Illustrated Message Series by Pastor Richard based on "The Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis

Before reading the following overview of this Letter, we suggest that you click on the link above to read the short Letter 29, for today’s Illustrated Message, which will help you understand the following message.

Are you a Courageous or Cowardice Christian? Let’s look at what Screwtape’s game plan is for Wormwood to do to the Patient.

Screwtape says to Wormwood; “Now that it is certain the German humans will bombard your patient's town and that his duties will keep him in the thick of the danger, we must consider our policy. Are we to aim at cowardice--or at courage, with consequent pride--or at hatred of the Germans?”

This game plan is to get the Patient to become a coward when being bombarded, or to be courageous – which often leads to pride – unless the glory is given to God, or to fill him with racial hatred to the Germans and all they were doing in WWII.

Christian, are you, in your surroundings of employment, education, recreation, places of worship etc., being bombarded by the biological warfare and its demonic agenda to rob, kill and destroy not only you but to all that you don’t comply with, and to in turn to bow down and worship the politicians and their ungodly mandates?

Well, if that’s the case, you’re not alone. Even though it might seem like in the natural you are the minority, keep in mind that Jesus says in Matthew 18:19-20 19 “Again[d] I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”

Remember that the early Church that was under the tyrannical rule of the Roman Empire, a Godless empire that eventually was destroyed from within by their wicked sinful lifestyles of self-worship.

I’d like to read the following commentary from CliffsNotes on the Roman Empire;  

“What caused the fall of the Roman Empire? Did Christianity play a role?

As the saying goes, "Rome wasn't built in a day," and neither did the Roman Empire fall in a day. There are a number of reasons for the collapse of the Roman Empire — a decline that took place over many hundreds of years. The rise of Christianity did play a small, but not insignificant, part in the decline, in that it eroded traditional Roman beliefs and values and caused conflicts between Christians and those who continued to hold onto the old pagan philosophies. These conflicts led to persecution of the Christians, until the first Christian Emperor of Rome, Constantine, put a stop to the persecution.

Most historians believe that there is a long list of causes for the fall of the Roman Empire. The internal causes included political corruption, economic problems, and a series of leaders that — let's face it — were more interested in their personal gain than in the welfare of the common people.”

Sound familiar? It sounds a lot like the Godless leaders of our Country of Canada who are creating mandates that are unconstitutional that will ultimately destroy our nation just like Rome, thru self-worship which is idolatry.

Remember that throughout history, not only New Testament Christians were persecuted, but also the Old Testament saints were persecuted if they did not obey the self-worshipping leaders of their day.

We look at Daniel 3 where it talks about Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego; three men who refused to bow down to the image that King Nebuchadnezzar built of himself. They were believers in God, and as a result of not conforming to the Kings edict (mandate and compliance), were thrown into a fiery furnace that was made 7 times hotter than normal. But they weren’t alone, because there appeared a fourth person with them who had the appearance like the Son of God, who would be Jesus.  

Are you in that fire of affliction today? You’re not alone, Jesus is in there with you, and He won’t allow you to even get the smell of smoke on your clothes, He’ll protect you, keep you, watch over you with His word.

These three men came out without the smell of smoke on their clothes, let alone the burning of their flesh. Sometimes the affliction that is being placed on you is being turned up by those around you seven times more, but Jesus is with you, and you’ll come out unscathed.

We also read about the prophet Daniel in Daniel 6, when he was thrown into the lion’s den. The King came down early in the morning after not sleeping at night, to see if his servant was still alive. And he was! God had delivered him. Daniel’s own persecutors, those who set him up and conspired against him, were themselves thrown into the den alive, with their wives and children and were killed immediately by the lions.

It shows you again that no matter who conspires against you, no matter what is being said against you, no matter what the affliction is that’s being put on you, God is with you and you will be delivered and what your adversaries have meant for evil, will be turned on themselves.  

God’s purpose for Daniel was not be eaten by the lions. He was thrown into that den by an ungodly King and associates who were jealous of him and driven to persecute him. Why? Because Daniel was a man of prayer and wasn’t ashamed of it. He had his windows wide open to pray – as he always did – knowing that his conspirators were watching to snare him. He didn’t change his Christian life or lifestyle to accommodate the Kings edict, but lived his Godly life as he normally did. Christian’s need to do the same today when ungodly edicts and mandates are being placed on them. Daniel wasn’t ashamed to stand up for the things of God. Christian, don’t be ashamed of the gospel, for it’s the power of God unto salvation.

