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Monday, April 19, 2010
Avoid This Observance!

By Jan Markell
Olive Tree Ministries

What kind of theology could attract a half-billion people from 180 countries? Nearly every school in North America will observe this day. Churches will emphasize it all week. Some of you will probably bow out of the hoopla April 22, but tens of millions won't. They insist on bowing down to "Mother Earth" on Earth Day.

Sen. Gaylord Nelson got this launched forty years ago, and you would think with that kind of long history, more would have figured out that church participation in the event is an outrage. In keeping with the tide of the 1960s, he first called it a "National Environmental Teach-In."

All movements and campaigns have their own "bible." For the Earth Day crowd the 1970 book The Environmental Handbook, is their guide. The book states that each tree and stream has its own guardian spirit. And Christianity is hugely at fault for environmental woes. They think we believe that it is God's will to exploit nature (p. 20-21). Thanks to Christianity, we will see a worsening ecological crisis (p. 25). The book also says, "No technical solution can rescue us from the misery of overpopulation. Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all. The only way we can preserve more precious freedoms is by relinquishing the freedom to breed." (p.49, Garrett Hardin). That's called population control. Just like the global warming crowd, they want a whole lot of us to go away.

On page 324, the book promotes polygamy and group marriage. It pushes for a "revolution of consciousness" and enlightenment while praising Gnostics, hip Marxists, Teilhard de Chardin Catholics, druids, Taoists, witches, Yogins, Bhikkus, Quakers, Sufis, Tibetans, Zens, Shamans, Bushmen, American Indians, Polynesians, anarchists, and alchemists. (p. 331).

But here's the worst news. Take a look at the sacred earth prayer found in this book:

"Mother, Father, God, Universal Power - remind us daily of the sanctity of all life. Touch our hearts with the glorious oneness of all creation as we strive to respect all the living beings on this planet. Penetrate our souls with the beauty of this earth, as we attune ourselves to the rhythm and flow of the seasons. Awaken our minds with the knowledge to achieve a world in perfect harmony and grant us the wisdom to realize that we can have heaven on earth."
So why are evangelicals lured into this? The direct reference to "Mother Earth," "Heaven on earth," and prayer to a "Universal Power," should be huge red flags that "Earth Day" and some related ecology events are pagan events to be shunned. Instead, we have Web sites representing evangelicals who are promoting this big time. One is "Blessed Earth: Serving God and Saving the Planet." According to the Bible, we are to be good stewards of the Earth, but we cannot save it. Only God can.

The Bible says, "For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs" (Romans 8:22) as it waits Earth's real liberation - the return of Christ. I guess we "end-times watchers" continually mess up various agendas, including honoring the cause of the "Blessed Earth."

One Christian ecology site states, "I found God's Holy Spirit is convicting and calling Christians from all over the world to repent for the damage we have done, and to care for God's Earth." The "Blessed Earth" site folks want us to "wake up on Earth Day with a whole new spirit of serving God and saving the planet." But why are Christians being asked to unite with the darkness represented in some of the above-mentioned statements? Aren't we supposed to separate from them?

In the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) March e-newsletter, the leadership encourages us to participate in the "Blessed Earth" activities, including the "Blessed Earth" live Web cast on April 21.

The Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) has a wide source of Bible studies based on saving the planet from environmental destruction. I maintain we need Bible studies on saving people from eternal destruction.

Then we have the Green Bible. It boasts that there are twice as many Bible references about Earth as there are about Heaven! I can't make things like this up! It has testimonials by spiritual giants Brian McLaren and Desmond Tutu.

Make no mistake that "Earth Day" does represent a "religion." It is the religion of "Mother Earth". This is not a kind of faith that evangelicals have paid much attention to until the last 15 years.

God cares about the creation and does not want Christians or anyone else abusing it. His care didn't stop after six days. It says in Psalm 104: 5 and 24, that,"You set the earth on its foundations, so that it shall never be shaken - O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures."

The command that human beings are given to steward or manage the Earth is both a huge privilege and a great responsibility. It carries with it immense power for good or evil.

Creation is something good. It reflects the goodness and character of God. He made it. He loves it. We need to treat it properly. But what I am reading makes "creation care" the number one issue on which some organizations wish us to focus. Nowhere on creation care sites do I read of evangelism programs or how to grow in the faith. I see only the exaltation of the planet and how we must intervene lest it destroy itself, or worse yet, mankind destroys it.

I close with wise words from Berit Kjos:
"I wanted to be part of God's team of Earth stewards who helped take care of His creation. I still do. But finding like-minded team members in our fast-changing culture has become complicated. The beliefs and practices associated with ecology stray far beyond biblical bounds - even in the church. My first exposure to unbiblical environmentalism under the banner of Christianity came in 1990. I had driven to a mainline church some distance from my home to see how God's people would celebrate Earth Day. Watching the worship, I wondered if the Creator Himself would have been welcome. At one point, the members of the youth group stepped forward to present their offerings."

One stated, "I bring to our Mother, the Earth, the gift of a new beginning..."
Kjos concludes,
"The congregation responded to this strange ritual with a standing ovation. Did these people know whom they worshiped? Had environmental concern swung church doors wide open to paganism? Could this really be happening in a supposedly conservative church?"
The pains on the earth stem from the Fall in the Garden. We are waiting for Him to solve the problem of the global curse with His return. In the meantime, let's be the best stewards of the Earth that we can be
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Never observed it and never will!

