Isaiah 24:5 English Standard Version (ESV) The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
We forgot that the earth was cursed because we sinned. That doesn’t seem fair to a land that did nothing but give us a place to live. But it did not give us anything, God provided and we were given dominion and what happens to the earth is the result of our not keeping covenant.
Genesis 3:17-19 English Standard Version (ESV)
17 And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the
voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree
of
which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed
is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days
of your life; 18 thorns
and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants
of the field. 19 By
the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you
return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for
you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
The covenant of dominion did not end, our responsibility for where we live did not end. Look what we have done to it. We have used and abused our planet in the name of dominion without care for it. The word dominion is a word of responsibility. It means to rule but what is a ruler who does not take care of his dominion? He is a destroyer, a waste of time, talent and resources.
We forgot that what God gives, He will take away if we do not keep covenant.
Job 1:20-22 English Standard Version (ESV)
20 Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. 21 And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” 22 In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.