CULTIC MIND-SET OVER COVID-19
WE HAVE THESE PEOPLE OUT THERE—— SO-CALLED “CHRISTIAN” MINISTERS AND THEIR SHEEP, WHO PROTEST AGAINST WEARING A FACE MASK, AND OTHER RULES, FROM LOCAL, STATE [PROVINCE], FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST THIS PANDEMIC COVID VIRUS.
THEY SAY, “WE HAVE FREEDOM, WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO MEET ON SUNDAYS; WE HAVE THE RIGHT AND FREEDOM TO NOT DO WHAT YOU SAY!”
MANY OF THESE SO-MINDED ARE LEAD BY “CHRISTIAN” MINISTERS, SO-CALLED.
I ASK WHAT BIBLE ARE THEY READING? WHAT NEW TESTAMENT ARE THEY READING?
JESUS IN THE GOSPELS SAID, “GIVE UNTO THE KING [RULER] THE THINGS THAT ARE THE RULER’S AND UNTO GOD THE THINGS THAT ARE GOD’S.”
ANYTHING FROM A LOCAL OR STATE OR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT IS NOT IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH GOD’S LAWS, SHOULD BE OBEYED.
IT IS RIGHT AND CORRECT TO OBEY SPEED LIMITS WHEN DRIVING, TO OBEY TRAFFIC LIGHTS WHEN DRIVING. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO URINATE OR POOP ANYWHERE YOU PLEASE. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BLAST AWAY YOUR MUSIC FROM A BOOM-BOX AS YOU WALK DOWN THE STREETS OR IN STORES OR SHOPPING MALLS. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PARK YOUR CAR OR TRUCK JUST ANY PLACE, OR IN A RESTRICTED AREA THAT SAYS “NO PARKING” OR “HANDICAPPED STICKER REQUIRED.” YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TODAY TO “SMOKE” CIGARETTES JUST ANYWHERE. YOU CAN NO LONGER SMOKE ON PLANES. WOMEN CAN NOT WALK AROUND TOPLESS, EXCEPT ON A DESIGNATED BEACH THAT SAYS YOU CAN.
THERE ARE MANY MANY LAWS FROM THE SOCIETY WE LIVE IN, THAT WE ARE TO OBEY, WHEN THEY DO NOT CONFLICT WITH GOD’S LAW.
NOWHERE IN THE BIBLE DOES IT SAY WE ARE TO MEET WITH OUR REGULAR CONGREGATION ON A CERTAIN DAY, WITHOUT FAIL, NEVER MISSING FOR ANY REASON [OF COURSE UNLESS YOUR SICK IN BED].
NOWHERE IN THE BIBLE DOES IT SAY OUR LOCAL “CHURCH” CONGREGATION, BE IT 10, 50, 150, OR 1,000 MUST ALWAYS MEET WITH THOSE NUMBERS IN MIND.
GOD DOES NOT SAY—— “WHATEVER YOUR LOCAL CHURCH NUMBERS ARE, YOU MUST ALWAYS BE THAT NUMBER, AND MAN CAN NOT TELL YOU FOR ANY REASON, NOT TO MEET WITH THOSE NUMBERS.”
NO SUCH INSTRUCTION FROM GOD CAN BE FOUND IN THE BIBLE!
JESUS SAID, “WHERE TWO OR THREE ARE GATHERED TOGETHER IN MY NAME, I AM IN THEIR MIDST.”
THERE COULD BE MANY REASONS WHY ONLY TWO OR THREE CAN BE GATHERED TOGETHER……. YET JESUS IS IN THEIR MIDST!
UNDER THE LAWS OF ANCIENT ISRAEL, GOD GAVE LAWS, HEALTH LAWS, WHICH STOPPED PEOPLE FROM ATTENDING TABERNACLE SERVICES. FOR SOME HEALTH SITUATIONS ARE TRANSFERABLE TO OTHER PEOPLE. AND MOST HAVE HEARD ABOUT BEING —— A CARRIER OF A DISEASE BUT NOT SHOWING ANY SYMPTOMS AT ALL, YET ABLE TO PASS THAT DISEASE ON TO OTHERS.
I CAN REMEMBER AS A KID WHEN TB WAS AROUND AND PEOPLE BACK THEN HAD TO GO TO TB HOSPITALS, WHERE THEY WERE ISOLATED FROM ALL OTHERS, IN SOCIETY. BACK THEN IT WAS THE ONLY WAY TO COMBAT TB.
GOVERNMENTS HAVE THE RIGHT TO BRING IN RULES AND REGULATIONS TO CONFRONT AND FIGHT VARIOUS DISEASES, TO SAFEGUARD THE WHOLE COMMUNITY, FROM A HORRENDOUS SOCIAL CALAMITY OF MASSIVE PROPORTIONS.
WHAT IS NOT DIRECTLY AGAINST A LAW OF GOD, GOVERNMENTS HAVE THE RIGHT TO BRING IN RULES AND REGULATIONS, THAT THE CHILDREN OF GOD NEED TO OBEY. PHYSICAL HEALTH LAWS ARE SOME OF THE LAWS SOCIETIES HAVE TO LAY DOWN FOR THE GENERAL HEALTH OF THAT SOCIETY. IN THE WESTERN WORLD YOU CAN’T JUST POOP ANYWHERE YOU LIKE. IF YOU NEGLECT TO GIVE YOUR CHILDREN ADEQUATE FOOD, AND THEY ARE SICK AND THIN AS BONES AS WE SAY, YOU CAN HAVE YOUR CHILDREN TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU BY THE LAWS OF THE LAND [CERTAINLY IN THE WESTERN WORLD].
