THE CORONAVIRUS IN IT’S SPIRITUAL CONTEXT By: Pastor Forrest Moore
Excerpt from one of the many emails sent to Governmental Authorities; Sunday, March 29, 2020
I
am Pastor Forrest Moore, pastor of West Highland Missionary Baptist Church of Tuscaloosa. However, I am currently in Tanzania, Africa.
I will now address my reason for this writing. I received a “word” from God regarding the prevention of the coronavirus a week ago, and I have been trying to get this word to the proper authorities for implementation. God told me to tell “the powers that be” to advise the public that has not contracted the virus yet, to take the drug Malarone and it will prevent contraction. When the virus has run its course with those who are affected the infections will sto. Let me first establish the fact that the drug Malarone in itself, has no more ability to prevent the virus than any other drug that has been tested; it is God’s choice. Please allow me at this time to share the biblical principle for this application. The principal is found in Numbers 21:9 and John 3:14. Numbers 21:9 is the “type” and “shadow” while John 3:14 is the “object” and “essence”. When we study these passages, we realize that the actual healing source was and is in God Himself. And this power is activated by faith and obedience. There was no power in the serpent on the pole or in the drug Malarone to remedy the people’s malady. The healing process began with God speaking a “word”. Nothing would have happened if Moses had acted on his own. Romans 10:17 say faith comes by hearing the “word” of God and healing comes by acting on that “word”. God has spoken a “word” to prevent further infections from the virus, it is up to us to believe that “word” and act on it. Do know that there were Israelites who refused to look upon the serpent. “This is an awesome evangelical opportunity for the church to promote the God who will bring His “word” to pass if we have faith and act. God bless you!” The World Health Organization’s (hereinafter referred to as WHO) Covid-19 has created the proverbial dog whose “tail is wagging the dog”; the dog is not in charge. Humanity has not been in charge since the Garden of Eden. In addition to the tons of damage the virus is causing,
the most alarming is that it has reduced the value of human life to an existential “curve” that human governments, in conjunction with the World Health Organization, are laboring feverishly to “flatten.” Thousands of mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, husbands, etc., who lose their lives are “curves”. The dead are not even afforded the decency of a funeral, but in many instances are zipped up in body bags and buried in mass graves while we practice “social distancing” and wash our hands singing “happy birthday” two times. This virus is globally re-programming humanity: economically, politically, medically, socially, religiously, and psychologically. In addition, the media coverage of the pandemic is in many ways worse than the pandemic itself. They have yet to ask an intelligent question; they want absolute and conclusive answers that involve dates, numbers, and predictions. It has not yet registered in their brains that it is IMPOSSIBLE to answer the questions they are asking. There is no precedent to reference and the characteristics of this virus are still under investigation. The virus determines the dates and numbers. Unlike other historical crisis of this nature, the world will NEVER fully recover from this one, despite professional opinions and prognosis. This is not a case of “it will get worse before it gets better”. This is a case of “it will get worse” period. This one problem is creating more problems than the world will be able to rectify in its aftermath. The aftermath will be a “new norm.” To add presumptuous insult to presumptuous injury, global governments are considering “re-opening” for economic reasons. Businesses are stuck “between a rock and a hard place” and it is a “six in one hand and a half dozen in the other” dilemma. The ultimate question is: Is it more important to re-open the businesses or to be here to run them? Covid- 19 has given the global economic community a choice: it can kill either the economy or the economist; which do we
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