The UPLOOK November 2005 - pt. 1 special Internet edition 11/2005
Creation Groans
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
Isaiah 24:4,5 [emphasis added]
What the "greenies" imagine, Scripture declares for an entirely different reason . . .
Do you see pain,
Creation has the ability to groan.
Just as the human immune system rebels against excessive abuse, so too, all creation has the ability to groan with dissent at the gross neglect and wanton disrespect of earth’s human rulers. The “Green” lobby seems to understand this, and supposes that “mother earth” may some day disinherit her “children” if we continue to pollute her streams, rivers, and very atmosphere.
What the “Greenies” imagine, Scripture declares for an entirely different reason. For we humans have offended our Creator. This is not a small or petty concept to consider. Nor is it something we would normally think about (any more than we would even hear of AIDS). It is just that, as we approach the end of the age, where radical events and rampant wickedness becomes the norm, we must understand that the God of the Bible is not without power. Nor will disrespect for His wishes be without consequence. Even though Scripture states that Antichrist will be given authority to rule, at the end of the age, it will be in spite of normal checks and balances built into God’s universe.
When the Jesus spoke of the “sea and the waves roaring” (Lk. 21:25), or when the Lord told Job of the morning stars singing together (Job 38:7) we tend to shrug these off as metaphors, merely symbolic tokens of angelic, human, or demonic activity. While this is certainly true, especially in relation to the masses of humanity (Rev. 17:15) –scientists have also noted that the stars do “sing” as attested to by radio telescopes, and we know that the loss of never ending life (and eternal peace) is linked to humankind’s fall, in the Garden.
Heavenly Life comes from God, alone.
When men and women thumb their noses at God, and despise His Providence, they call down upon themselves a curse. This is God’s displeasure, reflecting back from a universe that He has made and is holding in place (Col. 1:17).
