March 25, 2020
There are many questions that I hear from people concerning the Corona Virus & one who I believe is important to address is: how come believing Christians who love the Lord have died from it too? I will share what I find in the Word of God concerning this virus.
You know our God is LOVE, I would say that He is LOVE more than any of His other infinitely great characteristics, because everything else He does is motivated by Love too. But there are so many amazing things about our God, & I would say that the greatest thing for me is that He has made us His Children. Mothers & Fathers, have an idea of the kind of love you feel for a son & what you would do because you love them. If we love our children like that with so much love, then we know that God’s Love for His Children is much bigger & greater.
But we know that not all of God’s children know Him yet, even though the time will come when they all will. That’s why we preach the Gospel, so that those that don’t know Him yet might be saved & become Children of God & get to know Him too, as He commanded us to do. Mar 16:15 And He said to them: Go into all the world, proclaim the gospel to all the creation.
Now between those who already know God, we know that not all have grown to become mature Christians. It’s important to know that God doesn’t love those mature children more than the new babes in Christ, any more than parents would love their older children more than the younger ones. Nevertheless the Bible encourages new believers to read the Word of God that they may grow thereby, right? 1Pe 2:2… 1Co 3:1 Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
A baby is not necessarily fleshly, which means to be lead mainly by his senses & feelings. But if after some time in the Lord, he doesn’t start maturing, the Scriptures say for example… Heb 5:12-14 For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food. For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby. But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
So you see that all of God’s Children, are not in the same level of spiritual stature, even though loved immensely the same by our Heavenly Father, Can you see it?
Even though His Will is that we all grow, & how much? … Eph 4:11-15 He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; FOR THE PERFECTING OF THE SAINTS, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ; UNTIL WE ALL ATTAIN to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to A FULL GROWN MAN, to THE MEASURE OF THE STATURE OF THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST; that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; but speaking truth in love, WE MAY GROW UP IN ALL THINGS LIKE UNTO HIM, who is the head, Christ;
So in the face of the attacks of the enemy, it’s logical that not all of God’s children are prepared to face the enemy in the same way.
Remember… Jas 5:14-15 Is any among you sick? Let him call for THE ELDERS of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, AND THE PRAYER OF FAITH WILL HEAL HIM WHO IS SICK, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
Why the elders? Well they are supposed to have grown up in the Faith enough to believe: THE PRAYER OF FAITH WILL HEAL THE SICK. It doesn’t say that the prayer of faith might save the sick. It says it heals period.
And who is to pray for the elders? Well, if they know God’s Promises, then they know Jesus already paid for their healing & all they have to do is appropriate it. 1Pe 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed. And besides that great promise, one can always get another elder to agree in prayer & receive it by faith...
Mat 18:18-20 Truly I say to you, Whatever you shall bind on earth shall occur, having been bound in Heaven; and whatever you shall loose on earth shall occur, having been loosed in Heaven. Again I say to you that if two of you shall agree on earth as regarding anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them by My Father in Heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there I am in their midst. / So agreeing with a brother or sister in prayer is an awesome weapon against the enemy as whatever they bind is bound & whatever they loose is loosed.
So, wouldn’t you say that the leadership within a church is responsible to feed the congregation with the Word of God, so that their members become strong adults in the Lord, & not mere half-grown Christians?
1Pe 5:1-4 I exhort the elders who are among you, I being also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed. Feed the flock of God among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; nor for base gain, but readily; nor as lording it over those allotted to you by God, but becoming examples to the flock. And when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, you shall receive a never-fading crown of glory.
So in the face of this “Corona Virus” attack on the world’s population, it’s only but understandable that not all of God’s Children will react the same way, because all have not been prepared for battle.
In the Old Testament this was God’s cry through the prophet Hosea. Hos 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your sons, even I.
You see, if you read the whole chapter you can see that God holds the Jewish priest responsible for having rejected His Word & not having feed His People appropriately, therefore they were being destroyed.
Look what the Lord said through Ezekiel… Eze 34:1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep? You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fatlings, but you don’t feed the sheep. You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor. They were scattered, because there was no shepherd. They became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.
Sad to say much of what was said against the shepherds of Israel in the Old Testament could be said of the priests & pastors of many Churches today. Reading through Revelation chapters 2 & 3 we see that out of seven Churches mentioned, only two are following the Lord in a way that’s pleasing to Him in the middle of their different circumstances, others with some good points & others not so good & some very bad.
The Good News is that even though we live in a fallen world & filled with evil things & demons, nothing takes God by surprise, since He knows the end from the beginning & of course He wins in the end, & we with Him. And I say that great part of that GOOD NEWS is that GOD NEVER LOSES CHILDREN.
Whichever of God’s Children who die under the “Corona Virus” or any other sickness, will only appear before our Heavenly Father a little sooner, to be showered by His wonderful love & to learn to know Him in intimate ways that will take us eternity to get to see.
2Co 5:1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
But besides, they will be welcomed by our loved ones that have gone before us in an indescriptible love feast that we will only experience when our time to go comes as well, unless we are within the blessed ones that will behold Jesus’ Return here on Earth, then we will wait until then to be reunited with our loved ones then.
