4 Ways COVID-19 Will Change Our World

Our world seems tossed about like an ocean liner on a raging sea. Where are we heading and who’s steering the ship?

It seems we’ve found our captains and they’re promising at least four ways they will use COVID-19 to change our world.

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On September 27, 2015, world leaders met in New York to sign an ambitious social covenant to change our world. The covenant is called, “Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”

Most people know it as “the New World Order.”

Agenda 2030 is a plan of action involving all countries and all stakeholders taking “bold and transformative steps” to “shift the world on to a sustainable and resilient path” by 2030.

Suddenly, we have COVID-19 and bold and transformative steps are changing our world at a rapid pace.

Here are four ways COVID-19 will change our world according to the July 2020 United Nations policy brief and other global policy influencers.

1 Wealth Redistribution

Wealth will flow from richer nations to poorer nations as investments targeting worldwide income inequality. Photo by Dazzle Jam on Pexels.com

The third item in Agenda 2030 addresses income inequality. It states, “We resolve, between now and 2030, to end poverty and hunger everywhere; to combat inequalities within and among countries . . . we resolve also to create conditions for sustainable, inclusive and sustained economic growth, shared prosperity and decent work for all, taking into account different levels of national development and capacities.”

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres emphasizes inequality will be the central feature of both short-term stimulus packages and long-term policy changes in post-COVID global recovery. Guterres insists policy changes will be instrumental in “accelerating progress towards universal health care.”

2 Worldwide Digitization

Investments will flow into Southeast Asia and other developing countries to bring the entire world into the digital age. Photo by Tyler Lastovich on Pexels.com

Why is there a coin shortage and some businesses refuse to accept cash? Why are we talking about contact tracing chips and mandatory COVID-19 vaccines?

The fifteenth item in Agenda 2030 promises to bring the entire world into the digital age: “The spread of information and communications technology and global interconnectedness has great potential to accelerate human progress, to bridge the digital divide and to develop knowledge societies, as does scientific and technological innovation across areas as diverse as medicine and energy.”

The July UN policy brief announces plans to bridge the digital divide across Southeast Asia “to ensure people and communities are not left behind in an increasingly digital world, where services and support are increasingly based on digital awareness, literacy and access.”

A report published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last week discusses the effects of digitization in India. Researchers report a surge in mobile money transfers- and the surge in mobile money transfers was enhanced by a targeted intervention program giving incentives for businesses to adopt a new, mobile payment economic model.

Is America being coerced to go cashless?

3 Green New Deals for Everybody

Green Energy investments will be a priority in COVID-19 economic recovery schemes. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

One of Agenda 2030’s top priorities is managing Earth’s natural resources. “We are determined to protect the planet from degradation, including through sustainable consumption and production, sustainably managing its natural resources and taking urgent action on climate change, so that it can support the needs of the present and future generations.”

Guterres sees COVID-19 as an opportunity “to embed long-term sustainability and inclusivity” in economic recovery plans throughout Southeast Asia. He also projects “scaling up green energy investments in decarbonizing economies.”

Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Club of Rome co-president, also wants to stop carbon-based investments. She recently said, “I’m convinced that going back to business as usual and bailing out high carbon-producing industries and hard-to-abate sectors (like the aviation sector, car manufactures, and the fossil fuel industry) is not the right path forward. The only path to follow is to stop investing in stranded assets- such as infrastructure that uses fossil fuel reserves- particularly coal, and instead, move on to building the decarbonized infrastructure that we need to meet our climate neutrality goals in Europe and the Paris Climate Agreement goals globally.”

4 Redefining Human Rights

Expect major social changes in the name of human rights. Photo by cottonbro on Pexels.com

It’s no secret the United Nations uses human rights issues to catalyze social changes.

Virtually every progressive change which claims to be grounded in human rights can be linked to the UN, including those linked to high-profile sports (such as the Washington Redskins name change), non-normative sexuality, borderless migration, and justification for abortion.

“Upholding human rights,” says Guterres, “remains an important bedrock.” As nations rebuild, the Secretary-general says the post-COVID recovery needs to include “respecting and fulfilling fundamental human rights and protecting civic space.”

