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Yours truly is by no means a doom and gloom preacher, but I do have some Scriptural truth for you right now that will change your perspective on what is going on spiritually. R U READY 4 This?
Though God did not send the Coronavirus (or any other virus for that matter), COVID-19 has come to America because of an immense open door to the enemy. (*This was written before I had the medical information that Covid-19 was never as bad as espoused by the media.)
Sin and the anti-God and anti-Bible stand of a large part of America have set the country up for plagues. Wait please and don’t turn this off. Read this closely and look at the verses below.
Any way you slice and dice it, COVID-19 is here because of darkness in the land. It is not here because of faith, repentance. and prayer, and DOING the Scripture, but it is here because of a lack of these in the churches of America! Only repentance, faith, standing on and doing the Word of God, and prayer will stop the encroachment of this unseen enemy in the land. Anti-malaria drugs and social distancing will help, but repentance opens the door for God to move and bring the destruction to a standstill. Not only that, repentance will bring healing to the land. This is a truth many ignore in Scripture, and yet it is all over the Bible in both Testaments. The majority in this country must again cry out to God, repent, and pray for restoration and healing to come. Am I just barking out some form of a doom and gloom message, or is this a clear message in Scripture that needs to be emphasized and taught right now all over America? Read the Scriptures below and you tell me if I am far off, or if this can’t get any clearer.
13 When I (God) close up the sky so that it doesn’t rain, or command locusts to devour the land’s vegetation, or send a plague among my people, 14 if my people, who belong to me, humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, and repudiate their sinful practices, then I will respond from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:13, 14 NET)
The way God sends a plague is by withdrawing His protection after He utters a judgment. That is another message, but God is not the One who directly "sends" sickness or disease. There are a lot of Scripture references on that subject, but it is not one we want to study here. Satan is the author of sickness and disease, and the devil is always looking for those he can devour. (1 Peter 5:8) He can be resisted and overcome in the Name of Jesus by anyone that takes a stand against him. Where there exists an opportunity for him, he will take it and set up camp if he is allowed to do so. (Ephesians 4:27) Don’t let him do it! Don't put up with him for a second!
On a national level, things can get very bad when the majority in the nation seek after evil and not holiness before the Lord. At those times, your faith can still work for you and yours, but the land will eventually suffer bad consequences just like we are seeing under the evil coming from the White House, House of Representatives, and the Congress because of a demon-inspired agenda to convert the U. S. A. into mindless and spirit-less automatons that cower to socialism.
Did you see that in the Scriptures I just quoted above? Mostly you hear 2 Chronicles 7:14, but verse 13 is rarely quoted. What should people do when a plague comes? Should they curse God and their leaders? Should they continue in their God-hating activities of sin and darkness? Should they allow tyrannical local governments to shut down churches? NO! They need to (1) humble themselves, (2) pray, (3) seek to please God, (4) repudiate their sinful practices, and THEN God will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and HEAL their land!
I think the clarity of this instruction is monumental at this time. It must be acted upon.
Church, it is time to repent! America, it’s time to repent! It is time to humble ourselves, pray, seek to please the Lord, repudiate any sinful practices so the Lord will respond from heaven, forgive our sins, and heal our land.
All the capitulating churches and pastors in the land need to repent for closing their churches! They received and implemented government orders that were contrary to Scripture! Nowhere in the New Testament are we told to shut down our churches when the government decides we should! It tells the the exact opposite! We are never to forsake the assembling of ourselves together (Hebrews 10:26), and much less as we see the day of the Lord's return approaching! Not only that, the Church of the Lord Jesus has a GREAT commission that didn't expire with the so-called pandemic! (Mark 16:15-19; Matthew 28:18, 19) Most churches shut down operations without so much as a whimper! Why? Because most were not following the Scripture and obeying it anyway! What really shocked me was how most evangelical, word of -faith, prophetic, Pentecostal, and independent churches shut down immediately upon orders from their local government! They coalesced, capitulated, submitted to, and agreed with local authorities instead of agreeing with God and His Word! The church in America, almost unanimously, demonstrated how weak and sissified they really were! Instead of suffering persecution and jail time if necessary, they took the route of disobedience to God!
There were a few exceptions in the United States, and a few were arrested, fined, or temporarily jailed for refusing to bow down to the idol of Covid-19, but they were regrettably far and few between. For a while in my area, I assisted a well known Word-of-Faith church in Florida. When the so called pandemic hit, they folded like a deck of cards, and shut their doors just like all other weak and sissified churches did. I was shocked. That church preached Scripture accurately every Sunday and Friday, but when the test came, they fell for the lies of the devil like every other church in area. I am am talking about a church that believed in God's healing power and taught it profusely, but they capitulated to government mania just like all other churches except for two in my area. What a tragedy! Needless to say, but I will say it, even after they opened, they opened to masks with all the trimmings of believing a lie; social distancing, alcohol wipes, and disinfecting agents. Where was the church that believed and taught healing and God's miraculous power? They were GONE! I left that church and have never looked back.
The only two churches in my area that remained open were the River Church in Tampa where Rodney Howard Browne pastors, and the Foundation Church
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