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COVID-19 Coronavirus Facts, Faith, and Fulfilment of Prophecy

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Minister Ty Alexander
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3/14/2020

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3/17/2020

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3/21/2020

Section updated 4/5/2020

As the world shuts down, isolates, and works fervently to study COVID-19 out of fear and desperation, the virus and pandemic are doing exactly what God wants it to do. He is showing the consequences of our bad focuses on self-wisdom and over dependence on science instead of in God. He is showing the penalties of allowing sin and darkness to go unchecked.

News reports have been made that men are dying almost twice as much as women in all age groups from this pandemic, and people, especially those overlooking the spiritual reasons behind things, will keep looking for answers in biology, charts, and scientific analysis. But as someone who speaks for the Lord, I can say that men are suffering more because of their spiritual lives, or more accurately put, their lack of a righteous spiritual life, and those who are dying or suffering severely from this pandemic are suffering because of sin.

It goes with my spiritual guidance related to the #METOO problem and media that I wrote about before. The choices we make in life do affect us more seriously than much of the world believe, and the judgment coming from events like this pandemic are meant to wake up the world to it.

Focusing on statistics and trends is not what we should be doing with this or any pandemic. God wants us to see the kind of societies we’ve made for ourselves. We are truly lost and isolated just as the quarantines have made, not just from each other but from God. Those who do not keep faith and loyalty to God and what is right are feeling most what it is like to not have the Lord’s blessings. The world is feeling a foreshadowing of worse things to come if it continues to ignore God and the benefits of listening to Him.

The majority of people in wealthy nations have been sheltered from the realities of war and tribulation for decades, but the movement of the world’s most powerful nations towards more and more immoral choices have produced the increasingly violent trends of crimes involving guns, hate, and sex that have been witnessed in recent years. Wealth, power, and science will not keep the world from God’s judgments; acknowledging God through Christ and seeking righteousness will.

God is showing the world how things will be if it continues to focus only on fighting COVID-19 and not on His reasons for bringing it. When the world vows to keep rising and fighting in this pandemic, like with other disasters, they are missing the critical point that they are fighting God and His judgments.

This pandemic is another unprecedented disaster, like 9/11 was, to get America and the world to wake up and change. 9/11 was a warning to America that God's protection is going away, and this pandemic is an even more serious warning of further judgment that was predicted by Jonathan Cahn's spiritual guidance related to 9/11 and the Shemitah year.

Communities, and especially those in the medical and emergency fields, have lamented how they feel like they are in a war zone because of this pandemic, but that is exactly what the Lord has brought the world to feel, and it will be worse if people don't realize how to deal with this through God. It is meant to urge change as it is meant as judgment; because the world, including God's People, have become too comfortable and allowed too much sin and darkness to rule.

Update

3/23/2020

A pastor brother sent me a couple verses from Isaiah this morning where the prophet says:

“Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and close your doors behind you;
Hide for a little while, until indignation runs its course.
For behold, Yahovah is about to come out from His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
And the earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer cover her slain.” (Isaiah 26:20-21)

These words speak closely to our time in the COVID-19 pandemic as it is God’s judgment for all, including God’s People, “For He has brought low those who dwell on high, the unassailable city; He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He casts it to the dust” (Isaiah 26:5).

But through this, may peace come to those who remain in trust and faith to Christ and what is right, for “the one that remains faithful. The steadfast of mind[, Lord, You] will keep in perfect peace, because he trusts in You. Trust in Yahovah forever, for in God Yah Yahovah, we have an everlasting Rock… The way of the righteous is smooth;

O Upright One, make the path of the righteous level. Indeed, while following the way of Your judgments, O Yahovah, we have waited for You eagerly; Your name, even Your memory, is the desire of our souls. At night my soul longs for You, indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently;

For when the earth experiences Your judgments the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. Though the wicked is shown favor, he does not learn righteousness; He deals unjustly in the land of uprightness, and does not perceive the majesty of Yahovah.

