Global Warming,
Tornadoes And Hurricanes
Is Global Warming Causing
Increased Tornadoes and Hurricanes?
by JACK WELLMAN
Is there enough evidence to prove Global Warming?
If
so, is Global Warming causing an increase in tornadoes and hurricanes?
Is
the increase in tornadoes within the past years due to this perceived or real
trend of Global Warming?
Global Warming – Fact or Fiction
Everyone by now has heard of Global Warming. Many are
sure that it is happening.
Others
see this as a normal, cyclical event not tied to human activities like industry
and cattle farming.
What
are the facts behind Global Warming?
I
live in what is called Tornado Alley in Kansas. On one day alone, of all
days, April 15th, 2012, there were 97 tornadoes reported in the state. That’s
97 tornadoes in one day in one state!
Kansas
averages 57 tornadoes a year but on one day alone it was almost double the
average number of tornadoes for a year and in fact in less than a day, 13
hours.
Ironically,
as I wrote this, there were 5 tornado warnings on my radar screen on the
Internet with two south of us and three west of us moving east-northeast.
Kansas
averages 57 tornadoes in an entire year and as of this date, still in the
spring, we have already had 168!
People are beginning to ask, “What is happening!”
Good
question. Is it attributable to Global Warming? Is Global Warming even
true or is the weather in the world cyclical?
In
the last two years, the number of destructive tornadoes has ballooned to all
time highs and records seem to be set each and every year.
A
more important question here is if there is a connection to our weather and Bible prophecy?
Ezekiel 13:13 sounds ominously close to what
is happening around the world today, “Therefore this is what the Sovereign
Lord says: In my wrath I will unleash a violent wind, and in my anger
hailstones and torrents of rain will fall with destructive fury.”
This
was a prophecy against Israel primarily because of the many false prophets
prophesying falsely in that day.
Is
there any connection between the hundreds of false gospels being spouted by
false ministers who are actually preaching a false gospel and the weather
catastrophes of today?
Paul warned of these shepherd dressed in
wolves clothing in 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, “For such people are false apostles,
deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan
himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his
servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what
their actions deserve.”
Does God Cause Catastrophes?
In Job 38:1 God actually spoke out of the “whirlwind”
which appears to be a tornado (called a cyclone in some parts of the
world).
God gave Ezekiel a prophecy that sounds
strangely close to what is happening today in 30:1-3, “The word of the Lord
came again to me saying, ‘Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord
God, Wail, Alas for the day! For the day is near, Even the day of the Lord
is near; It will be a day of clouds,A time of doom for the nations. A
sword will come upon Egypt, And anguish will be in Ethiopia; When the slain
fall in Egypt, They take away her wealth, And her foundations are torn down.’”
Would
God not doom in the clouds to
Egypt and not do the same thing to the nations of the world that forget
Him?
Ezekiel also wrote in 32:8, “’All
the shining lights in the heavens. I will darken over you. And will set
darkness on your land,’ Declares the Lord God.”
There
are droughts that are also simultaneously occurring around the globe and what
were the causes of droughts in the Old Testament prophecies?
In Deuteronomy 28:23-24, droughts were seen
as judgment of God from a
nation’s failure to obey His laws, “The sky over your head will be
bronze, the ground beneath you iron. The Lord will turn the rain of your
country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are
destroyed.”
This
sounds a lot like the Dust Bowl of the Great Plains in the 1930’s. Where
floods occur in one area, droughts often occur in others.
Even
Jesus Himself warned of such weather upheavals prior to His return.
In Luke 21:25, He said that there “will
be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish
and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.”
Indeed, we are already seeing “great
earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and
great signs from heaven” (Luke 21:11).
The Last Days
Jesus gave the longest prophecy about the time of the end
of the age in what is called the Olivet Discourse recorded in Matthew 24 and
25.
Just
reading this shows that we could very well be living in the last days – the
days just prior to Christ’s Second Advent.
Jesus’
disciples, after walking out of the Temple and bragging on just how magnificent
it was, asked Jesus two questions.
One
question concerned the Temple and when it would be destroyed - it was
eventually destroyed in A.D. 70.
The
disciples’ second question concerned His return to earth. Jesus commenced to
give the longest answer to this question found anywhere in the Bible.
In
Matthew 24, He gave some of the signs that would occur just before He
returned.
In
Matthew 24:4-8 are some of the first signs.
And Jesus “answered: ‘Watch
out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, I
am the Messiah, and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of
wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the
end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All
these are the beginning of birth pains.’”
Today we have no shortage of false messiahs
and some even proclaim that they are Jesus Christ Himself. There are wars,
rumors of wars, famines, and earthquakes but these are just “the
beginning of birth pains.”
Jesus continued in Matthew 24:11-14 saying
that “many
false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of
wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but the one who stands firm to the
end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the
whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.”
Once
again, we have seen the love of many grow cold, false prophets abound, and the
gospel has been preached around the globe, even though not everyone has heard
it yet.
But notice that Jesus did not say everyone would hear the gospel but that the gospel “would be preached in
the whole world and then the end will come.”
Today
with the Internet and satellites, the gospel has penetrated into the whole
world.
In Matthew 24:29-31 Jesus gives a final
warning that, “Immediately after the distress of
those days“ ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’
“Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man
in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the
Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory, And he
will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect
from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.”
Jesus
is now talking about the heavens and the earth, the moon and the stars
(meteorites?) being shaken.
That
is when the sign of the Son of Man comes and when all of the elect are to be
gathered to Himself.
This time is unknown to us as even Jesus said, “about
that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but
only the Father” (Matthew
24:36).
Be Ready
We need to seriously heed Jesus’ final warnings to those
who believe they are Christian but are not truly regenerated by the Holy
Spirit.
I beg you to take seriously Jesus’ warning in
Matthew 7:21-23 that “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord,
Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of
my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did
we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name
perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away
from me, you evildoers!”
How
heartbreaking that will be.
Many who thought that they were good
people, who did a lot of good things thinking that they were going to
heaven, will hear instead, “depart from me” for “I
never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers.”
Away
they will go into outer darkness and forever be separated from God. Many
who thought they were going to heaven will have the worst news they could ever
hear.
The
signs of Christ’s return are everywhere; in false preachers and their false gospels, in natural
catastrophes, in the love of many growing cold, in the anti-Christian bias, in
growing anti-Semitism.
And as they were saying in Peter’s day, “They
will say, ‘Where is this coming he promised? Ever since our fathers died,
everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation’” (2 Peter 3:4).
Today,
skepticism over Jesus’ return is at an all time high. But listen, you have the
power to choose life or to choose death.
Today
is still the day of salvation (2 Corinthians
6:2).
Tomorrow
may be too late. If you were to die tonight in your sins, you would be
lost forever.
There
is no need for this. Come now and
place your trust in the Savior today while it is still called today.
Believe
in the Lord Jesus Christ and place your faith in Him and you will be saved …
come hell or high water.
There
is nothing more sure in this world than that. That is my prayer for you at
this very moment.
Resources: New International Version Bible (NIV)
THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION
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