JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
BLASPHEMERS TAKE THE BIBLE TO WORSHIP THE CLIMATE SCAM.
SO
THEY THINK THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH THIS EARTH WORSHIP. WELL THIS CLIMATE
SCAM GOD WILL DEAL WITH FOREVER REAL SOON.AS YOU CAN READ NOW.
THE
EARTH (WORLD) NEVER ENDS (AS WORLD ENDERS-CONSPIRACY THEORISTS
CLAIME)(THE END OF THE AGE OF GRACE ONLY)(DECIEVERS CLAIME THE END OF
THE WORLD-NOT ME)
REVELATION 21:1
1 And I saw a new (kainos-a
remodeling) heaven and a new (kainos-a remodeling) earth: for the first
heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more
sea.(THE NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH ARE REMODELED-REGENERATED-NOT A TOTALLY
NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH-AND WE CHRISTIANS LIVE ON THE REMODELED EARTH
FOREVER WITH JESUS-NEVER-ENDING AFTER THE THOUSAND YEAR REIGN)
MATTHEW 19:28-EARTH REMODELED-(REGENERATION) NOT DESTROYED
28
And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have
followed me, in the regeneration (kainos-here means a REMODELING-not
totally new earth)(neos-is a new total earth) when the Son of man shall
sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones,
judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
regeneration - forming again
(especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and
reconstituting-re-formation-reconstruction - the activity of
constructing something again.
ACT 3:21-EARTH REMODELED-(REGENERATION) NOT DESTROYED
21
Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution
(kainos-here means a REMODELING-not totally new earth)(neos-is a new
total earth) of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all
his holy prophets since the world began.
restitution - A return to or
restoration of a previous state or position. from Latin to rebuild,
from re- + statuere to set up]-(General Physics) the return of an object
or system to its original state.
LUKE 1:32-33
32 He (JESUS)
shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord
God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:(IN JERUSALEM)
33
And he shall reign over the house of Jacob (ISRAEL) for ever; and of
his kingdom there shall be no end.(THATS RULING FOREVER FROM JERUSALEM
JESUS DOES)
ECCLESIASTES 1:4
4 One generation passeth away,
and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.(AND
EVER)(WORLD NEVER ENDS)(END OF THE AGE OF GRACE ONLY,NOT THE END OF THE
WORLD)
PSALMS 104:5
5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.(NO END OF THE WORLDERS NONESENSE HERE)
MATTHEW 5:5
5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.(FOREVER,NOT HEAVEN)
PSALMS 37:29
29 The righteous shall inherit the land,(ON EARTH-NOT HEAVEN) and dwell therein for ever.
ISAIAH 45:17
17
But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting
salvation:(FOREVER) ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without
end.(JERUSALEM ISRAEL ON EARTH FOREVER-NEVER ENDING)
EPHESIANS 3:21
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
END OF THE WORLD CONSPIRACIES-DATE SETTERS.
MATTHEW 23:15
15
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and
land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold
more the child of hell than yourselves.
2 TIMOTHY 4:3-4
3 For
the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after
their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching
ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
ISAIAH 8:12
12
Say ye not, A confederacy,(CONSPIRACY) to all them to whom this people
shall say, A confederacy;(CONSPIRACY THEORY) neither fear ye their fear,
nor be afraid.
MATTHEW 24:36
36 But of that day and hour
knoweth no man,(ONLY BY THE SIGNS-WE KNOW THE RAPTURE CAN HAPPEN ANY
SECOND NOW-NOT BY DATE SETTING) no, not the angels of heaven, but my
Father only.
JEREMIAH 17:9
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
MATTHEW 24:7
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
EARTH WORSHIP
DEUTERONOMY 17:3-4
3
And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the
sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4
And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired
diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such
abomination is wrought in Israel:
DEUTORONOMY 4:15-19
15 Take
ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of
similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the
midst of the fire:
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
19
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the
sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest
be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath
divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
2 KINGS 23:5
5
And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had
ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and
in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto
Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the
host of heaven.
EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)
GENESIS 6:11-13
11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear
the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a
controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth,
nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein
shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of
heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
DEUTORONOMY 28:22-24
22
The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and
with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword,
and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until
thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
SECOND ANGEL: The Middle East DR DOCTORIAN
Then
Isawthat the second angel had a sickle in his hand,such asis used in
harvesting. The second angelsaid, “Harvest time has come in Israel and
the countries all the wayto Iran.” Isawthose countriesin a
fewsplitseconds. “All of Turkey and those other countries that have
refused me and refused my message of love shall hate each other and kill
one another.” I saw the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the
Middle East countries.I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of
Georgia – Iraq, Syria,Lebanon,Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor – full
of blood. Isaw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; nuclear
weapons were used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from
everywhere. Sudden destruction – men destroying one another. I heard
these words, “Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come.”The angel
said, “The chosen, the church, the remnant, shall be purified. The
Spirit of God shall prepare the children of God.” I saw fires rising to
heaven.The angel said, “This is the final judgment My church shall be
purified, protected and ready for the final day. Men will die from
thirst. Watershall be scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry
up, and men will fight for water in those countries.” The angelshowed me
that the United Nationsshall be broken in pieces because of the
crisisin the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The
angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12
And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the
people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume
away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and
their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)
and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM
ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD
PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that
day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they
shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand
shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN
WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS-CHEMICAL WEAPONS
LUKE 21:11
11
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and
pestilences;(BIOLOGICAL/CHEMICAL/NUCLEAR) and fearful sights and great
signs shall there be from heaven.
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there
shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the
moon,(MAN ON THE MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the
stars;(ASTEROIDS-PROPHECY SIGNS) and upon the earth distress of nations,
with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE
WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for
fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things
which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven
shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
REVELATION 16:21 80-120LB HAIL ON HUMANS
21And
there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the
weight of a talent:(80-120 LBS) and men blasphemed God because of the
plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7
The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with
blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees
was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and
the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the
light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of
his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold,
the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the
burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his
tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,221 For then shall
be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world
to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should
be shortened,(DAY LIGHT HOURS SHORTENED) there should no flesh be saved:
but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE) those days shall be shortened
(Daylight hours shortened)(THE ASTEROID HITS EARTH HERE)
29
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be
darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall
fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9
And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God,
which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him
glory.
MARK OF THE BEAST (engraved microchip in your hand or forehead)
REVELATION 13:16-18
16
And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor,
free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their
foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the
beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred
threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
REVELATION 16:1-2
1
And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels,
Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the
earth.
2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth;
and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the
mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
I
THINK THIS MARK WILL BE A MICROCHIP IMPLANT UNDER THE SKIN. LETS LOOK
UP WHAT THE WORD MARK SAYS IN REVELATION 13:16-18, 14:9,11, 15:2, 16:2,
19:20, 20:4-ALL THESE VERSES FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION SPEAK OF THIS
DICTATORS MARK. NOW LETS SEE WHAT IT MEANS FROM STRONGS EXAUSTIVE
CONCORDANCE OF THE BIBLE. UNDER MARK PAGE 684.MARK UNDER MARK. THE OLD
TESTAMENT IS UNDER HEBREW AND THE NEW TESTAMENT IS UNDER GREEK. SO WHEN
WE LOOK UNDER REVELATION 13:16-17 WE SEE IT IS UNDER GREEK, SO WE GO TO
GREEK IN THE BACK SECTION AND GO TO 5480 TO SEE WHAT IT SAYS THIS MARK
WOULD BE. SO LETS GET TO IT.MARK IN STRONGS GREEK 5480 XAPAYUA CHARAGMA,
KHAR-AG-MAH: FROM THE SAME AS 5482: A SCRATCH OR ETCHING, I.E STAMP (AS
A BADGE OF SERVITUDE), OR SCULPTURED FIGURE-(STATUE):-GRAVEN, MARK FROM
5482 XAPAE CHARAX, KHAR-AX; FROM XAPAOOW CHARASSO (TO SHARPEN TO A
POINT; AKIN TO 1125 THROUGH THE IDEA OF SCRATCHING); A STAKE, I.E
(BYIMPL.) A PALISADE OR RAMPART (MILITARY MOUND FOR CIRCUMVALLATION IN A
SIEGE): - TRENCH FROM 1125 YPAPOE GRAPHO, GRAF-0; A PRIM. VERB; TO
"GRAVE", ESPEC. TO WRITE; FIG. TO DESCRIBE:-DESCRIBE, WRITE (-ING,
-TEN).
THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT IN YOUR RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD.
LEVETICUS 19.28
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
SO
THESE LIBERAL OCCULT EARTH MONEY WORSHIPPERS WANT TO CONTROL US THREW
THE CLIMATE SCAM. THE LAB MADE COVID 19, VACCINE SCAM THE FIRST ONE DID
NOT WORK. THIS WILL JUST BE THE FIRST OF MANY. LAB MADE KILLER DISEASES
AND VACCINE SCAMS. BUT IF THEY CAN'T KILL US BY FORCE. JUST LIKE THE
WORLD DICTATOR WILL BE DOING IN THE FUTURE. SUBSTITUTE THE CHURCH FOR A
CLIMATE GUILT SCAM. THAT THE CHURCH MEMBERS WILL WORSHIP THE ENVIROMENT.
AND JUST LIKE THESE 2 STORIES. GET RID OF CHRISTIANITY BY BLASPHEMING
GODS TRUE LAWS AND MOCK THEM WITH 10 CLIMATE COMMANDMENTS. MOCK THE
BIBLE ABOUT MOSES BREAKING THE 2 TABLETS. AND HAVE A BIBLE OF THE EARTH
WORSHIP CLIMATE SCAM. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE POT BELLY BHUTA OR ISLAMS SEX
FOR MURDER DEATH CULT MOHAMMAD AND FAKE MOON GOD ALLAH BEING BLASPHEMED
BY THESE LIBERAL DEAD BEATS. THE HEADS OF THESE CLIMATE NUT JOBS WOULD
BE ROLLING LITERALLY. BUT GOD (JESUS) WILL GET REVENGE AND PAY BACK
THESE DEMON POSSESSED ENEMIES OF THE CHURCH. WAIT AND WATCH FOR THE
FULLFILMENT - IT WILL BE HAPPENING LITERALLY. AND IT DON'T MATTER WHAT
THEY BELIEVE. THAT ATOMIC BOMB - THEN THE LAKE OF FIRE FOREVER WITH
THEIR NEVER DYING BODY. GOOD LUCK CLIMATE WORSHIPPERS. THAT FIRE IS
NEVER ENDING 0-FOREVER.THE SECOND YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES IN DEATH.
