Prophecy Update: Coronavirus Thoughts? 3/19/20

The coronavirus has caused a worldwide shut down. This is a ramping up of the birth pangs. The book of Revelation tells us that a time is coming when all things will be global. Global government, global economy, global information technology, and global control are becoming more evident in times like this. The spread of this virus was not possible before the modern airline industry. The spread of the coronavirus has caused fear to spread among the nations. As Christians, we do not act in fear. God tells us that part of our witness is to act in courage. Isaiah 41:10 says, “Do not fear for I am with you, do not anxiously look about you for I am your God, I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” When facing global problems, we need a universal answer. Who better than the God of the universe to supply the answer, courage, and hope we need to face this trial! Our nation faced this problem by calling a national day of prayer, which the nation of Israel joined in with us! God promises that our prayers will be heard and acted upon. Ask and you will receive. (Matt.7:7-11) China meant this for evil, God meant it for good!

Let us back up and look at what happened. What is coronavirus, how did it start and could the outbreak grow bigger? Telegraph UK 16 March 2020. “Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that cause disease in animals. Seven, including the new virus, have made the jump to humans, but most just cause cold-like symptoms. The source of the coronavirus is believed to be a “wet market” in Wuhan which sold both dead and live animals including fish and birds. Such markets pose a heightened risk of viruses jumping from animals to humans because hygiene standards are difficult to maintain if live animals are being kept and butchered on site. Typically, they are also densely packed. The virus broke out in December 2019. More than 169,000 cases have been confirmed since the outbreak started, and the death toll has exceeded 6,500. The vast majority of cases are in China, but the virus has spread to more than 100 other countries.” The problem with this quote is that China has not revealed the numbers from their country. Are they honest about it? I say no!! According to this article this week, only 2.6% of the people are dying. It is interesting because these numbers are not consistent. The other thing not stated in this article are the many reports that say the coronavirus is a bioweapon. Sooooo there is a lot of confusion out there concerning this trial. China did not tell the truth in December, sent their people all over the world and spread the disease. They need to be held accountable.

Here is the problem with context, tens of thousands of people are dying from the flu bug. It makes coronavirus look like a pest not a pandemic. “President Donald Trump, seeking to reassure Americans about the novel coronavirus at a Wednesday press conference, said he was “shocked” to learn that the flu kills “from 25,000 people to 69,000 people a year in the United States.” So far this flu season, 16,000 Americans have died from flu, according to the CDC.” So let me get this straight—we can have 25,000 people die of the flu bug this season and only 6,500 people have died globally from coronavirus. The numbers do not match with the panic! In February, the CDC said this: “In contrast, at least 29 million people in the U.S. have experienced flu illnesses this season, the CDC estimates. About 280,000 people have been hospitalized so far, and an estimated 16,000 have died, including 105 children.” (These numbers are from early Feb.) Those are real numbers and no one disputes them as they do the coronavirus numbers. To add to the confusion, I heard that as of today, 3/19/20, fifty thousand people have died from the flu bug in the USA. Confusion! Who is the author of confusion? Satan!

On the other hand, and here is where the confusion grows, the European CDC said this: “I don’t think we are dealing with the flu here… this is a virus that is now circulating in a population that has absolutely no immunity to it…. You might have an attack rate that is three times higher than seasonal flu with a mortality rate that is ten times higher. “The most concerning thing about this virus is the combination of infectiousness and the ability to cause severe disease or death. We have not since 1918 — since the Spanish flu — seen a virus that combined those two qualities in the same way.” So you can see that some are expecting the worse! Thanks China!

As I pray about this challenge, the first thing that struck me is that God has a sense of humor. Think about it—the globalists claim that there is no such thing as national borders. If you are for national borders you are a racist. The virus has forced nations to declare their national borders and protect them. One headline said this: Coronavirus: Some Of These 24 European Countries Have Closed Their Borders To Tourists. Forbes Mar 14, 2020. “The pandemic has already prompted almost a dozen of the 26 countries in Europe’s border-free Schengen zone to shut their borders, either fully or partially, to visitors over coming weeks. Thus ending the right to free movement for many of the EU’s 400 million citizens, as well as tourists, business people and foreign residents.” Pres. Trump is calling it the China Virus!

I had to laugh at this headline from Mexico: Report: Mexico Thinking of Closing Border to Shut Off Wuhan Virus Cases from US. 3/16/2020. “Now in an ironic twist, Mexico’s health minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell suggested at a press conference that they might employ “restriction” to keep folks coming from the U.S. to Mexico.” The irony is that anyone in America who suggests limiting immigration from Mexico is called a racist. Illegal or otherwise. Side note: calling illegal immigrants legal is another proof of calling evil good and good evil! Panama is banning entry of non-resident foreigners and Honduras closing its borders to passenger traffic for a week. The leaders of Argentina and Peru also announced border closures on Sunday to curb coronavirus. Argentina will close its borders for 15 days to non-residents, President Alberto Fernandez said in a televised press conference.

Whenever I see travel restricted, it means that God is up to something. Why would God restrict people to stay in their own countries? The whole schedule of Americans have been upset, schools canceled, sporting events, restaurants prohibited to open their doors, and churches closing their doors. God has restricted travel and the normal rhythm of life. Why? You now have more time to spend time with Jesus!!

