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Religious leaders from (Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, and the Religions of India) the world’s major religions to gather upon Mount Sinai to put forth a prophetic interreligious New Universal Ten Commandments.” and an introduction to the Green New Deal "Eco Bible".
“Returning to Sinai” — A Prophetic Call for Climate Justice
and Ceremony of Repentance
Sunday, November 13th, 2022, Mount Sinai
In parallel with the COP 27 UN Climate Conference
Between November 6th and 18th, 2022, the UN climate conference COP 27 will take
place on the Sinai Peninsula, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Religious communities and religious leaders have a key role to play in addressing climate change and climate justice, which requires deep transformation within society. The knowledge of what changes are critically needed to diminish longterm harm to the planet is readily available. However, bringing about change in action demands deeper changes in attitude, a change of heart. This has been the domain of religions for millennia. Religions are sources of inspiration for the transformation of heart and the ensuing changes of attitude.
To support, challenge and inspire discussions during COP 27 at Sharm El Sheikh, a
weekend event will be held at Mount Sinai that will be heart-stirring, transformative and a
moment of inspiration for religious communities and for humanity. Never before has such an interreligious Climate Repentance Ceremony been undertaken. From this moment and event, motivation for action emerges, calling for reexamination of deep-seated attitudes and for identifying ways to transform these attitudes for the well-being of Earth, our common home.
Over the weekend of November 12th-13th, few official discussions or activities are
planned at COP 27. This provides a major moment when the attention of media and participants can be turned to inter-religious climate messaging and a transformative vision. On Sunday, November 13th , religious leaders will return to Mount Sinai, a mountain whose memory and meaning loom large as a place of revelation in the collective consciousness of Christianity, Judaism, Islam and others. It is a site for turning to God and receiving God’s message.
We return to Sinai in a movement of repentance and quest. We seek a new vision for
humanity and its endangered existence, and we seek to receive and amplify a message of life sustaining living and habits that humanity needs to hear today. In this spirit, the project partners will bring together premier religious leaders from the world’s major religions to gather upon Mount Sinai to engage in a first ever Climate Repentance Ceremony, and to put forth a prophetic inter-religious call to action: “Climate Justice: Ten Universal Commandments.”
The call's originality in compiling the finest teachings of all religions in support of climate
justice draws inspiration from the great prophetic figures associated with Mount Sinai.
Teachings and spiritual ideals will be highlighted, in order to help religious communities and humanity at large open their hearts to change for our collective survival. The ceremony will draw from liturgies, readings and the musical traditions of diverse religions. The event will incorporate concrete examples of how religious communities are actively meeting the climate challenge, and feature concrete initiatives that translate the broader spiritual practices into action. Goals of the Event
• Inspire and unleash the power of religions, religious leaders and faith communities as
change agents for climate action and as sources for inspiring and motivating discussions
among politicians and civil bodies.
• Motivate action among religious communities and the wider public to curb climate change.
• Invite media to cover religious leaders' advocacy in combating climate change.
• Promote a coalition of religious leaders to work together for climate action.
• Generate new faith-inspired climate education materials for broad use.
Who: “ Returning to Sinai” is an event delivered by world religious leaders. At its core is the work of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders, an active community of high level religious leaders. The project partners also seek to actively involve at the event celebrities who have a track record of climate advocacy.
Follow Up and Outreach:
Following the “Returning to Sinai” event, we intend to launch a series of educational initiatives that will flow from it. We envision two tracks of continuing dissemination and legacy for the project.
1. The event, its preparation, and the stages of its unfolding will be filmed and made part
of a documentary. Social media will be employed heavily to disseminate the event in real-time.
2. The materials produced by religious leaders participating in the event will be converted into study materials, that will serve the religious communities and the community of climate activists, in special seminars and ongoing teaching situations.
Partners:
The event will be coordinated by a coalition of organizations:
• The Elijah Interfaith Institute and its Board of World Religious Leaders brings together
some of the world’s most prominent religious figures from Judaism, Islam, Christianity,
Buddhism and the Religions of India.
• The Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development reveals the connection between religion, and ecology and mobilizes people to act through faith-based communities and
more.