Activists
smash tablets atop ‘Mount Sinai’ to launch faith-based climate
push-Saying officials gathered at COP summit need to do more, Sinai
Climate Partnership will seek to recruit religious leaders globally to
lobby for faster action on climate change
By Sue Surkes-13 November 2022, 9:53 pm 22
JEBEL
MUSA, Egypt — An initiative to mobilize faith leaders worldwide to push
governments to do more about climate change kicked off Sunday morning
with an Israeli environmental activist smashing mock tablets of stone
atop an Egyptian peak believed by many to be Mount Sinai, to symbolize
the world’s failure to protect the planet.The idea was hatched in the
run up to the United Nations COP27 climate conference taking place in
the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, by solar energy entrepreneur
Yosef Abramowitz and David Miron Wapner, who chairs the Jerusalem-based
Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development.The Sinai Climate
Partnership, symbolically launched at the ceremony, brings together the
Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development, the Elijah Interfaith
Institute, the Peace Department, the United Nations Faith for Earth
Initiative, Abramowitz’s Gigawatt Global, and the Israeli environmental
advocacy organization, Adam Teva V’Din.After sunrise, Abramowitz and
Wapner gathered at the summit together with Nigel Savage, the founder
and former director of the US Jewish environmental organization Hazon,
and his successor Jakir Manela, to read sections the Holy Land
Declaration on Climate Change signed in 2011 by the multifaith Council
of Religious Leaders of the Holy Land. Two teens from the US, there as
part of Christian Climate Observers, joined the ceremony as well.After
the group read from a new draft list of “Ten Principles for Climate
Repentance,” formulated by dozens of multifaith leaders meeting in
London over the past few days, Abramowitz smashed two tablets on the
ground.The act was a symbolic echo of the Bible’s Moses smashing the 10
Commandments in protest against the Israelites, after descending Mount
Sinai.“We look down to Sharm el-Sheikh and we’re not satisfied,”
Abramowitz said as he smashed a tablet.One of the tablets was made by
youth from the Israeli branch of Strike 4 Future, painted with the words
“Broken Promises” in Hebrew. The other tablet was painted green, to
symbolize the “green commandments,” Abramowitz said.“The political
leadership of the world has not come through on climate until now, ” he
said. “It’s the 27th gathering of world leaders, and things are just
getting worse. We are calling on faith leaders to add to the sense of
urgency and to have them weigh in, hopefully forcefully and globally, to
push for the reduction by 50 percent, at least, of global warming
emissions by 2030. Reducing emissions so gradually is immoral at this
point.”James Sternlicht, head of The Peace Department, called on faith
leaders to take a climate vow: “I, as a person of hope, pledge to make
the world a better place for people and planet, each day that I may
live.”“Today, as faiths put aside their differences in a common call for
climate action, we work towards a new covenant for mankind in the name
of the protection of our common home and for the betterment of our
shared human future,” he said by video link from the COP27 confab.One
immediate signatory to the climate pledge was Flora Vano, a delegation
member to the COP27 confab from the small Republic of Vanuatu, an
83-island archipelago of largely coral reef atoll islands in the south
Pacific.The United Nations considers seismically active Vanuatu to be
the world’s most at-risk nation when it comes to natural disasters, and
these, according to Vano, are intensifying as a result of climate
change. These include sea level rises, cyclones, strong storm surges,
food loss because of both heavy floods and drought, and migration.“I am a
woman and a mother and a part of humanity,” she said. “I have a right
to survive. ”Abramowitz and Wapner’s original idea was to bring dozens
of multifaith leaders to Mount Sinai for the inaugural ceremony, but
Egyptian authorities refused permission, saying the time was not
right.The town of Saint Catherine, below the towering mountain, is
currently a vast building site. The state is constructing new hotels and
a huge center for multifaith prayer. The mountain is the most popular
of several sites in Egypt, Israel and elsewhere that are traditionally
associated with the biblical location of Mount Sinai, where Moses
ascended to receive the Ten Commandments from God in the Old
Testament.Instead, the new Sinai Climate Partnership will be officially
announced Sunday night from a ceremony on Parliament Hill — the highest
point in London.Ceremonies are also planned for high points in
Jerusalem, Salt Lake City, Ecuador, Australia, at India’s Mount Abu in
Rajasthan and in Calcutta, and at Mount St. Francis, a Catholic retreat
center in Indiana.Savage noted that Israel would soon mark 75 years
since its founding, which he described as an inflection point for the
nation: “That 75th anniversary, at this particular time, given
everything that’s going on in the world, and with a new government
coming in in Israel, is a genuinely key moment and opportunity for the
State of Israel and the Jewish people to say that the next 25 years will
be about responding to the climate crisis.”
COP27: Will God
deliver 10 Commandments for climate change? The UN Climate Change
Conference, in proximity to Mount Sinai, could be the prime time for the
force of religion to speak climate truth to dirty power. For the world,
and especially Israel!
