"A New Beginning: The 'Rebirth' of Planet Earth"
A New Beginning: The “Rebirth” of Planet Earth March 27, 2021 Larry R Evans Introduction When Jesus told Nicodemus that he could not see the kingdom of God without being born again, it was a shock. His response? “How can someone be born when they are old?” Today we will again be looking at “rebirth.” This time, however, it is about the rebirth of a very old planet called Earth. Once again, we can ask, “How is this possible? We will see that we aren’t talking about “pink clouds, golden harps and streets made of gold.” It is as radical as “being born again” (John 3:7). We might add, “With so much evil in the world, how can we possibly expect to see the rebirth of this planet? After all, we humans have many ways to restart our world. In 1931 Aldous Huxley wrote about the “Brave New World”, then President Roosevelt initiated “the New Deal” in 1933 and 1939. Then there was, of course, the popularized