Environmental Refugees

by Michael G. Mickey

(10-11-05)

The BBC is reporting there will be as many as 50 million "environmental refugees" in the world in five years' time - people left homeless by natural disasters. The article states the following, in part:

The projected figure of 50 million is derived from a number of previous reports, including the 1999 World Disasters Report from the International Red Cross.

This calculated that natural disasters in the previous year had created more refugees than wars or other armed conflicts.

As the article states, refugees, in a historical sense, were considered to be such only when they left their homeland for another country, but not anymore! The environment of the world we're living in is presently so chaotic that people are having to flee their homes in an attempt to survive, complicating matters in the areas they are forced to relocate to.

We're living on a planet under pressure - one in such desperate need only the return of the Savior will insure the survival of flesh upon it! What we're seeing now, in ever-growing frequency and intensity, is proof positive that Christ's return is precisely what is going to be needed to restore the fallen world we're living in - and soon!

Matthew 24:6-8: And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Matthew 24:21-22: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

The condition of the world around us is proof positive that Christ's return can not possibly be far away! Although none of us know precisely when that will be, what we're seeing take place environmentally in our world is evidence that all flesh is beginning to be literally threatened with extinction! It's a sign we'd do well to heed concerning the lateness of the hour we're living in as it relates to Christ's return.

In 2003, according to a BBC report, the World Conservation Union's Red List said more than 12,000 species (out of 40,000 assessed) faced some extinction risk, including:

onebird in eight
13% of the world's flowering plants
a quarter of all mammals

Five short years from now 50 million people may be homeless due to natural disasters! Who knows, other than Almighty God, how many species named as risked for extinction will have been wiped out by then, complicating matters even more environmentally!

Recently, as seen in a Yahoo News story, televangelist Pat Robertson (a post-trib Rapture believer, in case you didn't know) stated the "recent spate of natural disasters affecting the globe "might be" signs that the Biblical apocalypse is near."

In response to Robertson's statements, the same scientific community which continues to warn us of all the above, as seen in the story, says it's not likely the end is drawing near. And we wonder why, in spite of all the evidence around us, so many are going to be caught offguard when Christ Raptures His Church and the world finds itself in the most horrific period of time in recorded history! Sometimes I wonder what it would take to convince people how close we are to the end! Honestly!

The threat of 50 million "environmental refugees" existing within the next five years doesn't convince mankind Jesus is coming soon! Tsunamis that kill hundreds of thousands of people don't convince mankind Jesus is coming soon either! Neither do massive earthquakes that kill tens of thousands nor the fact 2005 is going to be, in all likelihood, the most violent sea storm season on record ever! With over a month to go left in hurricane season, there's only one more name left to be handed out for sea storms - Wilma. After that, they're going to begin using the letters of the Greek Alphabet. That hasn't happened in more than fifty years of storms being regularly named!

Luke 21:35: For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

It isn't hard to see why, is it?

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