Escaping the Matrix: Global Warming in Your Future? You Better Believe It!

David W. Lowe is the author of two books on Bible prophecy, Earthquake Resurrection and Then His Voice Shook the Earth. To learn more, visit David’s website at: www.earthquakeresurrection.com.

By DAVID W. LOWE
CTD Columnist

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YOU heard this before, right?

The earth is gradually heating up. Has been for many years.

Why? Because humans are being irresponsible with our consumption and burning of natural resources, such as fossil fuels. The ozone layer, protecting us from UV rays from the sun, is being depleted. A runaway “Greenhouse Effect” is in our future, and will have horrible effects on the climate of our planet. Some even predict an “ice age” brought on by melting of the polar caps. We must avoid this at all costs and change our ways now, they say.

Former Vice President Al Gore produced the global warming documentary, ‘An Inconvenient Truth.

For many years, certain members of the scientific community, in concert with members of Hollywood, have joined forces to warn humanity of this “inconvenient truth.” Movies such as “The Day After Tomorrow” and the recent documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” by Al Gore have attempted to stir up our consciences to conserve and find new ways to power our world.

I’m all for it. I believe we should be good stewards of the earth which the Lord has created and given to us, just as we should be good stewards of the bodies, talents, and resources which he has provided us all on an individual basis.

But, there is a piece of the puzzle these Global Warmists are missing. It was revealed to us by a man who was breathed upon by Jesus Christ himself. A man whose mind and understanding the Bible reveals was personally and supernaturally opened by the Lord. A simple fisherman who was completely immersed in the power of the Holy Spirit on a Pentecost Feast approximately 1,960 years ago. His name was Simon Peter.

Peter wrote two letters which are included in the New Testament. His second letter reveals that there will be three heavens and earths. Did you know that? Currently, we are abiding on the second of the three earths.

The first earth was completely destroyed by a global flood:

2 Pet 3:5-6 For they deliberately suppress this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water. Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water. (NET)

According to Peter, the second earth is also going to be destroyed by global warming. Yes, that’s right. No matter how much we attempt to avoid global warming, it is inevitable if the apostles and prophets accurately recorded what the Lord revealed to them. Consider Peter’s revelation of the fate of the present heaven and earth:

2 Pet 3:7 But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, by being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly. (NET)

2 Pet 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. (KJV)

Movies such as “The Day After Tomorrow” have attempted to stir up our consciences to conserve and find new ways to power our world.

You wanna talk about global warming? This present earth, according to Peter’s understanding of the prophets and his personal revelation from Jesus Christ, will be destroyed by fire during the day of the Lord’s wrath. Peter further reveals that the elements will melt away with fervent heat.

So, what does Peter say should be our response to this prophesied fiery future? Should we man together and do everything we can now to prevent this? Should we store up supplies and hunker down in fear? Should the nations be building deep underground cities and bases to hide from the coming destruction?

Of course not. Peter’s advice is rather simple, but has nothing to do with fighting global warming. Instead of a physical preparation, it is a spiritual preparation Peter warned about:

2 Pet 3:11-12 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? (KJV)

Peter said we should be separate and pure from the world and its system, striving to live godly lives. Furthermore, we should be looking forward to the coming of that destructive day! It is coming very soon; long overdue in my estimation. But Peter has an answer in the same passage as to why this day has not yet come, answering scoffers who doubt the second coming of Christ due to the long delay:

2 Pet 3:9 The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some regard slowness, but is being patient toward you, because he does not wish for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. (NET)

The promise of his coming, and the coming day of the Lord’s wrath, has been delayed. Why? Because the Lord is patient toward humanity so that all may repent and submit to the King of Kings, trusting in his sacrifice for their rebellion against him by their evil deeds. Have you cast away your pride and had a change of your mind toward God? We are all enemies of God by our pride, and unless we repent, acknowledge him as our Lord, and trust in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ to permanently cover our sinful rebellion, we remain a magnet of God’s wrath.

The day is coming when he will split the sky, resurrect those believers who have previously died, and catch up all those who have put their trust in him, to be protected from the day of the Lord’s wrath. In that day, the present earth will experience an extinction event. A most welcome global warming, because the third and final heaven and earth will be much better:

2 Pet 3:13 But, according to his promise, we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness truly resides. (NET)

So, the next time you hear about “global warming” on the news or in the media, just remember this little article and smile. Because a new heaven and earth are coming soon.

