This is a short excerpt from my new book, a section I have but recently written. I reserve the right to revise it further! But the insight I have had has just struck me recently: and I understand better the order of things in this world, the way that it all hangs together.
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Those who suffered offered a sacrifice to God, on behalf of everybody else.
During the pandemic, I felt like someone who was watching a disaster in slow motion, a truck backing towards a man who was standing in the way, looking in the other direction, not in the least awake to what was happening. It was a nightmare; it was as though I was trying to shout, “Get out of the way! You’re about to get run over!” And the person wasn’t listening to me; instead, he was calling me a conspiracy theorist and telling me I was a bad person who didn’t want to take the jab to protect everyone else. Even though I had willingly worked at the start of the pandemic, teaching the health workers’ children, who might well have brought the virus to me if it was really something to worry about.
I consciously chose to stand up against the coercion because I believed that was what God wanted me to do, and also because I recognise a bullying, coercive situation and when you don’t stand up against bullies, they simply get worse and worse, and think that it is their right to bully, if you don’t stand up to them.
Not taking the vaccine was a sacrifice, but I realise now it was not a sacrifice I made for the sake of my own health, ultimately, but by enduring the abuse and the exclusion and being outcast I was making a sacrifice for the sake of Christ, for my nation and for my church.
The only way other people can be woken up from the slumber they are in is if we are willing to make sacrifices. Such sacrifices might well save our nation and our generation from the future that the scumbuckets (I have decided not to call them ‘elites’ any more) have mapped out for us.
Let us see the sacrifice of those who lost their jobs or their medical licenses or lost the right to work (as I did for six months) or even those who were imprisoned or lost their property as a sacrifice that we made on behalf of others. Let us see this sacrifice as a sacrifice we made on behalf of those who took the jab, to wake them up to everything that has been going on, to try to open their eyes the injustice and deception.
This is how I understand this now: let no one dare to call us selfish for making this sacrifice, for we took upon ourselves the shame everyone else deserved, we bore the shame for others’ cowardice in not standing up against the unjust coercion, we bore the cost for their excuses as to why they had to obey the unjust government. “My business couldn’t stand a $200,000 fine.” Yes but the man who you didn’t employ paid the cost in his own lost wages for your unwillingness to sacrifice. “I have to keep my ministry.” Yes but everyone who saw you cave in to the jab saw your ministry discredited, because you were afraid. “We have to keep the churches closed because we must obey the government.” Yes but think how this looks to people who could still go shopping: church is less important and less essential than the shopping centre and the pub. “I have a family to support;” I have little to say to that one: I myself might have been tempted for that reason, if I had a family.
But yet: there needs to be no shame. Christ has taken all our shame. The sin and shame of the selfishness of the unvaccinated who judged and condemned others. The sin and shame of the cowardice of the vaccinated, who crumbled under pressure. Even the sin and shame even of those international puppet-masters who orchestrated or planned or exploited the opportunity Covid-19 gave them. Jesus took all these sins upon himself, by dying on the cross; all the sins of the world. Praise the Lord whose compassion extends even to the evil and rebellious! May God have mercy on us all.
The Israel of King Hezekiah’s day was apparently doomed. The vastly superior force of the Assyrian army had arrived, and had surrounded Jerusalem completely and was besieging her, and it looked as though Israel’s prophesied doom had come, a doom that did indeed finally fall upon Israel a generation later when the Babylonians invaded.
But Hezekiah forestalled that prophesied doom for a whole generation because he cried out to God and turned to the Lord in supplication.
Even if, in the nations of the five eyes, even if we really are living in the time of the rise of the second beast, the beast with two horns (two unelected kings) that causes people to take the mark that is a man’s number in order to buy and sell — and even if Europe and the pharmaceutical industry is Babylon and is going to fall — perhaps we can forestall the doom of these gentile nations for a generation or may even cancel the future that seems to be a completely certainty, if we who are Christians wake from our slumber and turn to the Lord as King Hezekiah did and ask for mercy. Who knows? God is merciful and always turns to those who turn to Him.
God said to Abraham, “I will not destroy the city, if there are ten righteous people in it.” There is hope for our cities and our nations, so long as there are men and women of prayer and righteousness in them.
So many Christians said, ‘we must obey the government.’
Yes, it is true that we should render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar, but we should also render to God what belongs to God.
And God will not abide idolatry.
Think of that next time the government mandates anything that it has no right to be mandating.
I believe that those who are unvaccinated ought to have compassion on the vaccinated, for they must live with the unknown consequences of their bad decision, including possible health problems, and also the problem of the offense against their conscience and the spiritual doubts and confusion that result; God wants us to love one another, so Christians who are unvaccinated ought to pray for and show practical love towards those who are vaccinated.
So let each one of us repent, vaccinated and unvaccinated, and turn to the Lord who is kindly and a great King and who has taken on all our sins, for He is merciful and forgiving, and He alone can bring good out of all of this mess that we have all made of things.
Addendum - paragraph starting with “I believe that those who are unvaccinated…”
And to have compassion for those who felt compelled to have "It" as they truly believed they had no choice. Now they live with the consequences, many have fear for what the future will bring them - sickness or death? Yes we sacrificed but now we have different work to do. Jesus said "the man that does not love his brother, does not love God"
I was out of work for 9 months. It truly was an emotional roller-coaster.