The main agenda of the devil is not only to rob, kill and destroy your lives on earth, but to ultimately get you to backslide and separate you from God for eternity and to be able to one day say of you that, ‘he or she is now safe in our fathers House in hell’.

Screwtape knows that if the Patient dies now in the midst of war, he is safe in God’s house in Heaven, so it’s all demons on deck to try to get him to backslide while living so close to death.

I’d like to read what LitCharts says about this part of the letter, “Summary; Screwtape has learned that the Germans are certain to bomb the patient’s community, and that the patient, due to his “duties,” will be in the most dangerous part of the city. With this in mind, he tells Wormwood that he must produce a sin in the patient’s mind. This sin could be cowardice, or courage followed by pride, or racist hatred of Germany.

Analysis; “Although it seems as if the patient is in grave danger, he is actually, in Lewis’s estimation, now “safer” than he has ever been. He is close to death, and thus Heaven, and he is focused on virtuous duty. Screwtape and Wormwood are getting desperate, and their attempts to corrupt the patient are increasingly clumsy.”

Do you sense across Canada that it’s getting clumsy behind the scenes of our political leaders, backtracking on mandates and regulations? With all the restrictions that they’re trying to impose, they’re failing in the courts and are not able to enforce mandates because they’re getting clumsy, they’ve bitten off more than what they can chew, so to speak.

How are you, Christian, responding in the pandemonium; as a coward and bowing your knee to self-worship and self-preservation or are you courageous to not bow the knee to self-preservation and choose to mortify the pride that often follows, by giving glory to Jesus? It’s okay to be courageous, but don’t become prideful and always give glory to Jesus. Don’t be concerned with self-preservation of your body but of the preservation of the Word of God and it’s promises.

Screwtape continues to talk about what fear and cowardice do; “But hatred is best combined with Fear. Cowardice, alone of all the vices, is purely painful--horrible to anticipate, horrible to feel, horrible to remember; Hatred has its pleasures. It is therefore often the compensation by which a frightened man reimburses himself for the miseries of Fear. The more he fears, the more he will hate. And Hatred is also a great anodyne for shame. To make a deep wound in his charity, you should therefore first defeat his courage.”

The devil wants to defeat your love and charity, Christian. The early Church never bowed the knee to Rome and were courageous to love not their lives even unto death, and this is simply because there is no sting in death for the courageous Christian. Judas was a coward who gave into worshipping self-preservation that in the end, he ultimately not only took his own life but lost his own soul and is now safe in his father’s house in Hell.

We read in Galatians 2:20; “20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.”

This is the death-to-self walk, the crucified life, that Jesus is commanding us to walk.

John 12:24-26 says; “24 Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much [a]grain. 25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.”

The life that you want to preserve, Christian, you’ll ultimately end up loosing. It will end up in self-preservation and self-worship and who knows what that would lead you to.

Jesus says in Luke 9:23-25; “23 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross [a]daily, and follow Me. 24 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. 25 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?”

Are you full of courage today, dead to self-worship and self-preservation, or are you a coward that is quoting and twisting Romans 13:1-7, where it talks about obeying the laws of the land, even when they are unconstitutional and go against Christian commands?

The true Christian will always obey God and die to self when tempted to be a coward and twist Romans 13:1-7, in order to maintain self-preservation.

There are a lot of Christians, who while being bombarded in the midst of the pandemic, have like Judas bowed the knee to self-preservation and have become cowards.  

Screwtape continues to talk about hatred; “Hatred we can manage. The tension of human nerves during noise, danger, and fatigue, makes them prone to any violent emotion and it is only a question of guiding this susceptibility into the right channels. If conscience resists, muddle him. Let him say that he feels hatred not on his own behalf but on that of the women and children, and that a Christian is told to forgive his own, not other people's enemies. In other words let him consider himself sufficiently identified with the women and children to feel hatred on their behalf, but not sufficiently identified to regard their enemies as his own and therefore proper objects of forgiveness.”

Do you feel a little upset in the middle of this bombarding pandemic and all of its lies and restrictions placed on you by the government? Do you feel a little hatred towards what’s being done to women and children? I believe that it is very important be courageous now more than ever, but we are not to ever hate those who have caused our lives and others to be bombarded by biological warfare and unconstitutional restrictions, but rather pray for them and do good to them, and forgive them, always keeping in mind that they are just behaving like their father the devil.

Jesus explicitly says this in Matthew 5:43-48; “43 You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 [a]But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet your [b]brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the [c]tax collectors do so? 48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.”

