The children of God cry out to Him within devastating circumstances.

Joel 1:19-20

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“I call out to You, O Lord; for fire has consumed the grasslands, and a blaze has scorched all the trees in the land. The beats of the field also cry out to You, for the streams have dried up, and fire has consumed the grasslands.” Joel 1:19-20

Traits of psychopathy pervades the world, showing little regard for humans, animals, or the environment. The thing that dictates people’s feelings, thoughts, words, and actions replaces the human conscience. It allows the image of the beast to animate through people in words and deeds and they disrespect God as the Creator of all. People around the world conform to the anti-Christian global culture as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by their words and deeds.

Traits of psychopathy includes egocentric behaviors that make people feel powerful and superior over God’s creation, including people, animals, the planet, and God Himself. They do not feel any accountability to God for the social and environmental damage happening in the world. They attribute the world’s problems to science and other factors, but not their own actions. Without any sense of guilt or remorse, they are not able to acknowledge that they are sinners who need Jesus Christ for the remission of sin to restore their relationship with God, the Creator of all. They manipulate, exploit, control, and mock the Holy Spirit instead of welcoming Him to improve God’s creation through Jesus Christ. They lack empathy for God’s creation, whether it is people, animals, or the planet as the world fills with lawlessness and anti-social behavior.

This section of Joel corresponds to the Third and Fourth Plagues in Revelation 16, the Fifth Seal in Revelation 6, and the First and Third Trumpets in Revelation 8.

Before our Lord Jesus Christ comes back, the earth will face huge fires, animal suffering, and water shortages. The earth and its people will not have enough water to survive. We can already see how global warming makes wildfires worse. This makes it hard to protect, feed, keep cool, and water animals. Global warming is linked to the global government of the beast. The more powerful the United Nations gets as the one world government, the hotter and more severe global warming gets.

This verse reveals global warming as the Fourth Plague, “Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.” Revelation 16:8-9

Global warming is not the only cause of the earth’s destruction by fire, as the First Trumpet reveals, “The first angel sounded: And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.” Revelation 8:7

The world is already filling with suffering and foul spirited animals, as quoted, “‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!’ She has become a dwelling for demons and a haunt for every impure spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable animal.” Revelation 18:2 NIV

Contamination and global warming can both cause the water supply to diminish, “Then the third angel sounded: And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter.” Revelation 8:10-11

God’s children on this earth endure suffering that makes the saints in Heaven plead with Him for justice, “When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” Revelation 6:9-10 This is the answer to the saints already in Heaven, “…until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed.” Revelation 6:11. The global government of the beast has the blood of God’s children on its hands, “I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.” Revelation 17:6

Sometimes, it may seem that God does not answer our prayers, but He keeps the prayers of His children, who are born through Jesus Christ, in Heaven. “Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints…” Revelation 5:8 This prayer is from Jesus Christ for those who make Him Lord and Savior, “I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.” John 17:15-17

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1