In the midst of the raging pandemic of COVID-19, the
prominent question most people are asking is, could this be the end of the
world?
This question is born out of the fury with which the
epidemic is currently killing in mass, shutting down nations, and rendering the
world powers as nothing.
As at today, there are well over half a million confirmed
cases globally with USA, Italy, and China leading the nations as worse hit
zones.
Already, there are well over twenty-five thousand casualties,
while over twenty thousand others lie critically at the point of death.
Of about 195 countries of the world, 191 already recorded
confirmed cases of this raging pandemic.
This is the reason why it seems the end of the world has
come.
Friend, global pandemic is not new in the annals of history.
As a matter of fact, the pages of the scripture are filled
with generations which experienced the same and the earth still remains.
The generation of Noah witnessed the flood, which up to that
time was the most tragic ever known.
We knew of Sodom and Gomorrah God visited with hail and
brimstones, and yet, the earth still remains.
There were epidemics in the land of Egypt during the days of
Moses. Yet, the end didn’t come.
Even in the days of David, an epidemic ravaged the land
leading to about seventy thousand fatalities. Yet, the end didn’t come.
One thing is very clear in all these, epidemic are one of the
ways through which God bring his erring people back to himself.
It is like God’s reset button through which humanity is
brought back to factory setting.
In our contemporary world, a raging pandemic was witnessed in
1918, which claimed well over 500 million lives.
Just as it is happening right now, many nations completely locked
down, as markets, schools, churches and all social gathering were banned.
Prior to this, the people already forsook the Lord and
followed after religion and worldliness.
As soon as the then epidemic came to an end, revival broke
out in the land, because the people suddenly realized the vanity of life and
danger of ungodliness.
The same scenario is playing out right now, approximately a
hundred years after.
Jer 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have
forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken
cisterns, that can hold no water.
The nations of the world have forsaken God and pursuing
after religion.
We have downplayed the sacrifices of God for humanity and counted
the blood of Jesus as nothing.
European nation has lost touch of the reality of God, as no
one is willing to create time for him.
Asians are following after frivolities and false religion.
Americans are content of their achievements and by so doing relegated
God to the back.
Africans who appeared to be zealous for God are doing so
with hypocrisy.
Pastors are feeding their bellies instead of the flocks of God.
False prophets and fake prophesies are the order of the day.
Many among the congregations are so confused that they
stopped going to church.
How do you think God will be happy with all these?
This is the reason why God allow epidemics to correct the
people and turn them back to him.
If the people will turn to the Lord in this critical time, God
is willing to turn the tide and heal the land.
2 Chron 7:13-14 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain,
or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among
my people;
14 If my people,
which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my
face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will
forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
The Lord Jesus Christ described all these as the beginning of
sorrow for all the people that forget God.
Matt 24:7-8 For nation shall rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes,
in divers places.
8 All these are the
beginning of sorrows.
As a matter of fact, the earth will burn like oven until all
the proud and wicked men are consumed from its face.
Mal 4:1 ¶ For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an
oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and
the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall
leave them neither root nor branch.
However, no matter the number of casualties, there are some classes
of people who will be spared.
Recall that in the flood of Noah, despite the millions of causalities,
Noah and his family were spared?
Same thing happened in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Lot and his entire family escaped.
Even in the plagues in Egypt, the children of Israel dwelling
in the land of Goshen were exempted.
As COVID-19 ravages the world as well, some classes of
people will be spared.
These are the ones who have surrendered to him and are
dwelling in his secret place.
These remnants of people are designed by God to spark off
revivals that will turn back the nations to him.
Your placement right now is what will determine where you
will be in the agenda of God for this end time.
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identity in Christ.
Above all, the world is not coming to an end yet. Rather, it
is entering into a cocoon as it has always been for a return to the service of God.
It’s my prayer that the Spirit of God will comfort everyone
who has lost loved ones in this trying period.
I also pray that you will be exempted from the ravaging
death through this epidemic and be counted among the race that is highly
favoured.
God bless you.
