A while ago when I was musing on the prayer requests that we have, I thought particularly of someone who had cancer. It is not a new disease to me and my family. My maternal grandmother died of cancer; my mother died of liver cancer; and my wife had ovarian cancer twenty-five years ago from which she has fully recovered. We have known a number of church members and personal friends who have been hit by this dreadful disease.
One report on the internet stated that “Each year nearly 300,000 people are diagnosed with cancer in the UK. It has been estimated that more than 1 in 3 people (33%) will develop cancer at some point in their lifetime. Cancers can occur at any age, but the risk of developing cancer increases with age.”
At this time I was reading a book which wrote about chemicals and their effect on health. It said: “We typically assume that somebody else is minding the shop, making sure all these chemicals are safe. Yet the truth is that out of 75,000 chemicals now in common commercial use, only about 1,200 to 1,500 have been tested for carcinogenicity. Dr Sandra Steingraber writes in her book ‘Living Downstream’ that ‘the vast majority of commercially used chemicals were brought to market before 1979, when federal legislation mandated the review of new chemicals. Thus many carcinogenic environmental contaminants likely remain unidentified, unmonitored, and unregulated.’”
The book also pointed out that the average American hosts up to 500 different chemicals in his or her body.
All of this reminded me of an article that was printed in “The Millennial Times” – a magazine in full color for the Feast of Tabernacles that we produced and published a couple of years ago, where brief articles were written about how it will be after the return of Christ in the Kingdom of God. One article was entitled “Chemical Companies Out of Business” by Phyllis Bourque, which stated the following (amongst other comments):
“At last, the chemical companies have permanently met their demise! After being destroyed in the last great war, the facilities that produced such deadly poisons will NOT be rebuilt! In the meantime, the ruling God Family has effectively neutralized the effects of thousands of years of poisoning the air, the water, the land, the vegetation, and all living creatures.
“The land , which had been drenched with poison in the form of ‘pesticides’ and ‘fertilizers,’ has been decontaminated and restored to the Creator’s specifications so that it can sustain all life – plant, animal and human.”
There will be no more cancer and other diseases, caused by man’s misuse of the earth and him ignoring the instruction that was given in Genesis 2:15: “The LORD God placed the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and keep it.” Down through the last 6,000 years, man has generally, with few exceptions, ignored that instruction and greatly to his detriment.
We will be keeping the Feast of Tabernacles soon, which pictures the coming Kingdom of God. And we can rejoice that in the Kingdom, there will no longer be any chemicals or contaminants that, today, cause so much pain and suffering through cancer and other illnesses. We will be able to look forward to a time when man will no longer have dominion over the earth under the sway of Satan.
What a joy it will be when God—His ruling Family—hold sway!
