A Sanctuary for Saints and Sinners in Need of a Saviour. Luke 18:9-14
A Sanctuary for Saints and Sinners in Need of a Saviour. Luke 18:9-14
Before reading the following overview of this Letter, we suggest that you click on the link above to read the short Letter 28, for today’s Illustrated Message, which will help you understand the following message.
I’d like to read from Sparknotes the summary of Letter 28; “The War is relevant, writes Screwtape, only in that it affects the Patient’s state of mind. The mere fact of air raids on the Patient’s town should be, for Wormwood, beside the point. Wormwood should be trying to keep the Patient alive. Young tempters are being swayed by Hell’s own propaganda, writes Screwtape. Hell has made humans think of death as evil, but, if their souls are prepared like the Patient’s is, death is a good thing. It brings them to the Enemy. Wormwood must remember that it is very difficult for humans to persevere. He should keep the Patient alive until middle age. Then, the Patient may become worldly and lower his guard. Even if the Patient is prosperous, Wormwood can use his good fortune to make him love the earth and not the Enemy. Young people even if they are not religious, are idealistic and detached from the world. It is easier to wean their souls off of eternal thoughts little by little over the course of many years.”
There is a parallel war today and though it’s different from WWII that the Patient was facing, it’s a war in the spirit and the flesh with this Covid pestilence.
We read what Screwtape says to Wormwood; “Do you not know that bombs kill men? Or do you not realise that the patient's death, at this moment, is precisely what we want to avoid? He has escaped the worldly friends with whom you tried to entangle him; he has "fallen in love" with a very Christian woman and is temporarily immune from your attacks on his chastity; and the various methods of corrupting his spiritual life which we have been trying are so far unsuccessful.”
Screwtape is trying to get Wormwood to offer protection to the saint and that in keeping the Patient alive, he’ll grow old so they can lure him into backsliding, by hardening his heart to the things of God. Not saying that hardness of heart and backsliding doesn’t happen to Christians, but I don’t believe the devil can offer protection to the saint.
It’s very important to keep in mind that God is the giver of life and He considers the death of His saints to be precious in His sight. So with that in mind, we can pretty much conclude that they are timely deaths appointed by God and there is no such thing as an untimely death for the devout Christian who is walking upright with God. Even though Screwtape implies that the demonic can determine the devout Christian’s death, it’s a lie as they cannot.
Psalm 116:15 says this; “15 Precious in the sight of the Lord Is the death of His saints.”
What about the martyr’s you may ask, surely that was the devil that murdered them? If the Lord allows you to be martyred for the testimony of Jesus, it is precious to Him, but Jesus has the final say as to when a devout Christian dies and not satan.
Ecclesiastes 3:2 says; “2 A time [a]to be born, And a time to die; A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted.”
Hebrews 9:27 also says; “27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,”
Screwtape, the liar that he is, would love to make Christians think that he and Wormwood are the ones who determine the time of death for devout Christians, and this couldn’t be farther from the truth. The only time that the devil has authority to determine the death of a Christian, is when they are backslidden, lukewarm, one foot in the world and one foot in the Church.
Romans 8:31-39 says; “31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Keep in mind that this scripture is written about devout Christians, who have been and are being persecuted and killed for their Godly lives; this is not a scripture that applies to the backslidden Christian. The only thing that can separate a Christian from the love of Christ is they themself, by making decisions that cause them to backslide, to become lukewarm and sit on the fence with one foot in the world and one foot in the Church.
This is why there are so many untimely deaths of backslidden Christians, and this is the only time that the devil has authority to determine their day and hour of death. There’s only one thing that can separate you from the love of God found in Jesus your Lord, Christian, it’s yourself and this is why Jesus requires you to die to self and any decision making that would lead to backsliding.
In this Letter, Screwtape is propagating the lies that he and Wormwood determine the time of death of the patient, and that they are the ones that are protecting him from death in order that they can have more time to cause him to backslide and end up in hell instead of heaven.
These lies are being propagated today, it’s all over the news that the length of our lives is determined by whether or not we have been vaccinated for Covid-19, yet the truth of it all is that the vaccine itself is going to determine sickness and untimely deaths, it’s just a matter of time. A lot of Christians are unfortunately backslidden from God, and instead of trusting His protection from sickness, they have put their trust in the physician’s advice to take the vaccine which has its roots in witchcraft and sorcery.
Let’s look at an article I found that reads as follows; When the pharmakeia is used various places in the Bible, it has these meanings:
Origin and evolution of pharmacy; “From Greek, pharmakeia, meaning “practice of the druggist” > which is based on pharmakon, meaning drug > medieval Latin > Old French, farmacie > late middle English, pharmacy.”