COVID-19 brings healthcare to the forefront of human rights discussions, and it appears primed to be exploited. Guterres insists “a stronger rights-based approach needs to be integrated in national emergency and health emergency protocols.”

That announcement is particularly troubling when taken in the context of the development of worldwide vaccines. Will there be a vaccine mandate in order to get a healthcare passport to return to work or to engage in otherwise normal activities?

Agenda 2030 “envisions a world free of poverty, hunger, disease, and want, where all life can thrive.” How far will they go to force us to live disease-free?

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Is Earth Overpopulated?

Shock, sadness, deep concern, and a burning desire to set the record straight filled my soul as I read my ethics students’ discussion posts. The topic? Ethical considerations involving population and the environment.

I gave the assignment to find out what they’d learned the last two weeks. For most, it wasn’t much.

Frankly, I’m terrified by what I read because overpopulation and climate change are issues at the heart of secular humanists’ efforts to “save the world.”

One by one, these college students confessed they believe the world is overpopulated. In replies to their classmates’ posts they doubled-down. “The population of the world has been the leading issue in global warming,” wrote one student. “I agree putting a limit on how many children people have could reduce the overpopulation issue but this leads to other issues such as the question of freedoms,” replied another.

Another student wrote, “I agree the world is extremely over populated and something needs to be done to get it under control quickly.” Her recommendation? “A possible solution could be limiting the number of children that families are allowed to have or executing prisoners rather than keeping them on death row for years.”

Folks, something is seriously wrong when a generation of students believes the world is overpopulated.

Genesis 1:28 tells us, “Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it.” God repeated this command twice to Noah after the Flood.

Global overpopulation is not something with which the people of God ought to be concerned. The earth isn’t even close to being full. If you travel, you know there is plenty of space to move around. What we should be concerned with, however, is the world’s increasing anti-biblical bias.

We already see a growing hostility towards Christian beliefs and values. The Bible says in the last days the people “will be of one mind and give their authority and power to the beast, and the beast will make war against the Lamb . . . ” (Revelation 17:13-14)

At minimum Christians should be familiar with “the Gospel.” John 3:16 succinctly says: “For God so loved the world, he gave His only begotten son, that whosoever believes in Him should have everlasting life.”

Will the world’s war against God’s people be waged over two very different ideas about the salvation of the world?

“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” (Joshua 1:8)

I Ruined My Teen Nephew (And I’m Proud Of It)

“You ruined me. I don’t even want to go to school tomorrow.” I leaned forward, alarmed my words to my thirteen-year-old nephew might have been too frightening.

“You just told me the world is going to end. We’re screwed!” I glanced at my sister-in-law, whose wide eyes, tight lips, and tilted head told me I needed to fix this quickly. A quarter way through my chicken sandwich, I paused for a moment. Maybe this isn’t such a bad thing. Maybe we need to scare our kids.

We’d gathered at Chick-fil-A after an evening of bowling, and the conversation about the Corona virus arose. Paul, quiet inquisitive for his age, immediately impressed us with an interesting conspiracy theory. Amused by his thought process, I smiled as I recalled other conspiracy theories told by my college students.

Then I dropped the bomb which ruined his night. I told him I’d been teaching something similar all week. Whereas his conspiracy theory involved a questionable covert operation by Chinese operatives to reduce our population, I told him about a real plan to reduce world population.

I elbowed my fourteen-year-old. “Tell your cousin about the Georgia Guidestones.”

“Yeah, that was crazy!” my son exclaimed while I quickly scrolled through my phone to find pictures we took last fall.

“Read this.” I handed my phone to my nephew. “Read the top one.”

Georgia Guidestones, Elbert County, Georgia, USA

“Maintain humanity under 500 million in perpetual balance with nature.” He pushed half his meal aside as his appetite vanished.

“Did you know the current world population is over 7 and a half billion?” “What do you think that means?”

Before he could answer, I quickly gave another example. “My classes have to write a paper based on an interview Jacques Cousteau gave to the UNESCO Courier in November, 1991.” The underwater pioneer Jacques Cousteau hosted the popular television series, The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, which entertained awe-struck audiences of all ages from 1968-1975. “Do you remember him?” I asked his startled mother. She did.

