YOUTH DIGEST

WEEK 2

TOPIC: Covid-19 And the Church

The world witnessed the outbreak of a deadly virus last year and it is still ongoing in several countries now. The Covid-19 came as a shock to many till today, nations are still groping under its devastating effect. Many have speculated that this has come to change the world order forever. The real challenge is how so many believers in Jesus were carried away by this pandemic and its attendant consequences. Today, many in church are in a crossroad as to what to believe due to different narratives and discordant tunes coming even from the leaders in the church world. If the church will pull through all these, she must be clear on scriptural truth about this whole episode. To this end, we shall in this lesson look at what the bible stand is on this matter so that we settle once and for all that we believe. (Luke 1:1).

Some Lies About Covid-19

No 1 Lie: Covid-19 came from God as a judgment on the world because of wickedness

Truth:   There could be no further lie than the above statement. Acts 10:38 says, “God anointed Jesus with Holy Ghost and power, who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil…”. This scripture forever settles this confusion. The devil is the author of sickness and God is the healer of sickness. Everywhere sickness and disease was mentioned in the New Testament, it was directly credited to the devil. Covid-19 is an attack of the devil on humanity. Secondly, if it was God’s judgment as is being believed by many, how come many innocent people are afflicted by it? Does God judge the righteous with the wicked? No! Forget who is prophesying what, if it does not line up with scriptures, is a lie. Covid-19 came from the devil as an attack on humanity. The devil’s nature is to destroy (Jn. 10:10) and Covid-19 is a manifestation.

Lie No 2: Covid-19 is the beginning of the great tribulation under the antichrist.

Truth:   This is absolute falsehood and deception. The scripture is clear on this matter. Looking at the prophetic calendar as enumerated in the 70weeks of years that was revealed to                 Daniel (Dan. 9:24-27), we know that the great tribulation will not begin until the antichrist begins his rule from the beginning of the 70^th week. 69weeks are gone already, it ended at the cutting off of the Messiah. From then, the prophetic Calendar was suspended for the jews and a window was opened for the gentiles to encounter salvation. This gentile window is the church age and it will end at the rapture of the church. Then the calendar resumes for Israel nation for them to fulfil the remaining one week, the 70^th week, before the final return of Jesus with the saints to begin the Millennium. The 70^th week will not begin until the church is raptured. So Covid-19 is not the beginning of the great tribulation. Why did the prophets not see this gentile window clearly? It is because the church is a mystery that was to be revealed in Christ only (Col.1:26-27). It was God’s special secret to be unveiled at the resurrection of Jesus.

Lie No 3: Lockdownof Churches is wisdom, afterall the church is not the building. Physically gathering is not compulsory, we can still fellowship virtually.   

Truth:         This belief system is often times the last lap Christians get to before they finally loose the fire of God in them. The bible says to not forsake the assembling of yourselves as you see the day approaching (Heb. 10:25).

The assembly there is clearly physical gathering. There are things the spirit of God can’t and will not do until the believers PHYSICALLY GATHER in a meeting. You cannot raise a people virtually. Virtual meeting is not bad, but it is an exception not the rule. You will never be a normal human if your whole life is virtual rather than physical relationship with humans. The same is true of the body of Christ. Moreso, whatever disease that is deemed powerful to close the gathering of the church is an insult to the cavalry. The physical gathering of the believers is God’s wisdom to help us sharpen each other, minister to each other, experience a cooperate union which will heal any disease. So lockdown of churches because of a pandemic is unscriptural and only makes the diseases thrive unresisted.

Some Revealed Facts About The Pandemic

1. What is going on now is about a plan to micro-chip the entire human population. This will become a device to control man electronically against his will.
2. The agents behind this knows they can’t just push it out without being resisted by the average person, so they have to come up with something that will make men accept it blindly.
3. Covid-19 was created in a lab in Wuhan, China, and was released into this world in order to create a ground for the need for a vaccine. This vaccine which is all planed out is where this Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) micro-chip will be located.
4. This is their current battle with American President, Trump because he is the only major world leader that has not yielded to their own plan. Hence the battle to get him out of White House.
5. Most vaccines being prepared now are mixed with substances of aborted foetus, and carries certain chemicals that will alter your machine. The main target of this is to programme humanity against religion. They want a world without God.
6. The target is that latest 2030, all humans must be vaccinated with this chemical substance. Check the UN sustainable Development Goal for 2030 and study the WHO 2030 vaccines for all programme.

What the church must do

1. Preach the world aggressively more than ever before, especially word of faith, healing and the supernatural generally.
2. Engage strong intercession to keep restraining Satan’s plan against humanity until we are gone at the rapture.
3. Do our independent research and be guided by truth against the deception of the media.

God bless you.