Definition of pharmacy; phar·ma·cy | fär-mə-sē | färməsē
As a noun; The science and/or practice, profession or art of preparing, preserving, compounding and dispensing medicinal drugs. A dispensary for medicinal drugs; a place where medicines are compounded; drugstore.
So, when you look at this, it is easy to see that thru the use of pharmacy drugs (vaccines), the majority of the population, including Christians, have come under the spell of witchcraft, and this is why you are now seeing those who are vaccinated, experiencing a lot of sickness in their bodies that are and may result in untimely deaths.
Around mid-September, a new report from the U.S.A. VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) was released. This is only from the United States and may not have all of the full numbers accounted for, can you imagine what the reality is globally?
In total in the U.S.; 726,963 adverse reactions to the injection, including:
15,386 deaths
20,789 permanent Disabilities
8,626 Bell’s Palsy
2,122 Miscarriages
7,267 Heart Attacks
149,000+ ER/Hospitalizations
Screwtape says; “Do not let us be infected by our own propaganda. I know it seems strange that your chief aim at the moment should be the very same thing for which the patient's lover and his mother are praying--namely his bodily safety. But so it is; you should be guarding him like the apple of your eye. If he dies now, you lose him. If he survives the war, there is always hope. The Enemy has guarded him from you through the first great wave of temptations. But, if only he can be kept alive, you have time itself for your ally.”
Once again, we can see the very delusion within the devils to think that they actually have authority to keep the devout Christian patient alive long enough for them to backslide before death. Screwtape is such a liar! As if the devil can keep a devout Christian as the apple of his eye! The devout Christians length of life is determined by God and not the devil, but the backsliding Christians death is not so.
However, if the devil can get devout Christians to backslide and become lukewarm with one foot in the world and one foot in the Church, he is able to keep their minds on things below on earth instead of on Heaven, and as a result untimely death for them is inevitable, because now he has the authority to rob them, kill them, and destroy them for eternity. The death of the backslidden Christian is different than that of the devout Christian.
Proverbs 14:12 says; “12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”
In the middle of all the pandemonium surrounding Covid, many Christians have gotten swept away with it and believed the lies about the vaccine being their only source of protection, instead of trusting Jesus and believing what His word says about His protection in times of pestilence.
Let’s look at Psalm 91 which is the powerful psalm of God’s protection for those who love Him. It says; “1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.” 3 Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the [a]fowler And from the perilous pestilence. 4 He shall cover you with His feathers, And under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and [b]buckler. 5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day, 6 Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday. 7 A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you. 8 Only with your eyes shall you look, And see the reward of the wicked. 9 Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge, Even the Most High, your dwelling place, 10 No evil shall befall you, Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling; 11 For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways. 12 In their hands they shall [c]bear you up, Lest you [d]dash your foot against a stone. 13 You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot. 14 “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will [e]set him on high, because he has known My name. 15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him. 16 With [f]long life I will satisfy him, And show him My salvation.”
So Christian, how are you trusting God to protect you in the midst of this pestilence or are you more concerned about self preservation and your reputation, and if so, could it be that you’re backslidden and have become lukewarm, with one foot in the Church and one foot in the world? One foot in God’s word and one foot in witchcraft?
Screwtape says; “Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is "finding his place in it", while really it is finding its place in him. His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work, build up in him a sense of being really at home in earth which is just what we want.”
Are you at home today, Christian, in this world? Or are you like the Apostle Paul and able to say; “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord”, 2 Corinthians 5:7-9?
Devout Christians give no room for the devil to rob, kill and destroy their lives before their time, and they know their authority over the devil that is found in the Holy Scriptures, as well they know that this world and the devil has no place in them. I’m convinced that the devil has a place in Christians that have taken the vaccine, and regardless of the many earthbound reasons they give for having done so, (i.e.: travel, family, friends, jobs), the doors are wide open in their lives for witchcraft and sorcery to operate and this will be a huge contribution to the great falling away of the Church. I believe also that many Pastors today that have bought into this lie and are promoting it from their pulpits, will be required soon by the same government to preach regulated sermons that are pre-approved by them. I also believe that these wolves in sheep’s clothing will someday be requiring vaccine passports to attend their Churches.
This is why it is so important to know your authority as a Christian in the spirit realm, and know what the Holy Bible has to say about spiritual warfare over the works of the devil, because we know that his plan is to rob, kill and destroy the backslidden Christians life and say of them someday, “he is now safe in our fathers house in hell.”