1Th 4:13-17 But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
15 For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep. 4:16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, 17 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
So, whether you know: 1)Who you are in Christ, & the Power bestowed upon us by the Holy Spirit, so that Corona Virus & all other spiritual enemies will bow before us, or even if you only know that Jesus died to cleanse you from sins & you received Him as your Savior.
Or 2) You are a babe in Christ, meaning you converted to Christ recently.
3) You are half grown in your spiritual walk with the Lord…
Guess what? God’s Love for you is immensely the same, it doesn’t diminish one bit, & you are welcome into Heaven as much as if you are an Apostle.
Luk 15:7 I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance. 15:22-24 But the father said to his servants, Bring the best robe and put it on him. And put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet. 23 And bring the fattened calf here and kill it. And let us eat and be merry, 24 for this my son was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.
So, God answers all of our prayers, but the answer He usually gives is according to what we believe we are going to receive. According to your faith be it done to you.” Mat 9:29. Some Christians believe that God is the one who decides if they are going to die of Corona Virus or not, so for them it maybe yes or no. Others, that if they are careful enough they may not get contaminated with God’s help. Others that if they get a vaccine then they will not get it (even though the vaccine is worse than the disease), others that if they are good enough & do good works, & repent from all their sins God might protect them, (because they ignore God already forgave them from all their sins when they came to Christ & became New Creatures after God’s nature & are therefore the Righteousness of God). Col 1:1-14, 2Cor 5.17-21
And there are those who believe the Promises of God & because of them, they know that the virus has to yield to them in the Name of Jesus. Luk 10:19 Behold, I give to you power (authority) to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the authority of the enemy. AND NOTHING SHALL BY ANY MEANS HURT YOU.
So as a Christian you should put your faith in the Promises of God. But hey, God doesn’t love you more or less because of the size or your faith, because Jesus died for you when you didn’t have any faith. Of course, you please God when you believe in what He has said, but He loves you just because you accepted Jesus as your Savior & that makes you His Own Son/Daughter.
I would say, the difference between us brothers in Christ is that the more you know, the more you are responsible for. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked. Luk 12:48
So we will have to give an account to God & as the passage say... 1Co 3:13-15 each one's work shall be revealed. For the Day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try each one's work as to what kind it is. If anyone's work which he built remains, he shall receive a reward. If anyone's work shall be burned up, he shall suffer loss. But he shall be saved, yet so as by fire.
So the elites who already rule the world, under the devil’s direction, have unleashed a devilish attack on the nations, with propaganda prepared to fill people with fear in this virus, & not only many will die due to fear & some to the virus, which as many independent doctors claim is as dangerous as any of the old corona viruses. So the greatest purpose with these so called preventive measures, is to take over the last bit of economic liberty some had in the west, as this shutting down of the economy will create a great economic recession that will cause business to bankrupt, & as the big bankers give out millions of $ in loans to all this closed business, this will cause them to emerge as owners & masters of all resources, setting up the way for the last world leader & new totalitarian type of government which will keep all citizens under tight & total surveillance through advance web technology 5G, as it already happens in China .
Who is to oppose them? Besides some brave lovers of Freedom still alive in this world, all those who know the True God & Jesus His Son, filled by God’s Spirit, I see no others.
Rev 11:3 And I will give power to My two witnesses...
Rev 7:2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, saying, Do not hurt the earth or the sea or the trees until WE HAVE SEALED THE SERVANTS OF OUR GOD IN THEIR FOREHEADS.
Rev 14:1 And I looked, and lo, the Lamb stood on Mount Zion. And with Him were a hundred and forty-four thousands, having His Father's name written in their foreheads.
Dan 11:33-35 And those who understand among the people shall teach many; yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by exile, and spoil, for days. And when they stumble, they shall be helped with a little help, but many will join them, with hypocrisy. And many of those who understand shall stumble, to refine and purge them, and to make white, to the time of the end. Because it is still for the appointed time.
Rev 12:17 And the dragon was enraged over the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God and HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST. (These can be none other than true Christians)
While great part of the Church is hidden in the wilderness...
Rev 3:10 Because you have kept the Word of My patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation which will come upon all the habitable world, to try those who dwell upon the earth.
Rev 12:13-17 And when the dragon saw that he was cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who bore the man child. And two wings of a great eagle were given to the woman, SO THAT SHE MIGHT FLY INTO THE WILDERNESS, into her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time (3 & half years), from the serpent's face. And the serpent cast out of his mouth water like a flood after the woman, so that he might cause her to be carried away by the river. And the earth helped the woman. And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth. And the dragon was enraged over the woman, and went to make war with THE REST OF HER SEED, WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST.
(The Woman of course is the Ecclesia = Church = the Israel of God, not a building, nor an association of men either, but the Elect of God, those who have been born again throughout the world by faith in Jesus. & who will be put safe & secure in a refuge for three & half years until the return of the Lord Jesus)
So cheer up…!!! We are in the winning side & we have nothing to fear, but the elites & all their evil cohorts & world leaders in cahoots with them & all those who will bow to their rule? They do have a lot to fear: The Wrath of God, Death & Hell hereafter. Ouchy..!!!
SO CHRISTIANS DO NOT FEAR!!! Encourage yourself by meditating & quoting the Word of God out loud, the Word is our SWORD, nothing can stand against It!
Love in Jesus… Alejandro
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