Proverbs 12:10, “A righteous man
regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are
cruel.”
Every day in countries around the
world, animals are fighting for their lives. They are enslaved, beaten, and
kept in chains to make them perform for humans’ “entertainment”; they are
mutilated and confined to tiny cages so that we can kill them and eat them;
they are burned, blinded, poisoned, and cut up alive in the name of “science”;
they are electrocuted, strangled, and skinned alive so that people can parade
around in their coats; and worse.
The abuse that animals suffer at
human hands is heartbreaking, sickening, and infuriating. It’s even more so
when we realize that the everyday choices we make—such as what we eat for lunch
and the kind of shampoo we buy—may be directly supporting some of this abuse.
But as hard as it is to think about, we can’t stop animals’ suffering if we
simply look the other way and pretend it isn’t happening.
Animals are counting on
compassionate people like you to give them a voice and be their heroes by
learning about the issues they face and taking action. Each of us has the power
to save animals from nightmarish suffering-and best of all, it’s easier than
you might think. If you’re ready to join the millions of other compassionate
people who are working to create a kinder, better world for animals, learn how
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I have always loved animals. I love
animals. Animals have a soul, and spirit which many people do not realize. The
soul is composed of 3 elements: a MIND to think, a Heart to feel emotions, and
a WILL to decide. Animals, just as humans, possess these characteristics.
Animals can become sad, and depressed, if mistreated. The spirit is life.
Animals praise God and communicate with God.
Likewise, animals are happy and
content when we respect them as creatures of God's divine handiwork and
omnipotence. Animals do not have a sin-nature, as humans do. We have a moral
compass, i.e., a conscience about sin, that animals do not have.
I don't like mean people and can't
think of anything crueller and more heartless, than to deliberately hurt an
animal. God gave us pets to love and comfort us. No one should ever hurt or be
mean to an animal. Such people are spiritual sick, and need to find the love of
God.
The Bible teaches respect for
animals and life. In the law of Moses, God forbade anyone from harming birds in
a nest if it was in their way. Isn't God wonderful...
Deuteronomy 22:6-7, “If a bird's
nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether
they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam [mother] sitting upon the young, or
upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam [mother] with the young. But thou
shalt in any wise let the dam [mother] go, and take the young to thee; that it
may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.”
God is a bird watcher! There is
some speculation as to exactly what God meant by these Scriptures, but one
thing is abundantly clear, and that is, God wanted the birds taken care of and
not mistreated in any way.
When I read this Scripture passage
I immediately thought about pregnant fish, and how they are often released to
give birth to more fish. It very likely could be that God wanted the mother
bird to be able to reproduce again, and demanded that she be released into the
wild. I think that makes the most sense, but I am not sure. Whether that's what
this passage means or not, it is certainly the ethical (right) thing to do to
respect motherhood, whether it be human or animal.
I do think that is what this
Scripture is teaching, respect for reproduction in life. Look at all the
endangered species in the world today, and how many birds and animals are
extinct. It would certainly make sense that God, who cared to preserve His creation
through the flood of Genesis Chapter 6, would be concerned about preservation
of the species.
I believe animals should be killed
painlessly and quickly as possible. I do believe that greedy poachers, who
don't care if they wipe out an endangered species, should be arrested and
brought to trial. We must respect what God has given to us.
PLAYING GOD WITH SCIENCE - BEWARE
OF MAD SCIENTISTS!
Biblically, God said that every
living thing would reproduce "after his kind" (Genesis 1:11,12). For
modern scientists to tamper with the DNA of living organisms, combing them, and
producing mutant species is dangerous. Scientists have already produced
spider-goats, silk moth potatoes, glow-in-the-dark pigs, cows with human
organs, et cetera. Mankind cannot play God without consequences!
How far will God allow men to go in
their never-ended, disturbing, insatiable, thirst for destruction? The Bible
teaches that God created the universe in His wisdom (Psalm 136:5) to reproduce
“AFTER HIS KIND” and “AFTER THEIR KIND” (Genesis 1:21,24); but mad scientists
are creating genetically modified mutants that reproduce AFTER ANOTHER KIND!!!
As with all the horror movies
produced over the past 60 years... things always start off well, but then turn
to disaster. It is ironic that men seem to know they're playing God with
nature, yet curiosity and lust for money and power cause them to cast caution
and morality to the wind.
Psalm 136:5, “To him that by wisdom
made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever.” Proverb 3:19, “The LORD by
wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the
heavens.”
