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Originally Posted by OBW
So it is hard to insist that "Job reveals" what is virtually hidden in the closet.
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Last night we had a discussion on Climate Change. I think Job reveals a lot about how this will play out and this theory is supported by how countless other man made catastrophes played out in human history.
Jesus said that you can't plunder the strong man's house until the strong man is bound. With that principle in mind doing something about climate change is going to plunder the Oil Industries house. This will not happen until the Oil industry is bound. Since the Oil industry is fully linked to the stock market this suggests that the stock market must first collapse in order to "bind" the powers that be, which then allows for the significant revolution involved in "plundering" this oil based economy. So then, instead of people concluding "hey we need to change" and having the world's economy make an elegant leap to a sustainable economy with little or no collateral damage what is much more likely is that it will be an extremely catastrophic change.
However, this is a good thing and that is what the book of Job reveals. Consider this idea that man incorporates in a way that trades the geochemical health of the atmosphere for personal gain is similar to a "virus". So, just as other viruses wiped out indigenous Indians and polynesians when they were first exposed, it didn't kill 100%, rather the numbers were somewhere in the 90% range. Seems horrific, but then the survivors are now immune to this disease and they confer this immunity to their offspring. Now this process has occurred repeatedly through human history, each time leaving the horror of a plague where "we all fall down". Even so, today is anyone lamenting the shortage of humans? Lack of human population does not seem to be a problem that I am aware of anywhere on this planet.
So yes, the results of Climate change may be horrific, perhaps 90% of the population in the developed world may be wiped out, but the benefit is that we may come through this experience immune to this virus of the modern corporation and their profit motive.