• The Peace Department is a US non-profit designed to solve global coordination failures
by making philanthropy and impact investing effective and scalable.
• Climate activist Yosef Abramowitz serves as special advisor to the initiative.
• Local partners for realizing “Returning to Sinai” have been identified during the course of an exploratory visit to Mount Sinai in August 2022.
Click here for photos of some of the members of the board of world religious leaders:
Did you know this group has its own Eco Bible? Below is information on their commentary from Geneses 1:1 to Geneses 1:26 from the Eco Bible
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Volume One
An Ecological Commentary on Genesis and Exodus
Rabbi Yonatan Neril & Rabbi Leo Dee,
The Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development (www.interfaithsustain.com)
First Edition
Library of Congress Control Number: 2020912653
About 500 verses have been reprinted from the Tanakh: The Holy
Scriptures by permission of the University of Nebraska Press.
Part One
Commentary on the Book of Genesis! Torah portion of Bereishit Caring for Creation 1
Genesis 1:1 – In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch makes the first verse in Genesis personal
and proactive. He writes that the words teach us “to think of the world as
God’s world and ourselves as creatures of God . . . We must not destroy
the world, but preserve it – every single creature, every insect, and every
plant is part of God’s world. Woe to those that disturb His world. Hail to those that preserve His world!”37
Rabbis throughout the ages make clear that God tasks humanity
with caring for creation. “When God created Adam, He took him and
showed him all the trees of the Garden of Eden and said to him. . . Be
careful not to spoil or destroy my world – for if you do, there will be
nobody after you to repair it,”38 teaches the Midrash, a major rabbinic
commentary on the Hebrew Bible.
Rabbi Shlomo Eiger, a distinguished intellectual who became a
Hasid (spiritual and pious person), was asked what he learned from
his first visit with the Hasid Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk. Rabbi
Eiger answered simply, “In the beginning, God created.” the questioner
pressed him: “Did a renowned scholar have to travel to a Hasidic rabbi
to learn the first verse of the Bible?” Rabbi Eiger responded: “I learned
that God created only the beginning; everything else is up to human
beings.”39
Rabbi David Rosen explains the ecological impact of the Bible’s
opening verse: “If you believe that this world is the creation of a Divine
Power, therefore creation itself manifests the Divine presence, as it says
in Psalms, ‘The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament
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declares the work of His hands.’40 If you are a Divinely sensitive per
son, whether you want to define that as religious or spiritual, then the
well-being, the health of the environment, and of creation, is a religious
imperative.”41) Sustainability and Spiritual Awareness 1
Genesis 1:3 – God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
Since the sun was not created until the fourth day (see Genesis chapter
1, verse 16), the light God created on the first day of creation was not
a physical light but a spiritual one. Rabbi Sholom Berezovsky teaches
that “without this holy light there is no merit of sustaining creation.”42
Those who seek God perceive this spiritual light. The sustainability of
creation, therefore, depends on the spiritual awareness of humanity.
Previous and Current Extinction Events 1
Genesis 1:5 – God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And
there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
The Midrash asks why this verse reads “And there was evening” rather
than just “There was evening” – implying that there was something
else before. The Midrash answers, “. . . time existed before this. . . God
created and destroyed worlds until this one . . . when it says, ‘God saw
everything He had made and behold it was very good,’43 that teaches
us that the previous ones were not.”44
This explanation suggests that cataclysmic extinction events once
occurred, and that sustained existence on this planet is not guaranteed.
Scientists understand that five extinction events occurred in the last 500
million years and humans are causing the sixth one at the current time.45
The previous extinction events were caused by “acts of God,” like comets
and massive volcanic eruptions. But the current one is caused by people
on a creation that God declared “very good. “Torah portion of Bereishit ·
5) Water and Dry Land 1
Genesis 1:9 – God said, “Let the water below the sky be gathered into one area,
that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.
The Midrash states: “In human experience, a person empties a full vessel
into an empty one; does one ever empty a full vessel into a full vessel?
