“Do not be afraid. God is testing you.” Exodus 20:20
The world changed four years ago today, on March 11, 2020. It was a Wednesday.
The government began taking the position of God in the minds of the American people.
I will never forget what happened. I had just finished teaching the spiritual meanings of the biblical numbers 24, 40, 70, 143, and 1000 at our weekly Bible study at Emmanuel Enid. It was my last Wednesday night Bible study for more than a year.
Americans succumbed to fear of a new disease called Covid-19.
People began turning to the United States government for their protection.
National officials canceled the National Basketball Association (NBA) game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Utah Jazz, which was to begin at 7:05 pm Central Time. Watch the confusion in real time here:
And from that night through the rest of 2020 and most of 2021:
Americans accepted government welfare in place of work.
Americans accepted a government vaccine program with no critical thinking.
Americans accepted skyrocketing government debt without objection.
Americans accepted a socialist cultural change in the name of “social justice.”
Americans accepted a new narrative about individual liberty and state tyranny.
Americans accepted government in place of the transcendent Creator God.
From the very beginning, I have been outspoken against cultural change in the United States of America. I have stayed consistent. When one lives by principle, people's objections are always secondary.
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