In January of 2011 mad scientists
release 6,000 genetically modified mosquitoes into Malaysia in an attempt to
combat dengue fever. Certainly, it is admirable that scientists want to cure
diseases and do good with science; but to violate the laws of nature by
tampering with DNA, changing the God-given genetic structure of life forms is
to play God and risk unforeseen consequences. The law of cause and effect (and
hundreds of other universal laws) tell us that it's just a matter of time
before mad scientists go too far and open a Pandora's box that cannot be
closed. God created the universe in His wisdom. Think about that.
And now scientists have insanely
produced horrific giant monster ants with giant heads and killer claws!!! Where
will this insatiable infatuation with playing God end?
Isaiah 13:11, “And I will punish
the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and
I will cause the arrogancy of the
proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.”
ANIMALS USED FOR FOOD
On today’s farms, animals used for
food are crammed by the thousands into filthy, windowless sheds or stuffed into
wire cages, metal crates, and other torturous devices. Billions of fish—along
with “nontarget” animals, including sharks, sea turtles, birds, seals, and
whales—are caught each year by the commercial fishing industry. Animals used
for food will never raise their families, root around in the soil, build nests,
or do anything else that’s natural and important to them. Most won’t even feel
the warmth of the sun on their backs or breathe fresh air until the day they’re
loaded onto trucks headed for slaughterhouses.
Cruelty to Animals: Mechanized
Madness
In the U.S. today, 99% of animals
used for food live on massive industrial “factory farms,” where they’re crammed
by the thousands into wire cages, metal crates, or other extremely restrictive
enclosures inside filthy, windowless sheds. These animals will never raise
their families, root around in the soil, build nests, or do anything that is
natural and important to them. Most won’t even feel the warmth of the sun on
their backs or breathe fresh air until the day they’re loaded onto trucks
headed for slaughterhouses.
The factory farming industry
strives to maximize output while minimizing costs—always at the animals’
expense. The giant corporations that run most factory farms have found that
they can make more money by squeezing as many animals as possible into tiny spaces,
even though many of the animals die from disease or infection.
Animals on factory farms endure
constant fear and torment:
They’re often given so little space
that they can’t even turn around or lie down comfortably. Egg-laying hens are
kept in small cages, chickens and pigs are kept in jam-packed sheds, and cows
are kept on crowded, filthy feedlots.
Antibiotics are used to make
animals grow faster and to keep them alive in the unsanitary conditions.
Research shows that factory farms’ widespread use of antibiotics can lead to
antibiotic-resistant bacteria that threaten human health.
Most factory-farmed animals have
been genetically manipulated to grow larger or to produce more milk or eggs
than they naturally would. Some chickens grow so unnaturally large that their
legs cannot support their outsized bodies, and they suffer from starvation or
dehydration when they can’t walk to reach food and water.
When they’ve grown large enough to
slaughter or their bodies have been worn out from producing milk or eggs,
animals raised for food are crowded onto trucks and transported for miles
through all weather extremes, typically without food or water. At the slaughterhouse,
those who survived the transport will have their throats slit, often while
they’re still conscious. Many remain conscious when they’re plunged into the
scalding-hot water of the defeathering or hair-removal tanks or while their
bodies are being skinned or hacked apart. You can help end this abuse. PETA
The green pastures and idyllic
barnyard scenes of years past are now distant memories. On today's factory
farms, animals are crammed by the thousands into filthy windowless sheds, wire
cages, gestation crates, and other confinement systems. These animals will
never raise their families, root in the soil, build nests, or do anything that
is natural to them. They won't even feel the sun on their backs or breathe
fresh air until the day they are loaded onto trucks bound for slaughter.
Animals on today's factory farms
have no legal protection from cruelty that would be illegal if it were
inflicted on dogs or cats: neglect, mutilation, genetic manipulation, and drug
regimens that cause chronic pain and crippling, transport through all weather
extremes, and gruesome and violent slaughter. Yet farmed animals are no less
intelligent or capable of feeling pain than are the dogs and cats we cherish as
companions.
The factory farming system of
modern agriculture strives to maximize output while minimizing costs. Cows,
calves, pigs, chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and other animals are kept in
small cages, in jam-packed sheds, or on filthy feedlots, often with so little
space that they can't even turn around or lie down comfortably. They are
deprived of exercise so that all their bodies' energy goes toward producing
flesh, eggs, or milk for human consumption. The giant corporations that run
most factory farms have found that they can make more money by cramming animals
into tiny spaces, even though many of the animals get sick and some die.
