global warming
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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.”
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.
25And there will be signs in the sun and the moon and the stars. And there will be, on earth, distress among the Gentiles, out of confusion at the roaring of the sea and of the waves:
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.
24Do not pollute yourselves with any of these things, by which all of the nations, which I will cast out in your sight, have been contaminated 25and by which the land has been polluted. I will visit the wickedness of the land, so that it may vomit out its inhabitants. 26Keep my ordinances and judgments, and do not do any of these abominations: the native born, as well as the settler, who sojourns among you. 27For all these detestable things were done by the inhabitants of the land who were here before you, and they have polluted it. 28Therefore, beware, lest in a similar manner, it may vomit you out as well, if you do these same things, just as it vomited out the people who were before you.
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.
22Observe my laws as well as my judgments, and act according to them, lest the land, into which you will enter and live, may vomit you out, too.
1For, behold, the day will arrive, kindled like a furnace, and all the arrogant and all those who act impiously will be stubble. And the approaching day will inflame them, says the Lord of hosts; it will leave behind for them neither root, nor sprout. 2But unto you, who fear my name, the Sun of justice will arise, and health will be in his wings. And you will go forth and leap like the calves of the herd. 3And you will trample the impious, while they will be ashes under the sole of your foot, on the day that I act, says the Lord of hosts. 4Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded him on Horeb for all Israel, the precepts and the judgments. 5Behold, I will send to you Elijah the prophet, before the arrival of the great and terrible day of the Lord. 6And he will turn the heart of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with anathema.
12waiting for, and hurrying toward, the advent of the day of the Lord, by which the burning heavens shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt from the heat of the fire.
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.
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.