Environmentalists despairingly wring their hands over what in creation is suddenly in short supply or vanishing. We have learned through repeated bitter failures that we can’t trust ourselves. Frantically searching for what seems more permanent, culture focuses finally on creation—believing the old American Indian myth that the “mountains, rivers and plains go on forever.” Which we now find has not been true, is not true, has never been true and is now more than ever close to annihilation.
Evidence keeps growing. Whether it’s the 36 million trees dying yearly in California by bug infestation, drought or disease. Or the loss of snow in the Alps or cross-country Austria trails. Or floods in Australia and Europe. Or plastic accumulation or sea floors world-wide. Or the threat of extinction of 34% of plant species and 40% of animal species. Or the avian flu that has re-configured itself into other animal species. Or the wild fires of the American West. Or the burning of Amazonian trees creating warmth that melts glaciers. San Diego U-T, 1/8, 2/8, 2/13, 2/23. And…a never studied-problem endangering global life: jet contrails forming their own clouds in the sky. But no one mentions the multiple tons of fuel poured into the atmosphere every single day by airliners. It may be TOO BIG a business for environmentalists to attack. After all, that’s how they jet around the world to study environmental abuse. In the first place, however, why would humans, made in God’s Image, and expected to seek him for answers, instead put their hope in creation? Which, while more permanent than we, will not go on forever. Indeed, while lovers of nature insist it be preserved, creation itself longs for Christ’s return Romans 8:19, 22. Though it brings the incineration of itself. II Peter 3:10, 12 then assures us…once the fires have achieved their purpose, and earth remains but an empty sphere, God’s creative handiwork fashions a new, eternal earth surrounded by a new, eternal atmosphere. Consider, then, that creation, in its present fallen condition, with all its problems, shortages and extinctions, MAY BE warning us that Christ’s Return is closer than Christians think and far more certain than environmentalists desire. God constituted creation to provide humanity with what he promised in Genesis 8:22. Therefore, could creation be warning us that OUR time—human history—is coming to an end, and we better be preparing to meet OUR GOD?
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