AWAKE, ARISE, AND TRIUMPH
Sunday – January 17, 2021, Sh’vat 4, 5781
MINISTRY POLICY POSITION
THE COVID-19 VACCINATION QUESTION
Greetings dear brothers and sisters of the Kingdom of God and welcome to the Sunday Bible Study. I have been focusing on the command of Jesus to do what He did and the greater works. How are we doing with that command?
John 14:12 (KJV)
12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Today I will pause to re-publish the Policy Position of this Ministry concerning the COVID-19 vaccination question facing individuals and families. Before proceeding further please take a moment and share this teaching as widely as possible. Thank you for doing that so that the Truth has a wider audience. If you have not joined our Virtual Wednesday Evening Bible Study please consider doing so, it is not the boring powerless time the enemy may have told you to expect.
The Lord has been dealing with me this morning (December 15, 2020) about the COVID-19 vaccine and some of the foolishness, ignorance, and defiance being circulated both in the secular world but more importantly among Christians. As an Internal Medicine physician of some forty years let me give you my opinion from that prospective and then we will deal with the religious. I am not using the term spiritual for it is a confused, ignorant view of Scripture. In healthcare the importance and effectiveness of vaccinations is beyond question. Just ask yourself as to where is polio, small pox, all the childhood diseases with their sequela including birth defects. Gone for the most part! Why? Vaccinations!
As you know several companies are developing a vaccine for the American and world markets. All of them at this time appear to be safe and provoke an immune response. The side effect profile is very much like the regular flu shot that I hopefully you are getting annually. My first question about the vaccines was, were they going to be safe not only in the short run but the longer run. The answer for the short run is already an affirmative yes, they are safe, and the based on the nature of the vaccine the long-term safety is likely also affirmative. The second question I had was if the vaccines would elicit a long-term response. We know that in people who have had the disease the immunity is short lived (3-4 months) and we see cases of reinfection. Also, will this virus be mutating or remain stable? We don’t have that answer and may not have that answer for years. The answer to the long-term immunity question is not answered as of yet and will not be for several months or a year. It seems to me that the two-shot regime (initial followed by a booster) may be more effective but only time will tell.
Listen carefully little children, God has raised up men and women to develop these vaccines. Unfortunately, many if not most are heathen but nonetheless raised up by God to develop a righteous counterpunch to this disease until the His people get their faith and holy boldness in place. The devil is not raising up natural helps for people like these vaccines and other medical wonders. The devil did not bring us the polio vaccine or penicillin. The devil would kill every man, woman, boy, and girl on the planet today if he could.
Having said all of this, I very strongly recommend that you get the vaccine when it is available to you.
Now to the religious or if you prefer spiritual aspects of this discussion. Perhaps you have seen spiritual leaders and others preaching that all of this Pandemic and now the vaccination is setting us up for the antichrist. I hate to be the one to break it to you but Lucifer (Satan and his cohorts) have been setting us up from before this creation, renovation, of the earth, and mankind as we know it (Adam, you and me) was ever in the earth. An antichrist is really anything that seeks to replace God which can be a thing, an activity, a person, or demonic personalities. Generally speaking, when we talk of the antichrist we are speaking of Satan. Look and see how it all started.
Isaiah 14:12-15 (KJV)
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
So, here we see that before Genesis 1:3 Lucifer (now referred to as the Devil or Satan among other names) wanted to place himself above God and be worshipped. He still wants that today. He will get it for a brief time during the Tribulation (we won’t be here) and at the end of the Millennial reign of Christ. We have many antichrists to deal with in the here and now but the antichrist will never be our problem. Quit talking about useless things and fight the good fight of faith, our battle is not with flesh and blood but with evil spirits and our flesh. The Apostle John speaks of the antichrist in 1st John.
1 John 2:18 (KJV)
18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
The Apostle Paul speaks of this and makes it clear it is after we are out of here by way of the Rapture/Resurrection (Catching Away).
2 Thessalonians 2:1-7 (KJV)
1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
When the Church, the Anointed sons and daughters walking in fulness of that Anointing, are the ones withholding the antichrist, we are the ones who “letteth” and are taken out of the way in the Rapture. This will be a time of Hell on earth not the Heaven on earth we are commanded to bring in our time. Finally, dear ones do not let the spirit of fear grip you, neither ignorance or defiance to your own hurt and that of your family.
2 Timothy 1:7 (KJV)
7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Fear is not of God and when we yield to fear we are without the power of God, we are not walking in love (agape) meaning faith is inoperative, and we are not of a sound or disciplined mind. My final thought, GET THE VACCINATION! Get in in faith, faith in God that it will be effective and be a blessing for you and others.
Lord willing, next week I will return to our study of “The Greater Things”.
2 Chronicles 20:20b (KJV)
20 … Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
Until our next publication, as a Bible Teacher and Prophetic Voice I speak this blessing over each and every one of you, receive it, believe it, and speak over yourself and your family by faith in Jesus name!
Numbers 6:24-26 (AMP)
24 The Lord bless you and watch, guard, and keep you;
25 The Lord make His face to shine upon and enlighten you and be gracious (kind, merciful, and giving favor) to you;
26 The Lord lift up His [approving] countenance upon you and give you peace (tranquility of heart and life continually).
By: Dr. David Wood, Author, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
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