About Global Warming
and drought
First we need to ask: What is "Global Warming"?
From what I have observed, "Global Warming" is the rise of the average temperature (air and ocean waters) observed worldwide since weather data are recorded. So far this "worldwide temperature average" has only risen a degree or two within decades. And weather data has been recorded only for maybe the last 200 years. We can only guess what the "global temperatures" might have been a couple of thousand years ago.
Interestingly the same people who are firm believers
in evolution also firmly believe in "global warming" and vehemently
defending both theories.
I have at least one big question for those "believers". Coal supposedly
came from dieing forests, which were covered with other geological
layers. Now there is coal being mined in Spitsbergen (Norway), which is north of
the arctic circle. If this coal came from trees a long time ago, it must
have been a lot warmer there at one time to grow trees.
This is just another reason why neither the evolution theory nor the global warming theory make sense.
At the same time I don't want to deny, that our
weather pattern seems to change. But in the bible we read, that God is
in control of the weather. HE lets the sun come up every day, makes the clouds,
lets it rain and snow (Job 37). HE also makes the seasons and has
promised, that they will be there until the end of the earth.
Ge 8:22 “As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night
will never cease.”
But God does use the weather to get our attention as HIS Word tells us in different places:
JOEL 1:20 Even the beasts of the field pant
for You; For the water brooks are dried up And fire has devoured the
pastures of the wilderness.
Job 38:22 “Have you ... seen the storehouses of
the hail, Job 38:23 which I reserve for times of trouble ...
PS 107:33 He changes rivers into a wilderness And springs of water into
a thirsty ground; PS 107:34 A fruitful land into a salt waste, Because
of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
DT 11:13 “It shall come about, if you listen obediently to my
commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the LORD your God
and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul, DT 11:14 that He
will give the rain for your land in its season, the early and late rain,
that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil.
And you have polluted a land With your harlotry and with your
wickedness. JER 3:3 “Therefore the showers have been withheld, And there
has been no spring rain.
AM 4:7 “Furthermore, I withheld the rain from you While there were still
three months until harvest. Then I would send rain on one city And on
another city I would not send rain; One part would be rained on, While
the part not rained on would dry up.
NA 1:3 The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, And the LORD will
by no means leave the guilty unpunished. In whirlwind and storm is His
way, And clouds are the dust beneath His feet. NA 1:4 He rebukes the sea
and makes it dry;
He dries up all the rivers.
Unfortunately since God's commandments and HIS Word, the bible, are more
and more violated in modern society we have to suffer the consequences.
More turbulent weather patterns are just one of them.
Eventually global warming can be uncovered as another lie from satan, with the purpose to draw us away from God and to follow him.
A prime example for God's Word on rain and man's behavior was preformed by prophet Elijah with great signs as it is written in 1 Kings 17-18:
King Solomon prays as he consecrates the new temple in Jerusalem. Part of his prayer is the following:
1Ki 8:35
“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because your people
have sinned against you, and when they pray toward this place and
confess your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted
them,
1Ki 8:36 then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants,
your people Israel. Teach them the right way to live, and send rain on
the land you gave your people for an inheritance.
Some years after Solomon a drought happened in Israel as we can read in 1 Kings 17. The act concludes in chapter 18 with the mighty display of God's glory and power on Mount Carmel through the prophet Elijah. After the people acknowledge God and then kill all the false prophets it finally rains again.
Living in Western Kansas makes a person familiar with dry weather, rain shortage, resulting crop failures and wells drying up. Studying Scripture I was surprised how much God's word has to say to this subject.
LEV 26:3 ‘ If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as
to carry them out,
LEV 26:4 then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land
will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
DT 11:13 “It shall come about, if you listen obediently to my
commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the LORD your God
and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul, DT 11:14 that He
will give the rain for your land in its season, the early and late rain,
that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil. DT
11:15 “ He will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and you will
eat and be satisfied. DT 11:16 “ Beware that your hearts are not
deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods and worship
them.
DT 11:17 “Or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and He
will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and the ground
will not yield its fruit; and you will perish quickly from the good land
which the LORD is giving you.
In Deuteronomy chapter 27 through 28 Moses explains to Israel the Word from God as he projects blessing on mount Gerizim and curses on mount Ebal. He used the mountains probably to imply the importance of this Word to the people by using mountains to symbolize it.
DT 28:11 “ The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the
offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the
produce of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers
to give you. DT 28:12 “The LORD will open for you His good storehouse,
the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all
the work of your hand; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall
not borrow.
DT 28:23 “ The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the
earth which is under you, iron. DT 28:24 “ The LORD will make the rain
of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you
until you are destroyed.
You have defiled the land with your
prostitution and wickedness. Jer 3:3 Therefore the showers have been
withheld,and no spring rains have fallen.
Jer 12:4 How long will the land lie parched and the grass in every field
be withered? Because those who live in it are wicked,
the animals and birds have perished.
Jer 14:22 Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do
the skies themselves send down showers? No, it is you, O LORD our God.
Therefore our hope is in you, for you are the one who does all this.
Jer 23:10 The land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land
lies parched and the pastures in the desert are withered.
Hos 13:15 ... An east wind from the LORD will come, blowing in from the
desert; his spring will fail and his well dry up
Eze 34:26 I will bless them and the places surrounding my hill. I will
send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing. Eze
34:27 The trees of the field will yield their fruit and the ground will
yield its crops; the people will be secure in their land. They will know
that I am the LORD,
Hag 1:9 “You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What
you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the LORD Almighty.
“Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy
with his own house. Hag 1:10 Therefore, because of you the heavens have
withheld their dew and the earth its crops. Hag 1:11 I called for a
drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the
oil and whatever the ground produces, on men and cattle, and on the
labor of your hands.”
Therefore let us turn back to God, confess our sins, repent from our ways, so HE can heal our land.