O Yahovah, Your hand is lifted up yet they do not see it… You have increased the nation, O Yahovah, You have increased the nation, You are glorified; You have extended all the borders of the land. O Yahovah, they sought You in distress; They could only whisper a prayer, Your chastening was upon them.” (Isaiah 26:3-4, 26:7-10, 26:15-16).

Come out of her, my people, the great unassailable city, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues; for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities (Revelation 18:4-5).

Update

4/5/2020

Updated 5/11/2020

Sometime after I posted the update on March 23rd, a Christian brother told me some people do not think Isaiah 26 refers to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Isaiah 26 goes with chapters 24 through 27, which all speak of our time now. Here’s why:

“And the people will be like the priest, the servant like his master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor.” (Isaiah 24:2)
– Almost everyone, no matter their status or wealth is being affected by this pandemic and will be affected by future events.

“The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant.” (Isaiah 24:5)
– The earth is polluted literally and figuratively by sin around the world, which is the transgression of God’s laws, and includes careless management of earth’s resources, because God will judge “those who destroy the earth” (Revelation 11:18).

“The new wine mourns. The vine decays. All the merry-hearted sigh.
The gaiety of tambourines ceases. The noise of revelers stops. The gaiety of the harp ceases.
They do not drink wine with song; Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
The city of chaos is broken down; Every house is shut up so that none may enter.
There is an outcry in the streets concerning the wine; All joy turns to gloom.
The gaiety of the earth is banished. Desolation is left in the city and the gate is battered to ruins.”
(Isaiah 24:7-12)

– The “new wine” symbolizes Christian believers (Mark 2:22; Luke 5:37-39) and they mourn, not just because of things the pandemic brought, but because of the realization they may not have been as righteous or taught correctly about righteousness and salvation as they thought. This leaves them vulnerable to the pandemic and other judgments of our time.

New wine may not be obvious...

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Update

4/18/2020

COVID-19’s 35,443 deaths in America as of today^[14] have now surpassed the number of deaths during last year’s seasonal flu^[7], which was close to the yearly average, though the CDC reported about double the number in the previous flu season, which had an estimated average of 70,696 flu deaths^[24].

COVID-19’s deadly reach around the world has the world and God’s People under a cloud of fear, but I mentioned before that focusing on numbers and judgment should not be our focus. Severe illness, hardship, and death is among devoted believers just as it is in the secular world. I’ve seen many news stories that show afflicted believers displaying their faith with crosses and Stars of David in the background or around their necks as they tell about their suffering and death of loved ones in the pandemic.

Many believers seem to understand the pandemic is God’s judgment, but most do not understand why they, the church, or God’s people in the Jews would suffer the same judgments as presumably more sinful and unblessed nonbelievers. I only gave brief explanations of the kind of sins God’s People and the world need to change from before, but now I will give a little more detail related to different groups:

