“So, this is an end time prophecy. It’s called the apocalypse of Isaiah. It speaks about a time when the earth is itself is going to become desolate as a result of the actions of humans. It says in this translation that the earth is defiled under its inhabitants. It could also be translated as ‘the earth is polluted under its inhabitants’. And it says that there’s going to be connection between breaking the covenant, the covenant which God made with humans to look after the earth, to care for it, which is going to cause massive destruction, including people being burned, with few men being left behind. Is that a prophecy of global warming? It could be.”
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00:00One interesting point about Israel, which I also found out this week, is that they are about to launch the iron beam protection.
00:10Which means that they are developing, this is an anti-missile, missile protection.
00:16You know that they've got the iron dome which fires missiles against missiles and it's like a bullet hitting a bullet and they hit them out.
00:23It's very expensive, but it's possible to do and it doesn't always work.
00:27But they're now developing lasers which can fire and hit any incoming missile, whether it's a drone or a missile.
00:34Can pick them out instantly and using AI and all sorts of incredible technology can destroy missiles as they come in.
00:43If they can get this working effectively then Israel has a security shield around it.
00:47Which could also have a prophetic significance.
00:50Is Israel no longer being threatened by all these horrible missiles which they've been sending up over against them.
00:59So that's an interesting development.
01:02But I just want to move on to think about, we talked about Iran and just to think about the environmental crisis.
01:08One of the things the Bible also indicates about the last days is that the end times is going to be an environmental crisis affecting the world.
01:15You've got a number of prophecies.
01:17Including in the book of Isaiah chapter 24.
01:21If I can find it.
01:30Yeah, Isaiah 24.
01:36Verse 3, it says,
01:37The land, and the word is actually Haaretz, the world, the earth, shall be entirely emptied and plundered.
01:42For the Lord has spoken this word.
01:45Verse 4, the earth mourns and fades away, the world government, the world languishes and fades away.
01:50The haughty people of the earth languish.
01:52The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants because they've transgressed the laws, changed the ordinances, broken the everlasting covenant.
02:00Therefore the curse has devoured the earth and those who dwell in it are desolate.
02:04Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned and few men are left.
02:08So this is an end time prophecy, it's called the apocalypse of Isaiah.
02:12It speaks about a time when the earth itself is going to become desolate as a result of the actions of humans.
02:18It says in this translation, the earth is defiled under its inhabitants.
02:23It could also be translated, the earth is polluted under its inhabitants.
02:26And it says that there's going to be connection between breaking the covenants, the covenant which God made with humans.
02:33One covenant to look after the earth, to care for it.
02:36And breaking that covenant is going to cause massive destruction, including people being burned, a few men being left.
02:45Is that a prophecy of global warming?
02:48It could be.
02:50You have another interesting prophecy in the book of Revelation, chapter 8.
03:02Now this is definitely a prophecy of the events in the tribulation period, this last seven year period.
03:08And on one level it is a prophecy of certain supernatural things which are going to happen during that time.
03:14But as I was looking at it, it seemed to me it also underlines the basic things which are going wrong in the environment today.
03:22So I'll just read it to you.
03:24Revelation 8, verse 6 said,
03:27So the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
03:31The first angel sounded, and hail and fire followed, mingled with blood.
03:35They were thrown to the earth, and a third of the trees was burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.
03:41The second angel sounded, something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood.
03:48And a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
03:52A third angel sounded, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch.
03:57And it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
04:00The name of the star is Wormwood.
04:02A third of the waters became Wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter.
04:07And the fourth angel sounded, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars,
04:12so that the third of them were darkened.
04:14And the third of the day did not shine, likewise the night.
04:19Now you've got sort of very strong language there, and you could say,
04:23is this going to literally happen, or is it figurative?
04:25But if you analyse what it's saying here, that there's going to be a crisis which is going to hit,
04:29first of all, the vegetation and the trees.
04:31So you're going to see them withering up and being burnt up.
04:35Then something's going to be poured into the sea, which is going to cause the fish to die.
