Sleeping Watchmen

Where are the prophets? Where are these prophets who are always pushing people to accept their prophetic mandate?

You see, the Bible plainly says that God does nothing before showing it to His servants the prophets.

Where did the corona virus pass through if the prophets did not prepare people for it? Did they see it coming? Or did God overlook them? If so why did He do so?

How did the locusts happen without seers seeing them?

Two things stand out.

One is that the church does not represent Christ though it may be boasting of carrying His name. This means that He has no obligation to inform them of His doings. In other words, the church qualifies for what is written in Matthew 7: 21. It is full of His name but lacks in His character and will.

Second is that there are no watchmen or that the appointed watchmen have abandoned their posts so that they were unable to see oncoming danger and alert the city (church). Worse is that they deserted their jobs (calling) for more rewarding pursuits.

You see, prophecy does not pay the bills, not if it is done according to the scriptures. Neither does it make any name for the prophet. In fact, the contrary is the norm.

Prophets for the most part were unpopular characters, we could easily say infamous.

As such, their prophecies were never ignored even when they were despised for its impact.

Herod couldn’t kill John because he feared his ‘word’. He hated him yet continued to listen to him because he was in no illusions that his prophecy was potent.

It was the same with Ahab. He hated Elijah with all his heart yet he received any word he gave with bated breath.

And Zedekiah sneaked Jeremiah out of the dungeon to have a private talk with him because he was under no illusions about the prophet’s connectedness.

That is not the case with the prophets of our day. Most are at pains to prove that they are prophets, sometimes even pleading with everybody to listen to them. In short they use their prophecies to gain an audience instead of passing God’s message which is the purpose of a prophet.

That explains why a prophet must have an audience as the purpose of his prophecy. The power of the message is in the number of times it is liked and shared and the number of followers of his page and buyers of his books. And this for purposes of planting a seed in whatever way.

A prophetic word on corona does not fall under such categories. It could simply have been a message of preparedness in the face of impending doom. And preparedness will disqualify any offering.

And that is why I am wondering.

Then the same prophets (many of who are pastors who decide that prophet is a more powerful title) have all of a sudden prostrated to the directives of worldly leaders instead of seeking God’s face to know His take on it. This without even questioning the validity or even usefulness of a panic stricken leadership void of revelation.

Will we remove some verses from the Bible? What do we do with a verse that admonishes us to greet one another with a holy kiss? What about the one that warns us against forsaking fellowship?

I am not advocating civil disobedience. What I am saying is that the church as we know it has become reactionary instead of revelatory. We are reacting to politicians instead of guiding them with the revelation God gives us. Meaning that we really have no revelation to talk about.

You see, God knows where every single droplet containing the virus, as well as every person hosting it, is. Do we have to lock down whole cities?

I am asking as someone who knows the accuracy of God’s revelation. I am not even mentioning the fact that He can lock it up or destroy it in an instant. Plus the fact that He can also emasculate it and make it completely harmless.

But I am talking about revelation and not presumption. We must know what God is saying about this virus and why it even is because He never does anything whimsically.

Let me summarise by stating what I believe is the reason God released (or allowed) this virus to ravage the world.

I am convinced God is drawing the world’s attention to the futility of human endeavor, especially one that seeks to neglect, minimise or nullify the reality of God.

Remember recently when the mantra ‘no human is limited’ gained currency? I mentioned in a post that that statement is one way of defying or shaking our fists at God.

God is showing man how limited he is. And He does it by starting with countries that are all sufficient and needing nothing. Remember Laodicea in Revelation 3?

Does it surprise you that those leaders who were flying for treatment outside the countries they had bled to death now have to contend for the same healthcare they had neglected? Leaders of third world countries who were comfortable going to first world countries for treatment have to hide in their ghetto hospitals as the world class hospitals have their own crises to handle, let alone having more viruses to deal with and dispense.

Do you realize that even terrorists are scared?

Second is that God has released a spirit of fear to the world. Remember Jonathan terrorizing the whole Philistine army? Do you remember Gideon and his 300 routing a 120k strong army without weapons? Do you remember four lepers routing the entire Syrian army?

I hope you realize that Goliath was using spiritual terrorism to humble Israel. And that is why David found it very easy to down him as he was spiritually connected.

Corona is like Goliath, only that God is using it to draw man’s attention to Himself just before rebellion goes overboard. Then His judgment will be inexcusable.

You see, there are many people in this world who have no idea, let alone the reality of God. Like once I read of a child in the US asking his parent why some buildings have a plus sign on them and what its purpose was. This in a country that boasts of a Christian foundation.

What about Russia where God was outlawed for generations? What about China that has criminalized Christianity? What about Muslim nations that unashamedly kill Christians with an attempt of ridding their nations of them?

The world must open their eyes to the reality of an all-powerful God who sent His Son to die for the sins of the world.

The world must be confronted with a God who is love and justice at the same time. You see the bulk of the church have one or the other. Those who preach love minimize on God’s ‘hatred’ of sin and those who preach God’s holiness almost always overlook His love.

The world must look afresh at who God says He is as opposed to what we think He is like. And this desperation will drive hordes to seek.

But I also believe this will open the world’s eyes to the power of God. It will have to confront the power of God, especially His power to heal. Many will encounter God’s healing power in this crisis as the gateway to faith in the Savior.

Corona is an illness God is able to heal, and He will heal. And that healing will be for a sign to lead people to Christ.

What is God telling you about this?