Communities of color, especially in the United States, you wrongly accuse poverty and oppression by authorities for your woes. Does God not supply the poor and bring to wealth as well as poverty? Look to your pride, anger, and focuses. Should you not forgive as the Lord has done, and should you accuse falsely? The Lord has said love your enemies and bless and do not curse.
Communities of indigenous descent and those who honor ancient traditions, you value and honor your native and old traditions, but some of them have you in idolatry and practicing witchcraft and divination. You cannot honor the Lord and also live in these sins. They are why He brought judgment upon pagan nations and people, and they are why your peoples continue to suffer.
People in authority - in government, the church, military, and law enforcement - the Lord sees you giving partiality to your own and not making righteous judgment. Should those in authority not be judged to higher standards? The peoples are angry for reason, so when you stand in places of authority, the Lord takes it into account. Be the examples of righteous authority you have sworn to be and make righteous judgment.
All peoples and nations, your lusts have overrun you and you no longer honor what is right. Honor marriage covenants and love your neighbor instead of pursuing your greed, which is idolatry, and defiling marriages, your bed chambers, and harming your brothers and sisters with pursuits of lust, covetousness, and self-interest. You no longer know how to fulfill the greatest commandments to love the Lord and your neighbor. Remove your lusts, greed, and self-interest; stop murdering infants in the womb; keep your tongues from sinning; do not keep anger and hate; but fulfil love, charity, and forgiveness.
The church and God’s People, especially those lost in lies and false teaching, which the Catholics, Orthodox, Pentecostal/Apostolic, and those who were the Lord's first people, the Jews, have especially fallen to, you have all gone from discernment and do not know your God, so the Lord has allowed imposters of Him, His Spirit, and false prophets and teachers to be those you wish to hear. They are a test and curse to you. But now is the time for the tares of the kingdom to be gathered and made known. Learn discernment and know your God. Come out of those the Lord calls the Harlot Babylon so you will not share of her sins. Her end will come. Did the Lord not divorce Israel? (Jeremiah 3:8) And can not the ingrafted branches be removed? Remove from yourselves the false vines, who produce thorns to shackle you, and adorn yourself with the true Vine and His teachings. Recognize and acknowledge the Lord, His name is Yahovah, and He gave His authority to His Son, Mashiach Yeshua (Christ Jesus). The voices you listen to are not the Lord’s and the shepherds you value do not know Him. Stop your worship of the saints, angels, and spirits. Stop your self-worship and worship of people and pursuits. Instead, make yourselves what is approved, for the Lord desires your worship, a life out of darkness, that is in spirit and truth.

Those who will not heed God’s call to better discernment and change will not be kept through the coming times as the Lord promised the Church of Philadelphia in Revelation. He will keep you through the hour of testing that is now upon the world if you show your desire for righteousness, seek Him in Christ and do not deny His name, for He knows your deeds and your heart. Those who overcome will be given the Lord's name and the name of His New Jerusalem upon them, an eternal inheritance. So do not think if you have been safe in this time of distress that you have no need of change. There is much yet to befall the earth.

Terror and pit and snare confront you, O inhabitant of the earth. Then it will be that he who flees the report of disaster will fall into the pit, And he who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare; For the windows above are opened, and the foundations of the earth shake (Isaiah 24:17-18).

Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord Yahovah! To what end is it for you? The day of Yahovah is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him. Shall not the day of Yahovah be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, with no brightness in it?

I hate, I despise your festivals, and I will not delight in your solemn assemblies. Though you give offerings, I will not accept them, neither will I regard your rich offerings of peace. Take away from me the noise of your songs, for I will not hear the melody of your music.

But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. Did you give me offerings in the wilderness, My people? But instead you have borne the tabernacle of your greed and upheld your idols and gods, which you made to yourselves. Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says Yahovah, whose name is The God of hosts.
(Amos 5:18-20)

Only your movement towards the Lord in Christ and His righteousness will spare you from the terror, and the pit, and the snare. The Lord be blessed forever and ever. Amen.

Update

5/11/2020

See my update for 4/5/2020...

Update

5/22/2020

Updated 6/10/2020

Many places in the world are reopening after months in shutdown from the pandemic, and I now feel the Lord compels me to continue in the spiritual analogy I started when I first wrote about COVID-19. God wants the world, church, and His people everywhere to open their eyes and see why this judgment, and others like it, are coming, and how they are an analogy to false teaching that is widespread in both the secular and non-secular worlds.

I wrote on March 14th that some earlier pandemics had become a part of the seasonal flu, which relates to how harmful false teaching throughout Jewish, church, and religious history has also become an intractable part of the church and other religious communities. Though people’s lives already had unhealthy contagions, COVID-19 made people much more aware of them, and though it is not as deadly as other diseases, it can produce serious harm to some people and has made the world come out of its isolation very cautiously and armed with preventive measures like never before.