In light of this, you’re to love the politicians in Canada or wherever you live. You’re to do good to them, bless them, pray for them. You can speak up and talk, but don’t be flippant about it. Like when Jesus called Herod a fox, he was speaking truth but he wasn’t flippant in how he said it. Expose what is going on, but love them and pray for them. They’re just acting like their father the devil.  

The Apostle Paul says in Romans 12:14-21; “14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. 16 Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion. 17 Repay no one evil for evil. Have[a] regard for good things in the sight of all men. 18 If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. 19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. 20 Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.” 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”

This is what your attitude needs to be in the midst of being bombarded, when restrictions are placed on you, Christian, when restrictions are being put on your church, on your place of employment, on the recreation in your life, in the places that you like to go but you can’t go any more, or where you’d like to travel…all of this taken away unless you bow down in self-preservation and take the vaccination.

So, like the Patient in the story who is being bombarded in both physical and spiritual warfare, we also have to keep in perspective our battle is in the spirit and not allow ourselves to become cowards and ashamed of our faith, and when we are courageous to stand up for righteousness, and not become proud, and when we are persecuted, that we bless our enemies and not hate them.  

Is it easy to do, no. We have to keep in the forefront of our minds that just because a person calls themselves a Christian that they are not necessarily a true Christian. How many politicians call themselves a Christian yet are behaving like the devil. That’s why you have to pray for them and stand up for the rights of the oppressed and for your constitutional rights, and at the same time, bless them.

Jesus says in Matthew 13:24-30; “24 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. 26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ 29 But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

This is the endtime harvest, where the endtime saints are gathered into heaven and to gather the sinner – the tares – and burn them in hell for eternity.

This might help you to understand why there are so many Christians that have bowed their knee to vaccine passports, out of self-preservation in the midst of this virus bombardment of the Government. Could it be that they were tares and not real Christians? It’s becoming more evident as we approach the soon return of our Lord, that like the servants said in this parable about the tares, that we as servants of Christ are seeing the tares in the Church be exposed. I’m not saying that you’re a tare if you’ve been vaccinated. I don’t believe God has or makes tares of people. Tares are Christians who backslide in heart and action but still attend church, and are then exposed and thus their end is doom.

If you’re a Christian today, and you’ve been convinced to be vaccinated for some reason by someone, it ultimately all has to do with self-preservation of yourself and your family. You need to repent before God and ask Him to forgive you for having made an idol of self-worship, an idol of the doctors, an idol of the politicians, and an idol of the medicine they’re giving out. It all has to do with self and selfishness. Together with this, by supporting the implementation of vaccine passports, you’re giving way to discrimination and segregation. It’s sin and needs to be repented of.

In Matthew 7:21-23, Jesus says; “21 Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’”

You can include in that lawlessness, you who are worshipping idols, worshipping the medical system above God. Could it be, that many are tares in the churches, those who sit beside you, who’ve opted to worship the medical system, to bow down and preserve their own lives instead of preserving their lives through prayer and asking God to protect them? They’ve allowed fear to come in and have fallen into self-preservation, the worship of self.   

Sound familiar? Sounds like Rome, self-worship, or like King Nebuchadnezzar who demanded worship of his citizens, or like our politicians who are demanding that you bow your knee to the medical system idol and if you don’t, they’ll make your life miserable Christian. They’ll say, we’ll make your life so miserable that you won’t be able to travel, to go to restaurants, it will affect your recreation and your jobs, it will affect your place of worship…Christian. Can’t you see it?

Jesus says in Matthew 7:15-20; “15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them”.

So, a good question to ask today, Christian, in the midst of this virus bombardment of government restrictions,  are you a courageous Christian that stands up to your constitutional rights and the rights of others, or are you a coward that bows the knee to self-preservation? Do you hate those in authority over you or do you bless them as enemies of the cross and pray for them?  

Who is your father today, Jesus or Satan? If you were to die today, would you go to your Father’s house in Heaven or your fathers house in Hell? It’s something to seriously think about and if you are able to repent and come out of the kingdom of darkness and make Jesus Lord of your life, do it now, because once you’re in hell there’s no way out for eternity.

Before reading the following overview of this Letter, we suggest that you click on the link above to read the short Letter 31 for today’s Illustrated Message, which is the last Letter of the book. This will help you understand the following message.

