Spiritual affirmation for today:
Evil will not have the final say in the affairs of this Life! For our Creator’s incredible power allows evil just enough space so that in due season, it will defeat itself. Only our Creator can destroy creatively–Only God can transform evil into good.
Grace and Peace
Preface
Brothers and Sisters, what I now appreciate greater and greater each day that we endure this pandemic, is the prophetic and comforting nature of the words of our Master, Christ Jesus! For the purpose of this blog post, Matthew 10:26-27 is my prime example of this sentiment.
“So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops. And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”
Beloved of God, I must confess that the Lord God is my only fear that controls my entire being. Nevertheless, my deepest sorrow and emotional pain are toward those millions of human-beings lives that currently, have been taken by the death of the virus; and the seemingly, uncountable numbers of millions of souls worldwide, who’s lives have been completely destroyed due to this same virus! Each of us, saint and sinner is forever, impacted that this situation.
Instead of reacting negatively, I have purposed in my life, to be positively used by the Holy Spirit in any means, toward offering hope, help, and a prophetic witness during these trying times.
This blog post is my humble effort at disclosing fragments of hidden truth surrounding this COVID-19 pandemic. Somehow I hope that this feeble effort on my part will enlighten your mind as it prayerfully, will minister to your spirit.
The Beloved Community of God
The very heart of our loving Creator’s intention toward all of humanity on the earth-centered upon our co-existence in living within His presence as an act of worship toward Him, as we all share in “common-unity” with each other and creation.
This COVID-19 pandemic is the very antithesis to God’s original design for humans who are fearfully and wonderfully made! Psalm 139 We must continue in giving thanks to Thee in spite of all of the darkness, death, misinformation, and inhumanity that this tribulation as uncovered!
Since the ascension and glorification of Lord Jesus the Christ by God the Father, now like never before, we are in desperate need of His faithfulness toward the earth, and His Beloved Community.
Where else in all of the earth, will we who are In-Christ, are to find and experience daily hope, faith, and trust in our journey? The ever-present reality that we all are experiencing in this modern-day Exodus plagues upon all the earth, is that not all humans and societal/political systems believe Not nor depend upon the promises and or sovereignty of God for their deliverance and provisions!
Beloved of God, we must never become naive nor complacent in our theology and life on this earth. God’s enemy Satan is warring like never before, for the souls and devotion of those of us who are made, “a little lower than an angel!”
But somewhere it is testified in these words: “What is the man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him? 7 You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor 8 and placed everything under his feet.” When God subjected all things to him, He left nothing outside of his control. Yet at present, we do not see everything subject to him.… Hebrews 2:6-8
Ha Satan
Please keep in mind Beloved of God, all of the past, current, and future uncivil and ungodly events are made possible by only one, Ha Satan. Everything that we all will come to know as God’s light and wisdom will reveal to the world as time discloses, the heartless collective evil and destruction to the souls of millions during this plague.
Who but Ha Satan is indeed a formidable foe in all of God’s creation! Consider if not be reminded of the multiplicities of his names and his functions:
He is Day-Star, the Son of The-Morning, The Anointed Cherub, Devil, Tempter, Ruler of Demons, Beelzebul, The Evil-One Liar, Father of Lies, Murderer, Ruler of This World, god of this Age, Angle of Light, Belial, Ruler of the Authority of the Air, Adversary, Roaring Lion, Angel of the Abyss, Apollyon and Abaddon, Dragon, Old Serpent, Deceiver of the Whole World.
Satan is the great deceiver of the entire world that God has temporarily permitted his charge. Everything about him symbolizes death, lies, sufferance, imprisonment of the souls of humans. All of which centers around his desire to supplant God’s authority and force all souls to worship him.
This biblical and theological reality by no means exempts all human-beings at present, those political/social/religious/financial institutions, and individuals who are used by Ha Satan toward invoking, and implementing his anti-god agenda.
They also will be called out and punished by God’s righteous indignation which invariably will unleash His vindication upon the earth for all of the evil that has attempted to usurp God’s righteousness.
