that the same would be true of temperature. But even if that were not the case, we must remember that this world was never meant to be a permanent haven. According to God’s law of Thermodynamics, the universe is running down (like a clock first wound up, will eventually run down).

As Christians, we must keep our eyes focused upon the true global warming catastrophe. Yes, believe it or not, the Word of God foretold that just such an event would come to pass. Let’s read what Peter says about it; “But the day of the Lord will as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy living and godliness, looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?” (2 Peter 3:10-12). Sounds to me like an icecap melting event that everyone should be preparing for.

Our mission is spiritual, not social. While we sit complacently in our paneled homes, content to let the homosexuals, perverts, feminists, and liberals have their way with society, billions will die as the earth as we know it will pass away with fervent heat. Mr. Gore is saying that global climate change is the greatest catastrophe ever caused by man. Has he never read that by man came death, and in Adam all die (1 Cor. 15:21-22). Sin is the greatest catastrophe caused by man. For it is because of sin that all men face suffering, evil, pain, illness, tragedy, death, etc. Sadly, the world does not want to hear the real “Inconvenient Truth” (God’s Word), that sin exists, will be punished if not repented of, and that the universe is only a temporary training ground for eternity. 

There is no doubt that as stewards of the earth, we must encourage our leaders to speed up alternative fuels for our vehicles, ways for companies to truly cut their pollution, as well as protect wild and plant life from extinction. But God has also said, just as the poor will always be with us (Matt. 26:11), so too, will be those sinners who just don’t care about their fellowman, but just the bottom line (1 Tim. 6:10). Yes, the earth may be in a warming up pattern, but in ten or twenty years it may reverse itself. But no matter what it does, as Christians, we must concern ourselves with promoting “The Inconvenient Truth” that the earth will one day be burned up, and all souls will give answer to God as to the things they said, thought and did (2 Cor. 5:7; Heb. 4:12). Let’s prepare ourselves and others for that great day, so that we may be found blameless before Him in love.