Happy Earth Day - But When?

You will see it in your social media news feed around April 22nd every year – it’s Happy Earth Day!

Earth Day is promoted by an environmentalist group Earth Day Network. It appears to be part of the Green movement – one which has New Age religious overtones. One of its partners is Interfaith Power & Light. (Religious organizations such as the Vatican etc are promoting it as well)

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In 1970, the year of our first Earth Day, the movement gave voice to an emerging consciousness, channeling human energy toward environmental issues.

Reading Tolkien’s book The Hobbit as an inner city dwelling kid re-ignited my passion for trees and an untouched country. Tolkien’s book The Lord of The Rings even drew interest from the earth-loving hippie culture back in the 60s. Everyone dreamed of a wonderful land unspoiled and untainted from the industrial revolution. Middle-earth was that world for many of us, hippy or not.

I still love the idea of a fresh “Middle-earth” country – a Garden of Eden on the earth. But I know that man’s “consciousness” or “energy” cannot bring it about. Moreover, neither the earth nor creation will be happy until Christ returns.

Here are some examples of what Scripture tells us:

Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness; tremble before Him, all the earth. Say among the nations: “The LORD reigns. The world is firmly established; it cannot be shaken. He judges the peoples fairly.”

Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea and all that fills it resound. Let the fields and everything in them exult. Then all the trees of the forest will shout for joy before the LORD, for He is coming – for He is coming to judge the earth.

He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with His faithfulness.

Psalm 96:9-13

Shout to the LORD, all the earth; be jubilant, shout for joy, and sing. Sing to the LORD with the lyre, with the lyre and melodious song. With trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn shout triumphantly in the presence of the LORD, our King.

Let the sea and all that fills it, the world and those who live in it, resound. Let the rivers clap their hands; let the mountains shout together for joy before the LORD, for He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world righteously and the peoples fairly.

Psalm 98:4-9

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us. For the creation eagerly waits with anticipation for God’s sons to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to futility – not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it – in the hope that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of corruption into the glorious freedom of God’s children. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together with labor pains until now. And not only that, but we ourselves who have the Spirit as the firstfruits– we also groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for adoption, the redemption of our bodies. Rom 8:18-23

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea existed no longer. Rev 21:1

Then the One seated on the throne said, “Look! I am making everything new.” He also said, “Write, because these words are faithful and true.” Rev 21:5

Our love for the earth should not give way to setting it up as an idol in place of God. His word reveals that even creation groans and longs for the Lord’s return and the revealing of the sons of God. Then heaven and earth will be renewed.

Then, and only then, will the earth be happy.

Come quickly, LORD.