This is the finale of the book and Screwtape says to Wormwood; “You have let a soul slip through your fingers. The howl of sharpened famine for that loss re-echoes at this moment through all the levels of the Kingdom of Noise down to the very Throne itself. It makes me mad to think of it. How well I know what happened at the instant when they snatched him from you! There was a sudden clearing of his eyes (was there not?) as he saw you for the first time, and recognised the part you had had in him and knew that you had it no longer. Just think (and let it be the beginning of your agony) what he felt at that moment; as if a scab had fallen from an old sore, as if he were emerging from a hideous, shell-like tetter, as if he shuffled off for good and all a defiled, wet, clinging garment.”

In this last Letter, the Patient dies as a Christian and had the guarantee of eternal life in heaven. Every individual that is born into this world and dies in this world, will be living forever, either in Heaven or in Hell. In the middle of all the bombardments of war, the Patient dies, but in reality, he lives forever in heaven, but this is not the case for those who die as a non-Christian, they will live forever, but not in Heaven but in a place called Hell.

Jesus says in Matthew 10:28; “28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in [a]hell.”

John 3:36 also says; “36 He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”

In Revelation 20:11-15, the Apostle John says; “11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before [a]God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second [b]death. 15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.”

According to Screwtape, Wormwood failed by not causing the Christian Patient to backslide in his faith, which would have had his name then blotted out of the Book of Life. Many believe that they’re name cannot be blotted out of the Book of Life, but it’s evident by this following scripture that it can.

Revelation 3:5 says; “He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.”

Notice the condition for a Christian to not have his or her name blotted out of the book of life, and that is if they overcome. It’s not how a person begins his Christian faith that determines his salvation, but rather how he finishes it upon death. It’s not how you start the race but rather how you obey the rules while running the race and crossing the finish line, that determines the prize.

In Matthew 7:13-14, Jesus says the following; “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 [a]Because narrow is the gate and [b]difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”

A Christian must be on the difficult straight and narrow road upon death in order to inherit eternal life, and as CS Lewis quotes, “The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” This is the broad and wide road that leads to Hell.

The Apostle Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15:50-58; “50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I tell you a [a]mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” 55 “O[b] Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.”

Here is a bit of a summary that LitCharts gives;  

“Summary;

The Patient has died in an air raid. In the moments leading up to his death, the Patient became fully conscious for the first time of the influence that Wormwood had on his mind. As he became conscious of this, he also came to realize that Wormwood no longer had any influence on his behavior. The Patient died quickly—he won’t have to stay in a nursing home or a hospital. This is a disaster for the devils.

Analysis;

It reinforces Lewis’s argument that the Patient becomes “fully conscious” in the same instance that he fully embraces Christianity and sets aside corruption altogether—this again implies that Christianity is the religion of consciousness and rationality. It’s interesting that what might seem the cruelest fate for the Patient—a sudden death early in life—is actually a great blessing.”

I actually don’t see it as a blessing. It’s a blessing to die and be in the presence of the Lord, yes, but to have your life cut short, I don’t see that as a blessing. I don’t believe that God had anything to do it, other than allow it. I think these demons are a little confused.             

For a Christian to die an untimely death like the Patient did, there had to have been an open door somewhere to have allowed him to die this way; like being at the wrong place at the wrong time when he should have been elsewhere. Christian or not, you can be at the wrong place at the wrong time.

The death of a Christian who walked a straight and narrow road is always a blessing in the after life, but the timing of death may not be God’s timing but rather a result of being out of God’s will at that moment. This is why even now, in this present day and time of Covid-19 pandemic, it’s very important for Christians to be led by the Holy Spirit in all they do on a straight and narrow road, and not rely on the secular natural rational and reason but rather be supernaturally motivated by faith and not by fear.  

When the majority of those Christians around you are making decisions to trust the World Health Organization, instead of trusting God and what is written in His Holy Bible, it’s a clear sign for you to stand and not allow yourself to get out of God’s will and end up in an untimely death as a result. This is once again all the more reason to be led by the Holy Spirit in everything we do or don’t do on a daily basis.

In John 7:1-10, we see a great example of how Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit about where to be and when, and to not listen to even his own family who were trying to council Him. Are you getting a lot of advice out there today? Advice on how to heal in the midst of this pandemic, are your brothers and sisters giving you advice about your call and election and where you ought to be in life? Where you should be preaching? Are you receiving advice about how you ought not to preach? Well, Jesus’ brothers were giving Him advice on how to run His ministry, they thought it was good advice, but it wasn’t because they didn’t believe in Him.  

