“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.
Romans 3:23
“For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.”
Romans 6:23
“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.
Proverbs 16:24-26
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
CAIN MOVES AWAY FROM THE PRESENCE OF GOD
CAIN BUILDS A FAMILY AND A CITY
CAIN FINDS SECURITY IN ACHIEVEMENTS APART FROM GOD
7TH-8TH GENERATIONS – LAMECH & SONS
LAMECH WAS THE FATHER OF POLYGAMY, HE MARRIES TWO WOMEN
LAMECH KILLS TWO PEOPLE
LAMECH BOASTS ABOUT HIS VIOLENT ACTS
REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENTS OF LAMECH’S SONS
10TH GENERATION – THE DAYS OF NOAH
WICKEDNESS FILL THE EARTH
MAN KIND IS SATURATED WITH SIN
NOAH FINDS FAVOUR
POST FLOOD EVENTS
NOAH’S FAMILY WORSHIP GOD
GOD MAKES A COVENANT WITH NOAH
NOAH CULTIVATES A VINEYARD
NOAH GETS DRUNK AND LIES NAKED
NOAH CURSE HIS GRANDSON
At every turn of this story we see repeated failures of humanity. The whole world is drowning again in a vicious cycle of Sin and death. It all started with a single act of disobedience and multiplied over the generations to a more destructive and resistant variants. Now what is the status of the good, perfect and uncontaminated world God created. It is all infected with the SIN virus and moving towards eternal DEATH.
NOW THAT THE QUESTION IS WHO IS CAPABLE OF SAVING HUMANITY FROM THIS DEADLY STATE?
CAN MAN SAVE HIMSELF? CAN MAN’S GOOD DEEDS SAVE HIM? CAN MAN MADE RELIGIONS, CULTS, TRADITIONS, WITCHCRAFT SAVE HUMANITY?
IS THERE ANYONE WHO CAN COME UP WITH THE CURE?
WHO IS GOING TO BRING SALVATION TO MANKIND?
WHICH PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY IS CAPABLE OF DECIPHERING THE LETHAL GENETIC CODE OF DEATH TO PRODUCE AN ANTIDOTE TO FIGHT THE EFFECTS OF ETERNAL DEATH?
GOD’S RESCUE MISSION
GOD PROMISE THE CURE
Even after repeated failures on the part of man God is faithful to keep His promises. As soon as man falls into Sin in the Garden of Eden God promise man that He himself will solve this problem, that God himself will provide THE WAY out for man. Through a promise which will never change God shows mankind a great light at the end of the dark tunnel of sin. God promise to raise THE SEED OF THE WOMAN who will put an end to the SIN and DEATH.
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Genesis 3:15
No matter how hopeless the situation seems our God can deliver us. A deadly contagious virus has invaded the whole worth but we still have hope. No matter how messed up humanity may seem God is able to bring the answer.
SEPARATION & PRESERVATION OF THE BLOODLINE
SEED OF THE WOMAN VS. SEED OF SATAN: Now something we should not forget is that not everyone in the world has faith in the WAY God is going to provide. There are two kinds of people, the seed of the woman who has faith in the WAY and waiting for God’s cure and the seed of Satan whom Satan use to distort and destroy God’s rescue mission. Best example is the killing of Hebrew boys during the times of Moses and Jesus to completely destroy God’s rescue mission for mankind.
GOD QUARANTINES HIS PEOPLE: In order to fulfill God’s promise for humanity to bring the cure for the sin virus, God choose a particular family line, a man named Abraham, carefully separates his family, the nation that comes out of his descendants and preserve the Messianic line to bring the cure to the world. We can clearly see that the Seed of Satan spreads the virus and the Messianic line whom God quarantines and separates as a Holy generation is set apart for the purposes of God, to bring salvation into a dying world.
Holy in Hebrew Kadosh means Set Apart or Separated for a purpose.
ABRAHAM, A FAMILY
CALLED OUT OF BABYLON, COME INTO A COVENANT WITH GOD, WALK IN OBEDIENCE
ISRAEL, A NATION
ISRAEL CALLED OUT OF EGYPT, COME INTO A COVENANT WITH GOD, WALK IN OBEDIENCE
DAVID, A KING
COME INTO A COVENANT WITH GOD, WALK IN OBEDIENCE
WHAT IS THE CURE?
There’s so much of planning and preparation to bring the cure to the world. What exactly is this cure? What kind of cure is powerful enough to neutralize the adverse effects of the poison released by the Sin virus? Who is the virologist who can calculate the correct genetic code for the right antivenom to confront and neutralize Sin and cure humanity of its effects?
Now to understand this let us refresh our memory on what we learnt about producing antibodies for a venom in our science class. For example let’s consider how the antigen is produced to fight snake venom. The venom from the snake is obtained and injected to the host animal. When the uninfected host is injected the venom it’s pure blood forms the antivenom to fight the snake’s venom. The blood from the animal is drawn out the produced antibodies separated then concentrated and injected into the infected person.
Let’s unlock the principle here. An uninfected, pure host has to be injected with the venom of sin and the host’s blood which contains the antidote needs to be drawn out. What do you think would be the status of the host when all this happens?
SACRIFICE OF THE SINLESS HOST
“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
2 Corinthians 5:21
Isn’t this the exact same thing that happened on the cross? Jesus lived a perfectly holy life in obedience to God and all His commandments. He died as God’s chosen sacrifice to take away the sins of mankind. Our Lord Jesus Christ came into the world to counteract the deadly poison of sin.
The only antidote for sin and death is God’s gift of eternal life through the sacrifice of Jesus our Lord.
He rose from the grave and proved that His sacrifice alone was sufficient. He ascended to the Father’s right hand and He freely gives the VACCINE, eternal life to all who repent of their sins and trust Him as Lord and Savior and receive Him by faith. It’s all provided freely, we don’t have to be in the waiting list, stand in the queue, bride someone to get it, be scared of the side effects or worry about a second dose. It’s all given to humanity free of charge.
So this is it? God provided the WAY, the cure, Jesus the Messiah. God provided the spotless lamb to die on our behalf. He died and His sacrifice gave us life. Humanity is no longer doomed to eternal destruction but we have a WAY out.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
(Romans 6:23)
ARE YOU FULLY VACCINATED?
It’s happening all over again. As you can clearly see the whole world is drowning again in a sea of iniquity, humanity along with the whole of creation is groaning for salvation. I’m afraid Covid 19 vaccine can’t fix this problem. The only hope for this dying world is to receive the salvation, the cure provided by God Himself. Now the question is
“HAVE YOU RECEIVED THE VACCINE WHICH HAS THE POWER TO SAVE US FROM ETERNAL DEATH?”
There’s no time to waste, it is the high time to receive Jesus in Hebrew, YESHU’AH (????? ) meaning GOD IS MY RESCUE into my heart and give my life to my saviour, because I no longer belong to myself but to my saviour.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16
Shalom!
Thilini
