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Are You Fully Vaccinated?
Contributed by Thilini Perera on Jun 24, 2021 (message contributor)
Summary: DID YOU KNOW, THERE IS A MUCH MORE DEADLIER AND CONTAGIOUS VIRUS THAN COVID 19 ON THE LOOSE WITH 100% MORTALITY RATE? HAVE YOU TAKEN THE ANTIDOTE FOR THAT? LET’S DIVE IN TO FIND OUT.
“THE PLAGUE OF PLAGUES” ON THE LOOSE
While the variants of Covid 19 is on the spotlight acting the lead role of villain, there is more deadlier and contagious problem than Covid 19 on the loose. It has stolen, destroyed and killed so many lives and devastated families since the dawn of man kind.
WHAT IS THIS PLAQUE OF PLAQUES? It is the SIN of mankind which eventually results in DEATH. Ralph Venning (1621-1673) called it “The Plague of Plagues.” The ever increasing Covid 19 death total truly scares us. Little do we realize that worldwide, aside from these virus-related deaths, even in normal times 3 people die every second, 180 die every minute, almost 11,000 die every hour, and more than 250,000 perish every day. These statistics are shocking, aren’t they? We are all living in a fallen, infectious, contaminated world dominated by SIN and all it’s ramifications which ultimately results in DEATH.
WHO HAS CONTRACTED THE VIRUS? The symptoms of SIN may or may not be visible to the outside, but every single man on the earth has tested positive for the SIN says the scripture. There’s traces of it in our head, heart and hands, and its effects crosscut through our body, soul and spirit. Calculated mortality rate of the Covid 19 virus is approximately 3.4% according to WHO. But the mortality rate of SIN is 100% and all people who has contracted the SIN virus will eventually die. No one is immune and no one can escape from the ultimate plague of SIN and DEATH.
“For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.”
“For the wages of sin is death…”
Where did this plague of plagues come from? Was it a Lab leak? Or a man made Bio weapon?
THE ORIGIN OF THE VIRUS
As we speak the world is walking through a rabbit role to find the origin of Covid 19. But the Word of God is very clear about the origin of SIN and DEATH. In the beginning God created a beautiful home full of potential for His family, the mankind and installed the very first family in the Garden of Eden. Looking at everything God created, God Himself declared it all “GOOD.” It was all pure without any contamination.
MAN’S CHOICE: But God didn’t create Adam and Eve puppets on a string, they had A CHOICE, either they could trust and obey God to rule the world according to God’s standard OR else they could eat from the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil and rule the world according to their own standards. Using their free will they decide to cease autonomy and as a result SIN and consequently DEATH starts leaking out into the world. Apostle Paul summarizes it the following way.
“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” Romans 5:12
A WEAPON FORGED AGAINST HUMANITY: The enemy catalyzes the process of man rebelling against God. Man was deceived to unleash a weapon against himself using his free will by disobeying God. What is this weapon? It is none other than death. This can be understood through the following equation. Man was created to build their lives upon TRUTH, the instructions from God. Every Hebrew word has a pictographic meaning. In these letters that make up TRUTH, EMET (?????) the first letter aleph (?) stands for God. When we remove God from the truth, we end up with another word MET (???) that means DEATH.
TRUTH – GOD = DEATH
(?????) – (?) = (???)
THE ENEMY IS DEDICATED TO MAKE US REMOVE GOD FROM OUR LIVES, SO THAT WE END UP DEAD. ISN’T THIS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN ADAM & EVE DECIDED TO RULE THE WORLD IN THEIR OWN TERMS REMOVING GOD FROM THE PICTURE? THE RESULT WAS AND IS AND WILL BE DEATH.
There is a way that seems right to a man, but it ends in the way of death.
RAPID TRANSMISSION THROUGH THE GENERATIONS
Very soon man begins to realize the consequences of his decision. Things start falling apart when humanity decides to live on their own. Despite their achievements in different areas, man starts falling into a downward spiral of moral corruption and rebellion. Generation after generation the intensity and the magnitude of human rebellion increases until it reaches its climax at the 10th generation during the days of Noah.
1ST GENERATION – ADAM AND EVE
DISOBEDIENCE
BROKEN RELATIONSHIP – SEPERATION FROM GOD
EXPULSION FROM THE GARDEN
2ND GENERATION – CAIN AND ABEL
CAIN TRIES TO APPROACH GOD IN HIS OWN TERMS
1ST MURDER – FRATRICIDE
UNREPENTANT HEART & MOVING AWAY FROM GOD’S PRESENCE
3RD – 6TH GENERATIONS – DESCENDANTS OF CAIN