04:39There's going to be some kind of pollution of the sea.
04:41Then the rivers and the springs are going to come bitter, and you won't be able to drink from the bitter.
04:46So some pollution, something's going to happen, which is going to affect the waters of the rivers.
04:51And something's going to happen in the atmosphere, so that you can't see the sun and the moon.
04:56You could say these things are definite judgments coming, but if you look at them in general,
05:01all of those things are happening as a result of human mismanagement of the earth.
05:06Seeing trees burned up, vegetation dying, fish dying in the sea as a result of pollution,
05:12seeing waters being polluted in the rivers, and you're seeing the air being polluted in some cities,
05:17including actually Tehran, Delhi.
05:20There are times when you can't see the sun and the moon because of the pollution in those cities.
05:24So you're seeing these things happening in embryo in our time, which I find kind of interesting.
05:30And so you've got this environmental crisis which is coming.
05:40So, is that what it's leading to?
05:42And also, of course, you have a lot of prophecies which speak about famine.
05:46Jesus spoke about famine as one of the signs.
05:49As a result of environmental things happening, floods and droughts,
05:53you're seeing food production being destroyed in various parts of the earth.
05:56As a result of the war in Ukraine, there's a whole supply of the world's food
06:01which has been cut off because of war.
06:03You're seeing things happening which are attacking the world's food supply.
06:06And some of the crazy things our government are doing is actually not doing as much help
06:11for the food supply of this country.
06:13So you're seeing, generally, things happening in the world which are attacking the food supply,
06:18which is another sign of the prophecies.
06:21Now, where do we stand on the subject of climate change?
06:25There are a lot of people in the prophecy movement who say that this is part of the world government conspiracy
06:31to believe that there is this climate change and it's a part of the plan towards world government.
06:36Maybe it is part of the plan towards world government,
06:39but I think we can't deny that something is happening in the climate.
06:42There is a change which is taking place.
06:45And we can't avoid that it's happening.
06:53There are changes taking place.
06:55And I'm going to give you one or two examples which show you that it's definitely happening.
06:58Now, whether it is because we're burning fossil fuels, that's another question.
07:01Some people say it's not.
07:04Another point is that they're trying to, I've mentioned before about in Iran, they're trying to cloud seed,
07:10which is another thing taking place.
07:12And one of the things we see happening in the world today is an increase in two things, droughts and floods.
07:18So you've got to ask, why are these happening?
07:23Maybe we don't even have to ask the question why they're happening, but to face the fact that they are happening.
07:29You're seeing a huge increase in very big droughts and floods, even in this country.
07:35You know, the other day we were in the Midlands, we went to Rutland Water, which is the biggest reservoir in England.
07:43And the water was way down.
07:45In fact, it showed that there were villages which had been flooded when they put the reservoir there.
07:50Now the villages have been on the surface.
07:54And we had an exceptionally dry spring and summer in this country.
07:59Iran, much worse.
08:01Parts of Southern Africa, much worse.
08:04Namibia, they're really struggling for water.
08:07Many parts of Africa, there's major droughts, which means there's no food.
08:11People are suffering with the basic needs.
08:16You've also got floods in various places as well.
08:21And because of these things, you have things like the Climate Change Conference, which took place last month in Brazil.
08:28When you've got the nations coming together to try to work out the problem.
08:33And this again is an interesting development because you've got an emerging kind of world government
08:38trying to impose some solution on the climate question.
08:42But at the same time now it's kind of falling apart.
08:45America didn't go and there's disagreement.
08:47Actually the Green Lobby was really disappointed with this because they didn't pass any resolutions about limiting fossil fuels.
08:54They just made some resolutions to give money from the rich countries to the poor countries to help them out with their climate problems.
09:01Which won't actually solve anything.
09:03Now one of the problems is that if we say that it's true that we have the burning fossil fuels is affecting the world's climate.
09:16Then we have got to stop burning fossil fuels.
09:21Problem is if we do stop using fossil fuels, then civilizations like ours actually fall apart.
