There is a big difference between guidance and control. God guides. He doesn`t control.
Our founders recognized that God gave man liberty and so they built our country on it.
They trusted the people as God did.
We now trust no one but "experts" - the same experts that have systematically stolen our liberties, killed unborn, released homosexual demons, run up national debt, taught evolution and socialism and now command us to stay in our homes and forsake the assembling of ourselves together in Jesus` name.
As a Christian and a true American I know that this is all wrong. We have submitted ourselves to a proven untrustworthy government while blatantly disobeying a totally trustworthy God.
Is God angry? No. Will He punish us? No. But His law (Word) will prove itself.
The wages of sin is death. What we sow we reap. Carnal mindedness produces death.
The law of sin and death is still in effect for those who reject the law of Spirit and Life. Without Faith it is impossible to please God. He has not given us a spirit of fear.
We all know how this age will end. There will be a man who sets himself up as god, who stamps out all religion, who demands total compliance in order to be able to "buy and sell".
This man will not seize power. It will be given to him by people who believe that he can solve their problems.
What is happening in America today is a test run for the process by which that "man of sin" will rise to power.
A threat, followed by fear, fanned by false prophesy will lead the whole earth to follow a man.
Is this Pandemic `the end`? No, but it is fore-shadowing `the end`.
Is preserving physical life so important that we sacrifice our rights as Americans and our faith in God?
For many people the answer is "yes". Those people are deceived. Their hearts are already prepared for the `antichrist`.
There are two very sad revelations from this pandemic:
1. People value life more than Freedom
2. Christians don`t really believe in Christ
Unless we shake ourselves and return to our "first love" we are doomed.
America`s "first love" was freedom.
Christian`s "first love" was Christ Jesus.
An interesting statement was made regarding true Christians in Revelation:
" And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. " -
The "him" in this verse is the antichrist - the man of sin. What sin? The sin of not believing on Christ Jesus as Saviour and Lord.
The verse tells us that a true Christian is victorious by the blood of Christ coupled with their spoken testimony of Him.
Furthermore it says that a true Christian is not afraid of death.
We are all pretty clear on the meaning of and the importance of the "blood of the Lamb". But what is the "word of our testimony"?
Our testimony is the Gospel which Jesus summarized this way: "I am come that you might have Life and that you might have it more abundantly".
Proclaiming the Grace of God that is experienced by faith in Christ Jesus is our "testimony".
Not sharing the Gospel keeps us from being victorious even though we are Saved by the blood of the Lamb.
Not sharing the Gospel is also a sign that we love life more than we love Christ.
This position of weakness will cause many Christians to wilt under the powerful voice of the antichrist and the peer pressure of his followers.
Those Christians will deny Him in order to "fit in" and continue to live the life that they really love.
Many Christians believe that they will be "raptured" out of this world before the antichrist appears thus saving them from the severe persecution.
Don`t count on it.
Prepare yourself to be brought before the magistrate to confess or deny Christ.
This Pandemic is presenting Christians with the opportunity to confess or deny Him.
If you are failing this "test", what makes you think you would pass the one the antichrist will levy?
Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. -
Jesus is saying here that unless we repent, He is going to remove all the spiritual authority we have been given. This includes our impact on our city, our community, our neighborhood, those anywhere in our sphere of influence. Every bit of influence we have will be taken from us.
What does it mean to Repent? It means to change your way of thinking and believing and, as a result, your way of acting.
Your "first works" were believing in the Love of God, His Son, and His Word.
Many Christians no longer believe in the Power of Christ to materially affect their lives.
Those Christians fear COVID-19. They don`t believe that Christ can protect them from it or that He can heal them of it.
Such unbelief is an abomination. It is an affront to the integrity and love of God and to the finished work of Christ Jesus.
Without working Faith in Christ Jesus we have become ineffective and so, a laughing stock to the Secular Humanists.
Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness do not appear; and anoint your eyes with eyesalve, that you may see.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. -
Who was He talking to?
He is talking to us.