It says the following; “1 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for He did not want to walk in Judea, because the [a]Jews sought to kill Him. 2 Now the Jews’ Feast of Tabernacles was at hand. 3 His brothers therefore said to Him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that Your disciples also may see the works that You are doing. 4 For no one does anything in secret while he himself seeks to be known openly. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world.” 5 For even His brothers did not believe in Him. 6 Then Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it that its works are evil. 8 You go up to this feast. I am not [b]yet going up to this feast, for My time has not yet fully come.” 9 When He had said these things to them, He remained in Galilee. 10 But when His brothers had gone up, then He also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.”

You’re going to have to make some decisions, Christian, when you’re being offered ungodly advice about how to run your ministry, about where you need to be speaking, and where you’re not to be speaking, what you to speak about and not speak about. Put a guard over your heart.

This is a good example from our Lord himself, who was not led by the flesh but by the Spirit, which prevented untimely persecution and possible death. Jesus’ brothers were offering Him advice in the flesh. A lot of Christians are getting out of God’s will for their lives, and the door is wide open for the devil to rob, kill and destroy them before their time.

The death of the Patient is not a victory for Wormwood, in that he never accomplished robbing him of his soul, however he did cut short the call and election that this man could have fulfilled with a long life of service for the Lord which could have populated Heaven as a result of his Christian witness. Somehow, someway, the Lord allowed a bomb to drop that kill him. Could it be that he got out of God’s will, that he went to the wrong area of town where he shouldn’t have been? That he didn’t listen to the Holy Spirit to stay put while everyone else was telling him, ‘no, go, you need to get out and help in this time of war, you’re needed out there’? But the Holy Spirit was saying, ‘no don’t go’. Maybe he thought that his ministry was needed at a time when the bombs were being dropped all over England. Maybe the Patient got in the flesh, just putting it out there.

In our case here in Canada, the verbal and ideological bombs are being dropped by the World Health Organization and the World Economic Form, the bombardments of the Corona virus and the vaccine restrictions and on and on. Don’t get in the flesh in your decision making but be led by the Holy Spirit. There will be times when the Lord will say, ‘no, don’t go there and no, don’t do it’, no matter how much you’re called to do it, if the Holy Spirit says, ‘no’, then be obedient.

Screwtape continues to say; “The more one thinks about it, the worse it becomes. He got through so easily! No gradual misgivings, no doctor's sentence, no nursing home, no operating theatre, no false hopes of life; sheer, instantaneous liberation. One moment it seemed to be all our world; the scream of bombs, the fall of houses, the stink and taste of high explosive on the lips and in the lungs, the feet burning with weariness, the heart cold with horrors, the brain reeling, the legs aching; next moment all this was gone, gone like a bad dream, never again to be of any account.”

You may hear the council from preachers and church leaders saying, (who themselves have succumbed to this lie);  ‘you need to get your vaccine passport in order to be able to travel and be effective in your ministry.’ But the Lord is saying, ‘don’t do it’. Regardless of the rational and reason, listen to the Holy Spirit and be obedient to Him. Regardless if it’s your livelihood, your ministry or what have you, don’t relinquish to ungodly council which will get you to compromise, don’t do it. Don’t listen to those who are giving council contrary to God’s word. Close the doors of your heart, mind, ears and eyes that would give access to ungodly media council, and turn on the Word of God. Stop listening to those who don’t even believe in you and your call and election.

Christian, no matter what your being bombarded with in the midst of this pandemic, you have to be led by the Spirit and not become another untimely death that we read about in the newspaper. Once again, it’s clear that the Patient did not fulfill his call on his life, regardless of how sudden and painless his death was and his entrance into Heaven instead of Hell, he still died an untimely death that could have been avoided had he been led by the Spirit and not by the flesh. What’s leading you today, Christian, the Holy Spirit or the world, the flesh and the devil? What advice are you following today?

The Word of God gives us clear scriptures that, as Christians, we’re promised long life, to fulfill all that God has called us to do; Psalm 91:16, Psalm 90:10, Ephesians 6:1-4, Exodus 23:25-26, Deuteronomy 5:33.

We read in 2 Chronicles 16:12-13 about the death of King Asa, who was a Godly King; 12 And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his malady was severe; yet in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but the physicians. 13 So Asa [a]rested with his fathers; he died in the forty-first year of his reign.”

It’s amazing to read that in his disease, he didn’t seek the Lord, although throughout his reign he sought the Lord in all he did. Why didn’t he do it now and as a result it cost him his life? He bypassed consulting the Lord about his diseased feet for two years, but sought the council of physicians, and he died. Had he consulted the Lord, he would have been healed by the Lord.