09:29Because we need, we're never going to get enough electricity from Green Lobby to keep the system going.
09:35And even if you try, you've got to build the plants which are usually using a lot of energy and then you've got to destroy them.
09:43And it's not going to work.
09:45You cannot solve, you cannot supply a city like London and all the big cities of the world just on green.
09:53It's not going to work.
09:55Even though Ed Midlands wants to push us in that direction.
09:58And anybody knows it's not going to work.
10:00So you're going to have to keep using fossil fuels.
10:03If that's the problem, then we're doomed really.
10:10And it's shown that actually the fossil fuels are increasing dramatically.
10:15Especially in third world countries like, well I couldn't use the word third world, developing countries they used to say now isn't it?
10:21Especially in India, Indonesia, all these countries are using huge amounts of fossil fuels.
10:27So the amount of fossil fuels is not going down in the world.
10:30It's increasing.
10:31If that's the case, according to the Green Lobby, then the climate is going to go up.
10:35And we're heading towards things which are going to cause extinction on the human level.
10:41If we do get, if we do get rid of them, if we had no fossil fuels at cool in this country,
10:48when we tried to run everything on the Green Lobby, your electricity would go down, your food supply would go down, your transport would go down,
10:55our society would actually face such a radical change that it would not be able to continue.
11:00Because we built the system already.
11:02So we've got this kind of aparia situation I was talking about earlier, a crisis with no way out.
11:08No one's got a solution.
11:10Only the Lord coming back can solve it.
11:15Now the Bible does indicate that, actually I've already read this one so we'll go on to that.
11:21Yeah, so it does indicate that this is going to be the situation in the last days.
11:26You're going to have this crisis and no one's going to have a solution to it.
11:31I've got a lot of things which are happening in the world which indicate it's taking place.
11:43This is actually taken from Siberia.
11:46Anybody like to go to Siberia?
11:49Coldest place in the world.
11:51As you know, Siberia is, temperatures go down to minus 50.
11:58As a result of the freezing temperature, Siberia has something called permafrost underneath the ground.
12:04So there's whole areas which the ground is permanently frozen.
12:09And they build houses and transportation systems on the permafrost.
12:14The problem is that the temperature is definitely rising in the north of Russia.
12:17And you can measure it. It's gone up two or three degrees.
12:21As a result of this rising temperature in the north of Russia, the permafrost is melting.
12:26And houses like this are falling into it.
12:29And all over Siberia and north of Russia, I think also in Alaska, I'm not sure about Alaska,
12:35but certainly in Russia you've got this problem of houses falling down.
12:41Also pipelines are broken because of it.
12:44They built pipelines over the permafrost.
12:46The pipeline then cracks and spills all over the place which adds to the environmental problem.
12:51That's happening in Russia today.
12:54And Russia's got no way to solve it because they haven't got any money.
12:57They've spent all their money on useless war in Ukraine.
13:00Generally their infrastructure is falling apart all over Russia.
13:05And they're not going to be able to fix this one.
13:08So it's another no way out situation which is affecting the lives of people who live in that part of the world.
13:16And it's a sign that we have to say the temperature is rising.
13:20There's no other explanation for why this is happening.
13:22As it happens then also methane is released from the permafrost,
13:26which also affects the climate and causes that to rise as well.
13:31China and East Asia have not had droughts.
13:39They've had torrential rains.
13:41I've just seen a video showing the rains and the floods in China.
13:47It's quite horrific.
13:49In October 25th, they had an unbelievably strong rainstorm which caused dams to collapse.
13:59So you've got a dam breaking in China.
14:01The floods inundated the cities, the agricultural land.
14:05They experienced a catastrophic series of dam failures due to extreme wet conditions.
14:14Which led to flooding and including flooding in Beijing itself
14:21when a major dam failed in the north of Beijing.
14:24The video also showed some of the results.
14:31Wuhan, the place where Covid came from, has been underwater.
14:37Nanjing, underwater.
14:38A million people have been evacuated.
