A right and wrong approach to coronavirus

We hear of God sending "wake up calls " to turn the people to Him. Even in Revelation, we see plenty of persecuted people come to God."And I saw a great crowd, which no man could number, out of every tribe and tomgue and nation.And I asked, who are they?"And He answered,"these are they which came out of the great tribulation". The 2 witnesses, and the 144,000 get many saved.However, many do not get saved,{"And the rest of these, who did not get killed by these plagues, did not repent of their murders or their thefts or their sorceries or their worship of idols who can neither see nor hear nor speak,And they did not give glory to the God of Heaven who has authority over these plagues." Did not give glory to the God of Heaven who has authority over these plagues.Well! Now we see people terrified of this virus, wearing masks, shying away from others. To "protect them" from the virus? But seeing as , based on their words and actions, they're still unsaved, what haven't they done? Turn to God for protection, or forske their sins when doing so!"And the rest of these who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of their....nor did they give glory to the God of heaven who has authority over these plagues. Who has authority over these plagues? the masks? No, God.Get the right cure and stop looking in the wrong direction for it. There's a reason it's here, listen to the alarm clock, and respond to the wakeup call the right way. You can wear the mask all you want , and still go to hell.A sinner can wear the mask, but then die of a heart attack, unrelated to coronavirus. Wake up!!Wearing masks and social distancing won't keep you from eternal damnation after death.Turning to God will. "Fear not those who can destroy the body but after this can do no more, but fear Him who can destroy both body and soul in Gehenna."

 

[Intercessor]

I agree that in general most "believers" are in unbelief for God to protect them with regard to ChiVi-19. I do see a place for sanitation and hygiene in The Bible -- specifically God told them to "use the restroom" outside of the camp for sanitary reasons, so they trusted God to take care of them while being obedient to use the good common sense of Scripture. We aren't exactly encouraged to put the Lord our God to the test (Matt 4:7, Luke 4:12, Deut 6:16).
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"12 You must have a place outside the camp to go and relieve yourself. 13 And you must have a digging tool in your equipment so that when you relieve yourself you can dig a hole and cover up your excrement.

14 For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from you" (Deut 23:12-14).

If God didn't care about hygiene and science, He would have said, "go ahead, everybody just live like a bunch of animals and my presence will kill all the germs." But instead he admonishes common sense.

 

[Steven Bobb]

I agree that in general most "believers" are in unbelief for God to protect them with regard to ChiVi-19. I do see a place for sanitation and hygiene in The Bible -- specifically God told them to "use the restroom" outside of the camp for sanitary reasons, so they trusted God to take care of them while being obedient to use the good common sense of Scripture. We aren't exactly encouraged to put the Lord our God to the test (Matt 4:7, Luke 4:12, Deut 6:16).
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"12 You must have a place outside the camp to go and relieve yourself. 13 And you must have a digging tool in your equipment so that when you relieve yourself you can dig a hole and cover up your excrement.

14 For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from you" (Deut 23:12-14).

If God didn't care about hygiene and science, He would have said, "go ahead, everybody just live like a bunch of animals and my presence will kill all the germs." But instead he admonishes common sense.

It has it's place, but when they put the cart before the horse and do those things out of lack of faith in God to save them, and put all the power in that INSTEAD OF God, like a fearful spirit...that was the kind of attitude I thought was showing a lack of faith.I guess it comes down to their motive, is it fear?

 

[Intercessor]

36 “But keep on the alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man" (Luke 21:36). After Jesus talked about the "end times" and listed all the judgements that come faster and faster with increasing severity like birth pangs upon a woman, His main point, left for the end for which rabbis were known to do, was "keep on the alert at all times praying for strength to escape ALL these things about to take place and to stand before the Son of Man" (Luke 21:36).

How many people are praying for strength to escape plagues? Relatively few.

It has it's place, but when they put the cart before the horse and do those things out of lack of faith in God to save them, and put all the power in that INSTEAD OF God, like a fearful spirit...that was the kind of attitude I thought was showing a lack of faith.I guess it comes down to their motive, is it fear?

 

[Steven Bobb]

36 “But keep on the alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man" (Luke 21:36). After Jesus talked about the "end times" and listed all the judgements that come faster and faster with increasing severity like birth pangs upon a woman, His main point, left for the end for which rabbis were known to do, was "keep on the alert at all times praying for strength to escape ALL these things about to take place and to stand before the Son of Man" (Luke 21:36).

How many people are praying for strength to escape plagues? Relatively few.

About not doing it to test God,even Jesus telling the devil that when he prompted Him to jump off the temple...these churches where they hold up poisonous snakes comes to mind. They dance around with them,and quote where Paul got bit by the viper{but Paul wasn't "showing off",} also, "In my name they will pick up serpent,s and if they drink anything deadly it will not harm them," But I'd say these snake handling churches are taking it to the point of "showing off", and in fact some of them DID die from snakebites..Most Christians disaprove of them dancing around with these snakes with the intent of showing off Gods protection.Again, motives.

 

[Intercessor]

Interesting quote about motives comes to mind:
Q "How is it that in the death of Jesus, the people were guilty, the chief leaders and elders were guilty, Pilate was guilty, and God is innocent?
A: The people had given in to mob psychology to release an evil person and condemn and innocent one
The elders and rulers were jealous that The Son of God was growing more popular than they were
Pilate wanted "peace at all costs" and condemned an innocent man to keep a riot from occurring
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God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son as the only innocent sacrifice on earth that could pay for the sins of man