Industry journal National Hog Farmer explains, "Crowding Pigs Pays,"
and egg-industry expert Bernard Rollins writes that "chickens are cheap;
cages are expensive."
They are fed drugs to fatten them
faster and to keep them alive in conditions that would otherwise kill them, and
they are genetically altered to grow faster or to produce much more milk or
eggs than they would naturally. Many animals become crippled under their own
weight and die within inches of water and food.
While the suffering of all animals
on factory farms is similar, each type of farmed animal faces different types
of cruelty.
Chickens killed for their flesh in
the United States are bred and drugged to grow so quickly that their hearts,
lungs, and limbs often can't keep up. Read more about chickens.
Hens used for eggs live six or
seven to a battery cage the size of a file drawer, thousands of which are
stacked tier upon tier in huge, filthy warehouses. Read more about laying hens.
Cattle are castrated, their horns
are ripped out of their heads, and third-degree burns (branding) are inflicted
on them, all without any pain relief. Read more about cows raised for their
flesh.
Cows used for their milk are
drugged and bred to produce unnatural amounts of milk; they have their babies
stolen from them shortly after birth and sent to notoriously cruel veal farms
so that humans can drink the calves' milk. Read more about dairy cows.
Mother pigs on factory farms are
confined to crates so small that they are unable to turn around or even lie
down comfortably.
Fish on aquafarms spend their
entire lives in cramped, filthy enclosures, and many suffer from parasitic
infections, diseases, and debilitating injuries. Conditions on some farms are
so horrendous that 40 percent of the fish may die before farmers can kill and
package them for food.
Turkeys' beaks and toes are burned
off with a hot blade. Many suffer heart failure or debilitating leg pain, often
becoming crippled under the weight of their genetically manipulated and drugged
bodies.
When they have finally grown large
enough, animals raised for food are crowded onto trucks and transported over
many miles through all weather extremes to the slaughterhouse. Those who
survive this nightmarish journey will have their throats slit, often while they
are still fully conscious. Many are still conscious when they are plunged into
the scalding water of the defeathering or hair-removal tanks or while their
bodies are being skinned or hacked apart.
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Animals Used for Clothing
Every year, billions of animals
suffer and die for clothing and accessories. Skin is torn from them to make
leather, birds are held down while handfuls of feathers are ripped out of their
sensitive skin, and small animals are caged for life before being killed for
their fur. Sheep are often beaten and mutilated by workers stealing their wool
and their skin for shearling. Goats are similarly abused for cashmere and
mohair. All this is done in the name of fashion. No matter the type of material
or where it comes from, if the process involves an animal, it involves horrific
cruelty.
Animals on Fur Farms
Eighty-five percent of the fur
industry’s skins come from animals on fur factory farms—dismal, often filthy
places where thousands of animals are usually kept in wire cages for their
entire lives. As on factory farms where animals are raised for food, the
methods used on fur factory farms are designed to maximize profits, always at
the expense of the animals.
To cut costs, fur farmers pack
animals into unbearably small cages, preventing them from taking more than a
few steps in any direction or doing anything that is natural and important to
them, such as running, swimming, making nests, and finding mates. Many animals
go insane under these conditions. The anguish and frustration of life in a cage
leads many animals to self-mutilate, biting at their skin, tail, and feet;
frantically pace and circle endlessly; and even cannibalize their cage-mates.
Rows of cages are often housed in
giant, dark, filthy sheds or barns where the ammonia from the animals’
accumulated urine and feces burns their eyes and lungs, or they may simply be
lined up outdoors, where animals have no protection from bone-chilling cold,
driving rain, or sweltering heat. Parasites and disease run rampant on fur
farms, making these animals’ already miserable lives even more unbearable.
Animals on fur factory farms are
fed meat byproducts considered unfit for human consumption. Water is provided
by a nipple system, which often freezes in the winter and can also fail because
of human error.
Unfortunately, no federal humane
slaughter law protects animals on fur factory farms, and killing methods are
gruesome. Because fur farmers care only about preserving the quality of the
fur, they use slaughter methods that keep the pelts intact but that can result
in extreme suffering for the animals. Some animals even wake up while they are
being skinned. Animals have clamps attached to or rods forced into their mouths
and anuses, and they are painfully electrocuted. Genital electrocution—deemed
“unacceptable” by the American Veterinary Medical Association in its “2000
Report of the AVMA Panel on Euthanasia”—causes animals to suffer from cardiac
arrest while they are still conscious.
