The Effects of Judgment on Land, Plants and Animals
From Eco-Bible 1
These are notes for an incomplete "Concept" page.
- Information is being added as the Bible Pages are added. In the end, everything will be compiled, further information added (as necessary), broken links connected, etc.
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Parent topic: Judgment.
The effects may occur as part of the judgment.
- There have been times when God told people to destroy something related to the environment, as part of the necessary judgment against a wicked people.
The effects may be indirectly related to the judgment.
- At other times, the destruction (or environmental change) was the indirect consequence or result of the judgment that occurred.
Either way, the ultimate reason for the change was the sin of the people - sin that had continued for so long that it needed to be judged.
Scripture Pages that Link to Here
- Part of the judgment against Moab - destroying their land and wells. This wasn't a total destruction, but would severely weaken the nation. It would prevent any further rebellion for quite some time.
- Mic 7:13 Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
- (In this context, the prophecy may be a reference to the lands surrounding Israel (at the time when Israel is restored). What had previously happened to Israel will now happen to Israel's enemies.)
(Add the passage in Amos)
- Isa 32:13-14 - Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city. For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks; ...
- Isa 32:15-16 - ... Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest. Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.
- The invading nation... "shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish." (Deu 28:51)
- This passage has a greater emphasis on what the invaders would do, rather than what God would do (providentially, through nature).
- The invasion (by the Assyrians). The results include ecological devastation.
- Isa 33:9 The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
Unless otherwise noted, all notes and comments are © by Dennis Hinks.
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