Ecological Blessings
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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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- See also: The Moral Basis for Ecological Blessings.
- Approximate opposite: Ecological Judgments; also Ecological Disaster.
- Potential additional page: Ecological Restoration - This would include a number of the passages listed below (such as Isaiah 35:1-10).
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- Some of the blessings from obedience - rain, harvest, abundance.
- If you pay attention to the commandments, God will send you rain, harvests and blessings.
- An abundance of rain associated with obedience to God.
- When Israel returns and obeys God, God will bless all that they do. This will include: "Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, ... in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, etc." Basically, it will be a reversal of the ecological judgments that are described in Deuteronomy 29:22(+).
- Psa 107:35-38 He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs. There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in, sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase. He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn't allow their livestock to decrease.
- When the King (Jesus) comes in the future - conditions during the Fourth World Ecosystem:
- Isa 11:6-9 - The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them. The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. The nursing child will play near a cobra's hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; ... THE REASON WHY: ... for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
- (The judgment will have an effect on the environment, both in the country and in the city.) When the Spirit comes, the situation will be reversed. It will affect the environment, but it will also affect moral values and conduct. Justice and righteousness will be present.
- Description of the time of blessing that will come after God judges the world - a judgment that will affect even the stars. (This judgment is described in chapter 34.)
Unless otherwise noted, all notes and comments are © by Dennis Hinks.
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