Now the world was full of water, yet it says [that God gathered the water],
‘into one area’! From this we learn that the little held a lot.”46
Water separated from the earth by draining into the seas and by
forming ice on the land. For most people who do not live near a glacier,
the amount of earth’s water held as ice may seem small compared to
all the water in the ocean. In fact, roughly 68 percent of the world’s
freshwater is locked in ice caps, glaciers, and permanent snow.47 Due to
human-caused climate change, however, Antarctica has increased from
40 gigatons of ice melting per year in the 1980s to 252 gigatons per year
over the 2010s. All that ice melting into the ocean has raised global sea
levels.48 In some coastal areas, sea level rise is beginning to regularly
food whole towns and low-lying parts of major cities. God said that dry
land should appear from the water, yet by humanity’s actions, more and
more water is covering the land.
Edible Trees 1
Genesis 1:11–12 – And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation: seed-bearing
plants, fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.” And
it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants of every kind,
and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that this
was good.
As Ba’al HaTurim (Rabbi Jacob ben Asher) points out, God commanded
the earth to produce “fruit trees that bear fruit,” meaning trees whose
bark could be eaten as well as their fruit. However, he notes that the earth
produced trees (whose bark is not eaten) that produce fruit in order that
the trees themselves would not be devoured.49
Long ago, and today, we have come to understand that trees – in addition
to the fruit they produce – have broader value including providing 6 · Commentary on the Book of Genesis homes for animals large and small, and retaining soil to prevent erosion and catastrophic mudslides.
God Blesses Fish and Birds 1
Genesis 1:22 – God blessed them [ fish and birds], saying, “Be fertile and increase,
fulfill the waters in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”
Radak (Rabbi David Kimchi) explains that God’s blessing to fish to
“be fertile” is to have the potential to create new generations, while the
blessing to “increase” is to thrive in numbers.50
Worldwide, humans are now depleting the planet’s fish stocks
through overfishing. A UN report indicates that one-third of marine fish
stocks were being harvested at unsustainable levels in 2015.51 Massive
plastic pollution kills fish, marine mammals, seabirds, and other wildlife,
and reduces their ability to give birth, rear their young, and sustain
their species.52 In regards to birds, a 2019 Cornell University study
“finds steep, long-term losses across virtually all groups of birds in the
US and Canada. It reveals across-the-board declines that scientists call
‘staggering.’ All told, the North American bird population is down by 2.9
billion breeding adults.”53 God desires abundant sea life to fill the ocean and healthy bird populations. Should we not, therefore, be strong advocates for sustainable
fishing, ending ocean pollution, and protecting both land birds and sea birds?
On Eating Animals 1
Genesis 1:26 – And God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
They shall rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, the whole earth,
and all the creeping things that creep on earth.”
Tis verse states God intends for people to rule over fish, birds, and
animals. Yet in Genesis 1:29, God states that human beings are only
permitted a plant-based diet. Rabbi Isaac Karo explains that “ruling”
over creatures mentioned in the verse clearly does not involve killing
them for human food.54 Rabbi Gil Marks notes today: “. . . historically,
meat, when consumed, was usually a flavoring agent and, as a rule, a Torah portion of Bereishit · 7
the component in a dish reserved for special occasions. Only in the past
century has animal flesh assumed such a prominent role in the diet, with
meat frequently being served once, sometimes twice, or even three times,
a day. On the contrary, throughout most of history, cattle and sheep were
not regarded as sources of food, but rather sheep were prized for their
milk and wool, and cows were valued for plowing, turning the wheels
that drew water from rivers and canals, hauling heavy materials, trodding
grain for winnowing, powering the millstones for grinding grain, and
turning the stone wheel for pressing olives. Flocks and herds served as
the principal source of clothing, wealth, and security for our ancestors,
something that would have been squandered if eaten. Meat was the
exception, not the rule.”55
Will Humans Rule or Animals?
Truth about the real 10 Commandments
Moses meets God on Mount Sinai, from the book of Exodus chapters 19 &20
Exodus 19: On the first day of the third month after the Israelites left Egypt—on that very day—they came to the Desert of Sinai. 2 After they set out from Rephidim, they entered the Desert of Sinai, and Israel camped there in the desert in front of the mountain.
