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Coronavirus is deceiving Christians

- FALSE FEAR, FALSE AUTHORITIES, AND CONTEMPT OF BIBLE PROPHECY

I have been following with concern the reactions of Christians corona virus pandemic. Here are a few key points:

(1) Blind and unconditional submission to WHO (World Health Organization) or UN rules.

Unfortunately, for example, Pekka Reinikainen has verbally stated in his TV7 program that the best and most professional knowledge of the current situation should be taken by submitting to the WHO. He also supports taking vaccines. This is a serious delusion, since the WHO, established in 1948, is part of the UN system of the world, which, by its very principle, also regulates the world's population, by maintaining "peace." WHO also supports abortion and sterilization because of the overpopulation of the world. The highest authority must be the God of the Bible, and HIS Word, not a secular organization (not even a secular authority) or institute. Wisdom - for every future situation - must now be prayed to God the Father in the name of Jesus. Observance of authority must be done only by God's will, not against it.

(2) News or rules made by the media or society must not be criticized: it is the dissemination of conspiracy theories.

The media is clearly biased, and here too propaganda. Thus, false news also circulates in the mainstream media. If we prohibit intrusive free thinking, then we will support the media's propaganda-dominated rule, which clearly involves lies and sin. The rules of society are made to be obeyed, but blind submission - beyond the will of God - signifies supremacy in the life of a believer. The so-called conspiracy theories are also often the wrong "stamp ax" to ban criticism and especially the questioning and exploration of "images" created by the media.

(3) Christians should unite and forget all doctrinal issues: the ecumenical goal

A parishioner (online publication) called on Christians to place a prayer front against the coronavirus in Rome. This is a great sign of error. The corona panic has blinded Christians to deeper involvement in ecumenical deception. The Pope himself is praying to the Virgin Mary - which should be a clear indication that one who is not in the Bible faith cannot be involved in such a "prayer front". TV7 has also called "prayer front" in its programs, led by Benny Hinn. Benny Hinn continues to represent success theology and is a deceiver here. Blind "prayer" is thus partly a deceiver. In the Bible, God looks for those who pray in the Spirit and in the truth. The Church of God is ONE, only by the truth of the Word. Ecumenism is thus a delusion and a lie, out of biblical faith. Now the bible is to separate the lie from the truth, the darkness from the light - and not blindly enter into the wrong religious "prayer front." Then our prayer rises from the truth - in faith in Jesus, in the Holy Spirit of God.

(4) Criticizing vaccines is a contempt for human life and thus an antichristic activity: false accusation and prohibition on the pharmaceutical industry

The Bible does not require a believer to submit to the "forced" vaccine rules. On the contrary, biblical faith originates in faith in an almighty God and in the corresponding sanctification of the body (healthy life and diet). The purpose of biblical faith is eternal life, not eternal worldly happiness. The Lord Jesus has overcome death, so the fear of death must not be part of the believer. Vaccine designs are very unclear in their background, and the effects of vaccines have also been shown to be dangerous. That being said. is not wrong - or against the love of one's neighbor - against a critically placed vaccine "boom." On the contrary, it is the true love of one's neighbor - to critically evaluate the operations of pharmaceutical companies, their financial aspirations, and drugs that are dangerous to their health. Believing in God's love and mercy in the Lord Jesus must be greater than the "blind" confidence in medicine.

(5) Indifferent and Making the Situation Ridiculous: Banning and Underestimating Bible Prophecy

Bible prophecy clearly speaks of times of tribulation, as well as of plagues - as part of end-time events. If we despise the words of the Lord Jesus, and all of Bible prophecy, then we will be spiritually blinded by the flesh. Bible prophecy is a lamp that should shine a light on our feet as a special revelation from God: to provide comfort, hope, faith, and keep us in God's love. The omnipotence of God is at the heart of Bible prophecy, and the love of God - warns us of delusion, and of times of tribulation - that confronts the world because of sin. The prophetic word of the Bible is God's love for us.

