A few notes on the dynamism of our times.
Many are the predictions (scientific as well as spiritual) that one day soon, our surroundings will look different.
To quote one (in the “1990 prophecy” series), “Before all, the landscape will change. No longer will men command the forces around them.”
As mentioned periodically, including last month, we see glimmerings of this already. We see drought here, floods there. As we also repeat, it is a time of extremes (in every aspect).
In the United States, the Fifth National Climate Assessment reports that average annual precipitation has increased in many regions, while decreasing in the Northwest, Southwest, and Hawaii.
Heavy precipitation events have increased almost everywhere in the U.S. since 1958.
That changes the look of the land. Instead of gentle soaking rains, more rain falls in intense bursts. This means more runoff, more erosion, more gullies, more flooded roads, more overwhelmed drainage systems, and more washed-out soil. Expect more of this.
Global sea levels have risen about eight to nine inches since 1880 due to the warming trend, and the rate has accelerated and will keep on accelerating.
Also expect sudden geophysical events that will alter terrain—for example, crumbling certain highlands (see Colorado) and creating ravines.
Fifty years ago, glaciers were already retreating in many places, but the retreat is now much more obvious and widespread.
In the West especially, fire now reshapes whole hillsides, watersheds, and communities.
One of the most extreme landscape changes on earth is the Aral Sea, between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. In the mid-twentieth century, it was one of the world’s largest inland seas. Because rivers feeding it were diverted heavily for irrigation, much of it dried up, leaving salt flats, abandoned fishing boats, toxic dust, and a new desert called the Aralkum.
As for humanness itself, this our “brilliant” technocrats are also seeking to change.
It has a dark underpinning and among the concerns: Will there soon be not just computer chips in millions of people but antennae or wires entering or erupting from certain body parts and computer goggles for eyes (reality seen through technology, instead of the way God formed them)?
Notes one author (who grew up in a family of occultists): “Some satanists are scientific rationalists who see satanism as a mechanism to reject the superstition of traditional religions. Although they may not openly identify themselves as Satanists, the Skeptics movement and Transhumanism have their roots in Satanism. The atheistic rhetoric of the Skeptics movement sounds similar to the doctrine of Atheistic Satanism, and this is not a coincidence. The Transhumanists wish to use computers, robotics and genetic engineering to create a new species that will displace humanity; Julian Huxley, who first founded the Transhumanist movement, was a member of a Luciferian secret society.”
Was Huxley—who coined the very term “transhumanist”—truly a “Luciferian”?
We can’t find any concrete evidence for that. But reconfiguring God’s Creation is certainly not a heavenly approach, and the perils are clear in a world that exalts wanton tech and “trillionaires” and is now beholden to the algorithm rather than the Holy Spirit.
In our skies is seen the dangers (such as this wildfire this week near Miami).
Oh Lord, purify. Bring us back to Your Creation. Erase all that is contrary to Your design.
[resources: Tower of Light]