14:40Roads have become impossible, impassable.
14:43Farms and livelihoods along the riverbank have gone.
14:46Millions of tons of food have been lost.
14:49Industrial zones along the riverbank have cascaded into the river.
14:55Which has caused contamination from the industrial chemicals to go into the rivers.
15:00And in fact China's rivers are heavily polluted.
15:03I think that 10% of the rivers in China are beyond any kind of use for drinking or anything like that.
15:09Because of the pollution in that part of the world.
15:12So you can see this catastrophic thing taking place.
15:16And one of the problems is the building of dams.
15:22I'll come onto that in a moment.
15:24But it's not just in China.
15:26There are floods now in Indonesia, Vietnam.
15:28I think you talked about Philippines.
15:31In the Punjab in Pakistan there was unprecedented flooding earlier.
15:35Which submerged thousands of villages.
15:37Devastated millions of acres of farmland.
15:40Destroying rice, sugarcane, maize and vegetables and cotton.
15:44Displacing over 2 million people.
15:46And killing I think half a million animals.
15:52So these things are happening much more frequently and much more intensely than they have happened before.
15:58Whatever we think about global warming and climate change.
16:01We can't deny that these things are happening.
16:03And they're happening much more intensely.
16:05I mentioned dams.
16:08One of the features also of our time has been the building of dams.
16:11And I did a bit of research into this.
16:13It's quite interesting.
16:14But building large dams for hydroelectric power and for irrigation.
16:19Seen by many as a way out of poverty and a way to develop their countries.
16:24Including in China.
16:26But when they do that it disrupts the natural flow of the rivers.
16:30And causes a change in the agriculture and the way that farming has been done for millennia.
16:37So you have changes which take place.
16:39One of the places it's really affected is the Tigris-Euphrates Valley.
16:46They built huge dams in Turkey.
16:51Which are put where the headwaters.
16:52If you look at the map you see the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates.
16:55Which go down into Syria and into Iraq.
16:57Into the Persian Gulf.
16:59Found in Turkey.
17:01As a result of this the flow of waters.
17:06And also as a result of lack of rainfall.
17:08The flow of water in the Euphrates has dripped dramatically.
17:12So now there's the river.
17:15It says the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates.
17:20And its water was dried up.
17:22Another prophetic sign.
17:24But it's happening.
17:25Happening now.
17:26I mentioned this one.
17:28This is the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Egypt.
17:33Built by Ethiopia.
17:35Which impacts the waters of the White Nile.
17:38Which flow into the Blue Nile.
17:40And then flow into Egypt.
17:42And Egypt is very worried about this.
17:47Because it's only just been built.
17:49It's a hydroelectric power station.
17:51Got a big lake behind it now.
17:53And Egypt's worried because it's going to affect its water supply.
17:57Egypt and Sudan fear that their water supply will be affected.
18:04Especially if there are droughts affecting agriculture and livelihoods.
18:07And of course that's the city of Cairo.
18:10Egypt was built on the Nile.
18:12Without the Nile Egypt is just desert.
18:16But now it's ancient civilization going right back to Bible times.
18:21To the pharaohs and Joseph and Moses.
18:25All because of this river.
18:27If this river goes, Egypt is finished.
18:31And Egypt has already been affected by a dam which they built.
18:34This was quite interesting as well.
18:36Because it's going to tie in with another prophecy I'm going to read to you.
18:38This is the Aswan Dam.
18:41That's taking it from space.
18:44There's the river going out and there's a big lake behind it.
18:47It's somewhere here on the map.
18:49You can see there's a lake behind it.
18:51And it flows into the river Nile which goes up through Cairo to the Nile Delta there.
18:57Now the dam's construction was actually built by the Russians in 1960 as a gift to Egypt.
19:04And it supplies them with hydroelectric power.
19:08It's been a very mixed blessing because as a result of this dam.
19:12It dams up the river, the water which comes down from Central Africa.
19:17And it disrupted the natural flow of the Nile River.
19:20Which in normal times, and this was happening way back in the Bible times.
