By James Wilson
The
Wall Street Journal notes California has just experienced the driest January
since the Gold Rush of 1849. A fourth
straight disastrous year of drought is forecast, along with the admission California
farmers have received less than a tenth of their normal water allowances for
surface water. To address the deficit
trillions of gallons of water have been pumped from California’s enormous
aquifer since 2012. That source too is
running out, even as many fields lie fallow in an effort to conserve. But the worst news is the high pressure ridge
that hovered over the state deflecting rain and snow for more than sixteen
months is back. At this time it is off
shore but still managing to divert storms headed our way to the north and south
of the state.
The
Huffington Post – and other sanctuaries from which secular pundits pontificate
– tries to explain the situation in terms of global warming with spectacular
absurdity. California has seen monster
storms since November 2014 despite the driest January on record. We have also had spectacular lack of rain and
only 25% of normal snowfall. The Post
offers statistics about the abnormally high temperatures in the Sierra Nevada
but remains silent on the abnormal chill conditions in much of the rest of the
nation. Their writers make the
astounding claim that the super storms are fruit of warming – because they say
warming causes more water vapor that becomes more falling rain – but they also
blame warming for the lack of rain because it has all dried up. They cite the evidence for more vapor and
blithely assume – without presenting any evidence – that climate change causes
warmth in California and a freeze from the Atlantic Seaboard to the Great
Plains – northern and southern. Nice
going, guys!
There
is another explanation, a biblical explanation.
This will – of course – arouse scorn from those who worship the religion
of scientism, as opposed to respecting authentic science. But if a thing looks like a duck, quacks like
a duck, and waddles like a duck it might be worth considering that it could
actually be a duck.
In
the biblical book of 2 Chronicles God tells King Solomon that whenever He holds
back normal rainfall it is because of persistent and serious sin in the
land. This is not His punishment – He is
not that kind of God – but it is His way of demanding attention before righting
the wrongs. The wrongs He decries are
generally in four categories – covenant breaking, shedding of innocent blood,
sexual sin, and idol worship. He goes on
to name the remedy – but later for that.
How does California rate in the persistent and serious sin department?
Her
elected government – with elected being the operant word – highjacked “loans”
from her school system and persuaded Californians to tax themselves so those
loans could be repaid. Although school
funding has increased no loans have been repaid. In other forays into this arena the state is
attempting to force churches and their affiliates to purchase abortion coverage
in defiance of the First Amendment, state and federal law, and recent Supreme
Court decisions. These are called
covenant breaking.
Speaking
of abortions, California leads the nation in numbers and out of all proportion
to our share of the national population.
Thirty thousand of these are paid for with tax dollars and this is not
kept secret from the voters. On top of
this are the hundreds of thousands of Native Americans slaughtered and enslaved
in the early days of California – a slaughter that peaked during the
aforementioned Gold Rush. Some of these,
such as the butchery of the Shasta Tribe near Etna in 1851, are still denied by
government to this day. God has a
problem with lying too, but file this one under the shedding of innocent blood.
Under
sexual sin we can notice almost ninety per cent of the pornography made in the
United States is created in the San Fernando Valley of Southern
California. Add to that the
encouragement we give ourselves by patronizing films and television that
glorify sexual relations without the commitment of marriage. Add on top of that the glory we give to early
Californians like Peter Lassen who enslaved Native women to gratify his
appetites. Finish it off with the
reality that California is one of the prime locations for the modern sex
trafficking industries and the point is made on this one.
Last
but not least is idol worship. Reality
is we worship policy and product makers from our can-do governor to the lords
of Silicon Valley and social media tyros to entertainment industry stars from
Lady Gaga to Kanye West. And if esoteric
idolatry is not enough for us, we worship actual idols of wood and stone and
sand. We worship Buddhist and Hindu
idols in churches from Grace Cathedral and Trinity Cathedral – in San Francisco
and Sacramento – to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the old City Hall
in Redding, where I live. We even sport
a rendering of the Roman goddess Minerva in our State Capitol’s rotunda.
Lest anyone beg
off with a weak statement that “I don’t worship those things,” let’s remember
they are paid for with our (sales and other) taxes, our donations, and our
visits to marvel at their artistic qualities.
This is California’s problem, not the problem of some group of people
the rest of us designate as bad. That
goes for all four categories. If we reap
benefits from – say – confiscated Indian lands we also bear the
responsibilities.
Likewise, if
there is no credible meteorological explanation for this persistent and
recurrent high pressure ridge then only a foolish mind would refuse to look at
a more esoteric line of reasoning. High
pressure ridges come and go, restraining rainfall where they are present, for days
and even weeks at a time. But months and
then more than a year over one state?
And after some blessedly torrential rainfall for two months the ridge
hovers over us once again? That does not
occur in nature or from natural causation.
What the Word of God says – on the other hand – looks, quacks, and
waddles pretty much as though it were a duck.
So what does that same Word offer as a remedy?
2 Chronicles
7:14 is the verse that follows God’s warning to King Solomon that a lack of
normal rainfall is attributable to human sin coupled with His determination to
get His people’s attention before He forgives and rescues them. “If my people, who are called by my Name,
will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked
ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal
their land,” is what it says. So we are
left with a choice to make.
The disciples of
climate change imagine human behavior causes catastrophic warming. Christians acknowledge that climate changes;
we know from science that the planet has endured many cycles of heating and
cooling since time began. We are
astounded that anyone thinks mankind has the chops to cause it in the complete
absence of causal evidence. We do
imagine we can – through prayer and repentance – move the heart of God; He can
and does impact climate. We imagine such
things because we have observed this phenomenon time and again. It is called miracle; it is also called
dynamic mercy and grace.
The choice is
simple. Believe the absurd notion that
human caused global warming accounts for both catastrophic rains and
catastrophic dry spells as the clergy of climate scientism would have us
convinced. Or believe and act in the
realization that Californians have offended God and injured one another over a
long and catastrophic period of time and offer prayer and repentance to the God
who says that is all He wants from us.
Which of these alternatives looks, quacks, and walks like the truth it
claims to reveal?
James A. Wilson is the author of Living
As Ambassadors of Relationships and The
Holy Spirit and the End Times – available at local bookstores or by
e-mailing him at
praynorthstate@charter.net
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