(6) Wrong doctrine, and prohibition of clear world situations

False rapture doctrine is a heresy that suggests - that the antichrist will not come until after the church is captured. This is not the case. There have already been antichrists, and - the rapture, the salvation of the church from this world time, is clearly not until after the appearance of the child of perdition. If we get lost here, we may think that the forthcoming NEW WORLD ORDER is a manifestation of the power of "Jesus" on earth. World news, and its political-economic plan, are already talking about a new world order. Therefore, this is not a "conspiracy theory" or any "hoax" thing. If we deny this, we will close our eyes to clear developments in the world, where there should be a warning voice. The New World Order is the antichrist system, and the place where the child of perdition appears. The Lord Jesus will destroy this system, as well as the child of perdition, in His coming.

God's omnipotence, and faith in God's power and love must be above all earthly. Then also the Word of God will be loved and safe for us, in the midst of the end.

These are briefly written. I did not attach Bible verses to it now - which I could have done - but made a shorter essay.

Test the text with prayer and the Word of God.

I once posted a long comment on a similar article by Randy Alcorn entitled: Do you believe God created the universe in six literal (24 hour) days? I certainly do. I really am not concerned with how many (is it 38%) “evangelical Christians are compromising the truth of God’s Word regarding the sex literal (24-hour) days of creation in Genesis by bowing down to scientific opinion (“from the goo, through the zoo, to you” evolution) that accommodates millions of years to the days of Genesis rather than the clear,straightforward , literal meaning of six literal (24-hour) days in Genesis. There is no warrant biblically, scientifically or linguistically for doing so (from the perspective of the ancient Hebrew language). I have posted many long comments why I oppose theistic evolution (accommodating long ages to the literal days of Genesis) as not biblical. Jesus Christ himself accepted the Genesis account of creation (Matthew 19:4), including the supernatural creation of Adam and Eve, as well as the biblical account of Noah’s Flood (which would radically alter everything modern uniformitarian geologists have learned in Geology) as historical fact (Matthew 19:: 4, Matthew 24:37-39). We should not be surprised by this when we remember that, though many leading scientists (i.e. “scriptural geologists”) resisted the “old earth” ideas of James Hutton and Charles Lyell (Uniformitarianism) and defended scripture as both true and scientific, Regrettably, it was Christians, not evolutionary scientists, who first lead the charge against scripture, beginning in the 1800s when theologians (theistic evolutionists) readily adopted the “old earth” ideas, of Lyell (uniformitarianism) instead of Noah’s Flood. The Bible believing scientists of the day were in a difficult position of trying to defend scripture when even theologians (who compromised the literal history of Genesis) were against them. The situation remains even worse today, despite recent scientific discoveries about the universe, atom, the internal structure and incredible complexity of cells, DNA, the natural world, etc. Believing scientists, though understandably still in a minority, are leaving Darwinian Evolution, recognizing that strictly natural processes, operating at random on inorganic chemicals, could never have produced complex living cells. Unfortunately, though they have grown weary of arguing how random mutations (essentially harmful to a living organism) in a highly complex genetic code provide improvements to it (no functional genetic information-increasing changes on which “goo to you” evolution depends). So, what do they do? They re-adopt Creation, but still hold on to the old earth and formulate a local Flood account to fit modern uniformitarian geology. How much better it would (and I believe employ better science) to come all the way back to a biblical worldview (instead of just a halfway or middle position between biblical creation and natural evolution (Theistic evolution).. See other comment below:

