Perhaps Today: Why Rethinking Covid Matters
Perhaps Today: Why Rethinking Covid Matters
It’s been a busy few weeks here in Schaefferstown. We are still bone dry without rain in a good 4 weeks. The frozen potato plants seem to have recovered. Peas will be ready this coming week. We finally had two crias (baby alpacas) born this week—prompting me each day to tell the moms the prophetic “perhaps today.” LuAnne and I got to attend both of those births. Apparently, Siri doesn’t know about alpacas, for of the hundreds of pictures we took, it didn’t even attempt to identify…and when it did, it thought the cria was a dog—either a Schnauzer or a Scottish Terrier! There’s something immensely satisfying about being smarter than artificial intelligence. Both pictures below are within a few hours of birth.
Last evening was the premiere of the third of the plandemic series by Mikki Willis entitled “The Great Awakening.” (If that link doesn’t work, try this one.) I’d highly recommend the 1:42 film. If you’ve been following the plandemic from day one, none of this will surprise you. If you’ve never heard of the concept of plandemic, then you’re in for a shocking revelation. Only God knows if we’re gearing up for the Lord’s return or for a great awakening. Either way, it’s gratifying to see so many people openly talking about the smoke and subterfuge we’ve all been subjected to since March 2020.
In some of the red-carpet interviews before the premier screening last evening, it was pointed out that a lot of our current issues—from climate change to racism to transgender issues—are really distractions from the larger goal of communist takeover of the West, epitomized by Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum’s Great Reset agenda of 2030.
C. S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters was originally written in 1941. It is the account of the senior devil Screwtape advising his junior devil nephew Wormwood how to overcome the Enemy (think opposite; in The Screwtape Letters, the Enemy is the good or the Christian) and hence lead mankind astray. In the preface to the 1961 edition, Lewis writes:
I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of “Admin.” The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.
In the very first chapter, he advises Wormwood that if relies on argument, then the Enemy always has the upper hand. However, if he relies on jargon (which he latter calls propaganda), then “Evil” has superior advantage.
Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church.
And again:
The trouble about argument is that it moves the whole struggle onto the Enemy’s own ground. He can argue too; whereas in really practical propaganda of the kind I am suggesting He has been shown for centuries to be greatly the inferior of Our Father Below [i.e. Satan].
Why, then, in the past three years, has so much of the Church fallen victim to propaganda? Why did the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby state that if you love your neighbor, you’ll get the Covid vaccine? (Of course, pretty much everything he says in this 1-minute clip is entirely false.) Why did the Pope parrot the same line? Why did the ERLC (Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission) of the Southern Baptist Convention promote masks during Covid? Why did the conservative Anabaptist Viewpoint—Anabaptists have always emphasized separation from the world—promote Covid vaccines (more correctly called gene therapies) using the same argument of “loving your neighbors” as the Archbishop? (This was the first of four reasons in their encouragement to get Covid vaccinated, all of which are entirely misleading or patently false.)
Wouldn’t a far more honest, ethical, and biblical approach for the above to have been what Orthodox Presbyterian pastor Peter Van Doodewaard wrote on May 29:
I am a pastor, and I don’t give recommendations for vaccinations, masks, or appendectomies.
I’d highly recommend reading Van Doodewaard’s entire “COVID-19 Reflection,” where he calls church leaders to methodically evaluate their individual church’s handling of Covid and repent as needed.
Except that many were physicians who gave these recommendations, as in the Viewpoint above. The only possible answer to the above questions is if people were listening to the wrong sources, i.e. propaganda and not argument. Churches and parachurch organizations virtue-signaled from here to Timbuktu with their masking and jab recommendations. But they weren’t following truth. The data is in, and there is no place to hide. Masks didn’t work. In fact, they promoted harm. Vaccines didn’t prevent getting or spreading Covid. And they came with an abundance of irreparable harm and in many cases death. All of which we warned people about. Yet our concerns—from within the church—were either ignored or politely dismissed with “thank you for your thoughts.”
I wonder: when the watchman’s cries from the wall are ignored, and when those cries happen exactly as the watchman warned, and then when those who ignored the cries fall victim to the watchman’s warnings, will God hear a prayer for healing? Surely God is a God of abundant mercy, and we all stand desperately in need of that every day. But let us never presume upon His grace and mercy.
If God tarries, we will face another “Covid” crisis, and if we haven’t learned the first time around, there’s no telling what the end will be. It’s later than we think. “The end of all things is at hand,” Peter warns (I Pet. 4:7, ESV).
“Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming” (Matt. 24:42, ESV). And in that process, may you be truly awake, and not “woke” to the Enemy’s ideologies.