Devout Christians lives are not protected by the devil, and Screwtape is doing what he does best, lie, like his father the devil, but keep in perspective that when you submit yourself to God and resist him, he franticly runs from you. You could, with tongue in cheek, say that the devil needs protection from the devout Christian, because he’s running to the hills when you start quoting the Bible, speaking the name of Jesus and praying in tongues!
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 says; “3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not [a]carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.”
Jesus says this in Luke 10:19; “19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”
In Matthew 18:18-20, Jesus again says; “18 “Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. 19 “Again[a] 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.”
Ephesians 6:10-18 talks about the full protection from the armour of God; “10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the [a]wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of [b]the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—"
Spiritual warfare with the devil is the normal life of a devout Christian, and it will not only protect them from pestilence but will keep them from backsliding and an untimely death as a result. It’s your choice today, Christian, to live a devout Christian life with authority over the devil that leads to heaven or a backslidden lukewarm life with one foot in the world and one foot in the Church that leads to hell. Revelation 3: 16; “ So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither [k]cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. "
We read what happened to King Asa when he consulted the physician and not the Lord in 2 Chronicles 16:10-13; “10 Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, for he was enraged at him because of this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time. 11 Note that the acts of Asa, first and last, are indeed written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. 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.”
Why is it then that Christians continually run to the physician and to get this “vaccine”, and not to the Word of God and to Jesus after reading scriptures like these? But they need to repent and ask Jesus to forgive them for turning to worldly wisdom, pharmakeia and witchcraft, and ask Jesus to heal and deliver them.
Run to Jesus, Christian, He is your healer and your deliverer.
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 30 for today’s Illustrated Message, which will help you understand the following message.
Screwtape says:
“I gather, not from your miserably inadequate report but from that of the Infernal Police, that the patient’s behaviour during the first raid has been the worst possible. He has been very frightened and thinks himself a great coward and therefore feels no pride; but he has done everything his duty demanded and perhaps a bit more. Against this disaster all you can produce on the credit side is a burst of ill temper with a dog that tripped him up, some excessive cigarette smoking, and the forgetting of a prayer.”
The Summary of this Letter by LitCharts says;
“Screwtape begins his letter by telling Wormwood that he has heard from the Infernal Police that the patient’s actions in the first air raid were “the worst possible.” He was terribly frightened, meaning that he thought himself a coward and therefore felt no sinful pride. His only sinful behavior was a brief moment of anger with a dog that nearly made him trip.
Analysis
Earlier in the book, we were worried that the patient would lapse into sinfulness during World War II, but now his sinfulness is laughably trivial compared with what Wormwood was attempting—the patient only gets angry with a dog.”
Have you ever had one of those days when in the midst of being bombarded by all the bad news of this present biological warfare, you wake up on the wrong side of the bed, not feeling rested, on edge, and on your way out of bed you trip over your faithful dog, who’s been on guard duty all night with one eye open at the foot of your bed? It seems like our Patient in this Letter 30, is having one of those days in the midst of war, and is frightened to the point that he thinks himself to be a coward, which on a good note lacks the sin of pride that follows being courageous, but on a bad note as we read in Letter 29 that; “Cowardice, alone of all the vices, is purely painful--horrible to anticipate, horrible to feel, horrible to remember.”
Christian, are you afraid today of what the future holds, and cowering under pressure? It’s just a sign that you don’t know what God’s word says about fighting fear itself, and defeating it when it attacks you.
2 Timothy 1:7 says the following; “7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
Usually, but not always when fear attacks, your minds are on things below and not on things above, where Christ is seated in Heavenly places. When you walk in fear, unsoundness of mind is not only a precursor that opens the door for fear to operate, but also is the end result and can lead to more unsoundness of mind. This is why it’s so important to meditate in God’s word DAY AND NIGHT, and even as we read in verse, “7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind”, we have this guarantee to receive a Spirit of power and of love and a sound mind.
In times of trouble that we are living in today, the tendency is to become introspective and self-preserving, and can lead us to believe the lie that you have to look after #1, yourself first, and only then you will be able to help those around you. A good question to ask yourself, Christian, is how your love walk is towards those around you while under the bombardment?
1 John 4:17-19 says; “17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. 19 We love [a]Him because He first loved us.”
Maintaining your love walk is obviously a powerful weapon that eliminates fear from being able to even take up permanent residence in a Christians life. No one likes a coward, never mind being one. It leads a person to more fear and unsoundness of mind, and the end results are devastating.
As trivial they make the sins of fear, cowardness and anger of the Patient to be, it’s his Christian Love walk that is at fault and the door is wide open for the devil to rob, kill, and destroy through fear, doubt and unbelief.