Such a prophetic proclamation is noted in Psalm 28
Psalm 28
1 Of David.
To You, Adonai, I call—
my Rock, do not be deaf to me.
If You were silent to me,
I would become like those going down to the Pit.
2 Hear the sound of my pleas,
when I cry to You for help,
when I lift up my hands toward Your holy Sanctuary.
3 Do not drag me away with the wicked and with doers of iniquity,
who speak peace with their neighbors,
while evil is in their hearts.
4 Repay them for their deeds, their evil acts.
Repay them for the deeds of their hands.
Bring back on them what they deserve.
5 Since they show no regard for the deeds of Adonai
nor the work of His hands,
He will tear them down and never build them up.
6 Blessed be Adonai, because He has heard
the sound of my supplications.
7 Adonai is my strength and my shield.
My heart trusts in Him, and I was helped.
Therefore my heart leaps for joy,
and I will praise Him with my song.
8 Adonai is their strength—
a stronghold of salvation for His anointed.
9 Save Your people, bless Your inheritance,
shepherd them and carry them forever.
As the Father of Lies, one of the most successful methods that we have witnessed during this pandemic is misinformation and propaganda. Any and all forms of propaganda for any and all sources are criminal, inhuman, uncivil, and ungodly!
Satan’s methodology never changes throughout his quest at world dominion and soul worship away from God, and upon him, it is through the manipulation of force such as militarism, economic distress, population control, disease, and the complete takeover of news and information!
Propaganda
Whoever controls the information/news/the narrative, will gain control over the souls of humanity. Satan has been doing this since the beginning and will continue until the end of his reign on his earth!
He now has successfully distorted and empowered leaders worldwide as his tools during this COVID-19 tribulation for the following greater purposes of Hiding the Truth:
- Make evil look Good via propaganda
- Make everything related to his Satanic activity appear as divine.
- Dis sensitize while legalizing killing, murder, violence as a way of life, yet making it the new form of “peacemaking!”
- Transforming tyranny and worldwide oppression as the new expression of human liberation and freedom.
Such evil rhetoric that we now must contend with at present, is in many cases, [at least to this writer] is far dangerous and deadly than the coronavirus.
At least from my observations thus far in 2020, our Nation is held captive as willing slaves of Satan’s exaggerations that turned lies, misinformation, hearsay, opinions, ignorance, all now go unchecked, challenged, or punished morally and or legally. This is just how to shut down the world!
The Answer
We are called and commissioned by the will and power of the Holy Spirit to be prophetic witnesses during this uncivil culture of evil, lies, hostility, shame, and greed.
We who are called into the Beloved Community of God must maintain our collective spiritual integrity during this, our greatest moral crisis. We must not remain silent during this worldwide roar of Satan, let us boldly speak courageously in all of our actions, thoughts, and deeds, while proclaiming to the real and ever-present Kingdom of God amiss Satan’s mess!
Such a collective prophetic spiritual witness is risky when effectively accomplished, yet our calling and commission as disciples of the Master is the needed Light if not an example for millions during these critical times.
My prayer is that God will reveal His very presence to souls who are without Him in their lives, He promised that He alone is God in all of His creation.
As for His Beloved Community of Believers, may He alone be your very help in your times of need.
In closing,
I leave you with this passage of Holy Scripture: 1 John 2:22-27
22 And who is the greatest liar? The one who says that Jesus is not Christ. Such a person is antichrist, for he does not believe in God the Father and in His Son. 23 For a person who doesn’t believe in Christ, God’s Son, can’t have God the Father either. But he who has Christ, God’s Son, has God the Father also.
24 So keep on believing what you have been taught from the beginning. If you do, you will always be in close fellowship with both God the Father and his Son. 25 And he himself has promised us this: eternal life.
26 These remarks of mine about the Antichrist are pointed at those who would dearly love to blindfold you and lead you astray. 27 But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you, in your hearts, so that you don’t need anyone to teach you what is right. For he teaches you all things, and he is the Truth, and no liar; and so, just as he has said, you must live in Christ, never to depart from him.
Brother Alonzo Thornton