“Cousteau traveled all over the world,” I explained to the teens, “and in this interview he said the biggest problem facing the world is overpopulation. He said that in 1991, while the population was much smaller than it is today.”

I continued. “Cousteau went on to say he believed the world’s population should be capped at 700 million.” My family stared at me, their expressions a mixture of horror and disbelief.

“What’s that got to do with the Corona virus?”

“I’ll tell you what Jacques Cousteau might think. He would say eliminating suffering and disease might actually jeopardize our species. In the interview with UNESCO he said, ‘It’s terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day.'”

Seizing the moment, I peered into my nephew’s wide-open eyes, almost staring into his soul. “You know what’s even scarier? The Bible talks about a drastic reduction in world population during the last days.”

“Ever heard of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?” My terrified nephew’s long face reminded me of the pale horse.

“Those represent God’s judgments upon Earth in the last days. One of those judgments is the pale horse, who has power to kill a quarter of the earth’s population.”

I rolled through my speech like I’d done so many times before with my classes. “What were those ‘ideal’ population numbers again? 500-700 million? And we’re at 7.5 billion? Somebody wants to kill off a bunch of people, and the Bible says a bunch of people will be killed off.” What do you think will happen?

Walking to our cars, my nephew was visibly upset. “You’ve ruined me,” he repeated. “I need a Bible. I need to sleep on a stack of Bibles!”

“No,” I smiled. His comments warmed my heart. “I didn’t ruin you. I set you free from the fear and gave you hope. Go seek God, who tells you the rest of the story and offers hope. That’s the Gospel story- the hope for humanity: ‘For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.'”

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Knowing God is Key to Solving Climate Crisis

Knowing God is key to solving the climate crisis. If we want to know what God is like, we need to go the primary source.

Knowing God: A Lesson from Job

The book of Job is counted among the books of Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon as wisdom literature. But why? The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge and Job’s story is an epic poem that revolves around the knowledge of God.

As Christians, we’re attuned to the covenant idea of blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience. Ironically, this was where Job’s friends spoke wrongly about God. And that angered God. Whereas Job’s friends understood the concept of cause and effect, blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, God is not confined to such a manipulative mechanical construct. They knew some things about Him, but they did not know Him.

The modern church has the same problem. Too many Christians know about God, but don’t know God.

Job lived far beyond what most people could count as a righteous life. Yet God allowed him to be cursed. Was this fair? Should he have just cursed God and died as his wife suggested?

As Job’s story unfolds, we discover the main idea of the epic isn’t about who God chooses to bless or curse, but is about knowing who God is. We also discover God is angry with Job’s friends because they said things about God that were not true. That should make every well-meaning Christian pause for reflection.

Mankind’s original sin involved believing things about God that were not true. Notice how Satan manipulated the knowledge of God. First, he caused doubt about God’s logic: “Did God really say . . . ?” Then Satan contradicted God’s words: “Surely you will not die.” Finally, Satan convinced Adam and Eve they could determine for themselves what is Good or Evil: “You can be godlike, knowing Good and Evil.” They were deceitful words; they misrepresented God, and they had unimaginable consequences.

Job’s story warns us against saying anything that is not true about God. Mankind is not like God; our ways are not God’s ways and our thoughts are not His thoughts. What seems logical to man may be contrary to God.

Knowing God is particularly relevant for what may be the biggest global issue the world has ever faced: man-caused climate change.

Population Control

In 1991, the French underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau was interviewed by the UNESCO Courier for an issue themed mankind’s impact on the environment. Cousteau believed Earth’s biggest problem was human overpopulation. The human population, he thought, was like cancer to the world’s resources. “Our society is geared to increasingly useless consumption. It’s a vicious circle which I compare to a cancer.”

Cousteau calculated the world’s population should be maintained at a maximum of 700 million. That 700 million cap, he believed, would ensure everyone could enjoy the lifestyle of the typical American living in the mid-1980s. At the time, Earth’s population was 4 billion.

“It’s terrible to say this,” Cousteau said. “World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn’t even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable.”

Cousteau discussed his findings with an acquaintance at the University of Southern California. His acquaintance had done a similar study and concluded Cousteau’s numbers were generous, considering his sustainable population estimate was much lower.