This is why it’s so important to know who you are in Christ and the authority you’ve been given over the spirit of fear.
The Apostle Paul says in Romans 8:12-17; “12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba,[a] Father.” 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.”
Paul continues to says in Romans 12:1-2; “12 I beseech[a] you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your [b]reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
Christian, are you wanting to know what the good and acceptable and perfect will of God is for your life in this day and hour of continual bombardments and pandemonium? Don’t be conformed to this world and its secular humanistic rational and reasoning, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind by meditating day and night in the God’s Holy Bible. Turn off the bombardment of secular media which drives fear into your mind.
Philippians 4:6-9 says; “6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. 9 The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.”
If you don’t have a sound mind, this is how you get a sound mind; by casting your anxieties on Jesus through prayer and supplication with thanksgiving…it’s not brain-washing but taking your thoughts captive to the obedience of Christ. Throughout the day you have to examine what you’re meditating on. You may need to change your conversations with people and put a guard over who you take phone calls from; you need to put a guard over your heart.
Psalm 1:1-3 is a powerful Psalm ; “1 Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the [a]ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he [b]meditates day and night. 3 He shall be like a tree Planted by the [c]rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper.”
So, Christians, in the midst of all the pandemic pandemonium and bombardments that effect all areas of your lives, are you meditating day and night in the Holy Bible and obeying what it says or are you meditating day and night on the world news and obeying the unconstitutional restrictions and mandates of the Government and World Health Organization? You won’t get a sound mind by listening to the secular media whose goal it is to sow fear, doubt and unbelief in your heart and the end result is an unsound mind. Who are you obeying today, Christian? Who are you pledging your allegiance to; to Jesus and the Bible or to the government and World Health Organization, to God’s promises to give you health and healing or to the ungodly agenda to drive you into submission to their agenda? Are you more concerned about self-preservation than you are about preserving what’s written in the Holy Bible?
Let’s read a bit more from LitCharts;
“Summary
Another way that Wormwood can manipulate the patient involves his perception of reality. When the patient sees dead bodies on the ground, he will question what the “real” world consists of, and he may even come to believe that his notion of religion has been a childish fantasy. Humans don’t understand what “real” means. At times, they treat the word to mean the bare physical facts of the universe, while at other times, they use the word “real” to refer to the emotional impact of such facts on a human consciousness. The devils’ triumph is in convincing people that only physical facts, or feelings of pain, are real, while joy and other emotional experience is “subjective” and therefore false. On the contrary, Screwtape notes, happiness is just as real as pain or the physical world.
Analysis
This is arguably the most important and topical attack on literature that C.S. Lewis addresses in the book. The horror and devastation caused by World War II—the Holocaust, the air raids, etc.—pose a challenge to God’s existence and authority because they suggest that God doesn’t love humanity, doesn’t exist, or isn’t all-powerful. But Lewis dismisses these criticisms as failures of imagination. He has already explained how the grimness of death is “greatly exaggerated” in human culture. Here, he elaborates that the specific, gruesome details of World War II are no more “real” than happiness, faith, and God himself. A frequent criticism of Western philosophy is that it places more value on pain than on pleasure—it makes pain alone intellectual. Lewis insists that pleasure is just as real as pain, and this can outweigh, or at least balance out the devastation of World War II.”
If your Christian faith and spiritual experience is subject to the present bombardments that are deemed the true reality, your Christian faith and spiritual experience is what I would call, Christianity Lite, a watered-down version of the Bible.
In this present time of pandemonium, the devil will do all he can to convince Christians to conform to the image of this world and all its ungodly mandates and restrictions that ultimately lead to the segregation of brothers and sisters in the Church that don’t have vaccine passports.
No matter what you say, Christian, that necessitates the reality of needing a vaccine passport to survive, you have still discriminated against those who don’t, and are participating in segregation, which is no different than what the Germans did to the Jews in World War II.
The love, joy and peace found in being a Disciple of Christ is not subject to the world-wide atrocity’s caused by this pandemic, but is as real, if not more so, in that the Holy Bible has all the answers to mans problems, and its author GOD, knows not only the beginning of all creation but knows how it’s going to end for all creation. That is reality.
Let’s look at some realities about the Deity of Jesus, that the devil would love for you to reject as fantasy.
We read in John 1:1-3; “1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.”