One could write a book on why it is imperative that Bible-believing Christians not compromise the historical truth of Genesis 1 ( i.e. Day-Age theory, Gap theory, Framework Hypothesis theory) by adding or accommodating evolution to the Genesis account. First, theistic evolution, which is just evolutionary development with God added on, is diametrically opposed to supernatural, ex nihilo (out of nothing), , fiat, (divinely spoken Word\) creation, which even Darwin, who was also a divinity student, rejected: In a letter he wrote to Charles Lyell in 1861, he stated: “The view that each variation has been providentially arranged seems to me to make Natural Selection entirely superfluous, and indeed takes the whole case of the new species out of the range of science” . Not only was theistic evolution rejected by Darwin, but also was never seriously considered by the other founding fathers of evolution. The evolutionary claim of an old earth (4.5 billion years old) denies the veracity of the first 11 chapters of Genesis regarding the order of creation (contrary to evolution, the Bible says birds were created on Day 5 at the same time as the sea creatures –before dinosaurs and other land animals; the Bible says the work of shaping the earth was finished on Day 3 before the moon was made on the 4th day into earth’s creation, not smashed from the earth in a cataclysmic collision; etc.), the distinctness of created kinds (10 times in Genesis 1), the absence of death and bloodshed before the Fall (see Genesis 3; Romans 5:12), the instantaneous creation of Adam and Eve and all of creation functionally mature (which explains the appearance of age), the “very good” status of the creation at the end of the creation week (Genesis 1:31), the great longevities of the patriarchs, and the global nature of the Flood, as attested by over 200 Flood traditions by peoples all around the world, over 30 scriptural references (indicating universality of Great Flood), and layers of water-deposited sedimentary rocks containing separate and distinct and intact kinds of fossilized plants, birds, animals, etc. (not transitional or intermediate fossil) all over the earth.

Every major doctrine of Christianity stands or falls upon the historical foundation laid in the first 11 chapters of Genesis. Obviously, if death were here eons before Adam sinned (Genesis 3), as evolution requires, then creation had already been spoiled and death is not the penalty for sin, as scripture plainly teaches (Genesis 2:16; Romans 5:12). This, in turn, means that Christ’s death and resurrection were ineffective and meaningless, and the biblical teaching (Romans 8:18-23; Rev. 21) of the final restoration (Paradise Regained) of this fallen world to its original state before the Fall (only much more magnificent and glorious)–no sin, no death. no curse–is sheer nonsense. Dr. James Barr, formerly Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at Oxford University and renown as one of the world’s leading Old Testament Hebrew scholars , wrote, “So far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or Old Testament at any world class university who does not believe that that the writer (s) of Genesis 1-11 intended to convey to their readers the ideas that creation took place in a series of six days which were the same as the days of 24 hours we now experience.” The word “day” (Hebrew yom) associated with a numeral (i.e. “first day” “second day,” “third day” in Genesis 1 (and that used 359 times in the Old Testament outside of Genesis 1 ) always means a literal 24-hour day.

To make sure that no one missed the obvious meaning of a literal 24-hour day, the writer (s) of Genesis 1 under inspiration of the Holy Spirit further qualifies “first day, ” “second day” etc. with “evening and morning”–“and the evening (that part of the day associated with darkness) and morning (that part of the day associated with light) were the first day” (“second day, “third day” etc.). But many who are easily embarrassed (yes, that includes genuine Christians and theistic evolutionists like Dr. John Lennox, astronomers like Hugh Ross and others) by the opinions of secular scientists concerning the unproven assumptions of radiometric dating (which has been off by hundreds of thousands/millions of years, even on rocks of known age) will claim that Genesis 1 and other creation passages are myths, parables, poetry, dramas, allegories or analogies–the only exceptions to the perspicuity of scripture and cardinal rule that “context defines the meaning of a word”—anything, in order to escape the obvious fact that they are written, and read as, a straightforward historical narrative.

Even such astounding scholars as Dr. E. J. Young of Westminister Seminary in Philadelphia, an authority of massive erudition in Hebrew and cognate languages holds that “Genesis is not poetry. There are poetical accounts of creation in the Bible–Psalm 104, and certain chapters in Job, and they differ completely from the first chapter of Genesis. Hebrew poetry had certain characteristics, and they are not found in the first chapter of Genesis.” He further states: “The man who says I believe that Genesis purports to be an historical account, but I don’t believe that account” is a far better interpreter of the Bible than the man who says, “I believe that Genesis is profoundly true, but it is poetry”. The inspired, infallible Word of God trumps the opinion (actually “faith”) of fallible scientists, my friend. Don’t undermine or sell out the firm foundation (Genesis 1-11) on which your Christian faith is based, my friend, for the favor and praise of men. God will reward you in due time for your faithfulness to His inspired, infallible Word. God bless.