19:26The Nile would flood.
19:28And the Nile River would flood in this area here.
19:31And as it flooded, its waters would go out into the surrounding region.
19:34And because it came down from Africa, it had all these nutrients
19:38which had come in from it being brought down from Central Africa.
19:42And when it flooded, it put all sorts of good stuff into the soil
19:46so Egypt could then grow crops and make this a very fertile part of the world.
19:51Round to the Nile Delta there.
19:53In fact, in the time of the New Testament, Egypt was the bread basket of the Roman Empire.
19:59Do you know that?
20:01You read that, in fact, Paul was on a grain ship heading from Egypt to Rome.
20:05So Egypt was very fertile.
20:08Now as a result of this dam being built down here,
20:11what's happened is that all the fertile, all the nutrients which came down from Africa
20:16are now stuck behind the lake here.
20:20They don't go up.
20:22So no longer is Egypt being fed with this fertile stuff,
20:26which caused floods but it also helped them with the agriculture.
20:29So centuries, millennia in fact, of agriculture in Egypt has been changed because of this dam.
20:34So now instead of putting the natural resources which come through the flooding of the river,
20:40they have to put fertilizers on the banks to fertilize their food.
20:45The fertilizers are then washed into the river and they affect the river downstream,
20:51which has also affected the fertility of the lower part, especially in the Delta area, and killed the fish.
21:00So the dam has actually created an ecological crisis in Egypt,
21:06which is kind of interesting because there is a prophecy in the book of Isaiah.
21:12And I find this fascinating, but it's sad, but it's also fascinating.
21:17In the book of Isaiah, chapter 19, which is a prophecy about Egypt,
21:23and it has a prophecy relating to the last days, it says,
21:25the waters shall fail from the sea, the river shall be wasted and dried up,
21:29the river will turn foul, the brooks of defense will be emptied and dried up,
21:34the reeds and rushes will wither, the paris reeds by the river, by the mouth of the river,
21:39and everything sown by the river will wither and be driven away and will be no more.
21:43The fishermen will also mourn, all those will lament, who cast hooks into the river,
21:49and they will anguish who spread nets on the waters.
21:54Those who work in fine flax, those who weave fine fabric will be ashamed,
21:58and its foundations will be broken, and all who make wages will be troubled in Seoul.
22:03So there it's speaking about some kind of ecological crisis which affects the river of Egypt.
22:08And these things are happening now.
22:13And I find it fascinating that you've got, in the Bible you have two big rivers,
22:17the Euphrates and the Nile.
22:19And Bible prophecy says that something is going to happen in the last days
22:22which will affect both of these two big rivers.
22:25Now obviously they didn't know much about the Amazon and the Mekong River in East Asia,
22:31but I wonder if it's a kind of sign that the Bible is saying that there's going to be this thing which is going to affect the ecology of the world in the last days.
22:42And I believe we have to realise that this is part of what's happening in our time in our world.
22:50Another thing which you notice is that many of these countries which I've mentioned are actually countries which are provoking God in some way.
23:01Particularly Iran, its Islamist police state oppressing the people,
23:06its weapons against Israel, persecuting the Christians.
23:10And supporting anti-Christ dictatorships around the world.
23:19Russia, with its Putin-style police state, pursuing war against Ukraine,
23:26suppressing true Christians with a corrupt mafia regime.
23:30And of course we can't say that we're perfect either.
23:35And when you look at these things you can see that there's an element of natural things happening like climate change.
23:42I think we have to say that climate change is happening.
23:44We have to say that there is pollution, there is destruction of the environment.
23:48There's also the element of the judgment of God.
23:52And when you look at the prophecies of the Bible, it's clear that there's going to be this judgment.
23:57In fact, the Isaiah passage I read to you speaks about this happening as a curse devouring the earth
24:03because the inhabitants of the world are disregarding God's covenant.
24:08And as we look at the world today, we can see that as the world becomes more and more anti-God and anti-Christian,
24:13there is this judgment coming upon the world.
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