Ralph Dorllinger, Bible teacher in the White House, thinks so.
Drollinger argues in two blog posts that the Coronavirus is a form of God’s wrath upon nations (Drudge Report 3/25/2020) .
His critic, Lee Fang, states, “The evangelical lessons are carefully catered to conservative ideology, with a focus on interpreting current events through a partisan lens.”
Apparently, Mr. Lee Fang is totally objective and free from his homosexual, humanistic partisanship. Standing on the impeccable mountain of secularism wearing his neo-pagan glasses, he can see clearly enough to pass judgment on Pastor Drollinger. Hummm?
How should we interpret the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Medically? Politically? Spiritually?
So far, the facts do not justify the fear . . . but the fear is real creating a world-wide panic.
If you are a doctor, you are in search of the facts about the nature of this virus. If you are politically orientated, you will have a political perspective and someone to blame. A business man will see things altogether differently – something between crisis and opportunity.
Christians, on the other hand, tend to evaluate disasters through the lens of Holy Scripture coupling with it a call to repentance.
The human tragedy and wreckage that pandemics leave in their backwash never fail to stun us. Who would dare ledger them as a cold, callous statistical accountant in some journal?
We must ask: who among us is qualified to says these killer viruses are a judgment of God for our sins?
Here is one perspective.
Preachers would be wise to see plagues as an opportunity for ministry.
Isaiah 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
There is no affliction brought by God upon the people where the people are not sprinkled with the dust of the golden calf.
Shame and bitterness can be God’s judgment on a sinful people.
Jeremiah 8:14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
God uses devastation and destruction to punish sins.
Lamentations 3:42, 47 We have transgressed and have rebelled . . . Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
God punishes nations for their transgression of His law.
Daniel 9:11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
The right response to affliction produces clarity and virtue.
Psalm 119:130 The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.
Romans 5:3 More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
What has caused greater suffering: the virus or tumbling markets? Maybe, the virus is not the main tool of judgment, but the financial tsunami that crushed the world markets due to fear caused by media manipulation.
Why would God judge the world anyway? Pride, murder of babies, Sodomy, lesbianism, transvestitism, brutal wars, pornography, sanction of same-sex unions, oppressive taxation, debauchery, gluttony, avarice, political corruption slander, character assassination, lying in the press, fraud in the courts, falsehood, hypocrisy, mendacity, treachery, and dissemblance to mention a few.
While it is hard to say with certainty why we have a pandemic in 2020, the lens of Scripture provides evidence plagues of this sort are a judgment of God upon proud, Christ-rejecting people.
While the coronavirus is a genuine threat to the public health, the panic over this virus appears to be fueled by a political agenda during an election year that threatens to topple the current administration and undermine constitutional liberties.
Whether it is a judgment of God upon the ungodly remains to be seen. We need time to render an accurate verdict. For sure, we have been manipulated, and when Americans wake up, there will be hell to pay.
Meantime, the real enemy is not the coronavirus, but sin at work in our hearts causing us to fall short of the glory of God.
Personal Perspective:
(1) In the UK, the government downgraded Covid 19 from HCID to flu like concerns. You don’t want to catch this thing, but its not exactly the plague.
According to Dr. Andrew Kaufman, M.D. from MIT in Boston, 99.2 % of the people who die from this virus have one or more serious diseases; and, according to a China study, 4 people out of 5 people who had no symptoms of the Coronavirus tested positive (a false positive); that is the real problem is the panic caused by false media reporting (Bloomberg Report 3-10-2020).
(2) The Coronavirus and the panic surrounding the pandemic is used of God to call men to repentance, but does not appear to be a special judgment of God upon humanity for specific sins; that is, it is part of our existence in a fallen world and not a pestilence of Biblical proportions. The greater problem that effects us all is the lack of integrity by journalists (sinfulness) that is causing panic and a great depression — and, being ruled by fools is a judgment of God.
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