By YOSEF ISRAEL ABRAMOWITZ-Updated: NOVEMBER 29, 2022 15:30
Moses
led the people out of the camp toward God, and they took their places
at the foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was all in smoke, for
Adonai had come down upon it in fire; the smoke rose like the smoke of a
kiln, and the whole mountain trembled violently. The blare of the horn
grew louder and louder. As Moses spoke, God answered him in thunder
(Exodus 19:19-20)."Moses led the people out of the camp toward God, and
they took their places at the foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was
all in smoke, for Adonai had come down upon it in fire; the smoke rose
like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled violently. The
blare of the horn grew louder and louder. As Moses spoke, God answered
him in thunder."Exodus 19:19-20-Shazam! The idea struck me like a bolt
of lightning. One of the great joys of living in Jerusalem is
participating in the all-night Torah study sessions offered for free
around town into the wee hours of the holiday of Shavuot (Pentecost) –
celebrating the receiving of the Torah on Mount Sinai approximately
3,700 years ago. I have to admit that as I age, my ability to focus late
into the night has waned and my mind wanders, as a good Jew’s often
does, to some of the Big Issues of the day. On this particular holy
night, as the rabbi was teaching about the giving of the Law, I worried
about the destruction of the Amazon, the rapid melting of the icecaps,
the food and water scarcity that is looming, new climate-driven
pandemics, wildfires in Israel and California, 600 million Africans
without power, Gazans with rockets but no water, super-charged typhoons
battering the Philippines and more. What an indulgence, I thought to
myself, to sit here and glean lessons from ancient texts while God’s
world burns at the hands of the Creator’s creatures. We are, indeed, a
self-destructive species, knowingly and greedily exploiting the world to
our own detriment. Perhaps, at the genesis of Creation, the prosecuting
angels had indeed been correct to lobby God not to create humanity,
with our evil inclination and freedom of choice.Five years ago on
Shavuot, the founding father of utility-scale solar energy on Earth and
one of my mentors, the legendary Arnold Goldman, ascended to heaven. His
children asked me to give a sermon in his honor at the one-year
anniversary of Arnold’s passing. Arnold, who was drawn to the renewable
energy of mysticism, died when the Torah reading was the giving of the
Torah, on a mountain trembling with geothermal energy, engulfed by
lightning and buffeted by wind. The reading of the prophets for the day
was Ezekiel, the only place where “electricity in the eye of the fire”
(Ezekiel 1:4) is mentioned in the Bible. And so, with my mind circling
the Earth and its problems, and the rabbi speaking of Moses in the
background, the lightning bolt came out of nowhere and pierced my soul –
perhaps sent by Arnold. The United Nations Climate Change Conference,
in proximity to Mount Sinai, could be the prime time for the force of
religion to speak climate truth to dirty power. For the world, and
especially for Israel! Three months later, I found myself humming George
Harrison’s “I really want to see you, Lord” while climbing Mount Sinai
with friends in the heat of August, the hottest and driest month, in
search of a climate miracle. Or at least a message. Or maybe 10 of
them.We know that the 27th United Nations gathering of world leaders,
commonly referred to as COP27, taking place in Sinai, is unlikely to
change the course of climate and human history as we accelerate toward
the doomsday cliff. Greenhouse gas emissions continue rising, with
fossil fuel companies controlling the energy agenda in nearly every
country and exploiting the war in Ukraine to continue drilling
worldwide. The Israeli delegation went to COP27 empty-handed and
willfully blind, a week after its fifth election in four years, with
both leading candidates for prime minister – Benjamin Netanyahu and Yair
Lapid – idolizing the destructive gas companies.As a climate activist
and solar pioneer, one of the few places where I find hope are what I
call “the climate kids,” officially known as Strike4Fridays, the
Greta-affiliated group in Israel. They speak prophetic truth to power,
in the Knesset, on the streets, and on Zoom. Their moral power was on
full display on Friday, October 28, when more than 10,000 young people
converged in Tel Aviv for Israel’s climate march, days before our
national election and a week or so before the UN Climate Change
Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh.During the previous election campaign last
year, the youth conducted the first climate debate of candidates among
six parties, which was broadcast on DemocraTV. They wrangled climate
promises from candidates, and nearly all parties penned climate