First, God wants the nation to focus on something that is common to all of us. This crisis can bring Americans together or it can divide us further than we already are. The divisions in America are so deep and divisive that no one believes that they can be healed. Will we pull together and face this trial with faith in God or deny God even further. Here is an example of the division:
Mike Pence mocked for praying with coronavirus task force at White House: March 4th 2020. “Vice President Mike Pence received a new round of criticism this week from some on the political left after the White House released a picture of the vice president praying with the coronavirus task force in his West Wing office.” Here is an example of some of the mocking that Christians get for praying to the God of heaven and earth: Dr. Angela Rassmussen, a virologist at Columbia University, also criticized the prayer. “I have yet to attend a scientific meeting that begins in prayer,” she wrote. Angela, that is your problem, if you turned to your creator for help, He is merciful to all who call on Him. The New York Times weighed in with this: Thomas Chatterton Williams, a contributing writer with the New York Times Magazine, shared the photo of Mike Pence praying with the coronavirus task force on Twitter and commented that “we are so screwed.” To make matters even more divisive, the President called a national day of prayer to confront the problem. I was absolutely thrilled, the pagans were apoplectic!

Donald Trump’s National Day of Prayer Call Receives Mixed Reactions: Against Church, State Separation: March 15, 2020. Hold On, Here Comes Horror: Amid the Wuhan Wigout, President Trump Declares Sunday a ‘National Day of Prayer’ March 14, 2020. These two articles show the direct division and what is at stake in America. On one side are believers in the One true God and those who are for freedom of religion, who like it when people pray. On the other side are those who wish to get rid of all prayer in America. They will stop prayer at all sporting events, prayer anywhere in public, prayer in your home. Wait, did I say prayer in your home? Yes, you must recognize that the movement that represents the anti-God, anti-prayer freedom in America is a direct threat to Christianity, Judaism, and freedom of religion in America. I thank God that our community came together in prayer, we prayed for the nation, pastors and Christians gathered to pray for the nation. What China meant for evil God meant for good.

The Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party is anti-God, communists who have killed our brothers and sisters in every country where communism has been tried. He desires to make us into the Soviet Union who killed Christians for believing that there is someone with more authority then the state. Bernie Sanders believes that the state is a higher authority then God the creator. Our rights come from God in America, he wishes to change that. Today, China is experiencing the judgment of God on its nation for persecuting the church and shedding innocent blood. Xi Xingping thinks he is God, he is reaping the whirlwind from the Sovereign of the Universe. Xi is rewriting the Bible in honor of his god Mao, he is killing pastors, he is destroying churches, he made Bible study illegal, and he is filling his concentration camps with anyone who believes in an authority higher than the state. America is at a crossroads—do we want the communists to rule or do we want God fearing people who stand for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

God wants us to focus on Him and our nation showed Him that we will not come together to do that. I am thankful for all the people who prayed and bowed the knee to our true King who is King of Kings on Sunday. It revealed that we are truly a nation divided and this virus will make the fissure larger. Why has God sent the fissure, the division in America? He sent it to further the divide. Matt.18:7 says, “Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks for it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come, but woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes.” If we suppose that the divisions of the past 20 years, between left and right are the stumbling blocks that have caused this current crises, and that left and right have sinned against a holy God, and that this virus is an occasion given to us to come together, in Gods providence haven’t we proven to God that we will not come together in belief and trust in Him?

Have we not shown the God of the Universe and Jesus His king that we will not repent of killing babies in the womb, give up hatred of Israel, put prayer back in schools, and humbly bow before Him. I call on the Supreme Court to meet this week and overturn Roe vs. Wade, the stumbling block that has caused the hand of Almighty God to pressure us and force us to make a decision. Has not Gods judgment been light—merciful towards us? If we do not repent, then the hand of God will put more pressure on us. I call on the Supreme Court to disavow and throw down the decision to throw prayer out of public schools. I call on the Supreme Court to reverse the decision to declare that Jerusalem is not Jewish.

I still cannot believe they did this, here are the details: Zivotofsky v. Kerry, 576 U.S. 1059 (2015), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the President has the exclusive power to recognize (or not recognize) foreign nations, and, therefore, Congress may not require the State Department to indicate in passports that Jerusalem is part of Israel. What happened is that a couple had a baby in Jerusalem so they wanted to put on their birth certificate and passport that he was born in Jerusalem, Israel. John Kerry and President Obama objected and said that Jerusalem is not in Israel. They rejected the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy act and the 2002 decision of the congress to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the embassy to Jerusalem. Only President Trump had the courage to tell the truth that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Now all of the presidential contenders want to reverse this decision and declare that Jerusalem is not Jewish. Pay attention to this: since Biden and Sanders said they would move the embassy back to Tel Aviv, are they not putting the country in more danger of the anger of God!
Zechariah 12 is very clear that God will not put up with this behavior of nations and will bring His heavy hand of judgment.

Lastly, the Supreme Court needs to repent and overturn the decisions they made to advance immorality in our nation: especially the gay marriage decision. Overturn these decisions this week and you will see the blessing of God. In Amos 4 God sent a series of 5 medicinal judgments to Israel and kept asking them to repent. Each time they refused and he said to them five times, “Yet, you did not return to Me.” The last judgment was the final judgment and God said, “Prepare to meet your God.” We have had many chances to repent as a nation and each time the nation has refused. Individuals have repented, but the repentance is incomplete because the Supreme Court will not overturn their evil decisions. When they do that the repentance will be complete. Churches have had prayer meetings and the many people have repented, God has been merciful to America and has not sent the full weight of His righteous wrath. America should be thanking the faithful Christians for the delay in His wrath. The Coronavirus is an opportunity, pray and repent for the nation. Daniel did this in Dan.9, he prayed in a way that we all can learn from. Take some time to pray for America the way Daniel prayed for Israel. It will bless your socks off!!