Other animals are poisoned with
strychnine, which suffocates them by paralyzing their muscles with painful,
rigid cramps. Neck-breaking is another common slaughter method on fur factory
farms. The fur industry refuses to condemn even blatantly cruel killing
methods.
As a consumer, you can help put an
end to this cruel practice by refusing to buy any products made with fur,
including fur trim. Be fur-free today. PETA
ANIMALS USED IN EXPERIMENTATION
Right now, millions of mice, rats,
rabbits, primates, cats, dogs, and other animals are locked inside cages in
laboratories across the country. They languish in pain, ache with loneliness,
and are deprived of everything that’s natural and important to them. All they
can do is sit and wait in fear of the next terrifying and painful procedure
that will be performed on them. A lack of environmental enrichment and the
stress of their living situations cause some animals to develop neurotic
behaviors, such as incessantly spinning in circles, rocking back and forth,
pulling out their own fur, and even biting themselves. After enduring lives of
pain, loneliness, and terror, almost all of them will be killed.
Animals in labs are tortured and
brutally killed
Imagine living inside a locked
closet without any control over any aspect of your life. You can’t choose when
and what you eat, how you will spend your time, whether or not you will have a
partner and children, or who that partner will be. You can’t even decide when
the lights go on and off.
Think about spending your entire
life like this, a prisoner, even though you have committed no crime. This is
life for an animal in a laboratory. It is deprivation, isolation, and misery.
On top of the deprivation, there
are the experiments. U.S. law allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned,
isolated, starved, drowned, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged. No
experiment, no matter how painful or trivial, is prohibited – and pain-killers
are not required. Even when alternatives to the use of animals are
available, the law does not require that they be used—and often they aren’t.
Animals are infected with diseases
that they would never normally contract, tiny mice grow tumors as large as
their own bodies, kittens are purposely blinded, rats are made to suffer
seizures, and primates’ skulls are cut open and electrodes are implanted in
them. Experimenters force-feed chemicals to animals, conduct repeated surgeries
on them, implant wires in their brains, crush their spines, and much more.
After enduring these terrifying,
painful procedures, animals are then usually dumped back into a cage without
any painkillers. Video footage from inside laboratories shows animals who cower
in fear every time someone walks by their cages. They don’t know if they will
be dragged from their prison cells for an injection, blood withdrawal, a
painful procedure, surgery, or death. Often, they see other animals killed
right in front of them.
No animals are safe from
experimentation—cats, dogs, fish, mice, pigs, primates, rabbits, and rats are
just a few of the species routinely used in these tests.
Check out PETA’s interactive
timeline, “Without Consent,” which features almost 200 stories of twisted
experiments from the past century, including ones in which dogs were forced to
inhale cigarette smoke for months, mice were cut up while still conscious, and
cats were deafened, paralyzed, and drowned. Go Cruelty Free. PETA
Seal Slaughter
Every year, about a half million
seals worldwide are subjected to painful and often lingering deaths, largely
for the sake of fashion.1 Despite a worldwide outcry over the cruelty of the
slaughter and a ban on seal products in many countries, the massacre continues.
Seals are slaughtered in Canada,
Greenland, Namibia, Norway and Russia. During Canada’s annual commercial seal
slaughter, as many as 400,000 seals can be shot or bludgeoned.2 Canada halted
the slaughter of so-called “whitecoats” in 1987, but harp and gray seals lose
their white fur at around two weeks of age, so most seals can still be shot or
clubbed to death before they reach their first month of life.3
Sealers use a variety of weapons,
including clubs, “hakapiks” (heavy wooden clubs topped by a barbed metal hammer
head), and rifles. Sealers often hook baby seals in the eye, cheek, or mouth to
avoid damaging their fur, then drag them across the ice to skin them.
A senior research fellow at the
University of Bristol was part of a veterinary team that observed a seal
slaughter in Newfoundland in 2007. He reported “widespread disregard for the
requirements of Canada’s marine mammal regulations” and sealers who did not
check for vital signs before skinning the seals. Nearly half of the seals
documented by the team showed “some response to stimuli after being hooked and
dragged,” and the majority of seals who were shot were not immediately killed
by the first bullet. PETA
Animals Used for Entertainment
Animals aren’t actors, spectacles
to imprison and gawk at, or circus clowns. Yet thousands of elephants, bears,
apes, and others are forced to perform silly, difficult tricks under the threat
of physical punishment; carted across the country in cramped, stuffy semi-truck
trailers; kept chained or caged in barren, filthy enclosures; and regularly
separated from their families and friends—all for the sake of entertainment.
