Corona

I am thinking of this virus and what it has been able to accomplish in just a few weeks.

Isn’t it amazing how it has been able to put to a stop things that have never even been slowed down for the longest time?

Yet the more I look at it the more I can see another hand playing behind the scenes. But I do not want to arouse controversy by mentioning whose hand it is. Suffice it when I say that the God who created us knows and allows what is happening and is working it out for the good of those who are committed to Him.

I have said enough times that there are gods and kings apart from Christ and His Father. He can’t be called the King of kings if there are no other kings. And He can’t be called the Lord of lords if there are no other lords. And each plays according to their own rules.

When the true God steps in, He starts by proving the powerless nature of these gods before judging them. And many times He will first allow them to thrive to their highest before doing so.

Christ had to die to defeat death. He had to be made sin to defeat sin. And He became powerless to get all power in heaven and earth.

Then He is able to justly judge the earth and these gods.

What does this have to do with Corona? You may be wondering.

The world was spinning so far out of the orbit it was created for. And man had become too self-focused to the point of forgetting that there is God to whom he is accountable to.

Theologians will explain what is happening in two ways.

One is that God is judging the world. But I think that is against How God works. Though He will and still judges the world, the easier argument in that direction would be that God has released the world to its devices or as the Bible says He has allowed the world’s sin to find it out.

Two is that like in Job’s time He has allowed the evil one to ‘judge’ the world his way so that in that ‘judgment’ he will purify His church.

As we read the Bible we see God judging what we value and what runs our lives. Nebuchadnezzar did not eat grass because God hated him. The king had to know that he was not absolute. Remember the statement he made before his judgment?

I believe this is what is happening today. God is simply bringing to naught what is highly esteemed among us. He is disqualifying our qualifications.

Look at what has been brought down.

Ø  Entertainment

Ø  Sports

Ø  Commerce

Ø  Travel

Ø  Hospitality

Ø  Politics

Ø  Religion

Ø  Education

Ø  Culture

I believe that as was in Job’s time, the media has been left for the purposes of letting us know what is happening. But you can be sure it will also undergo judgment as the others.

… I only am escaped alone to tell thee. (Job 1)

In short, everywhere we placed our bets has collapsed. Even the bets themselves have been judged.

And I do not think it started with Corona.

Remember the Me Too movement?

We needed to know the values by which success plays. Simply speaking, wickedness many times determines whether we will succeed or not in this world.

I was in the media and saw up close what the Me Too movement is just now highlighting.

You do not just need to be a great musician to excel. There must be an extra sacrifice to make, from sleeping with producers to buying airplay from anchors. Otherwise you will just excel in your bathroom.

You see the devil does not stop when he leads you to sin. He uses that sin to finish you as completely as he can by shining his spotlight on it. Or do you not know he is called the accuser?

Of course this is for the purposes of leading you to give up on grace. Then he can completely finish you by blocking you from considering God’s offer of eternal life.

It is the same whichever field you take. The higher the stakes will mean the greater the sacrifice required.

But God is not overly concerned with the world. He is more concerned with His own as they are the ones He needs to purify to be ready for Christ’s Second Advent. Yet in this judgment He also seeks to let the world know that His grace is still open to whoever will.

If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Psalm 11:3)

This, I believe, is what is happening.

But the end game is in God’s hands even at this time.

You see, even in Job’s case, though He had released him to Satan, He already had a plan to raise Job’s status and not wealth as motivational speakers posing as preachers teach.

Getting to the motivators, do you realize that they are one industry that has gone completely silent since the virus started speaking?

Have you noticed that it has also completely silenced the healers and miracle workers?

Now I know God and His power. I have experienced miracles and healing. I have witnessed them in answer to my prayers.

But like I have always said, those miracles and healing are not subject to us. They are in God’s domain, and only there.

The minister is therefore subject to revelation.

You see, even Jesus did not perform miracles anyhow. He did not heal everybody.

How then does a healer (pastor, evangelist, apostle) advertise their healing and prophetic capacity?

Bring all the sick, all the sick will be healed, are some of the catch phrases they use to draw people for their ‘events’ and meetings.

