This Drunken Earth

 This Drunken Earth – Terry James - https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/ God’s prophetic Word, I’ve always considered, says something profound regarding this wondrous planet. My fascination begins, as I’ve written before, with Jesus’ words uponentering Jerusalem on the little donkey not long before He was crucified. The people were, you will remember, shouting “Hosanna!” They were welcoming Jesus because they thought He was to be Israel’s Savior—their Messiah, perhaps. The Judaizers—the Pharisees and others who were His detractors—were trying to make the people stop praising Him. They wanted Him to shut down His ministry because they thoughtHe was taking away their power and authority. They appealed to Jesus to shut the people up, and He replied that if they were to remain silent, the very stones would cry out. By this, the Lord meant, I have no doubt, that if they didn’t praise Him at that history-shaking moment, the very geophysical creation would erupt in praise of Him. Then I think of that day on that boat when the storm on Galilee was raging and the disciples awoke Jesus to ask if He didn’t care that they were about to perish in the tempest.Jesus chided them just a bit for their lack of faith (they didn’t yet know that He was fully God as well as fully man). So they were fearful—as you and I would have been. He put forth His hands and said, “Peace, be still.” I believe He said it very softly rather than shouting it. The raging wind stopped. The heaving waters became instantly calm. It is said that not even the convulsions had tosettle as waters have to do after being so turbulent. That lake became like glass. So this planet is under the Creator’s hand at all times. Jesus created all that was created, and by Him all things (every element) are held together. When God’s prophetic Word says something about planet earth that hasn’t yet occurred, we, as believers that Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, can be assured it willhappen. Things are being reported today with prophetic overtones. Scientists have climbed aboard the climate-change panic train, of course, and are using their findings to furtherfoist that mantra. Now, we admit to climate change because the climate is and always has been changing during various eras of recorded history. But climate change because man is responsiblefor it in the physical meaning is a lie being perpetrated for political/ideological control reasons. On the other hand, climate change by mankind in the evil-spiritual sense is indeed taking place. Here’s what I mean. Mankind doesn’t have the ability to change the climate in the sense of physically affecting it. We are simply too small. God controls it completely. But, like Jesus said,when mankind doesn’t praise Him, the very elements (the physical earth, for example, will “cry out”). With the world now getting much like it was in antediluvian times—with people denying God at every level, especially the scientists—perhaps the planet is beginning to “cryout.” The following further validates this possibility: “For the first time, scientists have identified why Earth wobbles as it spins. The decrease in Greenland’s ice mass is the main reason for the wobble, NASA says. Changes in the Earth’s wobble could impact the accuracy of satellite tools like GPS systems, according to NASA. Climate change is impacting how Earth spins on its axis, NASA says. Over the past century, Earth’s axis—the imaginary line that passes through the North and South Poles—has drifted about 4 inches, and a decrease in Greenland’s ice mass isthe main contributor to the wobble, the space agency has announced. As temperatures increased throughout the 20th century because of humans, Greenland’s ice mass decreased. A total of about 7,500 gigatons—the weight of more than 20 million Empire State Buildings—of Greenland’s ice melted into the ocean during this time period.” (“Climate ChangeIs Causing Earth to Wobble on Its Axis, NASA Says,” By Pam Wright, weather.com) Jesus’ pronouncement, as said at the beginning of this article, is the first of the fascinating things about the reactions involving this planet on which God has chosen forus to live. It gets much more interesting even in the prophetic sense. The prophecy I have in mind relates significantly, I think, to the article above. God, through the prophet Isaiah, says the following about a future time: “The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not riseagain” (Isaiah 24:20). Today, the ideological mindset of the reprobate mind (Romans 1:28) is that man is physically destroying Mother Earth with reckless fossil fuel carbon emissions, etc. But,God says mankind is making the world corrupt through anti-God activity. Here is the entire body of that Isaiah passage telling why the earth will eventually stagger like a drunkard. “From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealttreacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and hethat cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. The earthshall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the highones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth” (Isaiah 24:16–21) It is the sins and rebellion of mankind that will make the planet itself drunk on the rebels’ corruption –much like in the days of Noah. For this, God will make those evilones drink from the cup of His wrath (Revelation 14: 10). You don’t want to be part of that drunken time when even the earth staggers and falls, and is unable to recover its equilibrium. Here is how to escape that fate and insteadbe with the Lord in the wonders of Heaven. “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heartman believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9–10).