Certainly, they could easily label the physical pollution of the earth. Oil spills, acid rain, strip mining, ozone depletion, nuclear waste are evident everywhere. The polluting effects of sin are dutifully recorded, but a promise of restoration is also kept alive. God will shamelessly seek out Israel even after she is abandoned by all others and will again dwell with her. At that moment the entire cosmos becomes a dance of celebration.
Rivers flow in the wilderness.
The vine and the field flourish. Justice is reestablished. And, there is no hurt in all of God s holy mountain for God again tabernacles with his people. Here the visions of contemporary ecological and political prophets don t hold a candle to the wonder evoked by their ancient mentors. Modern visions are darkly pessimistic.