We should also remember that God uses plagues and pestilence to judge His people and to warn them of His soon coming final judgment. So is this just a virus from a fallen world, part of Satan’s plan to bring about the beast, false prophet, and antichrist, or God’s judgment on the world for their sin and disbelief? I will let you consider this answer for yourselves, but first some not often mentioned facts.
The WHO summarizes on their website that in the 2017-2018 flu season 1 billion people had the flu. The CDC for the same year reports that in the U.S. only, 45 million cases of the flu, 35 million Dr. visits, 490,000 hospitalizations, and 62,000 deaths. The CDC further reports that YTD this flu season there have been 23,000 deaths, of course, this number changes daily.
Did you know that all colds are a Corona virus? The current testing cannot differentiate a Corona cold or flu from COVID-19. Of course, none of these facts, although quite easy to find, our part of our mainstream media, government, or medical updates.
God repeatedly warned the nation of Israel that if they followed other gods, He would send disaster and death to them. We will study just one passage today.
Deuteronomy 28:15-20 "But it shall come about, if you do not obey the LORD your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: "Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country. "Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. "Cursed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock. "Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out. "The LORD will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke, in all you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me.
This is God’s warning thru Moses to the people of Israel before they entered the Promise Land. God will send curses down upon them in every area and walk of life. There will be no where to hide or escape. Remember, these are His chosen people, yet He will not spare them when they disobey and follow other gods.
28:21-25 "The LORD will make the pestilence cling to you until He has consumed you from the land where you are entering to possess it. "The LORD will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish. "The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron. "The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed. "The LORD shall cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. "Your carcasses will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
God will causes famines and wars to befall them. He will send fevers and inflammation. Sounds like the flu or worse.
Just like with Elijah and Ahab, God will withhold the rain as well. I am sure most of you have never heard sermons on these passages, as they don’t fit with the false teachings of a God of love. As if love is God’s only real controlling attribute.
28:27-33 "The LORD will smite you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed. "The LORD will smite you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart; and you will grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save you. "You shall betroth a wife, but another man will violate her; you shall build a house, but you will not live in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but you will not use its fruit. "Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey shall be torn away from you, and will not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you will have none to save you. "Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do. "A people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed continually. "You shall be driven mad by the sight of what you see. "The LORD will strike you on the knees and legs with sore boils, from which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
This sounds like what Satan sent upon Job after destroying his family, holdings, and all of his servants. Boils from head to toe.
28:45-48 "So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. "They shall become a sign and a wonder on you and your descendants forever. "Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things; therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
God had repeated warned Israel, yet they turned their back on Him and did exactly what He had forbidden them to do. Have we not exactly done the same? Has the U.S. been faithful and obedient to God"? No! Have we sacrificed our own children? Yes!
28:64-67 "If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honored and awesome name, the LORD your God, "Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul. "So your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you will be in dread night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life. "In the morning you shall say, 'Would that it were evening!' And at evening you shall say, 'Would that it were morning!' because of the dread of your heart which you dread, and for the sight of your eyes which you will see.
Trembling hearts, despair, dread, and great fear of what is happening and what is coming. Does this not sound like what people are experiencing today?