GOD’S CHILDREN ARE TO RESPECT AUTHORITIES, WHERE THERE IS NO DIRECT CONFLICT WITH A DIRECT LAW OF GOD.
AN EXAMPLE———
THE ROMAN EMPIRE HAD THE HOLY LAND WITHIN ITS BOUNDS; IT IS CLEAR TO SEE THAT CONCERNING THE JEWS IN THE HOLY LAND, ROME WAS VERY GOOD TO THEM; THEY COULD KEEP THEIR RELIGION, THEIR TEMPLE, THE PRIESTHOOD, SACRIFICING, AND ALL THAT WAS THE JEWISH RELIGION; MANY PROSELYTES [NON-JEWS] ACCEPTED THE JEWISH RELIGIOUS FAITH. ALL THAT ROME WANTED BESIDES TAXES, WAS THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE WOULD BE “GOOD” CITIZENS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. THE EMPIRE ALLOWED THE JEWISH RELIGION TO FLURISH. IT WAS UNDER THIS “FREEDOM OF RELIGION” THAT CHRISTIANITY WAS BORN AND INCREASED. FOR A NUMBER OF DECADES THERE WAS LITTLE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS. IN FACT THE FIRST PERSECUTIONS CAME FROM JEWS, NOT THE STATE OF ROME.
UNDER THIS “FREEDOM” WE SEE WHY PAUL AND PETER WERE INSPIRED TO TELL CHRISTIANS TO BE “GOOD” ROMAN CITIZENS, AND RESPECT THE GOVERNMENT OF ROME, EVEN TO PRAY FOR LEADERS.
IT’S LIKE WHAT WE ARE IN TODAY [DECEMBER 2020] WITH THE COVID VIRUS—— PRAY FOR LEADERS TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM IN SERVING THE PEOPLE, TO WIN THE BATTLE OVER THIS HORRIBLE VIRUS. THEY NEED WISDOM OF SCIENCE, AND RULES TO HELP OUR SOCIETIES BEAT OFF THIS VIRUS.
THE HEALTH-WISE REGULATIONS BROUGHT FORTH BY GOVERNMENTS, ARE PHYSICAL REGULATIONS, AND ARE NOT IN VIOLATION TO GOD’S WORD. GOD DOES NOT SPEAK ABOUT FACE MASKS, OR PHYSICAL DISTANCING, OR WASHING YOUR HANDS EX NUMBER OF TIMES A DAY, OR CONGREGATING WITH EX NUMBER OF PEOPLE LARGE OR SMALL.
GOD EXPECTS HUMANS TO BE WISE AND USE COMMON LOGIC, WHEN DEALING WITH THE PHYSICAL WORLD, AND ALL THAT THE PHYSICAL CAN THROW AT US.
THE BIBLE HAS SOME THINGS TO SAY ABOUT HEALTH; BUT IT IS CERTAINLY NOT A DETAILED TEXT BOOK ON PHYSICAL HEALTH, AND WAS NEVER INTENDED TO BE. THE BIBLE IS NOT A TEXT BOOK ON FIGHTING VIRUSES.
WELL THE APOSTLE PETER SUMS IT ALL UP FOR CHRISTIANS DEALING WITH SECULAR GOVERNMENTS, THAT ARE NOT “HITLER” TYPE GOVERNMENTS. WHEN THOSE HITLER TYPES ARISE, THE CHRISTIAN NEEDS TO FLEE, AS MANY GERMANS DID WHEN HITLER GOT POWER AND HIS DEMONIC MADNESS BECAME KNOWN——- WINSTON CHURCHILL MADE IT KNOWN, THOUGH MOST OF THE POLITICIANS IN BRITAIN LAUGHED AT HIM, HE WAS RIGHT, AND MANY GERMANS LISTENED AND ESCAPED FROM UNDER HITLER'S MADNESS. OTHERS STAYED AND OPPOSED HIM, MANY GIVING UP THEIR LIVES.
PETER WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT HITLER TYPE GOVERNMENTS, WHEN HE WROTE ABOUT BEING “GOOD CITIZENS”———
YOU SO-CALLED "MINISTERS" NEED TO GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE BUCKET OF VAIN, EGO-TISTICAL, WRONG TWISTED READING OF THE BIBLE, WITH POMPOUS CULTIC MIND-SET----- GET ON YOUR HORSE AND RIDE OFF INTO THE SUNSET, NEVER TO BE HEARD FROM AGAIN---- THAT WOULD ALSO BE SHOWING LOVE TO YOUR NEIGHBOR!
1 Peter 2——
12 Keep your behavior excellent among the [unsaved] Gentiles [conduct yourself honorably, with graciousness and integrity], so that for whatever reason they may slander you as evildoers, yet by observing your good deeds they may [instead come to] glorify God in the day of visitation [when He looks upon them with mercy].
Honor Authority
13 Submit yourselves to [the authority of] every human institution for the sake of the Lord [to honor His name], whether it is to a king as one in a position of power,
14 or to governors as sent by him to bring punishment to those who do wrong, and to praise and encourage those who do right.
15 For it is the will of God that by doing right you may silence (muzzle, gag) the [culpable] ignorance and irresponsible criticisms of foolish people.
16 Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover or pretext for evil, but [use it and live] as bondservants of God.
17 Show respect for all people [treat them honorably], love the brotherhood [of believers], fear God, honor the king.
AMPLIFIED BIBLE
THIS IS ALL IN THE CONTEXT OF WHAT I HAVE EXPLAINED ABOVE. UNDER THIS PANDEMIC VIRUS, YOU SHOW LOVE TO YOUR NEIGHBOR BY NOT ALWAYS EXERCISING, PUTTING INTO PRACTICE, WHAT YOU THINK IS YOUR FREEDOM.
Keith Hunt
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