Watch out that you are not deceived. – Luke 21:8
…many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. – Matthew 24:11
These warnings above are words spoken by Jesus Christ! Words of warning to you and to me, for right now, the time we are living in, the last days before the return of Jesus Christ. We are living in a time of deception and false prophets.
Again, like a repeat of a bad television program, we are seeing more frightening and controlling behavior from the increasingly autocratic group that now runs this country and society. As I write this the CDC and various other branches of government are moving forward with recommending and imposing mask mandates, even though a large portion of society now has the vaccines, even though the death rate from covid is still now a small fraction of what it was a few months ago and is many times less than major diseases like heart disease and cancer.
These people who have taken over the national government and many of the so-called progressive states and cities, are moving once again to apparently further subjugate the American people. You should have noticed in the news the last few days this growing pressure to put into place again a mask mandate on the people, including those who are vaccinated. Some places have already done that.
Why?
The stated reason has to do with the Delta variant and that people unvaccinated are at real risk. But as I just noted the level of impact of covid in the USA now is really low, even including this variant. And indeed all the people who have been vaccinated now are highly protected against this disease. Even if they were to catch it – and there is a low chance – they would in all probability just have a mild case.
This current sudden increase in covid cases is evidently due to the more contagious delta variant being caught by those unvaccinated, primarily in five states where the vaccination rate is low indeed. The overwhelming number of persons in hospitals or dying from covid these days are unvaccinated people.
Covid is a serious deadly disease but it is just not a great risk in America any longer. Yes, it is still true, people with preexisting conditions, older senior citizens, seriously overweight persons, all these especially if they don’t have the vaccination are at risk of problems if they catch the disease. But not the bulk of the population. Covid has almost become just another risk of life today, like heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, car accidents, and violent assault and other crime.
Regardless of what you think of the vaccination, and there are many opinions on this, it is clear that it has had a dramatic impact in stopping and slowing down the disease.
There is no obvious reason for vaccinated people to suddenly have to wear masks, other than that the current autocratic leaders are getting concerned the people are speaking up more and more objecting to their policies – objecting very visibly and vocally to things like critical race theory being taught in the schools and in the military, the extraordinary rise in crime, and inane requirements that children wear masks in school.
So one way to slow down this growing opposition to the far-out policies of the progressive/woke/cancel culture gang is for them to impose mask restrictions. Certainly we all just lived through a period where it was obvious that wearing masks, not seeing each other’s faces or frowns or smiles, along with the social distancing and other measures led to really muting society, diminishing open expression, reducing the joy of life for so many.
We are having in America a real growth of dictatorial types who want to tell people how to live and how to run the country. They are far afield from those who struggled to bring about the greatest free country on earth. They have no understanding that there is no way ever to legislate true equality of status, income, jobs, talent, abilities, etc. But we can provide equality of opportunities, and America has done that better than any society in the history of the world for many years.
These people who consistently want to tell all of us how to live according to their human rules are quite apparently just not godly people. That is obvious from their views, from their vocabularies, from their actions. Sadly, today America is a land with many ungodly people in the top positions of government and business and media and entertainment. And sadly, many who should be boldly standing up for the Lord, for the gospel, for God in our world are meek and mum and staying away from the fight. Many church pastors do not teach we are near the end of the age and near the Lord’s return nor do they teach the full gospel.
The country and world are full of people living and acting like sheep, obeying whatever the increasingly autocratic rulers dictate. But there is one group of sheep that has the Lord as their leader. They hear his voice. It is time for this group - the Lord’s sheep - to behave like the Lord’s followers, like they have faith. They must stand up for him in every situation in which they find themselves and as guided by the Holy Spirit. That is tough to be sure but it is their role.
The only reason the Lord has not come yet to collect his sheep must be that a few of his elect – those God chose to be in him before the creation of the world - have not yet heard clearly of the gospel and the Lord. Hard to believe I know. Likely just a few. But if all had heard, I expect Jesus would already have been here.
So we keep telling others and sharing as we can and as there are opportunities. And we await the Lord’s imminent return alert, eyes wide open, ready, never misled by the deceived and lost souls running the country and many other governments and entities.
Read the scriptures at the top again! And Watch!
JULY 2021
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