Are you concerned about the effect climate change may have on the future of our planet? The Bible clearly states that God is firmly in control of the earth's climate. In the Bible we discover that God has used the climate as a means of influencing man's behaviour, on occasions even catastrophically so. Likewise, the Bible says that in the future God will again use climate events to bring about changes to life on earth. For some alive at the time there will again be climate-related catastrophe, but afterwards rather the complete opposite. God's future intent is to bring about a change to the earth's climate which will result in the earth being more abundantly productive than ever before, even areas now inhospitable to plant growth. 
“While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease” (Genesis 8:22). 
“Thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘Consider your ways! Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build the temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified,’ says the LORD. ‘You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?’ says the LORD of hosts. ‘Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house. Therefore the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. For I called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on all the labour of your hands’” (Haggai 1:7-11). 
“And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: they ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed” (Luke 17:26-30). 
“. . . and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked” (2 Peter 2:5-7). 
“There will be an abundance of grain in the earth, on the top of the mountains; its fruit shall wave like Lebanon; and those of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth. His name shall endure forever; His name shall continue as long as the sun. And men shall be blessed in Him; all nations shall call Him blessed. Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only does wondrous things!” (Psalm 72:16-18). 
“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered or come to mind . . . The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,” says the LORD” (Isaiah 65:17-25). 
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Quotations are from the New King James Version of the Bible 

An English version Bible uses the word soul around 500 times when speaking about any living creature, including mankind; it is also used in describing the various aspects in which a living creature, man or animal, may be considered. In the case of a person, this can be the body, life, breath, or mind. Yet nowhere in the Bible is it used to express the idea of immortality or some entity which continues in existence after the bodily death of a person or animal. 
“Then he said, 'Are you really my son Esau?' He said 'I am' He said, 'Bring it near to me and I will eat of my son's game, so that my soul may bless you.' So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank” (Genesis 27:24,25). 
“His soul was strongly attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young woman and spoke kindly to the young woman” (Genesis 34:3). 
“. . . and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant . . .” (Leviticus 26:15). 
“Hear, O Israel: *The LORD our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength” (Deuteronomy 6:4,5). 
“Can flavourless food be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? My soul refuses to touch them; they are as loathsome food to me” (Job 6:6,7). 
“Thus says the LORD: “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it’” (Jeremiah 6:16). 
““Behold, all souls are Mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is Mine; the soul who sins shall die . . . The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself” (Ezekiel 18:4,20). 
“. . . (yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed” (Luke 2:35). 
“And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.” But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?'” (Luke 12:19,20). 
“And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people” (Acts 3:23). 
“Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God” (Romans 13:1). 
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(Quotations are from the New King James Version of the Bible)