Cousteau didn’t reveal his acquaintance’s estimate, but the Georgia Guidestones, anonymously erected on a rural farm in Georgia in 1980, calls for a world population limit of 500 million. Like Cousteau, the Georgia Guidestones also likens humanity to cancer on the Earth: “Be not a cancer on the Earth- leave room for nature- leave room for nature.” 

Georgia Guidestones

If you aren’t alarmed yet, consider many of our younger generations are convinced human interaction on the environment could result in an apocalyptic demise for humanity.

More plainly, many of our young people believe obedience to God’s command to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and use it is unsustainable- the cause of our own demise. Worse, they believe population control is vital to averting a global disaster. Among Christians, population control tactics such as abortion are being normalized. The church must take a decisive stand now. Too many young Christians believe the lie Earth is already overpopulated.

What Seems Logical to Man May Be Contrary to God

Did God really say in Genesis 1:26, “be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and use it”? Yes, He did.

Therefore, it’s a dangerous thing for Christians to promote population control. As the climate debate intensifies and the world grows more contentious against God, let’s step back and heed the lesson of Job: Speak only what is right about God.

The Truth About Climate Change

How should Christians approach climate change and population control issues?

The Bible has a lot to say about these issues. We know the earth was cursed as part of the Fall. We also know enmity was established between the seed of the woman and Satan. From this curse, Satan has attacked children ever since. Cain killed Abel, Pharaoh killed the Hebrew children when Moses was a child, Herod killed all the male children two years and younger, pagan deities required child sacrifice, Hitler exterminated millions of Jews, and today Planned Parenthood is a globalized baby-killing network funded greatly by American taxpayers. The enmity between Satan and the seed of the woman has only intensified through time.

It’s time for the church to acknowledge humanity’s actions are leading to an apocalyptic climate and population disaster. Isaiah 24 is a sharp warning from God about a dreadful coming judgment upon the world. A careful reading of the chapter reveals the earth mourns and fades away; it languishes; it is defiled because of its inhabitants. As a result, the earth “shall be like the shaking of an olive tree,” and “the earth is violently broken, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall totter like a hut; its transgression shall be heavy upon it, and it will fall, and not rise again.”

What have we done? Did our carbon emissions cause this? Will a Green New Deal or a globalized government save us? No! God says, “The earth is defiled under its inhabitants because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, and broken the everlasting covenant. We’ve abandoned God’s natural order and created a new one- one that replaces God and redefines Good and Evil.

Humanity’s True Hope is Knowing God

Humanity’s hope won’t be found in reduced resource production and consumption or population reduction. Our hope lies where it always has been: in knowing God.

What the Bible Says About Climate Change

By Doug Carter

Climate Change and Fossils

I’m fascinated by fossils and what they can tell us about our world. Two weeks ago I traveled to the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville to view the world’s largest fossilized stromatolite cap.

Stromatolite at the Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville, Virginia

Stromatolites are masses of algae mixed with sediment and typically form in tidal areas of warm tropical seas. If climate change isn’t real, stromatolites like this one shouldn’t be found in a rock quarry at the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

In 2018 I walked across a fossilized coral reef in the Ohio River at Falls of the Ohio State Park in Clarksville, Indiana.

Exposed Fossilized Coral Reef in the Ohio River, Falls of the Ohio State Park, Clarksville, Indiana

I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume most people can agree coral reefs should not be found along the Indiana and Kentucky border. It’s too cold and there’s no ocean even imaginatively close by. The only logical explanation of these two fossilized sites is if climate change is real.

Coral Fossils, Falls of the Ohio State Park, Clarksville, Indiana

So how did they get there? Scientists believe the earth’s continents were once connected as a giant supercontinent called Pangaea. As some point, Pangaea was divided as rifts formed to separate what is now North America from Africa. The Atlantic Ocean now fills a giant rift between the two continents.

