Part One
Are they really going to shut down all the churches in the world? "Too
many people in one place, no more Sunday services." I don't think so.
Don't write me and tell me about the churches that have already shut
down. I'm talking about the millions of others
that are still open.
What are these churches? They're places where people can wake up their
spirit. And what does that spirit say? Huddle in the dark? Wait for
the virus to pass over? Give in?
That's not what I hear. I hear that in some countries, they're places
where the State does not tread. Where the worshipers can even speak
their minds. I've never been shown Scripture where God says churches
have to protect their government granted 501C3
non-profit status and therefore have to cower in fear.
CHURCH is where people can mount a PUSHBACK against the lockdowns and economic destruction. Against the attack.
CHURCH is where people can stand up and say they're OK and healthy and
they're not falling for the illusion. This is where people can tear
away the false curtain.
If one person stands up in church and says the epidemic is hyped up and
is a cover story that allows the government to wreck the country,
another person might stand up and say the same thing. Isn't this a
tradition called TESTIFYING? Aren't courage and righteousness
supposed to have a place in churches? What happens if 50 people stand
up? A hundred? What if this happens in many churches? What if the
energy is a fireball? Even out in the countryside, away from the
cities, I understand people have things called cell
phones. What prevents them from recording all this testifying and
sending it all over the world? WE'RE HEALTHY. WE'RE OK. WE'RE NOT
GOING TO DIE. WE DON'T WORSHIP THE VIRUS. WE'RE NOT HERE TO FALL ON
OUR KNEES AND WORSHIP THE VIRUS. THE VIRUS ISN'T
GOD.
If Jesus threw the moneychangers out of the temple, why can't worshipers throw out the CDC?
(Modern translation): "People of Jerusalem, run through your streets!
Look around! See for yourselves! Search the marketplaces! Can you find
one person who does what is right and tries to be faithful to God? If
you can, the LORD will forgive Jerusalem."
So...is there ONE honest politician anywhere who will go into a church
on a Sunday and stand up and say I DO NOT WORSHIP THE VIRUS...WE'RE ALL
RIGHT, WE'RE NOT SICK, WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET SICK, THIS IS A LIE AND AN
ATTACK AGAINST US...
Don't hold your breath waiting. Don't wait at all. People who go to
church can take the bull by the horns themselves. TESTIFY.
Real churches, as opposed to fake ones, were never meant to be polite places.
From what I'm told, early on in every religion, the original believers
struggled against overwhelming odds. Their FAITH sustained them. Yes?
Also, if I understand correctly, God isn't telling people to wait for Him to take action. Is WAITING a religion?
Is there a Bible I don't know about that lists all the permitted excuses for WAITING?
TESTIFY.
Part Two
Does God want a global lockdown for eighteen months?
Churches are the last bastion of separation from State in the society
When there's a war, there's dissent. In this war, where are the dissenters?
Could two-gun Trump, accompanied by a live-streaming video crew, do a
blazing firebrand tour of 100 churches across the US, and tell
worshipers the "epidemic" is being crazily hyped, in order to wage war
against the people, through economic attacks? "THIS
IS THE MOST FAKE NEWS OF ALL FAKE NEWS! THE CDC IS FILLED WITH
LIARS!" You bet your ass he could. Will he? No.
The PUSHBACK IS UP TO CHURCHGOERS THEMSELVES.
The latest: Time magazine, 3/17: "The U.K. government ramped up its
response to COVID-19 Monday, asking citizens to cut all unnecessary
contact with other people, after a British research team warned its
earlier strategy would lead to hundreds of thousands
of deaths. But those researchers also gave a troubling warning for
countries around the world implementing lockdown measures: in order to
be effective, they would need to last 12 to 18 months."
Twelve to 18 months would blow any national economy apart.
A public official who declares, or assists in the declaring of, a
lockdown should have to haul himself downtown and live among the people
he just torpedoed. The people who lost their jobs and businesses. Put
these political criminals on minimum welfare and
see how they like it. THAT'S called a deterrent. "What, Mr. Mayor?
You want a job? In this neighborhood, which is changing radically by
the hour, it looks like we have three immediate openings. Slim, none,
and zero. What's your preference?"
For the last 60 years or so, I've been hearing about churches where they
rattle the timbers and shake the windows every Sunday. ---Energy in
spirit let loose. Churches are the last bastion of separation from
State in the society. That's where people are
supposed to go, to find their Ultimate. What are they supposed to do
in an economic war that's being leveled against them? Stay silent? Is
that what God is looking for? Eighteen months of silence?
I googled "God wants 18 months of lockdown," and the first thing that came up was:
"As Italy remains on lockdown until at least April 3, priests across
this overwhelmingly Catholic country are being forced to look for
alternative ways to minister to their flocks. Even the public mass, the
most solemn rite in the church's liturgy, has been
banned along with other public gatherings. Instead, many priests are
turning to the virtual world to bring people closer to God."
"A proliferation of prayer chains are being organized on WhatsApp or
websites---such as the new Corona(Anti)Virus for 24-hour rosary
recitation---and in addition many priests are now streaming masses on
YouTube channels or Facebook. One priest of a small town
in Brianza, one of the areas most affected by the new coronavirus, even
asked his worshippers to email him selfies or other pictures of
themselves, so that he could print them out, stick them on the pews and
not feel alone in his church while conducting a
mass. He got hundreds of images and ran out of toner for his printer."
After reading that, I provisionally decided the Vatican has no clue about what God wants.
I could have looked for Biblical references to selfies, but held myself back.
That's not the kind of church I'm talking about. That's a complicit corporation.
I'm talking about churches where people stand up and TESTIFY, because in
a staggering economic crisis like the one we're now facing, THE SPIRIT
MOVES THEM, AND SO THEY MOVE. And if their church is too polite a
place, THEY SANCTIFY IT BY THEIR ACTION.
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