platforms – all firsts in Israeli political life. A Green Voter campaign
of the environmental movement even rated the parties, giving Lapid’s
Yesh Atid the highest rating of the major parties.A year later, the
climate kids feel betrayed, since in the government of change Yesh Atid
controlled the Ministry of Energy and renewed gas and oil drilling,
proceeded with more gas pipelines, nixed meaningful proposed climate
laws, refused to increase Israel’s modest renewables’ goals and made
only symbolic progress. Outgoing Prime Minister Lapid refused to meet
with them, as did his predecessor, Naftali Bennett. When my friends Nika
Berdichevsky, 17, from Tel Aviv and Yarden Israeli, 16, from Rehovot
speak, they carry a lot of authority, not only because they have done
their homework but also because they, like the other climate kids,
authentically speak for an entire generation. The two moderated this
year’s election climate debate on October 24, co-sponsored by the major
environmental groups, including the Israel Union for Environmental
Defense. The body language of the Knesset members said it all: Despite
their good intentions, Israel is still on the wrong side of climate
history. When the lightning bolt hit me in the still of that Jerusalem
night, I thought of Nika, Yarden and their friends. COP27 in Sharm may
fail, but Providence ensured that the world’s leaders were gathering
less than three hours away from the most consequential mountain, a moral
platform if there ever was one, for a spiritual and compelling cry to
humanity to change our destructive ways and prove the prosecuting angels
at Creation wrong. What if from Mount Sinai a new climate covenant was
declared, with two tablets featuring 10 climate commandments? Over a
Friday coffee on Emek Refaim in Jerusalem with my friend and
co-conspirator David Miron Wapner, we noodled the idea. “What if it is a
multi-faith call to action from Mount Sinai,” suggested David, who also
serves as chairman of the Interfaith Center for Sustainable
Development. “The politicians have failed us; let’s bring the voice of
religious leaders and youth to Sinai.” But how? At that time Moshe was
engaged in prayer for a long while, so the Holy One, Blessed be He, said
to him, “My beloved ones are drowning in the sea and you are prolonging
prayer before Me!” He said to Him, “Lord of the Universe, what can I
do?” He replied to him, “Speak to the Children of Israel that they
should advance. And you lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand”
(Sotah 36b - 37a).When I walked into the ultra-modern Peace Department
headquarters in New York, one of its whiteboards was filled with arrows
and formulas on how to solve food shortages in Egypt – a modern Joseph
story. “The war in Ukraine is destabilizing food security worldwide, but
especially in Egypt,” says James Sternlicht, 31, founder of the Peace
Department. Sternlicht is a model of a new generation of activists –
media-savvy, strategic, well connected, fearless and with access to
financial resources. He also happens to be Jewish. The first time I met
Sternlicht he was deeply upset about the Russian war against Ukraine,
but unlike the rest of us, he was in touch with Ukrainian and other
influential European leaders and was plotting to bring a multi-faith
delegation to Ukraine in solidarity.He partnered with Rabbi Alon
Goshen-Gottstein, who directs the Elijah Interfaith Institute and has a
global network of high-level religious leaders. Together with religious
leaders, they staged a solidarity event – Faith in Ukraine – in April
during the war that was seen by more than 300 million people, with even
the pope weighing in with a support video. After seeing the whiteboard
about food shortages in Egypt, I asked, “James, are you thinking of
going to the UN climate conference in Egypt? If so, why not replicate
your success in Ukraine and bring your interfaith model for the climate
issue to Mount Sinai?” SHAZAM! MORE lightning bolts began flying. James
started brainstorming at lightning speed about how to beam a climate
covenant ceremony live from Mount Sinai via satellite, engage social
media, reach out to world leaders, expand religious input to include
First Nations, and invite the secretary general of the UN and other
dignitaries. “It all depends on if we can get official permission from
the government of Egypt,” said James. “This could be big. I will make
some calls.” Sternlicht joined up again with the Elijah Interfaith
Institute and brought in the Interfaith Center for Sustainable
Development, which secured three slots for official press conferences at
the UN conference to share the 10 climate commandments and video from
what was expected to be a historic interfaith climate gathering at Mount
Sinai on Sunday, November 13. I scored a Newsweek column announcing the
plan, where I floated the first draft of the 10 climate commandments
