{"id":70017,"date":"2020-02-11T12:32:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T10:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=70017"},"modified":"2023-09-07T16:06:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T13:06:26","slug":"climate-change-prophecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/climate-change-prophecy\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Prophecy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[785,391,625,360,506],"acf":{"old_id":"70017","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":49926,"related_cahpter":"414","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"We have our own droughts and extinctions, and false prophets denying the impending threats","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The wells lie empty (v.3). The fields are barren (v.4). There is no rain (v.4). Wild animals struggle to survive (v.5-6). This climate disaster that Jeremiah describes is a consequence of Israel\u2019s iniquity. The people have strayed from God. In fact, they love to stray; how easy it is for them (v.10)! God tells Jeremiah that he shouldn\u2019t pray for the people: God won\u2019t be answering their prayers, so Jeremiah shouldn\u2019t waste his time either.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But they have \u2018enablers:\u2019 Jeremiah complains to God about the false prophets who declare that the famine won\u2019t reach them, that the sword won\u2019t touch them (v.13). It\u2019s all lies, God says, all (v.14) \u201cdeceit of their own contriving\u2014that is what they prophesy to you!\u201d The things that they prophesy won\u2019t happen,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> happen, to them and to those that listen to them. Jeremiah must warn the city-dwelling Israelites, the ones whose misdeeds have caused these disasters, that they will not be spared. Go out into the countryside, he says, and you\u2019ll see it already: the war, the famine, the destruction of the environment (v.18). It\u2019s coming for us too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The message of this chapter unfortunately parallels events in the world today. Climate crises are on the horizon in much of the world. Temperatures are on the rise, environments are changing, agriculture is failing, animals are disappearing. Our \u201csins\u201d are different than the Israelites sins: we worship plastics and impermanence, not the Baalim and Asherot. We too love to stray: it is so easy to throw out that plastic cutlery, to sip our coffee from a single-use cup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have our false prophets as well. They tell us that it\u2019s natural, that\u2019s its not really as bad as we think it is, that it\u2019s not happening <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, so it\u2019s not really happening. They tell us we\u2019re safe in our cities, that the effects of climate change can\u2019t touch us in the developed world. Some of it might be true: it\u2019s much easier to not feel the effects when your physical surroundings are designed to repel the climate altogether (think: air conditioning).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, just like Jeremiah says, none of that means it isn\u2019t happening, out there. We can just look at the world around us to see the truth of this. In 2018 there were more than 17.2 million \u201cclimate migrants\u201d, people forced from their homes by natural disasters and climate change. This number could skyrocket to 143 million by 2050. 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