In another scripture in Isaiah 38:1-5, we read about a different Godly King, King Hezekiah, and his outcome was different from Asa’s because he had a different attitude; “38 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.’ ” 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord, 3 and said, “Remember now, O Lord, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a [a]loyal heart, and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. 4 And the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying, 5 “Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will add to your days fifteen years.”

What’s the difference between King Asa and King Hezekiah? The latter sought the Lord, not seeking the physician of that day, even though the word was pronounced on him by the prophet Isaiah that he would die, when he cried out to the Lord, his life was extended.

Are you diseased today (by Corona virus), or have been given a death sentence (by Corona virus) and told to put your house in order? If so, there’s a right way to respond and a wrong way; the right way would be to seek God for your healing like Hezekiah and lived 15 more years, (or whatever God’s will be for your life), and the wrong way would be like that of Asa, who sought the physicians for healing and not God, and died.  

If this is you, you need to seek the elders out in your church, have them anoint you with oil and pray the prayer of faith, and if there is any sin that needs to be confessed, confess it and be forgiven and healed. You need to get in God’s Word and meditate on healing scriptures. Turn off all the ungodly advice from family, friends, co-workers etc., and turn on the Bible and listen to healing scriptures. If you look at King Hezekiah and King Asa, it doesn’t say that either the disease or time of death came upon them because they were evil, no, they were Godly men. Are you a Godly man or woman and Corona virus has hit you and now you’re in ICU and dying? Now is not the time to seek secular advice, but be like Hezekiah, turn to Jesus and say; “Remember now, O Lord, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a [a]loyal heart, and have done what is good in Your sight.”

We’re not discrediting doctors and physicians and the help they can and do give you, but during this pandemic particularly, way too many have bowed their knee to big pharma, the World Health Organizations and the World Economic Form, and have not had their patients best interest at hand, choosing to inject their patients with a substance which has had way too many deaths and adverse reactions, than to give other alternatives that can heal them within days or even to advise them not to take the vaccine.

Listen to God’s advice in His Word for healing in your body if you have corona virus or have had the vaccine and have adverse affects. Ask Jesus to forgive you and He will, He’s more than able to forgive you, but you need to turn your face to the wall like King Hezekiah, and He’ll heal you. It’s not God’s will for you to die before your time.  

You may have been following all the right advice, by not getting vaccinated, but maybe were at the wrong place at the wrong time and contracted the virus, just like the Patient in the story. Ask the Lord to heal you. Like I said last week, we know there is a global, devilish agenda to depopulate the world, and you, being innocent, have been affected by it. But you’re not without hope, Jesus will heal you if you turn your face to Him, so you can fulfill God’s plan for your life.

Like King Asa, how many Christians are putting their hope in their doctors for this Corona virus, and being vaccinated. How many will die untimely deaths because of it? You’re supposed to be led by the Holy Spirit, not by ungodly council. Just like Jesus, the apostles and disciples were led by the Spirit and not the flesh, when at times the Spirit stopped them from going into certain places to minister. The Lord is trying to stop you today from going places where you’re not supposed to go. Listen to His voice when He speaks and if He says, ‘no’ don’t do this or that, don’t do it or don’t go, regardless of how great the advice sounds around you, ‘no’.

What part of ‘no’, don’t you understand? The bombs (bombardments) are dropping in that place today, Christian, don’t go there, it could cost you your life, stay out of that home, don’t go in it, stay home today, Christian. Turn the news off today, Christian, stop listening to ungodly advisers who are trying to get you to abort the call on your life.  

We’ll see it soon enough, the result of these vaccines, where people’s health and immune systems have gone down hill to the point that they can’t even fight off simple colds or flu’s. Sickness and disease is going to be rampant because people’s immune systems have been severely compromised. The Lord has warned them not to take the vaccine, but they’ve gone ahead. The Lord will heal you, but you need to repent for trusting the physician instead of Him. Run to Jesus today, let Him heal you.  

It’s not God’s will that anyone perish, don’t harden your heart, make things right with Him, let Him be Lord today, listen to His still small voice. Jesus says My sheep know My voice, and no other voice do they listen to, according to John 10:27. The times that we’re living in right now worldwide, with the persecution coming on the church, the body of Christ, we have to be led by the Holy Spirit and not the flesh. Listen to Jesus’ still small voice, which you know, which might be advising you contrary to what everyone else is telling you to do. Obey that voice so that it won’t cost you your life and ministry.