They must therefore conjure those healings to meet the demand they have created.

Corona has put an abrupt stop to all that. And the enemies of the cross are calling the bluff on these healers, asking why they have become so quiet.

Miracles demand someone to be in close fellowship with Christ to be able to know what God is about. Then you will know when to proclaim and when not.

There are times I have prayed and ‘known’ that God has performed the miracle that I will just proclaim healing, sometimes even before the prayer.

Other times the opposite occurs.

But even the healings are as different as the ailments. And that is why you see Jesus giving orders before the healing occurs.

The simplest to understand are clinical ailments. The body is malfunctioned and needs resetting. Stomach upset, food poisoning, broken joints etc.

But some are relational. Though looking clinical in nature, their cause is different. And God will give an order. Forgive your children, reconcile with so and so, etc.

Yet others are as a result of sin. Remember the guy who was brought through the roof?

It therefore means that each category of sickness will require its own intervention, something only a close fellowship with the Creator can distinguish.

There healings that occur just because you decide to dedicate your time to listen. Then they will talk away the poison that was killing them. And they will leave wondering what you did as you ‘healed’ them before praying.

The presumption of the healers is amazing sometimes. Some insist on your falling before you are healed. Others require you to confess or give, etc.

That is why God is bringing them down. Then He will remain as the only Healer, moving only with those who are submitted completely to Him.

Prophecy has suffered the same fate. And it is because it was man-centred. People for the most part prophesied what their followers wanted to hear and not what God was saying.

I am sure there are some who are now renouncing prophecies they had received with resounding Amens.

I can see your green card coming. Receive that scholarship to Europe (or US). God has opened the airspace for you. This especially if the prophecy was for early 2020.

They had even started prophesying about Corona and why it was just a small bump. One said it was completely finished and what we see are just last kicks. And it had not even touched Europe!

That is what happens when you want to thrive outside the Vine.

Again there is true prophecy. And it finds its source in a healthy and worshipful relationship with Christ. Then you will be speaking His mind.

Then of course we see religion being thrashed.

Italy hosts the Vatican, the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church. I do not know whether that is the reason it has been thrashed this badly.

Mecca is closed.

And of course churches and mosques are closed.

You realize that Islam is a communal religion. By this I mean it gets its power in the herd mentality. Introspection is therefore not encouraged as there is no allowance for considering anything outside Islam.

But for the first time a Muslim is told to practice his faith privately. And that is a very dangerous prospect for Islam as they can easily see the gaps Islam cannot explain outside the herd.

And this is the same with many Christians today. Though we might be the most enlightened generation, we are probably the most Biblically illiterate generation since the Bible was translated from Latin. Many follow their pastors, bishops, apostles and do not read the Bible unless the passages those imposters request or order.

Again they must learn to practice their faith outside those superstars.

And this is healthy as God is interested in having people following Him by choice and joyfully and not by compulsion or due to pressure.

Christian fellowship is one where each member has an individual living fellowship with Christ and not one guided by a few with that relationship.

Even shepherds are sheep with a Shepherd.

I believe this is what lockdowns and curfews are making of believers, seekers of a valid relationship with God outside the herd. And I am sure many Muslims will find it too. Plus of course other religions that thrive on the herd mentality.

I am also sure that believers will develop other evangelistic methods and tools for this dispensation. And of course the same for fellowship and other faith practices.

And that is where the church structure as we have always known it will take a hit, probably collapse altogether as the new flood of believers will have no use for out worn out vestiges of past glory.

New York is the centre of the world in a way, being the headquarters of the United Nations, World Bank, IMF and many other serious controllers of the world and its economy.

Of course the USA is not only a super power but also the leading economy in the world.

It is also taking a huge hit from this virus.

Again look at the places worst hit. They are the most part the places best prepared to handle such calamities. And they are prominent in some way.

Yet they are always overrun.

This is why I am talking about another hand running the show.

That is why I am scared for Kenya. Unprepared as we may be, we could also be in the crosshairs of this hand that is judging the world being the gateway to Africa for the most part.

Is the church of Christ awake?

Let me close with this verse.

Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. (Psalm 127: 1)

Our security is in God, and only there.