Many of them are even forced to perform until the day they die.
Companion Animals
For every lucky dog or cat who has
a comfortable home and a devoted human guardian, countless others are
struggling to survive on the streets. Many are suffering at the hands of
incompetent, destitute, overwhelmed, negligent, or abusive people or are waiting
in animal shelters for a good home.
Issues affecting animal companions
Many dogs are kept on heavy chains
and forced to live outdoors through all weather extremes, while others suffer
and die in twisted dogfighting rings. Left to roam unsupervised by their
guardians or turned away from so-called “no-kill” shelters, “outdoor cats” have
been poisoned, shot, set on fire, or trapped and drowned by cruel people. Feral
cats can also be hit by cars or maimed by fan blades when they crawl under car
hoods or into warm engine bays on winter days. Other cats are subjected to
painful and traumatic mutilations in declawing surgeries.
Birds locked inside cages become
neurotic from constant stress. Fish and other small animals sold as “starter
pets” are often neglected by well-meaning people who simply don’t know how to
care for them properly. Hoarders compulsively collect animals and keep them
trapped in hellish, filthy conditions.
Wildlife
As humans continue to develop
natural areas, animals’ homes continue to disappear. And as animals search for
food, water, shelter, and a place to raise their young, they’re often deemed
“nuisances” or “pests” or said to be “overpopulated.” Each year, millions of
them are killed because humans have taken over their living areas and don’t
want them there. Canada geese, rabbits, raccoons, chipmunks, mice, rats, wasps,
beavers, bats, snakes, ducks, prairie dogs, and pigeons are among the types of
wildlife who most often suffer because of a perceived conflict with humans.
"Live in Harmony With
Wildlife" collage of raccoon, mouse, pigeon, any
Animals ask for very little except
for the opportunity to live in peace. But adding to their struggle to survive
are hunters, who enjoy stalking and killing them even when they make their
homes far away from cities. Hunters frequently victimize bears, coyotes, ducks,
foxes, mountain lions, prairie dogs, deer, geese, and wolves. Anglers like to
trick fish into biting on hooks that pierce their faces before pulling them out
of the water and allowing them to suffocate. And trappers lay traps that slam
shut on unsuspecting animals’ legs so that they can kill them for being a
“nuisance” or for their fur.
The Earth Is the Lord's and The
Fulness Thereof!
Psalms 50:1012, “For every beast of
the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls
of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry,
I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.” (see
also 1st Corinthians 10:26)
Every animal upon the earth belongs
to God, which should cause us to be respectful of all life. God is an
environmentalist. God even cared about a little nest of birds in the Old
Testament. God doesn't approve of men killing animals for sport and then leaving
the carcass to rot, wasting life recklessly.
I believe that we have to protect
all animals when men recklessly come near killing them all for greedy
commercial production. Man is his own worst enemy.
Is it nothing to you all ye that
pass by? Look how men abuse God's creation to make profits without
accountability. Greedy corporations are not held accountable for waste dumping,
pouring toxic chemicals into the world's rivers and lakes. Albeit, it's not
just the large companies of the industrialized world. Individual people litter
as much as the corporations. I can't believe how selfish and irresponsible so
many people are. I see them tossing garbage out their car window. I've seen
thousands of beer cans tossed along beaches and even household garbage dumped
along the roadside.
God hates when men destroy the
earth, whether it be dumping their plastic debris by the billions into the
oceans, detonating test nuclear bombs by the thousands on and above the earth,
reckless deforestation, dumping toxic waste into the rivers and lands, etc.
Revelation 11:18, “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.”
Psalms 50:1012, “For every beast of
the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls
of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry,
I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.” (see
also 1st Corinthians 10:26)
Kindness To Animals and Humane
Treatment
Proverbs 12:10, “A righteous man
regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are
cruel.”
I was recently watching the History
Channel, and they said that horses have been known to jump off cliffs, to
commit suicide, if torturously worked to the point of misery. This is
brutality, and such horse owners should be held liable for cruelty to animals.
The Bible teaches FAIRNESS to
animals in 1st Timothy 5:18... "For the scripture saith, thou shalt not
muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, the labourer is worthy of his
reward." If an animal performs work, it should be rewarded for his labor,
and well-treated. This is Biblical.
