How to making something that some people are fed up with, interesting? We are coming close to years end and am sure there will be little to write about 2020 in the history books. Events that have happened, happen in secrecy. Many events have been cancelled. Others postponed. Politicians make rules they do not want to keep themselves, and many are caught breaking their own rules on social media. Some receive no punishment, some a slap on the wrists and the normal person on the street is arrested and jailed. The world is crying out in agony, not so much due to a flu like virus, but due to restrictions of life. I did a study recently with a few people, and thought I may repeat it here. I was able to use pictures to demonstrate certain points, but you will have to envisage what I write. Ecc 1:9-10...it was here before our time. So, let’s be in 2020. People forced to wear masks. Apply Ecc1: 9 - nothing new, so it was before. So flashback to Spanish flu. Masks worn in 1918. Now apply Ecc 1:9 in 1918. Apart from medical and apart from full face cover of a mask, like Halloween masks, are dating back to the 7th C BC. But these are like opera masks. Not the same as ours. GOOGLE IT - The earliest recorded face mask-like objects in history date to the 6th century BC. Some images of people wearing cloth over their mouths were found on the doors of Persian tombs. And again GOOGLE IT Mikulicz In response to these findings, Mikulicz started to wear a face mask in 1897, which he described as “a piece of gauze tied by two strings to the cap, and sweeping across the face so as to cover the nose and mouth and beard”. So, either death masks, dummy masks, but first real mask 1897. But then again, let us apply Ecc 1: 9 to 1897. And onwards and onwards back in time. Lev 13: 45 is where an infectious person, must cover the lower part of the face (that is nose and mouth). And shout unclean, and be isolated Lev 13: 4, 11, 26, 33, 45. Isolated. Please note, cities, towns were not to be isolated, rather the individual was to be isolated. Taken outside the camp (city). So on the mask side, it is all wrong, scripturally. So, nothing new under the sun. Next, nothing new under the sun. What has been has been before. Ex 1: 11 the Egyptians oppressed the people of God. Fast forward. 2020. The world is immoral and as godless as it ever been. Godlessness seemed to be limited to certain countries. It is now worldwide. We used to laugh at the notion of Big Brother. It’s not a joke. They can now track what room you are in. We used to laugh at the wickedness of society,, they are now the leader, and plunging the world deeper into Godlessness. It’s all about money now and technology, the New god. It is about no God. It is about liberalism. It is about oppression of the people. And people need to read 1 Peter 4:4 that people think it is weird that you do not plunge into the same pool of dissipation as they do. I said to someone recently - this is not my world any more. People accept oppression, yet they cannot see it is oppression. They have been brainwashed to think it is medical. And they think it's strange you do not agree with them. Job 21: 16 stood aloof, from this counsel that tells people how to think, and penalised by what they think, unless it agrees with them. Sadly people have FB, Twitter, but they cannot see it is a platform which is clearly anti conservative (and by that, anti-God). People can’t see it. Why? 2 Cor 4: 4. They have been blinded. Our health, should be ours, personal. The sick person should be isolated. But to infringe on my right to buy bread, as I now have to wear a mask, shield, give my cell number...it is, for me, going too far; and the essence of oppression. There is in the whole of human history. And of the English language - 2 sides. Normal and abnormal. Let not the governments convince you of a new normal. Normal, is normal. Nothing else. All else is abnormal. Jesus was right when he said….Mth 24: 22. We know Scripture can have relevance in many and any generation. Let’s hope the LORD Jesus cuts these days short (or cuts me out of them). Each person has their own breaking point. Covid means zero to me. It’s a flu like millions of other diseases. Oppression is what hurts. Onwards for the LORD, in the midst of your own personal oppression.
MCC Admin
6 Kislev 5781