A local newspaper columnist wrote that he is losing sleep over the weather, and that the percentage of others concerned about “climate change” is dropping. Is there such a thing as “climate change?” Yes!
After the Noahic flood, the ice age came about from the physical upheavals that occurred. Ca.950-1250, there was a warming period in parts of the earth. Ca.1300 to 1850, there were cooler temperatures, the “little ice age.”
Man presumptuously and arrogantly believes he’s able to affect and control that kind of climate change. But God is sovereign over all, including climate changes. By God “all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible… All things were created through Him and for Him.” (Colossians 1:16). “Whatever the Lord pleases He does, In heaven and in earth, In the seas and in all deep places... He makes lightning for the rain; He brings the wind out of His treasuries” (Psalm 135:6-7). Mercifully, “He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust” (Matthew 5:45). It’s this undeserved goodness which God uses to call men to repent and seek Him while He may be found (Romans 2:4; Isaiah 55:6).
A cataclysmic “climate change” is coming when the Lord Jesus Christ returns at the end of this age. The Apostle Peter warned, “the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up” (2 Peter 3:10). Then will come the new heaven and new earth. That’s good news for those who are trusting in Jesus Christ as Savior and following Him as Lord.
But then the unbelieving and unrepentant will say “to the mountains and rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?’” (Revelation 6:16).
The same newspaper columnist wrote further, that he can’t believe that God is sovereign over climate change. We are indeed to be responsible stewards of the earth. Adam and Eve were to “be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion…”, and, “to tend and keep” the garden (Genesis 1:28; 2:15). But Adam rebelled. Now, pollution and terrible management of God-given resources are just some effects of that rebellion.
But ultimately, God is sovereign over all. He’s the One who determines and orders a climate warming, a cooling period, sunshine, snow, rain, floods, droughts, calm seas, or nor’easters, and it happens.
God said of Himself, “I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the Lord, do all these things” (Isaiah 45:7). Create calamity? Yes, but some would not accept that, the reason being that it doesn’t fit into their personal opinion and perception of a loving God.
There are many who don’t accept the Bible as the Holy Spirit inspired word of God. Someone said God created us and we’re now returning the favor. As such, fallen man has created a god that he can get along with, who does things his way. The Bible teaches that man is not autonomous, that he is not the master of his destiny, and that he is accountable to God. And men defiantly hate that.
Further, many say that what the Bible calls sin (or lawlessness against God’s moral laws and the created order), they call freedom. That’s the very essence of what it is to defy God, to fundamentally be your own god. But, “Woe to him who strives with his Maker!” (Isaiah 45:9).
The Apostle Peter tied together the sovereignty of God with the accountability of man when he preached, “Jesus… Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death” (Acts 2:22,23). The most evil and heinous act ever committed, God sovereignly used to bring about the greatest good of forgiveness and life for those who believe and repent.
After the Noahic flood, the ice age came about from the physical upheavals that occurred. Ca.950-1250, there was a warming period in parts of the earth. Ca.1300 to 1850, there were cooler temperatures, the “little ice age.”
Man presumptuously and arrogantly believes he’s able to affect and control that kind of climate change. But God is sovereign over all, including climate changes. By God “all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible… All things were created through Him and for Him.” (Colossians 1:16). “Whatever the Lord pleases He does, In heaven and in earth, In the seas and in all deep places... He makes lightning for the rain; He brings the wind out of His treasuries” (Psalm 135:6-7). Mercifully, “He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust” (Matthew 5:45). It’s this undeserved goodness which God uses to call men to repent and seek Him while He may be found (Romans 2:4; Isaiah 55:6).
A cataclysmic “climate change” is coming when the Lord Jesus Christ returns at the end of this age. The Apostle Peter warned, “the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up” (2 Peter 3:10). Then will come the new heaven and new earth. That’s good news for those who are trusting in Jesus Christ as Savior and following Him as Lord.
But then the unbelieving and unrepentant will say “to the mountains and rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?’” (Revelation 6:16).
The same newspaper columnist wrote further, that he can’t believe that God is sovereign over climate change. We are indeed to be responsible stewards of the earth. Adam and Eve were to “be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion…”, and, “to tend and keep” the garden (Genesis 1:28; 2:15). But Adam rebelled. Now, pollution and terrible management of God-given resources are just some effects of that rebellion.
But ultimately, God is sovereign over all. He’s the One who determines and orders a climate warming, a cooling period, sunshine, snow, rain, floods, droughts, calm seas, or nor’easters, and it happens.
God said of Himself, “I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the Lord, do all these things” (Isaiah 45:7). Create calamity? Yes, but some would not accept that, the reason being that it doesn’t fit into their personal opinion and perception of a loving God.
There are many who don’t accept the Bible as the Holy Spirit inspired word of God. Someone said God created us and we’re now returning the favor. As such, fallen man has created a god that he can get along with, who does things his way. The Bible teaches that man is not autonomous, that he is not the master of his destiny, and that he is accountable to God. And men defiantly hate that.
Further, many say that what the Bible calls sin (or lawlessness against God’s moral laws and the created order), they call freedom. That’s the very essence of what it is to defy God, to fundamentally be your own god. But, “Woe to him who strives with his Maker!” (Isaiah 45:9).
The Apostle Peter tied together the sovereignty of God with the accountability of man when he preached, “Jesus… Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death” (Acts 2:22,23). The most evil and heinous act ever committed, God sovereignly used to bring about the greatest good of forgiveness and life for those who believe and repent.