The world faced many challenges in 2024, including very dangerous heat waves and outbreaks of the infectious diseases dengue and mpox. Dengue exploded in the Americas, where countries reported more than 12.6 million cases as of early December 2024, according to the Pan American Health Organization. In 2023, there were only about 4.6 million cases.

Health and economic costs from three toxic chemicals used in plastics is estimated at $1.5 trillion for a single year. The study, published December 16, 2024 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, analyzed data from 38 different countries, representing one-third of the total global population. Bisphenol A (BPA), commonly found in food packaging, is an endocrine disruptor associated with cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and reproductive disorders. BPA exposure was associated with 5.4 million cases of heart disease and 346,000 strokes, leading to 431,000 deaths.

Maybe an awareness of Biblical and Qur’anic foresights might enable leaders to see farther and wiser about the dangers of climate change.

Gog-Magog (Hebrew Bible) and Yajuj-Majuj (Arabic Qur’an) are the long-time threats to God’s future Messianic Age. In the 17th to 19th centuries, they took the form of European Colonial Empires. In the 20th century they took the form of mass murder genocide Nazi (Hitler) and Communist (Stalin, Mao) political dictatorships.

And now in the 21st century Gog and Magog are taking the form of worldwide human misuse of Planet Earth’s natural resources though Global Warming, and the human arrogant misuse of generated Artificial Intelligence.

Yajuj and Majuj are mentioned both in Qur’an and hadith. In Islam their appearance will be one of the signs of the end times. These events will transpire after the arrival of Dajjal, Mahdi and Prophet Jesus. Gog and Magog (“Gog u-Magog” in Hebrew and “Yajuj and Majuj” in Arabic) are names that appear in both the Hebrew Bible and in the Arabic Qur’an.

They are sometimes personified as individuals, and sometimes identified as nations or as geographic regions: but all references in Bible, Qur’an and Hadith (oral and then written tradition) clearly indicate that they are very numerous in number, and will appear from the north toward the end of times, before the Day of Judgement: “They said, ‘O Dhul-Qarnayn, indeed Gog and Magog are [powerful] corrupters in the land. So may we pay you to make a barrier (wall) between us and them?’” (Qur’an 18:94)

The good news is that climate change think tank Ember, said a record-breaking 30% of the world’s electricity was produced by renewables in 2023. That’s a huge step on the way to reaching a worldwide climate target of 60% renewable electricity by 2030.

And America’s largest Jewish denomination is pledging to divest from the fossil fuel industry as a response to the climate crisis. Citing the biblical teaching of “till and tend the earth,” the Union for Reform Judaism announced that........

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