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what seemed to be an irrelevant piece, a rib, from the perfect man. Although slight, this alteration to the man changes creation.
God formed not only a helper, but a companion, a woman, Eve, from this rib.
Eve, is the only creation that God formed from another live creature. Creat- ed from Adam rather than the earth, Eve was susceptible to infection.
The man and woman could come together and become one flesh, but they often existed separately, and as such, were susceptible to infection.
Then the virus of sin was brought into the garden through a serpent.
The serpent, desiring to prove his equality to God and destroy perfection, convinces Eve to listen to his lies instead of what the Lord had told her.
Eve was created susceptible to suggestion and she liked what she saw. The tree looked favorable!
Eve willingly chose to consume the virus of evil. The virus of evil entered into Eve and it was now capable of entering into Adam who was also now com- promised. The world’s first virus, sin, had entered the creation.
Paradise was changed, but not lost forever as some say.
Adam and Eve have two sons, Cain and Able.
As Cain looked down upon the bloody, lifeless body of his brother Abel, he
saw proof he had been unable to control the virus inside himself.
God punished Cain. For his crime, God made Cain unable to grow crops; God
said Cain would “always be a restless wanderer on the earth.”
Cain never repents, but instead complains that his punishment is too severe. The world’s first virus, sin, had claimed its first innocent victim, Abel. Cain
became the carrier of the deadliest virus ever, sin. The virus is unleashed upon the earth. The earth can’t social distance from this virus!
Forty-one generations follow in births and deaths until a young girl, pure in heart, who is full of grace was born.
Through a woman, Eve, the virus entered creation and through the child of a woman, Mary, the virus will be totally eradicated.
The perfect spirit of God enters into this young girl, Mary, and produces in her the Savior of the World, the cure to sin and all the world’s viruses, Yeshua HaMeshiach, Jesus Christ.
Through His perfect life and sacrificial death on a cross, this perfect man, Jesus Christ, conquers the virus sin.
He does this through perfect love, “Ahava”- sacrificial love.
Before He departs the earth for paradise He says, “tetelestai”. It is finished or it is cured!
We are now existing during the final phase of the eradication started on the cross by Jesus Christ over 2,000 years ago. Evil does not want to be eradicated from creation, but the virus was cured on the cross forever. Amen!
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send your children to school. There were gener- ally accepted moral standards, and even non-re- ligious people knew the Lord’s Prayer. But, those days are from a long gone era!
I have traveled in missionary work in many areas around the world for the past 50 years, in country after country, always glad to return back to the good old U.S.A.
BUT... over the past six decades a “new Ameri- ca,” has gradually emerged that I don’t recognize. There was a general respect for authority, poli- ticians were trusted, an America where the per- sonal interests of political parties were far more important than the mere truth. Now everything seems to be thrown into the wind in Washington. All that matters is retaining control and forward- ing a diabolical agenda that was unthinkable to our founding fathers.
Yes, there was a time in America when the good of the American people was uppermost in our congress and senate’s mind. This was a time when political parties were not drunk on power and bipartisanship was laid aside to work on bills that would bring the change to America that was needed at that hour.
I can’t help but think of all the hardship my great, great, great, great grandfather Reuben Ford endured back in the late 1700s. Morning after morning, he was in the saddle riding back and forth to the house of Burgees, to make sure that religious freedom for all was included in the laws they passed and as the First Amendment was formed in the Bill of Rights.
No, I don’t believe Reuben ever envisioned a day would dawn in the new country he so dearly loved, where impartiality and fairness would be trampled under the feet of our lawmakers, as well as the Supreme Court, and even by the common man.
Truth has not only fallen in our streets, mobs trample on it, while many of our elected officials wipe their shoes on it as well.
Where’s the concern for governing America with truth, integrity and principle??? Yes, in my lifetime, the focus of many of our politicians has changed! Now, life is not considered sacred, re- spect has flown, and disagreement does not bring discussion, cooperation and reasonable conclu- sions, but anger and revenge.
However, there is “light at the end of the tun- nel.” Each of us can become an agent of change... “the change” that we must have for America to survive ...the change, to go back to the Biblical moral standards ... the change, that our politi- cians have ignored... the change, they have pur- posely placed on the back burner or killed... we, the people, have the power... at the ballot box.
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THE PLAGUE IS CHANGING OUR FOCUS
Regardless of where this Cov- id-19 Plague came from, God is certainly using it to change our focus.
The Coronavirus Plague has: shut down a number of the “murder mills” that destroy the lives of innocent, precious chil- dren, taken our gaze from much of the entertainment industry, blocked our false worship of the gods of sports, decimated our thirst and pursuit for the riches of this world, hindered and even stopped, the abominations that are so prevalent in the world, closed down bars, and the list goes on and on.
Yes, God is reaching out to the “unrepentant” to take their focus off of sin and repent and surren- der their lives to Christ.
Churches as well, have been closed and shuttered. Those mega
churches accustomed to having 1,000’s in reg- ular attendance, have became dark, forsaken and empty.
Those who attended churches across the U.S. have not been hindered by the Plague from going to their regular prayer meetings, as their church had no prayer meetings to attend.
In most instances, the Plague did not slow Christians down in their witnessing, as they had not been effective witnesses for Jesus Christ to their friends and colleagues anyhow.
As far as ministering to the poor and needy here in the U.S. and around the world, this too was non-existent.
So, “all in all,” the only thing that many church-goers are missing is perhaps the church service they attended once a week.
That’s really not a big loss, is it? Especially, if that is the only ingredient that is “missing” in their Christianity.
Yes, during this Plague, God is reaching out to the “Christians” to take their focus off of preachers, religious activities, the seduc- tion of this world and all the other things that will not matter 100 years from now.
This plague is a wakeup call for the Church. It seems that too many of our churches can hardly wait to go back to having church as usual. We must not go back, we must go forward in repent- ance, prayer and fasting to become the effective church God desires for us to become.
Yes, it’s time to repent for losing our first love and becoming preoccupied with the trap- pings of Christianity, without the Christ of Christianity.