Through
Which Religious and Eschatological Prism Should We View the Covid-19
Pandemic? by J. Parnell McCarter
In a recent series of
articles I have explored the questionable conduct of Dr. Fauci related to the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as
Vatican moves with China and Russia.* But these articles raise a more fundamental question, and the
response to it will likely be guided by this question: through which
religious and eschatological prism should we view the Covid-19 pandemic and
Vatican moves with China and Russia? I
would argue that we should view it through the prism laid out in the Foreword
of the book Not to Be Ignored at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CJ2CUNG
, as well as other resources available at www.puritans.net
. Let’s briefly consider the prism argued
there.
The Bible is the infallible word of God to
mankind, and the book of Revelation is Christ’s roadmap for His Church,
covering the history from the Apostolic era to the future Second Coming of
Christ (after a millennial Reformation) in a generally linear fashion. We are living in a period of history
characterized thus: “all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication” (Revelation 18:2).
There is good reason to
believe we are in that period of history described in Revelation chapters 16-18
when there is great wickedness in the earth, and God has begun to judge the
nations of the earth, the USA especially.
As noted at http://www.puritans.net/news/concern102708.htm
and in the Foreword of Not to Be Ignored, there is good reason to believe this is the chronological history of the
world and we are in that period of divine judgment on the earth preceding a
great spiritual Reformation of the “millennium”:
3967 BC – beginning of
the first millennium of world history
2967 BC – beginning of
the second millennium of world history
1967 BC – beginning of
the third millennium of world history
967 BC – beginning of
the fourth millennium of world history (beginning with the raising of Solomon’s
Temple, and culminating in the resurrection of Jesus Christ)
34 AD – beginning of the
fifth millennium of world history
1034 AD – beginning of
the sixth millennium of world history
2034 AD – beginning of
the seventh millennium of world history (“the millennium” of spiritual
Reformation)
How long “the
millennium” will last before a brief period of Satanic persecuting release and
Christ’s Second Coming we do not know, but we do have good reason to hope that
the millennial Reformation, and even more so the eternal new heavens and new
earth ushered in by Christ’s Second Coming, will be a time of divine blessing
following a time of divine judgment.
What should we think
lies between now and the coming millennial Reformation?
·
Further judgment upon
the nations of the earth, the USA especially
·
“Armageddon”, likely a
World War III
·
Fall of the US empire as
we know it, ending its time as the great superpower of the world (Revelation
17:16)
·
Rise of the Jesuit Roman
Catholic Pope and his Papal kingdom as the new superpower of the world, which
is really a resumption of the Papal kingdom’s former superpower status
(Revelation 17:17)
·
Conversion of the Jews
to Biblical Christianity (Revelation 19:6-8, Romans 11:11-16)
·
Extirpation of Romanism,
Islam, etc. through the instrument of the preaching of the gospel (Revelation
19:17-20)
This is a
post-millennial historicist interpretation of scripture and view of history
(see www.historicism.net ).
During this period of
divine judgment, we would do well to heed the Biblical counsel provided in
other periods of divine judgment, such as in Isaiah 24 and 26:
Isaiah 24:
4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world
languisheth and fadeth away,
the haughty people of the earth do languish.
5 The earth
also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed
the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore
hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men
left.
7 The new wine
mourneth, the vine languisheth,
all the merryhearted do sigh.
8 The mirth of
tabrets ceaseth, the noise
of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
9 They shall
not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
10 The city of
confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
11 There is a
crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the
mirth of the land is gone.
12 In the city
is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
13 When thus it
shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the
shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
Isaiah 26:
4 Trust ye in the
Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength:
5 For he
bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth
it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he
bringeth it even to the dust.
6 The foot
shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
7 The way of
the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
8 Yea, in the
way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee;
the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
9 With my soul
have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek
thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the
world will learn righteousness.
…
17 Like as a woman
with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery,
is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord.
18 We have been
with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we
have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of
the world fallen.
19 Thy dead men
shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye
that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall
cast out the dead.
20 Come, my
people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide
thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold,
the Lord cometh out of
his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth
also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
This is no time for
pride, and it is no time for taking the law into our own hands as individuals.
Rather, it should be a time of humbling ourselves before God and speaking the
truth in love to our fellow men. God will execute judgment and bring down
wickedness, even using wicked men at times to do it, such as He used the
Assyrian rod (Isaiah 10:5). “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in
thee” (Isaiah 26:3).
*See http://www.puritans.net/articles/fauci.htm
and http://www.puritans.net/articles/vatican.htm
.