Jesus and the Environment?

The only environment Jesus cares about:


Many believers struggle with the idea of all the agendas being promoted out there in the world, sometimes getting confused as whether Jesus has something they want to get involved in or promote.

One of those many areas is environmentalism. Many church leaders are running to get involved in that arena, but there are a number of underlying problems with that.

First of all, the reason they're running to get involved is they did market research on many young people and they find out it is one of their concerns (even though it was fed to them all throughout there tenure in the government school system). In other words, they've been fed propaganda for so long they believe as fact - in many cases - things that have never been proven.

I hesitate to start talking about individual cases, as it would do more harm in that it would bring the focus back onto that instead of Christ, where it should be.

Does Jesus Christ care about environmentalism? I really don't think so. What eternal values does that bring? How does it glorify Jesus and become an expression of Him on the earth by chasing after all these dubious causes. The answer is: it doesn't!

God the Father poured everything that He is into His son Jesus Christ. All that God has ever wanted to show or say has been deposited in Christ. There is nothing more He's interested than than that.

From there He wants those who proclaim Christ as Lord and Savior to allow Him to form and shape Himself in them through the Spirit. The end of all that is that God may be all in all. The means is fellowship with the Father and Jesus by sharing it with other believers. To get distracted from that in any way, no matter what it is is to miss the eternal purpose of God in Christ.

So what does that have to do with environmentalism? Absolutely nothing. That's the point.

We've got to resist the desire to be pragmatic and go with every wind of doctrine that comes along, or we'll always be chasing the next important thing, and miss Christ Himself.

Some may say that it doesn't have to be either or, but can be both. No it can't. God hates mixture. That's the ultimate in His hatred of the principle of what Babylon is and what it represents. It's why Babylon means confusion. It mixes in a little bit of God with everything and then calls it Christian something or other. This is wrong and we need to abandon that mentality and practice.

When we stand before the Father, Christ and the Holy Spirit at the end of all things, it will be based upon how much of Christ has been shaped and formed within us that we'll be rewarded on, not on the endless causes we get involved in.

Anything that distracts us from the riches of Christ alone has to be abandoned, as there's no eternal value in them.

Why do you think things like this are so important? Again, you've been socialized into it by forces that have created a curriculum and teachers that have been ordered to teach it. They got hold of you when you were young and impressionable and basically brainwashed you into thinking this is the crucial need of our era. That tactic is nothing new, as there's always someone looking to put forth this type of silliness in order to get taxpayers money and think of themselves as important.

Other people are involved because they have been made fearful based on a lot of outright lying data that isn't checked to see if it is accurate or not, or whether there is significant alternative views that need to be answered.

One example, without getting into the background is global warming. The torment and fear based upon unproven computer models and theories is pushing for outrageous actions that will have a tremendous impact on people, even though it is probably a false concept that has been attempted to be pushed upon Christians and others by the media.

The point is we need to have discernment and wisdom concerning these things, and not believe all this stuff the world throws at us. God is in Christ, and Christ is in us through the Holy Spirit wanting to fellowship with one another and learn of Him with one another.

Chasing after causes and in most cases wrongly getting into activism at the loss of Christ is the wrong path to travel.

Christ in us is the hope of glory, and the glory in our lives now. Nothing else matters, and we need to throw off the chains the world continues to throw around us in order to control, influence and eventually destroy Christ's people.

He won't do it through direct confrontation because true Christians will dig in their heels and fight it. He does it through compromise and subtlety by getting us to think of things that look good to fight for are indeed being inspired by God, rather than a form of mixture that brings us into agreement and working with the world and its system. This ought not to be the way believers in Christ work.

Ask God for discernment, as it's one of things lacking in believers today, and we need it more than ever as many of the so-called issues facing us are wrapped in language most don't understand and promoted by a media we can no longer trust.

As far as the environment goes, the only environment Jesus cares about is the one He shares with His people when they are together fellowshipping with Him together.

Jesus Christ: The Lamb of God

It's very important to note that in the book, - or really letter - of the revelation of Jesus Christ, all throughout the revelation Jesus Christ is referred to as the lamb. This is very important for His being the lamb is what released the effects of what was revealed of Christ, and it wouldn't have happened unless He was the lamb, and lived out being the Lamb of God.

While if we're truly believers in Christ, we all know that Jesus was the Lamb of God who took away the sins of the world, and that's the heart of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as it relates to all men.

But in the revelation of Jesus Christ, it goes beyond simply being the lamb as far as being a door back to fellowship with God, but it reveals part of the very nature of God as revealed in Jesus Christ as the lamb of God.

It gets into the heart of the eternals before creation where we are told he was crucified before the foundation of the world; before creation. That speaks to us of the fact that being a lamb and bearing the cross was part of the nature of God Himself, not only an instrument to make man right with God because He knew man would sin. It was all of that of course, but also much more.

Here are a number of places in the Revelation of Jesus Christ that call Him the Lamb:



Rev 5:6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

Rev 5:8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four [and] twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and goldenvials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.

Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.

Rev 5:13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, [be] unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

Rev 6:1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

Rev 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

Rev 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

Rev 7:10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.

Rev 7:14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Rev 7:17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

Rev 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

Rev 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Rev 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

Rev 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred 1540 forty [and] four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.

Rev 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, [being] the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

Rev 14:10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

Rev 15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous [are] thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true [are] thy ways, thou King of saints.

Rev 17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him [are] called, and chosen, and faithful.

Rev 19:9 And he saith unto me , Write, Blessed [are] they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.

Rev 21:9 Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

Rev 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

Rev 21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

Rev 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb [is] the light thereof.

Rev 21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither [whatsoever] worketh abomination, or [maketh] a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Rev 22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

Rev 22:3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him :


Everything in relationship to God and man in Christ is because He was and is the Lamb of God. To have Christ worked within us as a lamb, or as the cross (obviously not as the Savior, but the characteristics of being lambs before God in Christ) deeply working in us to change us into His image.

We could walk in the depths of what the scriptures reveal to us about the Lord Jesus Christ being the lamb, and we will throughout eternity, but the major thing is to see Him as the lamb, and that He is working in us as the lamb so we can partake in His very nature in that way.

Look at the things attributed to Jesus as the Lamb, and you'll see the very things He's ready to work within those who are willing to be sheep as He is as well.

It's in seeing Jesus Christ as the lamb first, that allows to begin on this type of journey where we are also shaped into lambs through our fellowship with the very Lamb of God Himself. The Lamb is the key to breaking all the seals and setting people free. Those that see Him as the lamb, will begin to have that shaped and formed within Him, and will also participate in the very things He does before the Father.

The difference is He does it as the original, and we as in reponse to who He is being worked within us.

We need to ask the Lord to reveal Himself as the lamb to us, and then allow Him to work Himself within us that way. Only He can do it, and we need to keep our hearts open to Him as He does. It's not an easy path walking as lambs before the chief lamb; just look at His life to see that that is a reality.