Global Worship…How should a Christian Respond to Global Warming…
I am forcing myself through the three hour long worship of mother earth, brought to you by the prophet of doom Al Gore and several bible references have come to mind.
As Christians we are called to support the earth and to take care of it. However there is a line between taking care of the earth and worshipping it.
When several people, Christian or not gather all around the world to sing praises and unite for a cause that does not bring Glory to the Father, we stand in a close and terrifying harmony with the Babel Worshippers of Genesis.
They united for a cause as well. It was a cause that defied God. It was an attempt to say “We don’t need you, we can get to heaven on our own, using our technology and communication.” So God split up the earth into separate nations and languages. Preventing them from gathering as a unified body…Well for at least five thousand years anyway.
Now we are gathering for another cause. A cause that says “Hey God, you created an earth that we can destroy by our own technology. We don’t need you anymore. Your not capable of creating a living earth that expands and contracts to changing environments you failed to see the future. You failed to include our technology in your plans!”
Now Seven continents are involved in a concert that spanned twenty four hours. A Unified World. Speaking one language, English. All in an attempt to worship a false idol…Nature.
None of my sarcastic attempts at satire can explain this more wonderfully then the Word of God…so without any further adu, here it is from the Book of Romans…
Romans 1:21-24
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 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.
When we claim that humanity is capable of destroying something as fine tuned and beautiful as Earth, we ignore the sovereignty of God being in control in important things like..uh…I don’t know destroying the world like He wants to, like He said He would do.
Of all the middle eastern wars. Of all the natural disasters. Of all the so called recent prophecies that people say have been fulfilled. This is the scariest event I have ever watched. The similarity to the Tower of Babel is frightening. A few minutes ago The Prophet of Doom just announced that this is the largest Global entertainment event in History. Now I have no idea how many people were taking part in the building of the failed stairway to heaven but if that number was less then two billion we should really be fearing the Wrath of God that is certain to come.
If you agree in the slightest that this can be seen as Idol Worship then we have a real dilemma on our hands. We have a Jealous God who does not enjoy the worship of anything but him and rightfully so. Now over two billion people are participating in the largest Idol Worship in all of History! Is God going to overlook this?
Let me try to explain this from a simplistic view of my own sinful and fallible nature. If two billion people read this blog and proclaimed wow, these writings are awesome. Wow. What a great combination of words on paper…What brilliant Satire! But they ignored giving me Credit for the writing…I would be furious and these writings have nothing on the Creation of the Heavens and Earth.
God is angered in a much more Justified way. He gave us life, we broke the rules so He then ended His own life for the sake of ours on Calvary. In return instead of gathering in unison over seven continents to Worship this Creator in song and reflection for He who is kind and whose Glory will always prevail…We clamor in fear over the Doom that is to come but Not by the hands of God. But by the Hands of our own imaginations.
I am sorry, But this earth will be destroyed because of what we did. But it has nothing to do with not planting lips on the Oaks in my Backyard, or hugging the deer at the local park. It has everything to do with angering this God who demands our perfection, This God who demands our worship and this God who will receive it come Hell or High Water. Literally.
Marcus Pittman
www.transplantministries.com
Do not forget to comment below…
