climate change
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22All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, will not cease.”
7And I led you into the land of Carmel, so that you would eat from its fruit and from its excellence. And having entered it, you defiled my land, and you turned my inheritance into an abomination.
5And the earth was corrupted by its inhabitants. For they have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have dissipated the everlasting covenant. 6Because of this, a curse will devour the earth, and its inhabitants will sin. And for this reason, its caretakers will become crazed, and few men will be left behind.
7But the heavens and the earth that exist now were restored by the same Word, being reserved unto fire on the day of judgment, and unto the perdition of impious men. 8Yet truly, let this one thing not escape notice, most beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like one day. 9The Lord is not delaying his promise, as some imagine, but he does act patiently for your sake, not wanting anyone to perish, but wanting all to be turned back to penance. 10Then the day of the Lord shall arrive like a thief. On that day, the heavens shall pass away with great violence, and truly the elements shall be dissolved with heat; then the earth, and the works that are within it, shall be completely burned up.
1But concerning dates and times, brothers, you do not need us to write to you. 2For you yourselves thoroughly understand that the day of the Lord shall arrive much like a thief in the night. 3For when they will say, “Peace and security!” then destruction will suddenly overwhelm them, like the labor pains of a woman with child, and they will not escape. 4But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that you would be overtaken by that day as by a thief. 5For all of you are sons of light and sons of daytime; we are not of nighttime, nor of darkness.
15Thus, the Lord God brought the man, and put him into the Paradise of enjoyment, so that it would be attended and preserved by him.
27And so, in saying, “There is still one more time,” he declares the transfer of the moveable things of creation, so that those things which are immoveable may remain. 28Thus, in receiving an immoveable kingdom, we have grace. So, through grace, let us be of service, by pleasing God with fear and reverence. 29For our God is a consuming fire.
8And the fourth Angel poured out his bowl upon the sun. And it was given to him to afflict men with heat and fire. 9And men were scorched by the great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God, who holds power over these afflictions, but they did not repent, so as to give him glory.
11And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and pestilences, and famines, and terrors from heaven; and there will be great signs.
3Because of this, we will not be afraid when the earth will be turbulent and the mountains will be transferred into the heart of the sea. 4They thundered, and the waters were stirred up among them; the mountains have been disturbed by his strength.
6Lift up your eyes to heaven, and look down to the earth below. For the heavens will vanish like smoke, and the earth will be worn away like a garment, and its inhabitants will pass away in like manner. But my salvation will be forever, and my justice will not fail.
25And so I say to you, do not be anxious about your life, as to what you will eat, nor about your body, as to what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26Consider the birds of the air, how they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of much greater value than they are? 27And which of you, by thinking, is able to add one cubit to his stature? 28And as for clothing, why are you anxious? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither work nor weave. 29But I say to you, that not even Solomon, in all his glory, was arrayed like one of these. 30So if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and cast into the oven tomorrow, how much more will he care for you, O little in faith?
7For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be pestilences, and famines, and earthquakes in places.
26In the beginning, O Lord, you founded the earth. And the heavens are the work of your hands. 27They will perish, but you remain. And all will grow old like a garment. And, like a blanket, you will change them, and they will be changed.