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.