Does the Bible have anything to say about Pangaea? I believe it does. “In the days of Peleg, the son of Eber, the earth was divided.” (Genesis 10:25; 1 Chronicles 1:19) A second geneaolgical list in Genesis shows in that time period, over approximately 250 years, something catastrophic occurred on earth. The lifespans of Eber and the older generation were approximately 400 or more years, while the lifespans of Peleg and the younger generations was approximately 250 years or less. (Genesis 11:10-26) Could this mark the time of the splitting of Pangaea and be the cause of a mass extinction? Could this be what scientists call the Kellwasser or Hangenbeg events attributed to the demise of the Devonian period?

Devonian-era Tribolite fossil, Falls of the Ohio State Park, Clarksville, Indiana. Nickel for scale.

Climate Change and Government Intervention

Since the 1960’s, we’ve been told man-caused cause climate change is a threat to our existence. Richard Falk’s This Endangered Planet: Prospects and Proposals for Human Survival (1972), was the first time I heard about the devastating potential of man’s impact on our world.

As a seminary student, I encountered the topic again. While browsing the third-floor stacks of the campus library, a report published by the World Bank of the United Nations on how to deal with the environmental crisis caught my eye. Something about the report didn’t seem right. I recall the World Bank calling for government intervention and the creation of an environmental awareness campaign to educate the public about the dangers of man-caused climate change. I sneered with disgust as I re-shelved the report. “Did God create a world He can’t sustain?”

Within years, I recognized the first fruits of the World Bank’s environmental awareness campaign. Sustainable Development efforts popped up around the world. Many of those efforts were great: villages received clean water and power; children gained access to education; medical care expanded. I also heard more about man-caused climate change and how it would affect population. But what I didn’t hear much about until the last several months is the connection between climate change and population reduction.

Erected while the world’s population was approximately 4 billion, the Georgia Guidestones call for the world’s population to be maintained under 500 million people in order to be balanced with nature. We have nearly 7.6 billion people today.

Should We Multiply or Reduce World Population?

The idea of population control is organic to the idea preventing man-caused climate change. If mankind’s production and consumption habits are the source of climate change, it makes sense to limit the number of humans available to produce and consume. It’s simple: less people equals less impact on the environment. It’s one thing to suggest controlling population in areas limited by geography and resource availability, but population reduction involves unparalleled evil.

This is where man-cause climate change theory unravels. If man-caused climate change theory is right, God must be wrong.

From the beginning, God gave mankind the mandate to “fill the earth and have dominion over it.” (Genesis 1:28) Since Adam and Eve didn’t fill the earth, nor did their children, nor their grandchildren we can be certain God’s mandate was given to all humanity.

When sin entered the world, the world became cursed. Part of that curse involved the earth, and part of it involved the establishment of enmity between the serpent, Satan, and the seed of the woman, her children.

Since that time, evil set its heart on destroying children. Cain killed Abel; Pharaoh killed the Hebrew children during Moses’ infancy; Herod killed the male children two years old and younger; we know at least some pagan cultures sacrificed children to idols.

As history shows, the mark of an evil regime is to kill children. We now kill ours before and after they’ve been born, calling it a woman’s right. This is a gross evil that carries dire consequences for our entire nation. For the love of God, it must stop.

The Bible and Climate Change

Nothing ever catches God by surprise, not even this radical, progressive attempt to undermine God’s sovereignty over His creation.

3,000 years ago, the prophet Isaiah predicted man-caused climate change and population reduction. “The earth staggers like a drunken man; it sways like a hut,” he says, and it will be because of mankind. “The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer their guilt; therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left.” (Isaiah 24)

I’m confident mankind will be responsible for the demise of the planet and progressives will get their wish for drastic population reduction. Do I believe we need to eat our babies to prevent the world from ending in eight years? No. Do I believe research suggests rising seas may erase major coastal cities by 2050? Of course not. But I do believe a global catastrophe is inevitable.

The planet’s demise only happens because mankind rebels against God, not because we obey God.

Genuine repentance and a return to God is our only hope for a sustainable future.

In defiance of science

By Robert Knight

For years, the left has claimed to be the party of science, while casting religious conservatives as ignorant, superstitious louts. But evidence is mounting that it’s the other way around, and has been for some time.

After all, who are the ones claiming that we should ignore biology and redefine a man as a woman if he feels like it?

Who still claims, despite graphic ultrasound evidence that a growing human being in a womb is a baby, that because we don’t really know, we can dispose of it?

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