I said on March 14th that if believers quarantined bad and false teaching like the world has COVID-19, we would have healthy religious lives instead of the unhealthy and even dangerous teachings that are endemic in many believers’ lives. Like the seasonal flu and COVID-19, false teachings have been spreading for centuries and they have varying effects on individuals, but they can cause very serious harm and even eternal death to believers who’ve put faith in lies and things that do not help them get or keep salvation in God or Christ.

When believers return to their churches, temples, and synagogues with masks and social distancing rules in place, they should bring this spiritual analogy to mind and see that God is making them aware that the spiritual world they live in is also full of unhealthy contagions that easily spread when they are accepted and not taken seriously.

This is a problem of too much bad discernment in the church and religious communities, and that the tares or weeds of the enemy (Matthew 13:38-39) and their teaching are also too readily accepted. This problem and its consequences will become worse if believers, churches, ministries, and religious teachers continue to do business as usual without accepting there are harmful things they need to identify and get rid of, just as they are trying to do with the COVID-19 virus.

I stated earlier in this writing that more judgment will come to the world and to believers if they do not recognize their errors and change. And related to the analogy with false teachings is that the world will be put under a test to see if it will accept what is good and true or continue to believe in lies (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12). It will be a test of serious consequence, because it can cost people, even believers, eternal salvation, for “if anyone worships the beast and his image… he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger, and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever; they have no rest day and night…” (Revelation 14:9-11).

But to those who persevere in the truth will be part of the resurrection, for “the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Yeshua and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years” (Revelation 20:4).

The COVID-19 pandemic is a more serious warning to the world and believers that things are not as God desires. I’ve talked to ministers who do not believe the pandemic is from God, but I’ve given ample proof in this writing to show it is God’s will and judgment that was prophesied by Isaiah.

Some people also wonder why a loving God would allow this virus to take so many innocent lives, as the elderly are greatly susceptible, and even children have died from it. However, this pandemic is within how I know God to work. The innocent are not truly innocent because no one is without sin (Romans 3:23, 5:12), and the church often assumes having salvation in Christ negates all consequences of sin when the New Covenant actually only fully atones for our eternal salvation or entry into heaven for the next life. It does not negate the consequences of sin in this life.

My time working in hospice care, where I often went to elderly care facilities, made the consequences of sin over a lifetime very aware to me. I noted that many people ended up infirm in elderly care because it was their judgment for sin, which may have occurred or accumulated many years ago. Their sin removed blessings that would have come from righteousness, like long life is God's promise for honoring our parents (Ephesian 6:1; Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16).

Having severe infirmities at old age is not simply because of the aging process. The spiritual effects of our right and wrong acts have much power in our lives, and for a great majority of people, sin throughout life takes away blessings that would be had in old age and often ends life prematurely. The Lord will simply let sinners who do not want to change, live in their bad choices (Psalm 81:11-12; Proverbs 1:23-33), which eventually brings judgment, and can leave people to their own devices without any blessings of protection or healing, which is another reason why many people are severely affected by judgment like COVID-19, while others are hardly affected.

Removal of blessings and leaving people and families to their own devices is also a major cause of harm and curses coming to children as well. But the Lord keeps well the righteous and He is slow to anger (1 Samuel 2:9; Exodus 34:6; Numbers 14:18; Nehemiah 9:17; Psalm 86:15, 103:8, 145:8; Joel 2:13; Jonah 4:2; Nahum 1:3), which means those who truly deserve blessings of healthy, long lives and protection for themselves and their families were righteous. While those who have sinned, God is patient to judge, so their judgment may come at the end of their lives, like I’ve seen in hospice and elderly care.

In the case of children suffering for sin that is not their own, I was led by the Lord to understand much of their suffering and premature death is from their parents’ or ancestors’ sins, which is proof that generational curses still affect the world today. This is something I’ve spoken much of in ministry work – the world needs to see how their sin affects others, so that we consider more seriously what we do, whether we are parents, children, or leaders. So let this life in pandemic be a warning to the dangers of sin that have brought it, because worse will come to those who do not heed God's spiritual warnings.

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