The cultural phenomenon of CV19 is one of carefully managed fear, manipulations and virtue signaling.
What other pandemic has had ad campaigns to remind people they are happening?
I don’t walk down the middle of the freeway. God expects me to be prudent in my actions
Berlin_freeper should read this, there are links to other propaganda articles that he has not posted yet. Don’t ever claim I didn’t try to help your cause berlin_freeper.
Ps 118 5-6 (with personal thoughts)
5: I was in anguish and cried unto the lord and he answered by setting me free (God can free folks from the worry of u certainty)
6: The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man (or nature for that matter) do to me?
While we do need to be prudent, we can be released from worry about what man or the natural world can do to us, because our souls are he,d forever in God’s hands for safe keeping for eternity (that doesn’t mean that man or nature won’t harm us, but it does mean that of they do, we go home to be with God forever)
Really great article. Thanks for posting!
Considerable blame should be placed on the late 20th-century heretical “prosperity gospel” aka “health and wealth” or “name it and claim it” promoted by Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, etc.
This anti-Gospel had no explanation for death other than to blame the deceased for not believing hard enough that “God want you well”
God does indeed want us well; healed of result of Adam’s fall. That healing has occurred through Christ the New Adam but “if for this life only we have believed in Christ we are of all people most to be pitied.”
It's true that God decides when we die, and death for a Christian means we go to a much better place....
BUT...
There are things I want to do in this life on this earth. As glorious as Heaven is bound to be, I'm not in a hurry for God to call me home.
Which brings us to timing. That God decides when we die, doesn't mean that we can't influence his timing. The timing is not necessarily set in stone and immutable, no matter what we do.
Otherwise, you'd think suicide victims have an incredible sense of timing to off themselves just when the Lord was going to call them home anyway.
So speaking of suicide.... There's a Christian in my office who believes like some Freepers, that we shouldn't be at all concerned about Covid. That our lives are in God's hands and Covid is of no effect. That same Christian missed 2 weeks of work when Covid knocked him down. But he did recover.
I take a slightly different view. If I stand on railroad tracks and see a train coming. There must be at least 1000 ways that God can save me. He can have wind blow me off the tracks, or a wild animal attack and drag me off the tracks. He can transmute my body and allow the train to pass right through me, the way Jesus passed through locked walls in His resurrected body. He could allow the train to hit me, and yet I walk away unscathed. Or he could have doctors put me back together through countless miracles.
But I think, God gave me a brain. And that God given brain is telling me, "Hey Danny! There's a train coming. Get your butt off the tracks!! NOW!!!".
Now if I ignore that God given brain, then God can still save me from the train. But all bets are off. If I'm stupid enough to ignore the brain that God gave me, then who knows what God will do. He might save me despite my stupidity. Or he may facepalm and tell the angels to get my spot in Heaven ready.
Now if God had said to me, "Stand in the way of this train", that would be different. My brain would then have to decide am I going to trust my Creator. Or am I going to trust in my own limited understanding. I'd like to think I'd trust my Creator. I really hope my faith never gets tested that way.
David took on Goliath. And scripture doesn't say that God told David to. But David knew he had been ordained by God to be the future king. He also knew it wasn't God's desire for God's people to be defeated by the Philistines. So David had faith that God would bring a victory in David's favor.
Paul when bitten by the snake, didn't give it much thought, and just shook it off in the fire. Paul also knew God had unfinished plans for him and no snake was going to stand in God's way. But I don't think Paul stuck his hand down there knowing he was going to be bitten. It happened, it was done, and Paul knew he was in God's hands.
Anyone pushing martyrdom is the enemy of all humanity, same as those who urged the Jews to comply in Nazi Germany.
We’re in a war. Pick a side.
God does not decide when you die.
Each of us makes decisions which can affect the final result.
In 70AD, thousands of Christians decided to stay in Jerusalem instead of escaping to safety.
Those that didn’t were killed by the Romans.
In 1938, many Jews in Germany saw what was coming and left everything and GOT OUT.
Most who didn’t were murdered by the Nazis.
You have a choice.
Never assume God is going to save you.
I wonder how many of the posters have been inside a Christian church in the past 12 months. Just sayin…
Somehow I doubt this opinion article would be of much comfort to all the people asking for prayers on behalf of their loved ones who’re hospitalized and dying.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
As far as I'm concerned death is an upgrade and early retirement.
HOWEVER, being this close to the rapture I would not being around to participate in what generations has been longing for all this time.
No lose situation =)