{"id":894,"date":"2009-11-29T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=894"},"modified":"2009-11-29T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T10:15:00","slug":"babylon-at-the-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=894","title":{"rendered":"Babylon at the gates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeremiah is the prophet for our times<\/a> – he is the one who warned Judah that having the Temple wouldn’t save them from the armies of Nebuchadnezzar, and that the people of Israel had to return to the living God.<\/p>\n

We don’t have a literal army encamped around our civilisation (not yet anyway) but we can see the dimensions of the forces which will destroy our way of life – in sum, the Limits to Growth<\/a>. In so far as our civilisation is based upon the physical growth of our economy, then so far will it cease in the foreseeable future. How far in the future? I don’t know, but I feel that our civilisation is like St Sebastian<\/a> and the first arrows have already hit.<\/p>\n

I wanted to say this because it puts my comments about AGW<\/a> in their proper context. In particular, I feel that much of the sturm und drang<\/span> about climate change is a displacement activity. It is as if Jeremiah spent his time shoring up the defences of Jerusalem. That time has come and gone my friend.<\/a> Which is why my thoughts these days are more along the lines of ‘Why bother saving the planet?<\/a>‘<\/p>\n

We have our instructions and commands and we know what it is that the Lord requires of us. If we pursue that path then the Lord’s patience will be our salvation: “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7.14)
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