In Luke 12:6 we learn that animals
are very important to God, and He keeps track of every one of them... "Are
not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten
before God?" God sees every abused animal, and no tyrant will go
unpunished.
I couldn't believe how cows are
abused in the milk business. Cows are injected with Monsanto's
Bovine-Growth-Hormone (BGH), which causes the cows to produce 10 times their
normal milk output, and PUS! To counter the near-emergency medical state of the
cows, the animals are pumped full of antibiotics to kill all the pus. This is
animal abuse!
“You can judge a man's true
character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”
People are not animals. The Bible
gives us a Scripture. 1st Corinthians 15:39, “All flesh is not the same flesh:
but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of
fishes, and another of birds.” Animals are animals, and humans are humans, not
related except that God created them both. Mad scientists are producing
chimeras (mixing human DNA with genetic material from insects, plants and
animals). God only knows the hellish nightmare that will be unleashed. It was
in recent news for July of 2015 that New Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the
World: Nightmare Ahead! (this is really scary stuff!). For a few bucks, even
college students can now tamper with life.
May I say, there is absolutely
nothing wrong with becoming a vegetarian, but one should not do it because you
think animals have a right to live uneaten. I love animals. I am 100% against
being mean, hurtful or intimidating toward any living creature. There are
proper ways to kill animals, without horrifying them. The greedy food companies
only think about making money, and won't spend that little extra to give those
animals a happy life before they are processed. Cows should graze in a field.
I am 100% against torturing,
frightening or abusing animals in any manner. There are safe and proper ways to
kill an animal, but food companies don't want to spend the extra money. I am
against raising cattle in factories without allowing them to freely graze in a
grassy field, in natural sunlight, and enjoy their lives until the time comes
to slaughter them. Some people are just plain cruel and uncaring.
God will judge the wickedness of
mankind in eternity (Ecclesiastes 12:14; Hebrews 9:27; 10:31). I believe that
God expects everyone to be a good custodian of the earth He has created. I
believe it is a sin to throw one's litter on the ground, pollute the rivers and
dump garbage alongside the road.
Revelation 11:18, “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.”
God Cares About Animals
There is a wonderful Scripture in
the Old Testament, the last verse of the Book of Jonah, where God expresses His
concern for the animals in Nineveh . . .
“And should not I spare Nineveh,
that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot
discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?”
(Jonah 4:11).
In Jonah chapter 4, Jonah is upset
with God for sparing judgment upon Nineveh. The people of Nineveh, the capital
city of Assyria, repented of their evil ways and God decided not to destroy
them. But Jonah wanted them destroyed, no doubt for all that he had been
through in the belly of the whale. God saw that the Ninevites were sincere in
their repentance, although they were ignorant concerning the truth. The Bible
doesn't say they were saved, It simply says they repented of their “evil way”
in Jonah 3:10. Nevertheless God had mercy upon them and spared them.
In Jonah 4:11 God informs Jonah
that the people are ignorant of the truth, not knowing their right hand from
their left, and also that their is MUCH CATTLE in Nineveh. That is a remarkable
statement from God. If God were to destroy the people, then who would care for
the animals?
Although the Scriptures plainly
teach that mankind has dominion over all the animals on earth, the Bible also
shows us that God cares about life in general, and does regard the life of each
animal. Jesus said that God knows the whereabouts and condition of EVERY ANIMAL
ON EARTH, teaching that not even a sparrow can fall from the sky without God
allowing it to happen . . . “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one
of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father” (Matthew 10:29). This
makes it difficult to understand why God allows animal abuse at all, or human
abuse, but we know that sin always brings suffering, even for the innocent at
times.
We must always remember that it was
Eve's rationalizing that caused her to eat of the forbidden tree, which
influenced Adam to follow in sin, which plunged the human race into darkness
and sin. Genesis 3:6 tells us that IN HER OWN MIND, Eve had fabricated 3 good
excuses why she felt justified in disobeying God: 1) It was good for food; 2)
The tree was pleasing to the eyes; 3) It was a desirable tree to make one wise.
Oh, foolish Eve, she was her own worst enemy. People make the same horrible
mistake today, looking for lame reasons to justify disobeying God, and the
world continues in suffering, misery and darkness without Jesus Christ.
It is very true that you can tell a
man's character by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. I believe
that applies to our treatment of all life.
“...speaking the truth in love...”
—Ephesians 4:15
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