Climate Change

Christians who are concerned about climate change need to understand that it is part of the spiritual battle that we are engaged in. The battle for the climate is described in the Seven Trumpets of Revelation 8 and 9. I explain this further in an article called Seven Trumpets.

God has appointed four angels to watch the earth and its atmosphere to protect it from being harmed prior to the fulness of the Kingdom of God (Rev 7:1-2).

An army of evil spirits is trying to destroy God’s creation because they hate him. In the last century, they have been empowered by the reckless use of fossil fuels and rampant consumerism of Christians, particularly in the western world.

When God’s people fail to care for the world that God entrusted to us, the spiritual powers of evil who want to destroy it are empowered. The damage done to our climate in the last 200 years is partly the result of Christian’s unwitting complicity with the spiritual powers of evil who are trying to disrupt it.

Followers of Jesus have an important role in this spiritual battle for the climate. Our prayers can bind the spiritual powers of evil trying to harm the world and release the power of the four angels that God’s angels who are protecting the earth (Rev 8:3,4). However, we only have authority to pray for the creation if we are being good stewards of the part of the earth that God has entrusted to us.

If we are using the earth ruthlessly for our own benefit without caring about the harm our activity is doing, the authority of our prayers will be nullified. The spiritual powers of evil can mock us and say they don’t respect the authority of the prayers of people who don’t practice what they preach.