3 Then Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain and said, “This is what you are to say to the descendants of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel: 4 ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. 5 Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, 6 you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”
7 So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all the words the Lord had commanded him to speak. 8 The people all responded together, “We will do everything the Lord has said.” So, Moses brought their answer back to the Lord.
9 The Lord said to Moses, “I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking with you and will always put their trust in you.” Then Moses told the Lord what the people had said.
10 And the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes 11 and be ready by the third day, because on that day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. 12 Put limits for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful that you do not approach the mountain or touch the foot of it. Whoever touches the mountain is to be put to death. 13 They are to be stoned or shot with arrows; not a hand is to be laid on them. No person or animal shall be permitted to live.’ Only when the ram’s horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”
14 After Moses had gone down the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes. 15 Then he said to the people, “Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain from sexual relations.”
16 On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. 17 Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. 18 Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the Lord descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently. 19 As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him.
20 The Lord descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So, Moses went up 21 and the Lord said to him, “Go down and warn the people so they do not force their way through to see the Lord and many of them perish. 22 Even the priests, who approach the Lord, must consecrate themselves, or the Lord will break out against them.”
23 Moses said to the Lord, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, ‘Put limits around the mountain and set it apart as holy.’”
24 The Lord replied, “Go down and bring Aaron up with you. But the priests and the people must not force their way through to come up to the Lord, or he will break out against them.”
25 So Moses went down to the people and told them.
Exodus 20 And God spoke all these words:
2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
3 “You shall have no other gods before me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
7 “You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
13 “You shall not murder.
14 “You shall not commit adultery.
15 “You shall not steal.
16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
18 When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance 19 and said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die.”
20 Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning.”
21 The people remained at a distance, while Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
Idols and Altars
22 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites this: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven: 23 Do not make any gods to be alongside me; do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods of gold.
24 “‘Make an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you. 25 If you make an altar of stones for me, do not build it with dressed stones, for you will defile it if you use a tool on it. 26 And do not go up to my altar on steps, or your private parts may be exposed.’
Summary: Mount Sinai where Moses and the Israelites received the 10 Commandments is the place the One World Religious Group will try to replace the original 10 Commandments with a new set of commandments to support the Green New Deal and Agenda 2030. What the religious people of all faiths do not understand is that the Original 10 Commandment were only a School Master to bring us to the knowledge of Christ.
Galatians 3:23-25 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
The Church is not under the Law or 10 Commandments we are free agents for the Lord Jesus Christ. Although we are free from the Law, we still have the Law of God imbedded into our hearts and try to stay within the bounds of God’s Law, not to be saved but to bring Glory, Honor and praise to our Lord God and Savior, Jesus the Christ.
Another thing to note here is that Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain (Ex 19:3).
Exodus 19:10-11 And the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes 11 and be ready by the third day, because on that day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
The Israelites consecrated themselves unto the Lord (washed their clothes and abstained from sexual relations) in preparation for the 3rd day as the Lord would come down on Mount Sinai in the site of all the people!
There is much preparation needed prior to meeting with God at Mount Sinai, we will have to see what happens between November 6th and 18th, 2022 around Mount Sinai. Time is the prover of all things. This we do know that our Original 10 Commandments came from God, written on stone with the finger of God.
Ex 31:18 When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
Eco bible
As far as the Green New Deal goes they have their own Eco Bible, in which all commentary is geared to support the Green New Deal and Agenda 2030.
My friends, this Green New Deal, and Agenda 2030 is what is causing all the problems around the world, people are starving and dying of hunger, and many people who too the shot in the arm are dying of heart problems, blood clots and strokes, and for what? It’s about ushering in a One World Leader, One World Financial System and a One World Religion. This post is meant to keep you up to date on what the false prophets of the one world religion are currently working on.
Closing statement: Ok my dear brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus, stand firm in the faith as we watch the events unfolding in the world around us, we have been warned by Jesus the Christ himself in Matthew 24 and by John in the book of Revelation. I pray for a pretribulation Rapture, but if by appointment we find ourselves in the midst of the tribulation, I know this for certain, we will be with the Lord prior to the wrath of God being poured out on a sinful non-repentant world.
I love you all and look forward to meeting you all as we are caught up to meet the Lord in the Air.
Brother Larry Zumwalt.