GOD’S GRACE IN COVID
As you all know, we have been dealing directly with the intentions of leaders using COVID to bring about a time of transition into globalism and “The Great Reset” through propaganda inducing fear that leads to voluntary submission and bowing down. All this is eerily parallel to Daniel Chapter 3 (take the time to read the account) where Nebuchadnezzar’s mandate to have people bow down and worship a golden statue of his image and the three faithful remnant followers of God that did not submit and obey him – and the Lord’s miraculous deliverance from the fiery furnace).
Now – before we tackle the vaccine issues and God’s grace regarding them…. it is of necessity to talk not of God’s grace (unmerited favor); which means nothing one does warrants God’s favor and grace – but simply His merciful, compassionate, choice to give grace that He offered to all who would believe and receive it. This defined and known makes ALL the difference in an age of COVID. How Pastor? You might be saying to yourself or out loud in alarm…. Simple.
First, to those who have been vaccinated (either willfully, fearfully, coercively, ignorantly, or thinking it is the right thing to do)…. Ultimately the choice is each person’s own responsibility , unless someone held you down or captive in some way and administered it against your will. Yet, the direction of what those “in charge” are using it to do – well, it is slowly limiting freedom and changing society, the division and same old “clean” verses “unclean” issue is at hand. The Lord’s grace is more than enough to cover…. As you know my convictions are strong and I believe that the vaccine is beginning the soon implementational part of the mark of the beast system that is coming ahead, as found in Revelation 13; yet – there is the grace of God – and He gives grace upon grace, if one is concerned if it is too late for them because they took the vaccine (actually a therapeutic just like the flu therapeutic injections) – here are the three that I hope sets your mind, heart at soul at ease:
Acts 3:16-17 And his name–by faith in his name–has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all. “And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.”
Act 17:30-31 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
God gives grace to those affected by the ignorance of leaders and God gives grace to those who react without knowing all the ins and outs. And His grace is so big that He overlooks things done without knowledge – though HE does say through Hosea “my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” – though side effects may come, not knowing the true intentions of the ‘vaccinations’ mandates – God’s grace is greater than COVID and those things attached to it!! One needs to repent….
1 Corinthians 3:15-17 If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire. Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
Jude 1:18-23 They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.” It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit. But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. And have mercy on those who doubt; save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.
Though this part of God’s grace in the moment is coming in an unexpected and difficult manner, the truth is we are the temple of God, our bodies are set apart, made holy, and the place where the Spirit of the Lord dwells…. God’s grace is that – even if we have defiled ourselves with something with our bodies, though the body may be destroyed – God saves the soul in grace…. And since we who believe, that is in the Gospel and Jesus, get a whole new immortal incorruptible body after our departures (deaths) or are taken up to glory (raptured), as 1 Corinthians 15, 2 Corinthians 5, and 1 Thessalonians 4 states… God’s grace covers your eternal life in Christ, despite your earthly temporary life is shortened by the choices made while in the body.
1 John 5:16 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life–to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.
Ezekiel 33 tells me, as a man called by God to preach the truth of Jesus, the Gospel and His Word – prophetically and pastorally – I am a watchman called to warn of the dangers ahead for individuals and peoples and nations…. And God’s grace is being administer through us by warning about the dangers of COVID’s ulterior motives through vaccination and vaccine passports and the globalists agenda moving us away from trusting in God to worshiping and trusting in government. Note the passage from 1 John 5 above parallels warning others when sinful direction is being taken and if we pray and as God for life for them – they will be given life. So – if there be concern over ones decisions revolving around COVID – at this point in time and juncture, Biblically speaking, God’s grace is given in prayer for those concerned.
NOW, there is likewise God’s protection and grace for the unvaccinated. For those under Biblical conviction that the vaccines are directly related to the mark of the beast and consider it wrong to participate in the vaccinations due to the same convictions of vaccines being made through and tested with aborted babies and the fetal cell lines derived from them as the source of the fetal cell lines (which are more than just the COVID therapeutic injections); if one is lead by God to stand up and not bow down, obey and accept the vaccines – even if mandated and forced to do so…. Take the Grace and protection and deliverance of God, well known and true from the Daniel 3 passages that follow:
Daniel 3:8-30 Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came forward and maliciously accused the Jews. They declared to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, live forever! You, O king, have made a decree, that every man who hears the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image. And whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into a burning fiery furnace. There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, pay no attention to you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.” Then Nebuchadnezzar in furious rage commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. So they brought these men before the king. Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, “Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up? Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well and good. But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?” Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.” Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with fury, and the expression of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He ordered the furnace heated seven times more than it was usually heated. And he ordered some of the mighty men of his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. Then these men were bound in their cloaks, their tunics, their hats, and their other garments, and they were thrown into the burning fiery furnace. Because the king’s order was urgent and the furnace overheated, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell bound into the burning fiery furnace. Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished and rose up in haste. He declared to his counselors, “Did we not cast three men bound into the fire?” They answered and said to the king, “True, O king.” He answered and said, “But I see four men unbound, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.” Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the burning fiery furnace; he declared, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the fire. And the satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king’s counselors gathered together and saw that the fire had not had any power over the bodies of those men. The hair of their heads was not singed, their cloaks were not harmed, and no smell of fire had come upon them. Nebuchadnezzar answered and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants, who trusted in him, and set aside the king’s command, and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any god except their own God. Therefore I make a decree: Any people, nation, or language that speaks anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego shall be torn limb from limb, and their houses laid in ruins, for there is no other god who is able to rescue in this way.” Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.
A mandate of outrageous proportions is decreed; just like the current mandates by executive orders and fiat are today for COVID, which many are bowing down to, if you stand like these three men – God’s Grace is supernatural protection, divine intervention and deliverance through the fires of the consequences of obeying God rather than men! His grace is so great that your standing up can turn the mandates around and give one the freedom to follow God, and even shut-up the governors and leaders as they watch God’s grace be poured out on those who trust in Him.
May God’s Grace Cover You,
May His Grace Keep You,
May His Grace Give You Peace,
May His Grace Supernaturally Protect You,
May His Grace Deliver You!!
Remember God Loves You and So Do I,
Pastor Daren Lee Barnett