I observed it for about 5 mins.... went to a site that gives the history of Earth Day, and found a big blurb about Global Warming..... in Iceland, where the glacier is melting faster than usual..
Hey! Can there be volcanic activity below the ice in Iceland? Hahahahahahahahahahha! Maybe if we give all the cattle on the Earth today 'gas-ex', we can expect "change!?"
I believe a National Day Of Prayer is more important than Earth Day...... but then, I could be arrested for observing something "unconstitutional."
I'm going to vote for David Barton from "Wall Builders" whenever I get the chance. He seems to be one of a very few who teaches the truth about our Founding Fathers, and the corruption found within our highest courts that are "supposedly" protecting our Constitution.

I remember when this garbage was first introduced (on my 13th birthday no less). I was honked this "earth worship" was on my birthday. I remember we got some book in school--called "the environment handbook" or something like that. The first chapter, if I recall correctly was nothing more than blaming CHRISTIANITY for all the worlds ills--and how this was a bad "religion". Pure garbage--which is funny--since the entire phony idea of this nonsense was to get rid of garbage.

My wife is always curious as to why I resist "environmental" things. I keep telling her (she never had this mess in school apparently or never thought about it like I had) because I suspect it has it's ideas meshed in some Neo-Marxists tripe. I know it sounds like some conspiracy nonsense saying this--but this "green movement" are still yelling the same mantras as I heard when I was a kid and what was in this book. The bottomline is to reduce (murder) the population, get rid of Christ in all societies and worship in a pagan means (i.e., worship anything but the truth of Christ). After all, this is what Lenin and Marxist advocated--as they considered "religion as an opiate for the masses".

No one disagrees in living in a clean and beautiful environment. However, that's not the intent--it's the catalyst and excuse to enslave the individual--to destroy industrial capacity to leave the populace in horrible poverty--thus making the person dependent on the government (because you'll do a lot and anything you're told to do for a crumb of food when you're starving--something that feudal England, the European fascists and Slavic Marxist understood very well).

But rejoice! Attacks on Christianity (while other so called religions are not) are verification that Jesus is who He says He is! Satan and man, through his influence, will only attack what is a real threat to him. This, to me, is more confirmation that Jesus is real and who He says He is--because no other "religion" is attacked like Jesus is (in other words, why bother?? You only attack what is real and is true otherwise you're wasting your time). So rejoice brothers and sisters that you're serving the real God and have put your faith in His most worthy sacrifice--Jesus! The world even declares the truth with it's hate and attacks against the Lamb of God!

This 'earth day' is a religion...

It's the 'New Age Religion' ,and they want to save the earth for themselves...

However, people like Al Gore, is just in the lies for $$$$

I turned on one of my local Contempary Christian radio stations,and they were worshipping 'Earth Day.'

It's everywhere,and it's pure sin to even acknowledge 'Earth Day.'

The damage to our children, as they are taught this garabe, which they need to go back to the Bible as an elective...

Jeani wrote:This 'earth day' is a religion...

It's the 'New Age Religion' ,and they want to save the earth for themselves...

However, people like Al Gore, is just in the lies for $$$$

I turned on one of my local Contempary Christian radio stations,and they were worshipping 'Earth Day.'

It's everywhere,and it's pure sin to even acknowledge 'Earth Day.'

The damage to our children, as they are taught this garabe, which they need to go back to the Bible as an elective...

God tube or tangel video sent me a video in observance of earthday. Boy, What a deception!

Jeani wrote:
However, people like Al Gore, is just in the lies for $$$$

It always amused me that Gore purchased a multi-million dollar condo right on the off the coast in San Francisco a couple of years ago when, according to Gore, it would be "gobbled" up by the ocean one of these days because of all the melting polar caps. Now who would do this if they thought the ocean would swallow up a multi-million dollar property/investment?? I would think he'd be building a place on top of Mt. Everest--could it be he's been lying all this time and doesn't really believe in what he's "selling"? LOL!!

The Science of Global Warming is much like the Science of Evolution...... There is another Science of The Lemmings, who follow each other in a mad dash to hurdle themselves off the clifs into the sea..... Explain that one to Animal Rights activists! LOL!

Servant wrote:The Science of Global Warming is much like the Science of Evolution...... There is another Science of The Lemmings, who follow each other in a mad dash to hurdle themselves off the clifs into the sea..... Explain that one to Animal Rights activists! LOL!

I still wanna know what happened to the "Ice Age"? Those Fred Flintstone SUVs emissions melted everything? Mastodon toots? Man cannot and will not be able to control climate--that's God's department.


Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble--evil carbon emitters driving their bourgeois SUV. Note the murdered animal skins they're wearing. They're also over-weight which means they're using too many resources! They are the evil causes of why our Ice Age has disappeared! For they and their ilk have changed the climate!! Quick! We need a UN resolution and global taxes to make it all go away!

LO!, Fred! ...and those poor trees who were cut down to make Bowling Pins! I'm gonna have to make a steel roof for my yurt when the sky falls in 2012