And because you know the truth.

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Escaping the Matrix: Global Warming in Your Future? You Better Believe It!

Replacing the Bible with "An Inconvenient Truth"

By Ray Perdue

RaidersNewsNetwork.com

"The Green Revolution" seems to be in full swing around the United States. Many hotels and other businesses are jumping onboard the environmentalist bandwagon in an attempt to gain green certification from the US Green Building Council, and to gain some extra customers in the process.

The US Green Building Council has currently certified 800 buildings across the United States as being environmentally friendly. There are 6,000 others in the process of getting certification as well. The US Green Building Council developed a rating system some seven years ago, entitled the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED. Buildings that receive the LEED rating are certified based upon their use of environmentally friendly features. Using recycled construction materials, solar lighting, and energy and water efficient systems help guarantee that coveted certification.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has decreed that any new buildings constructed by the state of California must be designed for LEED approval. Many in the California state government are striving to have "green" construction guidelines made standard for all buildings in the state.

The Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa in Napa Valley, and the Orchard Garden Hotel in San Francisco are attempting to become the first hotels in California to achieve the status of being certifiably "green". Both hotels have replaced their old "modern" amenities with waterless toilets, and solar lighting, and use only recycled paper.

Perhaps the most interesting thing that the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa has done is to replace the Bible with former Vice-President Al Gore’s book, An Inconvenient Truth. Most Americans have become used to the Gideon Bibles placed in bureau drawers in hotels and motels over the years. However, many will be surprised to find Gore’s book about global warming instead.

The National Ledger expressed their surprise at the removal of the Bible by saying, "If you want to read a bit before going to bed and get a little inspiration, instead of scripture you get to read some alarmist propaganda from a man that worships the earth while traveling around it in a private jet."

Stefan Muehle, general manager of the Orchard Garden Hotel in San Francisco, said that the "green" measures have reduced his energy expenses by 25%. "We’re trying to dispel the myth that being green and being luxurious are mutually exclusive."

Notes:

"California Hotels Go Green with Low-Flow Toilets, Solar Lights", by Ari Levy and Carole Zimmer, April 27, 2007, Bloomberg News.

"Al Gore as Jesus Christ: Hotel Bibles Removed for ‘Inconvenient Truth’, by Jackson Simpson, May 2, 2007, The National Ledger.

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Replacing the Bible with "An Inconvenient Truth"

Environmentalism: The Religion for an Eco-theocratic Superstate?

by Phillip D. Collins

RaidersNewsNetwork.com -- In a recent address to the CATO Institute in Washington, D.C., Czech President Vaclav Klaus declared, "Environmentalism is a religion. It does not belong in the natural sciences and is more connected with social science." According to Klaus, this religion is purely a statist one designed to enthrone policy professionals that hope to "rule from above." Klaus asserted that this religion worked in tandem with "multi-culturalism," "internationalism," "social democratism," and other fashionable ideologies to accelerate the global tectonic shift towards "supranationalism." These contentions seem to be reinforced by the admonitions of one of the environmentalist movement’s leading ideologues: Albert Gore.

A cursory perusal of Gore’s Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit reveals the religious character of environmentalism. Replete with inherently religious terms like "heretical," "moral," and "spirit," Gore’s book virtually qualifies as a sacred text. However, the religion that Gore espouses is hardly amicable to Christianity. Gore assails Christianity for the purported suppression of the "goddess religion," which he contends provided humanity with a "spiritual sense of our place in nature" (260). According to Gore, those who think otherwise hold "heretical" beliefs (258).