and received support from the Roadburg Foundation, which funds climate
action in Canada. Hazon recruited a delegation of youth leaders from
Israel and the US, and Nika from Strike4Fridays convinced her mother to
agree to come with us. We embarked on an advance trip, booked hotels and
flights, hired staff, reserved camels, and ascended Mount Sinai on a
hot August night to see sunrise at the summit for a practice run. COP27
in Sinai wouldn’t be the first divine intervention in the UN climate
conference. I was privileged with my friend David to be part of the
Israeli delegation at the Paris conference in 2015, billed as the last
best chance to strike a deal to keep global warming to a manageable 1.5
degrees. These conferences are two-week affairs. Each one begins with a
sense of optimism that the world is serious about changing course, with
an array of world leaders gathering in the first two days and saying all
the right things. After they jet off, however, negotiations begin.
Since 197 country delegations must agree on every word, I saw firsthand
how Iran and Saudi Arabia would object in committee meetings, along with
China and India, to language that would be binding. As the sea levels
were rising, these countries were watering down the draft agreements,
and the 30,000 people gathered, myself included, started losing hope. On
the weekend, however, massive climate protests swept Paris and restored
momentum.And then, to reciprocate the energy of the weekend protests,
the finger of God appeared, like the one that etched in stone the first
set of 10 commandments. A plague of air pollution darkness descended on
Beijing, and super-charged monsoons rained down on India. Just like this
year’s floods in Pakistan and Mississippi and Hurricane Ian in
Florida. The hearts of leaders melted like ice caps, and a good,
first-step Earth-saving deal was miraculously inked. I celebrated with
friends ecstatically in the front row of a Madonna concert in Paris that
night, singing “Like a Prayer” as if it were Moses’s Song of the
Sea. But will God appear at COP27 in Sinai – and is there anything we
can do to summon divine intervention? Then you shall go with the elders
of Israel to the king of Egypt and you shall say to him, the God of the
Hebrews became manifest to us. Now therefore, let us go a distance of
three days into the wilderness to sacrifice to our God (Exodus
3:18).Pharaoh famously turned down the Israelites’ request for a prayer
service in the desert, so we don’t have a good track record going in
with today’s Egyptian leaders for the Sinai climate prayer plan
request. “Feelings of duty and honor have long driven humanity to do
great things,” said Sternlicht. “Our mission is to solve coordination
failures at scale, and we see this Sinai activation as a stepping stone
to a global coordination system, where religion and science and
eventually politics can work together to guide humanity toward a
brighter future.” Sternlicht and his partners approached the military
governor of Sinai to request permission for an interfaith repentance
ceremony for Mother Earth on Mount Sinai on Sunday, November 13, the
halfway point in the UN conference, when negotiations were expected to
stall and when the usual civil society demonstrations would be banned in
Sharm.The request was forwarded to government offices in Cairo. “Not
now,” came back the response as The Jerusalem Report went to print. And
then the tour operators and hotels canceled the reservations for the
event, essentially drowning the endeavor. During the advance trip, we
understood better that Egypt was on the brink of a severe economic
downspin, that political tensions would be rising drastically, and our
vision to bring 10 climate commandments from religious leaders down from
Mount Sinai would be fraught with challenges. Yet the religious leaders
of the Elijah Interfaith Institute had prepared inspiring and powerful
action calls to humanity. Could we still get them out to the world? We
knew it would be tough going, so I turned heavenward to get some
guidance. At the foot of the mountain on that cloudless and balmy summer
day, I looked up to the sky to pose the question to the Creator,
knowing that the average August rainfall there over the past 50 years
was zero. “Creator of the Universe, send us a sign that we should
proceed with the climate covenant, the 10 climate commandments, here at
Mount Sinai during COP27.”A personal prayer-“Creator of the Universe,
send us a sign that we should proceed with the climate covenant, the 10
climate commandments, here at Mount Sinai during COP27,” I prayed, with
my eyes and hands pointed up with hope and in fear. I waited four
seconds.And, at that very moment – Shazam! – the skies opened up, heavy
rain pelted us, and thunder bolted an unequivocal answer from Above –
all captured on 49 seconds of video. Thank God for Plan B. Stay tuned!
