Global Warming

Today there is a great controversy as to whether we really have Global Warming and the Greenhouse effect. Almost every day, one can read or hear dire warnings of impending doom and disaster. Some predict that the melting of the Polar ice because of these effects will cause a rise in the sea level that will in turn cause massive flooding and destruction of low-lying real estate and properties. An international agreement called the Kyoto Protocol has been established and signed by many countries in an effort to reduce the production of “Greenhouse Gases” which some believe to be the cause of the alleged Global Warming effect.

Of even greater concern to mankind should be the warnings and predictions of the Bible. God reminds us that He once destroyed the world by flood:
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: —2 Peter 3:6

God warns of impending judgment upon the world, this time by fire:
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? —2Pe 3:10-12

Before this final judgment, other terrible things are going to happen in an attempt to cause mankind to turn to God from their rebellion and unbelief:
And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. —Revelation 16:8,9

--who thought things were going to continue as always:
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
—2Peter 3:3,4

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
—John 3:16-18

Compiled by Dean Cunningham ~ June 2005 ~ No. 11

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