Jesus rode on His entry into Jerusalem. A breed of Asiatic wild ass has been found, purchased from the Copenhagen Zoo, and slowly established in the country. Now living in the Negev, these animals are producing live-born foals, and their appearance is similar to that of the lost species. Now many are naturalized in Israel. It may have been these animals, or some kind of mountain goat, that my husband and I saw leaping across a steep cliff in the En-Gedi Nature Reserve, near the caves where David had hidden from Saul.
Stewardship is distorted when theology becomes unbiblical.
Nowadays many people reject the Lord and are offended by His Creation plan that man is to have dominion over the creatures. While it is true that people did not wear clothing made from animal skins until after the Fall, nor eat meat until after the Flood, no New-Age edict can return us to innocence and sufficiency. Unbelieving animal lovers notice correctly that animals do not engage in deliberate rate wrongdoing the way people do, suffering through no fault of their own the consequences of human wrongdoing. Some dreamy theorists urge us to surrender our spirits to the earth itself, saying that it is holy, that it is a goddess called Gaia. They have declared a spring holiday, Earth Day, and many are trying to replace Christmas with a celebration of the Winter Solstice.