Yosef Israel Abramowitz, an award-winning journalist and frequent
contributor to The Jerusalem Report, was nominated by 12 African
countries for the Nobel Peace Prize for his climate work, is a member of
the Wexner and Toniic Climate groups and a leader of President Isaac
Herzog’s Climate Forum. He serves as CEO of Gigawatt Global, an impact
investment platform for green energy, and is a judge and ambassador of
the Climate Solutions Prize. He can be followed @KaptainSunshine. To
find and comment on the final 10 climate commandments and to track the
unfolding of Plan B, log onto www.thepeacedepartment.org,
www.Elijah-Interfaith.org or www.InterfaithSustain.com. Religious
leaders in Israel, including Vatican Ambassador to Israel and Cyprus
Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana and Rabbi Yonatan Neril, founder and
director of the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development, affirm
the Jerusalem Climate Declaration on November 3. (credit: TAL MAROM)
Religious leaders in Israel, including Vatican Ambassador to Israel and
Cyprus Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana and Rabbi Yonatan Neril, founder
and director of the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development,
affirm the Jerusalem Climate Declaration on November 3. (credit: TAL
MAROM)-Jerusalem Interfaith Climate Declaration-On November 3, a joint
statement, authored primarily by Rabbi Yonatan Neril and David Miron
Wapner, was signed by religious leaders at the Israeli Foreign Ministry
in a joint program with the Interfaith Center for Sustainable
Development. Here is a copy of the text: Inspired by the values and
principles of our belief systems, faith, values, and ethics, we
recognize that the climate crisis is caused by unrestrained human
activity. We have failed to protect Earth’s capacity to support life,
impacting especially the poor and marginalized. As people of faith, we
must with humility challenge greed, instant self-gratification, and
short-term thinking. Abusing and degrading God’s creation for current
and future generations is sinful behavior. We must urgently adopt a new
development paradigm that integrates our common moral and spiritual
values towards a new one of sustainable well-being. We affirm the
power of religion to lead an essential transformation in human society,
action, and behavior. We call upon our faithful to act in accord with
our shared beliefs: The one living God created Earth as one
interdependent life-supporting whole. All of us are called to care for,
love, protect and glory in God’s creation. We shall not worship idols of
greed, consumption, and consumerism and shall make time for sacred
rest, to gratefully embrace in joyous awe all of creation.Humankind
shall act with justice and awareness, using and allocating Earth’s
resources wisely and equitably. At this crucial moment, we must
responsibly protect the purity of air, soil, and water as sources of
human life and flourishing. Respect Earth’s capacity for sustainable
growth, living in ecological harmony and balance. We call upon humanity
to safeguard, respect and bless all life, as human and non-human
biodiversity are sacred. You shall not steal from others and future
generations. Honor, cherish and respect ancestors, the entire human
family, all species, and future generations. We call upon all
religions, governments, UN entities, civil society, as well as our own
constituencies, to act urgently to address the root causes of the
climate crises, to repair our world based on our common spiritual and
cultural values of justice and ethics. We commit ourselves to lead by
example, to act and practice what we preach, and to become protectors of
this earth, to strive to live in balance, harmony, and sustainability,
through our daily lives and actions.
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