How positive can the death of thousands be anywhere? I do not know. The pandemic is “under control” because the homicidal networks see a financial windfall. At least the PRC is doing brisk business. Potus 45 is all profiteer, no prophet. Surrounded by the best minds he walls himself off with delirious ramblings about good jobs and great response to a deadly plague. “Fine” after this will not be business as usual. The reality tv of politics dies in dramatic fashion. The soundbytes and meaningless gestures of the 1% are on fire. Riots and rallies by bigots and religious idiots will be the “order” of the day.
Watch out for a repeat in Europe and North America of the 11th hour lifesaving deal Israel trashed.
“Therefore thus says the Lord, ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming release each man to his brother and each man to his neighbor. Behold, I am proclaiming a release to you,’ declares the Lord, ‘to the sword, to the pestilence and to the famine; and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
The last thing the world needs now is a host of people who for the first time are seeing the unseen and think they can convince the public that they have discovered sliced bread. The roadmap to the end of this age could not be clearer. The thing to avoid cannot be overstated. The thing to cling to is not subject to change. So it is back to what Yeshua said and did, and particularly, his finished work for the human race.
Deception darkens every day
Redemption’s price was paid in full
Redemption also addresses the transformation of mortal bodies
Security in the last days rests in the glorious gospel that was once-for-all delivered by Yeshua first, then by chosen witnesses.
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
Hebrews 2:3
Register me as clinging to the righteousness of faith, the joy of salvation, and the hope of resurrection. Gee whiz technology, decaying empires, and military parades are the stuff that prostitution of the worst type is made. If you can’t bring yourself to say what Yeshua says about the great dropout United (hah) Kingdom and the revived rapist United (whoa!) States let me.
The wheezing bigot in the White House is deemed by my one eye to have swallowed a camel while trying to strain out a fly. The fly – honesty – demanded of the United States and China by the World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Drs. Ghebreyesus and Fauci are real experts unlike some moneychangers, and misogynist media-manipulators we know.
The conclusion of Ruth’s story (4:22) might leave some people wondering, a huge “So!” filling the thoughtscape. A famine brings a Jewish family to Moab, a land that was no friend of the seed of Isaac and Jacob. Emigration seems to mark every important development towards the unveiling of global salvation. Some of us can pretend we do not see how abominable a racist and homicidal immigration policy is and always was, there is a malingering nod to dire circumstances that open up our most treasured encounters.
Ventilators for the dying
Ruth’s story belongs with the Joseph legacy. We remember that a hated teenager was forced into a new land and from there became the instrument of keeping the Jacob-Israel clan alive, and kept the promise of land and national identity on everyone’s mind. Ruth is no patriarch. She is a matriarch of unparalleled majesty. She left Israel to bring back the woman and the womb that God wanted to separate a household for Christ to be born.
A resurrection is in the mix
Ruth 4:5 Property: Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
Ruth 4:10 Marriage Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
Stance for this circumstance
In our 2020 first quarter circumstance we see homicide-by-virus bringing the planet to a new level of terror and interpersonal abuse. Fear has been the preferred tool of people carving out religious and politics space for superiority. Our love, that supreme gift, will not allow us to take a dive into the animalistic pools where everything despicable seems to collect. Let us avoid the rumours of war and peace. When the most disturbing events in the time of unprecedented trouble begin to occur we stand resolute on the promise of redemption. Catch up with David’s son!
Someone at peace does not try to get you to earn God’s peace by loving the law. Someone who is anxious will not have God’s surpassing peace because we pray or send ’em soothing music and Bible verses.
And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:7
This verse, Phil. 4:7, prominent in many encouragements during crises, is not a promise to the lost or unbelievers. It is not an unconditional promise to believers. God’s peace comes – on top of peace with God and peace of mind – to unsettled people – believers – who have taken certain steps.
Stemming Anxiety & Grateful Prayer [1] Be anxious for nothing,
[2] but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Philippians 4:6
Peace is a gift.
Offering peace through loving the law is like telling the people in darkness to find a match to light a lamp. It is like asking a person who has never heard the gospel to display its effects. When did loving the law ever impress God or anyone else and does loving the law have anything to do with complying with all its demands? That road to peace has been ttally debunked by Jeremiah, by Amos, by the confession of the exiled community, and by Yeshua.
Jeremiah 9:13-15
13. And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; 14. But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: 15. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
Thus says the Lord, “For three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they rejected the law of the Lord And have not kept His statutes; Their lies also have led them astray, Those after which their fathers walked.
Amos 2:4
“For our kings, our leaders, our priests and our fathers have not kept Your law Or paid attention to Your commandments and Your admonitions with which You have admonished them.
Nehemiah 9:34
“Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you carries out the Law? Why do you seek to kill Me?”
Who can believe that the world’s merchants and bankers will abandon the mother of merchants? Who has seen a giant shrink to a midget? Or who can relate to something in the making for over a century crumbling in one hour? When we do not see change coming and it overtakes us we can create talking points to say we are still the same. We can even convince people that greatness is increasing. When, however, the bankroll for one’s greatness is not one’s own a good laugh is in order.
The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.”
Revelation 17:18
The only power with the global reach and influence to lead the nations does not want the job any more and the economic and technological ace can barely bring itself to admit that the centre of the world has shifted eastwards. It was not so long ago that it was said that Brittannia rules the waves. Can God be expected to command a blessing or fan the flames of war and its rumours when the rulers set their sights on terrorizing the meek of the earth?
These entities – horns, beast, and harlot – are nation states and authorities, existing now, not hiding, though it might appear that the prophets were all mad. Expect to see great powers shrunk to pathetic worms. The example of the Soviet Union in recent times should suffice but we can revisit ancient times
