The Butterfly Effect

Explain butterfly effect object lesson.

Divine Ecology

Show how God’s law is natural instead of imposed.

Circle of life and love.

Examples in nature of this principle / ecological circles.

The Butterfly Effect of Sin

Example of the Fall in Eden.

False view of God —>

Sinful actions —>

Suffering ensues.

How Sin Affects the Sinner

How Sin Affects the Earth

Man as a microcosm of the Earth.

What is bad for us is bad for the Earth.

How Sin Affects the Animals

Hosea 4:1–4 AV 1873

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. 4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: For thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

How Sin Affects our Neighbor

Directly and Indirectly (through the Earth)

Examples

Plagues in Egypt

Modern Plagues

Four pest campaign example

Reading Revelation Ecologically

Revelation 11:18 (AV 1873)

18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

Seeing through God’s Eyes

God’s Love for the Earth

John 3:16 (AV 1873)

16 For God so loved the world…

God’s Love for the Animals

God’s Love for Humanity

The Green Sabbath

Counterfeit Green Sabbath (Sunday)

God as Creator

God’s care for animals

God’s care for earth itself (yearly Sabbaths)

God’s care for the oppressed

Losing the Sign

Hellenism led to disregard for creation, which led to the disregard for the sign concerning the Creator.

Salt of the Earth

How our loving actions help keep the earth from imploding.