V RaptureChrist Newsletter
January 1, 2017

Eighty percent (80%) of our oxygen comes from our oceans; the other 20% comes mainly from our forests. The phytoplankton in the oceans and the vegetation on land use photosynthesis to liberate oxygen atoms from water molecules. These oxygen atoms are incorporated into the atmosphere as gases. Low levels of oxygen can harm the creatures living on planet Earth. That is why when their lungs are not working right, people may need to be intubated to force oxygen into their lungs.

Scientists say that the levels of oxygen have remained stable at 21% percent for hundreds of years. However, the percentage of oxygen in the rivers, lakes, seas, and other bodies of water has not remained the same, giving rise to dead zones in the oceans.

Not only is the oxygen level in waters diminishing, but the ability of the creatures that live in water to extract this oxygen and incorporate it into their blood is also being affected. For decades, the news media  has been aware of water contamination and the death of sea organisms. Jacques Cousteau with his underwater explorations and Rachel Carson with her book "Silent Spring" were advocates about the levels of contamination and death occurring on planet Earth.

After all, sewage decays after a few months, but plastics remain. They float on the surface for years. Then with the action of the waves and sunlight, they begin to disintegrate into smaller particles. It is the very small particles that clog up fish gills. 

In the USA big cities such as New York used to dump the garbage in the sea. It was not until the 20th century that landfills started to be used. Water treatment plants followed, but even nowadays, the majority of cities in the world dump raw sewage and raw garbage into the rivers and seas. All sea going vessels dump their refuse into the seas; have you seen what sea cruisers dump into the sea?

Up to the 20th century, these wastes were organic. After a few months, they had decomposed. It is true that organic waste can cause an algal bloom, but the environment eventually recovered.

The problem is that we now use plastics, and they are not bio-degradable. In fact, petroleum-derived resins stay floating on the surface of the water -- plastic bottles, toys, packing material such as styrofoam and other petroleum derived plastics. Tourists complain that this debris appears on the coastline and makes a mess. Well, the ocean is full of this junk. 

Plastics were invented in 1869 by John Hyatt. They became popular in the 1950's, and their use increases continuously. In fact, 8 million tons of plastic are dumped into our oceans every year. Plastic does not decay, and it continues to pollute the world that we live in and kill sea creatures in the process.

Basically, we are turning our waters into an oceanfill -- a landfill in our seas.

Because the Pacific is so vast, people did not notice the problem early on. However, as time goes by, we now see giant islands of plastic garbage floating in our seas. Often these pieces of debris collect in the garbage patch in the Pacific gyre. 

Kid's toys made of plastic float for years. Often these brightly colored objects are eaten by birds and other sea animals clogging their intestines.

Microplastics are plastic particles less than five mm in size. They are a common pollutant in our oceans. Crabs are the first marine organisms found to trap small plastic particles in their gills. Oral ingestion of microplastics has been reported for a long time, but uptake into gills has certainly received less attention. This is a major problem in marine creatures.

Microfibers from polyester clothing is another major issue. They form about 70% of the plastic pollution in our oceans. “It fragments quickly. We fear that as plastic continues to break down, it becomes even more susceptible to being eaten by marine organisms or taken into the gills of fish or, apparently, even becoming  embedded into their scales,” said Kara Lavender Law, of the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. 

Notice that these tiny pieces are microscopic in size. Due to their small size, they remain suspended in a column of water rather than on the surface. Therefore it is similar to a colloidal suspension in which the medium is water and the particles are the minute pieces of plastic.

Microbeads are tiny balls of polyethylene, which is neither light enough to float to the top of a water column nor heavy enough to sink to the bottom of the sedimentary layer. Because of this, the tiny microbeads are not removed during the primary sewage treatment settling process and proceed as effluent into rivers and seas. Many cosmetics carry microbeads in their formulation. 

Yes, with our "Science" we are killing our planet. It is up to each individual to be informed and to act accordingly.

God gave this earth to Adam and commanded him to dress it and to keep it.
Genesis 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

What God gave Adam was a beautiful garden like those found in Paradise. Sadly, Adam and his descendants have turned this planet into a disaster.

Humans believe that technology can save us. Quite the contrary, it is indeed our technology that is destroying us. 

God created Adam and Eve so they could live forever. Women are born with two million immature eggs. Certainly, this gives you an idea of what God was planning -- that we could live in Paradise millions of years, populate the earth, and populate the cosmos.

Many years ago I would read the book of Revelation and would ponder on what it meant "all the life in the sea died." At that time I used to go to the beach often and stay diving all day long looking at all the fish that came to the shore early in the morning, and looking at all the underwater life that sustained the fish.

It was hard for me to understand how all the life in the sea could die. I would look at the size of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and wonder how could all life in the sea be destroyed, given the size of those oceans. I would think that maybe chemicals could eventually cause the fish to die. I had seen algae growing on rocks in the seashore, which alerted me to water contamination, but I had never seen fish die-outs at the frequency and numbers that are occurring at the present time.

Revelation 16:3 The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead man, and every living creature in the sea died.

God tells us that all nations are deceived into using chemicals which cause the destruction of the planet.

Revelation 18:23 ... For your merchants were the great men of the earth, for by your drugs [chemicals] all the nations were deceived. 

It is only now, with the use of plastics derived from petroleum, that ALL the creatures in the sea could die.... and the method is -- plastic clogging the gills of sea creatures. The fish will die of suffocation, unable to breathe.

Sea life will die before the life in inland lakes or rivers will be totally decimated. The reason is that salt water holds less oxygen per unit volume than fresh water; warm water holds less oxygen than cold water, and our oceans are warming up. On top of that, oceans are the recipient of all the sewage that comes from the earth, and unfortunately there is a limit to the saying "dilution is the solution to the pollution." Sadly as a result, fish are dying, suffocating from all the minute plastic particles that have disintegrated from the plastic bags, plastic toys, plastic water bottles, plastic soda drinks, plastic catsup bottles, plastic containers and so on. Is anything made of biodegradable materials anymore?

I ask you readers to think deeply about what I am saying. Every time you go to buy groceries, say "paper please, not plastic", or bring a cloth bag. When you dispose of your garbage, do NOT use plastic bags; use degradable fiber bags, or compost your garbage. Do not consume "drinks" in plastic disposable bottles. Everything that is disposable and does not rot contaminates the earth forever, killing God's creatures in the process. The best activities for your children are out in nature breathing pure air, not playing with plastic toys.

Adam's job was to be a steward for this earth. You, as a descendant of Adam will also have to answer to your boss, Almighty God. I hope Jesus our Lord will say unto you:

Matthew 25:34
...Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.