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Written by Grant Hayman   

Seriously, there is a person that is Responsible for climate change and it certainly isn't in the hand of man any more than he can "make one hair black or white" unless he fakes it of course! [Matthew 5:36.] Man wasn't able to do anything about climate change in the time of Noah. God was in charge. God initiated that climate change and he wound it up! Jesus said - "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it also be in the days of the son of man" [Luke 17:26] As God was in charge of the climate in the days of Noah (and the world didn't realise it) so now, and up until the "days of the son of man" in like manner God is the one, as then, will, and is, in charge of climate.

It is HIS Earth! "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the World and they that dwell therein" [Psalm 24:1.] As in Noah's time of God's judgment and the flood, man couldn't do anything to change it, so is man's dilemma today, for we are in the last days of world defiance against God and the duplication of the days of Noah has arrived! Man could not stop God's climate judgment then and the next climate judgment coming soon, will make the flood judgment look like a flea bite!

Until the time of "the days of the son of man," God has promised that climate will not change and will be under His Control! "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." [Genesis 8:22.] All that we are considering here is the reality that Jesus is Lord of Heaven and Earth: Is he Lord of your life?

>> Look out! <<

There is a coming climate change that will make the "Earth reel to and fro like a drunked"! [Isaiah 24:20.]

>> Days now identical to that of Noah and Lot! <<

In Luke 17:26-30 Jesus very clearly says, the wickedness in Sodom and Gomorrah was identical to that in the days of Noah and the flood judgment. - "Until the day that Noah entered into the Ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise, as it was in the days of Lot .."

>> Both The catastrophic physical climate change with Noah's flood and the fireball storm of Sodom and Gomorrah followed the DESTRUCTIVE Moral and Spiritual Climate Change in the Human Heart! <<

There is a stealth Moral climate change that is happening today and it is deadly to the eternal soul of man, and there is no trumpet warning at all but rather in many quarters a sadistic Hooray!

The conditions of Noah's and Lot's time and NOW:-

* "Violence filled the earth" [Genesis 6:11.]

Violence in every form, even horrendous religious violence!

* Violence on the tennis court, cricket field, on planes.

* Road rage

* Bullying in schools

* Cyber bullying

* The ascendency of violent sports and video games

* Hidden violent attitudes that burst into flames "The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence." [Proverbs 10:11. HCSB] Violence is a product of self-centeredness and is covered by the mouth with smiles and "fair speeches".

The Bible says the tongue is a "fire, a World of iniquity" [James 3:6.]

* Homosexuality Lifestyle Forced Upon Society!

* In Sodom young boys (and children) educated and participating in homosexual events.

* The young, as in "safe schools programs" were taught and subjected in Sodom to the forceful education of homosexual orientation and lifestyle.

"Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, the whole population, surrounded the house. They called out to Lot and said, where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have sex with them!* [Genesis 19:4-5. HCSB]

There is much more of the traits of Noah and Lot in their day that depicts our worldwide sunken sinfulness, ripe for judgment today!

* Mockery and distrust of any sincerity. [Genesis 19:14.]

The above point is one of subtle importance. When Lot's son's in law were warned of the coming doom upon Sodom and Gommorah the Bible says they thought he was "mocking" them!

Genesis 19:14 (KJV)
"And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law."

Lot had a reputation in Sodom of being a "righteous" man, but sodom was a city of mockery. Everyone considered each other a joke, just as there is much entertainment today focused on mockery of anyone and everyone. No one in public life or media is exempt from being made fun of and being treated as a joke.

Being made a laughing ridicule is the cause of much more suicide, than we think.

* Obsession with the Physical. Body, flesh life. [Genesis 6: 3.] * Excusing unrighteousness. [2 Peter 2:5.]

>> The Serious Spiritual Stealth Climate Change Affecting the Church Today! <<

The climate change of apostasy has not abated since the Lord Jesus spoke directly to the Churches by messages through John on the Isle of Patmos AD 96.

The book of Revelation is of vital importance to every believer because every word is the last word of the Lord to the Church! All applies to every Church in every corridor of time though there is a real chronological reference which sharpens focus on what the Spirit is saying to the Churches.

The last Church state to be dealt with is the church of Laodicea. The Lord's final remedy and most wonderful appeal is "If any man hear my voice". [Revelation 3:20.] Oh! how wonderful it is to hear the voice of the Lord! It is a "glorious voice". [Isaiah 30:30.]

The book of Deuteronomy is Moses warnings and encouragments to Israel in the conquest of their inheritance in the promised land and mentions "the voice of the Lord" 14 times. In no other book of the Bible is the phrase so highlighted!

No voice of the Lord, means we wander, no direction, no depth, no heat of excitement and miss the glorious inheritance the Lord has for every child of God! The answer to a dull, lifeless Christian walk is to hear the loving "voice of the Lord". How then to hear "the voice of the Lord"?

The vital need for us to so "hear what the Spirit saith unto the Churches" is found in the wonderful invitation and words of the Lord -

" ..... I will come into him and sup with him ..." [Revelation 3:20.]

Note Jesus is standing at the door and knocking, and offers if "any" one hears and opens the door he will come in and not draw us into a listening of him spreading it out to us, BUT he will receive our lowly spreading it out to him, laying all bare before him! he will take ALL on board and then settle us with his peace and THEN we will "sup with Him" in his banqueting house with his "banner over us of his great Love"!

When the woman at the well spread out to the Lord her real self of need, she soon dropped her water jug, and with great joy raced off to the city of argument over correct worship, to tell of the beautiful one to worship, who gives life abundant Living Water, which satisfied her empty heart while trying to be satisfied at the well of natural life!

It is so beautiful that the Lord receives us and loves for us to open up to him with whatever the hurt, sin, fear or problem that has caused the "Climate change" of going from "hot" to "Lukewarm" or even "cold".

Praise the Lord for how loving and gracious he is! Exactly as God was in the garden of Eden at the beginning of man's monumental fall out of fellowship, plunging the whole human race into estrangement. "And they heard the voice of the LORD God" [Genesis 3:8.] Tell him all. Jesus Loves You!

Grant hayman.

 It's going to be a good day! (Carroll Roberson)

God Bless.