1. Pollution & Lockdown. With the environmentalists red-hot on the track of violaters of the injunction to people, companies and institutions not to pollute the earth and for polluters to clean up their act, the focus has somewhat been drawn away to matters more critical as the Covid-19 pandemic has now so aptly demonstrated. Overnight the entire planet has gone into lockdown with the world of commerce strapped in behind bars.
2. The future of Planet Earth. If global warming is an imminent threat and the Coronavirus a lethal adversary on the prowl, most people would probably shocked to hear what still awaits the citizens of Terra on the little blue planet on the edge of the Milky Way and wedged in between the planets Venus and Mars. The Bible says:
“The earth is breaking, breaking! The earth is crashing, crashing! The earth is tottering, tottering! Like a drunkard the earth is staggering, staggering! And it rocks to and fro like a tree-hut! And its sins heavy on it; and it shall fall and not rise again.” [Isaiah24:19].
3. The Future of the Universe. As if that is not enough, the Apostle John saw the future of the Universe unfold as follows:
“And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, even as a fig tree casts her untimely figs when she is shaken by a mighty wind. And the heaven departed like a scroll when it is rolled together. And every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, the great men, and the rich, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains. “And they said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him sitting on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of His wrath has come, and who will be able to stand?” [Revelation 6:13-17].
4. The Blessed Hope. But, in Jesus Christ (the ‘Lamb’) there is hope:
“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father but by Me. Watch therefore, praying in every season that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things which shall occur, and to stand before the Son of Man [JESUS]." [John14:6; Luke21:36].
"For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live discreetly, righteously and godly, in this present world, looking for the blessed hope, and the appearance of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us that He might redeem us from all iniquity and purify to Himself a special people, zealous of good works." [Titus2:11-14].
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