I agree with you on both points.
Franklin is making a huge mistake by claiming God would approve.
I still like him, but he will lose a lot of followers on this.
Somethings are best left alone, this is one of them.
He should have told everyone that it is between them and GOD, not them and STATE!
By incorrectly using Scripture, he is siding with the state, whether he knows it out not. Even Joshua was fooled by the Gibeonites, which was in direct violation of GOD’s command. Joshua failed to ask God for his guidance in the matter. Thus I question if Franklin properly fasted and prayed for GOD’s guidance in this matter. He was influenced more by his ministry. Which is understandable, he is a man, and thus in good company with Joshua. (Joshua chapter 9)
I say influenced by his ministry, because the vaccine passport could damage the American missionary movement. Especially his international Samaritan Purse ministry.
Yet, I am of the belief that American Churches need to step back from foriegn missions and start concerning themselves about their own back yard. We are losing America.
Maybe, this whole vaccine passport thing could be the catalyst American Churches need to redirect their funds to win American souls they are losing to Satan.
I live in a town of 7300 people, and their are like 15 churches in it. That is an astonishing when you consider the number of people. Yet, most of them are almost empty.
On my way to Friday nights Good Friday service, I had to drove past the High School football field. It was packed with well over 1000 people. I am guessing they were signing kids up for Summer Little league teams. Yet I had to search to find a church having services Friday night.
Only one Church did, and none of them were in this town. I had to go across to Ontario Oregon to find a church holding a Good Friday Service. When I got there, maybe 150 people showed up. Yet in Payette, not one church did In a town that has one church for every 488 citizens, that is pretty sad. Yet they had no problem getting over 1000 people to show up for Little league sign ups.
I bet every one of these churches support some type of missionary ministry for foreign nations. Maybe it’s time we spent that money on saving all those souls more interested in little league.