February 25 2023
AWAITING ‘THE DAY’.
Frankly, I am completely captured by the prospect of eternity, that’s why I call myself an “Anthropos Teleios”, a human being always having the TELOS in mind, the very END of our civilization. Once there, in the New Creation, we will apply the lessons learned from studying 10,000 years of human development, avoiding errors while pursuing the good outcomes we have achieved, as per Revelation 14:13. Today, 2023, we are in our final trial phase: the millennia-long experimental episode is about to end.
I know: many are uncomfortable with what is unfolding in the world, but most believe that we will muddle through somehow. Forget it: we won’t. The world is descending into a “climate doom loop”, a thinktank reported last week.
Cassandra times.
In Greek drama, Cassandra, daughter of King Priam of Troy, was given the gift of prophesy by Apollo, but when she spurned his advances, he ordained that her prophecies would not be believed. Today we live in Cassandra times, where the many warnings are simply ignored.
Global Heating is the key to our demise: “we have driven the Earth to a crisis state from which it may never, on a human scale, return to the lush and comfortable world we love and in which we grew up,” wrote the late Dr James Lovelock in his book The Revenge of Gaia, Earth’s climate in crisis and the fate of humanity. Curiously, Lovelock, who was not a Christian, started his book with a quote from Jesus: “Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.” (Matthew 23:24). The Ukraine War alone offsets all carbon sinks, all electric transport, windmills, and solar panels.
In essence, Lovelock was saying what Peter writes in 2 Peter 3, describing The Day of the Lord, “Since the elements will be destroyed by fire, (Think Global Heating) you ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of the Lord and speed its coming.” In that sense James Lovelock was a true prophet.
But, being a Prophet is unpopular.
Prophets are unpopular because they question the status quo; prophets are unpopular because people hate change; prophets are unpopular because people are comfortable; prophets are unpopular because politicians hate to be bringers of bad news; prophets are unpopular even in the church as is plain from reading the Old Testament. And not much has changed in the after Christ institutions.
I perceive prophets to be visionaries, not because they can see into the future, but because they can see the truth, can understand the deeper meaning of life and have a holistic view on events.
Thus, prophets are not extraordinary gifted persons who know the unknown. No, prophets are first and foremost believers who openly and unabashedly dare to look at what is happening ‘out there’ and fully embrace responsibility for the immense challenges evident in our quickly changing society.
Prophets are foremost believers who by seeing Scripture as a lamp for their feet and a light for their path in God’s wonderful creation, know that Christ, as the Son of Man, as the Ben-Adam, the Son of the Soil, will return to make all things new. That’s why a prophet, in spite of all the sin and evil in this world, looks to the future with full confidence.
Matthew 24: some excerpts.
Jesus saw what was coming. He knew because he died to restore creation. His words were truly prophetic. Look at these applicable passages:
6. You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars.
7. and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes;
10. At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another.
12. Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.
15. Therefore, when you see the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION which was spoken of trough Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place, let the reader understand.
21. For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.
22. Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
My comments.
Jesus’ words directly apply to today. The phrase, ‘Let the reader understand’, means that this can only be grasped when they occur, now, 2023: our world-wide pollution, climate change, IS the Abomination of Desolation. Just as in Noah’s days, when ‘the sinners were taken away’ (no Rapture!), these warnings too, will be ignored, and even ridiculed.
Please note:
THE DAY will come like a thief in the night. (1 Thessalonians 5:2), while Revelation 18 points to a time of economic prosperity, just like ours.