Reserved for Fire | John MacArthur

Well it may have startled you a little bit that I decided to talk on the end of the universe this morning; and that was really not in the big plan. But I began to listen to some of the rhetoric early in the week about this climate change conference over in Glasgow, Scotland—the Glasgow Climate Change Conference; I guess they call it COP26—and the more I heard, the more I felt it was necessary to set the record straight. Somebody needs to tell the truth about what’s going to happen to the Earth, and it’s not going to be told by that group of people or anybody connected to them. The Word of God gives us the truth, and I want you to understand what’s going on around you. So many lies, so much deception, so much chaos; and we want to always go to the Word of God to find the truth.

We have heard now for a long time, and it’s being reiterated in particular this week, that the climate change is the greatest threat to humanity and the planet. This is the ultimate threat of all threats, that we have somehow to figure out how to cope with rising seas, to cope with more powerful storms and deadly heat waves and deadly cold waves, and rapidly changing ecosystem—that we’re near the end. In fact you can hear anything from twenty-five to a thousand years as the date for which the Earth is going to go out of existence if we don’t do something.

President Biden said, “Climate change is ravaging the world. It is the existential threat to human existence.” And then he closed his talk by saying, “God save the planet.” The chairman of the event called for the end of all burning, drilling, and mining, because “we are digging our [own] graves.” The Chief of the UN said, “Save humanity, and protect the plant.” David Attenborough, the famous British naturalist, said, “Working together we can save the planet.” And even Prince Charles weighed in, “The hopes of the world are upon you.” All of this nonsense going on is an impossible approach to total destruction to life as we know it in this society and in the world.

Peter gives us the right answer to the future of this planet—so turn to 2 Peter 3—by revelation from the Lord. By the way, let me make it very simple. The Earth is a disposable planet. If you want an illustration, you wouldn’t really try to save, permanently, a Styrofoam cup, would you? Relative to God’s plan and to eternity, this planet is a Styrofoam cup that has a very brief usage.

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