The ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic
has not only caused sickness, death, fear and panic around the world but has
resulted in the cancellation of several sporting and cultural events, denial of
travel Visas between nations, restriction on free movement and assembly. It is like
a war in peacetime. A war against invisible microorganisms called coronavirus.
The Church of Christ should not be in the dark on what should be done. We need
to know the age we are in now and the role of the Church to the world on the
fight against this unseen enemy.
The way the world is attempting to
stop the exponential spread of COVID-19 disease scientifically is a combination
of the following:
(1) Extraordinary restrictions on
free movement and assembly, as well as aggressive testing, to interrupt its
transmission entirely;
(2) Finding the vaccine that could
protect everyone and
(3) The do-nothing approach by just waiting
until enough people get the virus and the few survivors developing herd
immunity.
All this is the struggle of the natural mind.
Hence, as the world struggles with the uncertainty of COVID-19, with all its
fear and panic, death and the financial ruin caused by the pandemic. The Church
has an incredible opportunity to demonstrate the love of Jesus. This is where
Prophet TB Joshua, of the Synagogue, Church of All Nations, (SCOAN) and the
Church, in general, need to come in to provide a divine solution based on
Jesus' love for the world.
Already, Prophet TB Joshua and his
team in the SCOAN are taking the lead in praying, prophesying and teaching the
entire world on this coronavirus. The prayers for rains, that also happened,
the constant teaching, the prophecy of this time and encouragements from SCOAN,
are worthy of note for all who care to listen. What more can the Church do? For
example, the United States of America USA, and many other governments, are
rolling out trillions of dollars as bailout and relief bills to stabilized their
ruined economies and rescue a few of the COVID-19 victims. Nevertheless, these
steps are not going to remove the pandemic but just attempts to save their
national economy.
In Luke 11:42 we read Jesus saying,
“Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all
other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You
should have practised the latter without leaving the former undone". Here
the focus is not a warning to the Pharisees of this world on their superficial
tithes. The people of the world are more concerned with external appearances
than with inner spiritual truth and love. This is why the world will give
bailouts and relief bills to create the illusion of significance and only to
help their re-election efforts. What God truly asks of us, however, is an inner
commitment to the qualities of justice and love. Such are less obvious, less
showy and less impressive to others. But without justice and love, our giving
and services are going to be meaningless.
Hence like Nicodemus, we have the
opportunity to come to Jesus in times like this COVID-19 global pandemic era to
look for our salvation and what else we ought to do. The public is asking many
questions. For example, whose sin that a pandemic of this scale would be
unleashed on every nation? Are we already in the eras described, especially in
Revelation 16, where angels will pour out the vials of the wrath of God, one
after another, upon the earth to cause great pandemics? The world would need
teaching and prophecy of the age and time we are passing through. The Church
also has a great task to counsel and rehabilitate victims and survivors of this
pandemic beyond what respective governments are currently doing. Prophet TB
Joshua has been raised to a position where he can provide revelation and
encouragement to this generation.