Revelation 22:12-14 says; “12 Behold, I (Jesus) am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, [a]to give to each one [b]according to the merit of his deeds (earthly works, faithfulness). 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End [the Eternal One].” 14 [c]Blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired) are those who wash their robes [in the blood of Christ by believing and trusting in Him—the righteous who do His commandments], so that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city. 15 Outside are the dogs [the godless, the impure, those of low moral character] and the sorcerers [with their intoxicating drugs, and magic arts], and the immoral persons [the perverted, the molesters, and the adulterers], and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying (deception, cheating).
This is a very REAL future. The following, that are taken from the list above, pretty much sum up this present pandemic and the sins that these people are operating in;
Sorcerers (Pharmacies, Doctors, Vaccines)
The Greek word for sorcerers is the word, pharmakeia or pharmakeus, which actually means "witchcraft". It means the use of magical arts, sorcery, drugs, poisoning and is often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it. Pharmakeia is translated into our English Bible as either sorceries or witchcraft. The Greek word pharmakeia is where we get our English word pharmacy from. Big pharmaceutical companies who are making this vaccine concoction; the doctors who recommend and administer these vaccines, pharmacies who administer these vaccines; all of them are participating in witchcraft. We understand that there are vaccines and drugs which are tried, tested and proven good, but this Covid-19 vaccine is not a vaccine but a global experiment and is a therapy, not a vaccination. This vaccine has had way too many deaths and adverse reactions to keep on the market. Those concocting this are playing god.
Murderers (The leaders and participants of the World Economic Form who want to reduce earth’s population through the use of, Covid-19 virus and vaccines, and whatever means possible through the Global Reset.) You can read what they themselves are saying in their “8 Predictions for the World in 2030” by clicking on the link. Click on this link to read the “10 Instructions on the Georgia Stonehenge” which is a clear statement to reduce earth’s population to 500,000,000 and keep it at that perpetual number. This is the reality in which we live. Many of these world leaders want a global eutopia and it will be at the people’s expense; so you could call them murderers.
Idolaters (Luciferianism, and Earth Worship) The worship of lucifer and earth worshipers of which many of the global leaders ascribe to. They’re idolaters. And as Romans 1:25 clearly says of the unrighteous; “who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature (or creation) rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever, Amen.”
Whoever loves and practices a lie. (Politicians, World Health Organization, Media Outlets, World Economic Form Leaders). We know that not all politicians are supporting the vaccine passport program, but the majority have caved and succumbed to the pressure of their leaders. They’re liars who have manipulated the masses by their lies to dominate and control the global population.
So, Christian, a good question to ask yourself today is, are you guilty by personal involvement and association with any of those listed above, and have you discriminated and segregated those who have not been vaccinated, while you yourself have your vaccine passport, you can travel, eat at your favorite restaurant, go to theatres, sport venues and come and go as ‘normal’? If so, now would be a good time to repent and ask Jesus to forgive you of these sins lest you die in your sleep tonight and end up in hell with those listed above for eternity. Are you guilty by association in heart and action with those listed above?
When you’ve discriminated amongst your own brethren and when you’ve participated in the vaccine program, by simple association of doing what your doing, you’ve come into agreement and put your signature on with sorcerers, murderers, idolaters, and liars. You need to repent today, Christian, for having participated by association, having discriminated against your own brethren, having segregated them, just like the Jews were separated by Hitler. You’re doing nothing less than what Hitler did. You Christian business owners, hypocrites, who close your business to Christians who are not vaccinated yet open your doors to other Christians who have been vaccinated! Do you think that will just slip by on Judgement Day? Will God turn a blind eye?
Jesus says clearly in Mark 9:42-47 the following about offending one of the little ones, which also means the newborn or immature Christians, one of His little children; “42 “But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me [a]to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea. 43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life [b]maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to [c]hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched— 44 [d]where ‘Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.’ 45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast into [e]hell, [f]into the fire that shall never be quenched— 46 where ‘Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.’ 47 And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into [g]hell fire—"
Jesus is the one you’ll stand before on Judgement Day, the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, this is the one you’ll have to give an account to for segregating your brothers and sisters in Christ, to give an account for the vaccination passports you’re participating in. You’ll give an account for associating yourself with sorcerers, murderers, idolators and those who love to practice lies.
So, again Christian, a good question to ask yourself today is, are you guilty by personal involvement and association with any of those listed above, and have you discriminated and segregated those who have not been vaccinated, while you yourself have your vaccine passport, you can travel, eat at your favorite restaurant, go to theatres, sport venues and come and go as ‘normal’? If so, now would be a good time to repent and ask Jesus to forgive you of these sins lest you die in your sleep tonight and end up in hell with those listed above for eternity. Are you guilty by association in heart and action with those listed above?
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.
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