April 02, 2014
Room at the Cross
Today
we hear a lot from environmental folks about the overpopulation on the earth.
However, it was reported in 1991 that the entire world population could fit
into a rectangle that was 40 mile long and 30 mile wide and each person would
have one square yard of space, with room to spare. Interestingly the New
Jerusalem described in Revelation is a city 12,000 stadia in length, height,
and width – a cube of 1,400 miles. The county Gospel song, There’s Room at the Cross For You brings us to the foot of the
cross, but maybe we should also be singing about all the room available in the
Great City. (Rev 21:15-27 NIV)
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Gail;
-----A thousand times a thousand is a million. Another thousand times makes a billion. And that’s cubic miles! And only forty percent of the new Jerusalem’s area! In the late eighties I calculated that there would be enough room in the new Jerusalem for every person alive to have one quarter of a cubic mile of personal space. Of course, at fourteen hundred miles high, most everyone will be living in outer-space. So I calculated how high the city would be if it covered all of earth’s landmass. Six miles. Certainly not outer-space, but definitely above the nose-bleed sections. So I calculated how high it would be if it covered the entire planet. Still we’re mostly in the nose-bleed sections at two miles high. A fourteen hundred mile cube is a big city for this little globe, roughly proportionate to a sugar cube on a golf ball.
-----For our environment worshipping friends, in the late nineties I calculated how much city laid out like Montrose would be necessary to house the world population. I wasn’t too bright, though, counting houses on blocks and blocks in square miles and figuring how much park, industrial, and retail area was present, as well as street area. Smarter would have simply sought the square mileage of this city and its population, making the calculation a couple minute no-brainer. But then, that would not have been as fun.
-----One square yard a piece sets six billion people shoulder to shoulder. That might work momentarily for a short stand up just for a demonstration. But expecting from it any sort of living conditions at all would subject the greater number of people to a miserable death of overcrowding. Yet the world population would survive in a Montrose-type layout spread over New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado. Good enough. The rest of the world’s land mass could be dedicated to agriculture, if need be, which would certainly overfeed our little big town.
-----It is real nice to be concerned about folks. I rather think the term “godly” applies. Yet, I do not admire the niceties of the over-population fanatics. I am no scientist, nor sociologist, nor mathematician. Regardless, in a couple hours, even using an unnecessarily complicated process, I was able to calculate the housing space required for the world population. I know these folks can as well. And recognizing the fact that they continue their pomp in light of analysis demonstrating the opposite of their concerns indicates that their agenda is not the good of their fellow humans, but the stirring up of political clout to achieve statism. I once saw it demonstrated that if you stick red pins on a global map everywhere there is inordinate poverty and hunger, and then if you stick black pins on the same map everywhere there is statism or general political oppression, then there will always be black pins by every red pin. I considered what I knew of the world conditions and politics, and I had to agree.
-----Freedom is a part of salvation. Freedom is an attitude which extends from love. Restriction is one that extends from hatred (except when loved ones live in environments polluted by hatred and self servitude, then to restrict someone else from what truly kills is to love.) When we are at home with the Lord there will not be any wrong. Everything anyone can possibly do, think, or feel will be right to do. So we all will be free to do, and we will do. Our doings over eternities of eternities will fill countless infinities. Yes. There is room at the cross.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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