Gore claims to be a Baptist (244). However, almost every assertion that he presents represents a departure from traditional Christian theological precepts. For instance, Gore re-conceptualizes the Godhead as God, nature, and man (255). Rejecting man’s universal position as imago viva Dei, Gore declares: "We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment ... Man is organic with the world" (21). Gore also expresses the belief that the totality of human intellect is "detached" from man and constitutes a "new disembodied mind" (251-52). This "new disembodied mind," Gore contends, possesses absolute omniscence and can "observe the movement of matter everywhere" (251-52). Such ideas are nothing new. Gore’s monistic Weltanschauung is merely the latest incarnation of the belief in an emergent deity within the immanent cosmos. W. Warren Wagar explains:

Nineteenth-and early twentieth-century thought teems with time-bound emergent deities. Scores of thinkers preached some sort of faith in what is potential in time, in place of the traditional Christian and mystical faith in a power outside of time. Hegel's Weltgeist, Comte's Humanite, Spencer's organismic humanity inevitably improving itself by the laws of evolution, Nietzsche's doctrine of superhumanity, the conception of a finite God given currency by J.S. Mill, Hastings Rashdall, and William James, the vitalism of Bergson and Shaw, the emergent evolutionism of Samuel Alexander and Lloyd Morgan, the theories of divine immanence in the liberal movement in Protestant theology, and du Nouy's telefinalism--all are exhibits in evidence of the influence chiefly of evolutionary thinking, both before and after Darwin, in Western intellectual history. The faith of progress itself--especially the idea of progress as built into the evolutionary scheme of things-is in every way the psychological equivalent of religion. (106-07)

The "faith of progress itself" was also one of the defining pillars of the anti-Christian Enlightenment. This anthropocentric religion, which reached its nadir with the bloody French Revolution, venerated progress as the product of man’s apotheosized Reason. Goeringer elaborates upon the Enlightenment view of progress:

Reason, working upon nature, would enhance the quality of life for each and every one of the Enlightened. The Atheist philosopher Condorcet preached the doctrine of a coming Utopia, where indefinite progress would bring forth a "natural salvation" of plenty and immortality. Progress held that since the universe was knowable, enlightened man could become the subject of history rather than its object. Mankind could fashion nature to its wishes; the efficacy in shaping the natural order was limited only by time and the sheer limits, if any, of reason. (Goeringer, no pagination)

Not surprisingly, the Enlightenment also venerated nature. Goeringer states:

Nature was just that — the natural, real world. It was not the realm of the supernatural, the demonic, or the godly, but the empirical or rational "stuff" of which the universe was, and is, made. Nature could be understood through reason; through logic, scientific inquiry, and open mind of free inquiry, nature would yield her secrets. (No pagination)

Of course, there are some crucial distinctions to be made. The Enlightenment’s view of nature was not as overtly spiritual as Gore’s, although many Enlightenment thinkers did view the decoding of nature’s secrets as analogous to divine revelation. Moreover, while Gore promotes a doctrine of emergent deity, his religion seems to eschew progress in favor of an anti-industrial, agrarian feudalism. Thus, modern day Enlightenment proponents like the Randian Objectivists clash violently with Gore’s environmentalism. These distinctions aside, there are some ideational commonalities that share an overall aversion for Christianity.

Gore's vision is purely global in scope, as is evidenced by his proposed "Global Marshall Plan." This hypothetical policy would stipulate the formation of a "trust fund" to generate revenue for environmentally sound products (349-50). The money for this fund would be confiscated from offenders of "mother earth," namely those segments of industry that are guilty of increasing carbon dioxide emissions (34-50). Further delineating his framework for an eco-theocratic state, Gore proposes a form of universal education that will "monitor the entire earth" (357). Gore’s hypothetical state would also mandate "an annual tree census" (357).

Given the supranational character of Gore's proposed social and political machinations, the claims of Vaclav Klaus certainly gain more credibility. In his address to the CATO Institute, Klaus specifically identified the world’s gradual migration towards global governance as a threat to liberty everywhere (Mooney, no pagination). Klaus contended that environmentalism was providing the ersatz religion for a gradually developing superstate (no pagination). If he is correct, then Gore qualifies as the high priest of the emergent world theocracy. Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, enjoyed an international audience and won an academy award at the Oscars. Evidently, the evangel of the new ecclesiastical authority is spreading. Heretics, beware.

Sources Cited

Goeringer, Conrad. "The Enlightenment, Freemasonry, and the Illuminati." American Atheists 2006

Gore, Albert. Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. Houghton Mifflin, NY: 1992.

Mooney, Kevin. "Environmentalism Religion Rather Than Science, Says Czech Leader." CNSNews.com 12 March 2007

Wagar, W. Warren. H.G. Wells and the World State. New Haven, CT.: Yale UP, 1961.

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Environmentalism: The Religion for an Eco-theocratic Superstate?