Good Friday and Earth Day are crammed into the same calendar square this year.
If you are looking for an Earth Day scripture that fits the pop-culture rhetoric, try Isaiah 24:5
The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants...
But now try putting it in context by adding the next line:
The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant. Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live in it are held guilty.
God isn't talking about oil spills or greenhouse gases. He clearly tells mankind what pollutes the earth way back in the earliest chapters of the Bible. We see it in the story of Cain and Abel. By the time mankind advances to the Book of Numbers, it is codified into law:
So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it. Numbers 35:33
And THIS is what makes Good Friday truly an Earth Day. The blood of Christ was shed for the clean-up of the Earth.
