We have all endured some of the most unusual weather patterns in years over the past few months and it’s quite easy to be drawn into understanding something about all the talk on Climate Change. Maybe, unlike you, I’m proving to be quite dense and the more I know about it, then it’s the less I know about it!
Some two years ago I was on an Emirates Flight from Dubai to Sydney and I sourced the movie Channels and discovered that Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” had just commenced. It interested me so I watched it and sat there enthralled for over two hours as I tried to come to terms with his slides depicting the death (my word) of Planet Earth. To be honest, it really shook me up! So at last I knew something about “Climate Change”! Two years later however, I’m still confused! I do know that our Electricity Bills have increased by 20%, all types of fuel is on the increase, and we have experienced record temperatures for November, while the citizens of Cumbria in the UK are dealing with floods greater than ever recorded over a1000 years. Is it Climate Change, a Sign of the Times, End of the World, or just some old fashioned False Religion that is deceiving even the very Elect of God? If we are not worshipping God, then maybe we are worshipping and idolizing the Weather?
I believe that there is nothing new under the sun, so what goes round, goes around again. When I study the Scriptures, and read all about the false god of “Baal” which the children of Israel regularly idolized, resulting in the judgment of God, they were defeated on a regular basis.
Modern discovery has made the character of the false god Baal clear to us. It’s the worship of fertility and everything connected with reproduction, particularly in the growth of flocks and crops. One sphere of Baal worship was the “Weather” which is important for flocks and crops and every form of reproduction. Humanity itself is dependent on the cycle of reproduction. Once upon a time we would celebrate in our Churches “Harvest Festivals”, as our Christian Worship full of Thanksgiving to God for the blessing of another year of health and cheerful provision. Initially it was a farming thing, but everybody was involved being so grateful to God for our lives and livelihoods. Now with 75% of our State drought declared and for many the heartache of another failed harvest, loss of employment, empty rivers, dry dams, skies of brass, and dead gardens etc, etc. What do we do? Obviously we must be better, cleaner stewards of this wonderful planet and cease being its polluters and that means, if we haven’t commenced already, we must begin NOW
Read 1 Kings Chapters 17, 18, 19. Elijah was as human as we are (James 5:17) and yet he defeated all the false prophets of Baal. Climate Change, Human Greed and Worship of the Weather will never replace God Almighty’s ownership of His planet. Never before in all my years of ministry have I been so aware that a new form of Global Idolatry is gripping not just the politicians but Christians also!
In His Grip
Harry