The Cause of COVID-19

IIt’s spring of 2020. I’m sitting around Easter morning in my pajamas. My thoughts went back to a few months ago when God told me there would be some downtime. So I’m sitting around in my pajamas Easter morning, asking for gratitude. COVID-19 lurks outside. In some regard, there is futility in resting. Modern philosophy gives credence to the belief that COVID-19 is something that we don’t need to worry about despite the fact that we don’t know what is fully happening.

Is denial an act of attrition or an act of conspiracy? It’s difficult to discover the answer when there are diverse opinions everwhere. It’s amazing how most people will fall into two camps. One school of thought relies on human effort to overcome tragedy, the other school of thought relies on faith. In the first scenario we tend to act like we are okay, in the second we know we’re okay.

So what is becoming of Easter this year? We have eggs, we have dye, and we have family (sometimes)? But when it comes right down to it, people aren’t putting their trust in the Easter bunny, and that’s significant for America. Perhaps rest has never been as futile in this country as it is now, but before I bring up this fact, let’s acknowledge the state of things now. Read on…

The church is praying and they are speaking.

This is true:

2 Chr 7:14 “…if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” (NKJV)

and this is true…

Jam 2:14-16. What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? (NKJV)

The church is at work and you can click here to see how.

Easter doesn’t sit right this year, but I’d like to say I love it. I’d love to say I tidied up; put on my lapel, felt the brisk morning dew upon my face as I headed out the door to my place of worship. Here I am with my Sunday best, but they’re just pajamas because the church services are online only. Do I honor God in my COVID-19 rest? It depends on your perspective. On one hand, you cry out, “I need rest,” but did I ask for this? Partially… He just gave me a whole lot more. COVID-19.

At this point, I’d like to let you know that I’m a prophet. I’d like to let you know the reason that God has caused this virus to come upon Earth. To get some background, please read (Numbers 11 NKJV).

† Numbers 11 †

The People Complain

Now when the people complained, it displeased the LORD; for the LORD heard it, and His anger was aroused. So the fire of the LORD burned among them, and consumed some in the outskirts of the camp. Then the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the LORD, the fire was quenched. So he called the name of the place Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.

Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat? We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!”

Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium. The people went about and gathered it, ground it on millstones or beat it in the mortar, cooked it in pans, and made cakes of it; and its taste was like the taste of pastry prepared with oil. And when the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.

Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and the anger of the LORD was greatly aroused; Moses also was displeased. So Moses said to the LORD, “Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all these people on me? Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, Carry them in your bosom, as a guardian carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You swore to their fathers? Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep all over me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’ I am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me. If You treat me like this, please kill me here and now—if I have found favor in Your sight—and do not let me see my wretchedness!”

The Seventy Elders

So the LORD said to Moses: “Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tabernacle of meeting, that they may stand there with you. Then I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit that is upon you and will put the same upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone. Then you shall say to the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat. You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days, but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have despised the LORD who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, “Why did we ever come up out of Egypt?” ’ ”

And Moses said, “The people whom I am among are six hundred thousand men on foot; yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.’ Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to provide enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to provide enough for them?”

And the LORD said to Moses, “Has the LORD’s arm been shortened? Now you shall see whether what I say will happen to you or not.” So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD, and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tabernacle. Then the LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy elders; and it happened, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, although they never did so again.

But two men had remained in the camp: the name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them. Now they were among those listed, but who had not gone out to the tabernacle; yet they prophesied in the camp. And a young man ran and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”

So Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, one of his choice men, answered and said, “Moses my lord, forbid them!”
Then Moses said to him, “Are you zealous for my sake? Oh, that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would put His Spirit upon them!” And Moses returned to the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

The LORD Sends Quail

Now a wind went out from the LORD, and it brought quail from the sea and left them fluttering near the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground. And the people stayed up all that day, all night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten homers); and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was aroused against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague. So he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had yielded to craving.

In reference to Numbers 11, you may be asking God, “If this passage is aligned with COVID-19, then what is the “meat” we so desperately longed for?” The answer is REST.

According to a Nielsen report, United States adults are watching five hours and four minutes of television per day on average (35.5 h/week, slightly more than 77 days per year). That’s almost a full-time job.

So, in general, what are people complaining about? Please read the following news article: Click Here!

Deny yourself.

Could God be clearer? It’s not a matter of how many vacations we take. It’s not a matter of how much time we take off work. It’s not even about how much TV we watch. The problem is that while we enjoy God’s grace in resting, we complain and complain that we are still not getting enough rest.

(Isaiah 30:15)

For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: “In returning and rest you shall be saved; In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.” (NKJV)

The Word of the LORD

Thus says the LORD, “My Spirit yearns jealously for my intended children. Listen to my Word and be believing. A little rest, a little folding of hands; has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Put down the remote control and take the rest you desire. If you cry out for rest, understand that the decision you make is largely based upon choices that you have to endure.“

“By faith.” The words come to me softly, almost as if unintended, but present and available should I choose to listen; words spoken by the Holy Spirit. I chose to listen to God. I wanted freedom. I wanted what everyone wants… a way to believe.

As the years pass, it’s the same old story: life has its larger moments, but is that all we live for? Do we concern ourselves also about the drama on TV day in and day out? It would appear that it is easier to live our lives through proxy than to allow Jesus to stake His claim upon us. The LORD forms us to be vessels of dishonor or glory for His purposes, and if we’re to assume the latter, we must acknowledge His authority. We can’t do that that if we’re friends with the world (James 4:4 NKJV), but that may or may not involve the television. God wants our time.

I wanted the rest but I did not want the heartache. I feel the grit beneath my feet as I walk down the street. I feel the hugs of people who are very afraid. I see pain almost everywhere I look. Compassion can preclude me from living for myself. Look for the greatest need. Minister to everyone who is looking and asking, “Where is God?”

He is Christ, yes, but He reveals Himself through need.

Mat 25:37-40 “Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘LORD, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? 38 When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? 39 Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ 40 And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’”(NKJV)

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