ANTIDOTE TO THE VIRUS!

Blinded by the symptoms of the deadly sin virus, man had strayed long ago into errors and bondage. The Promised One came to save man from this death dealing virus. He isolated himself for 40 days according to scripture.  The dark one through temptation, attempted to spray the sin virus on him but he remained totally negative to infection. Thereafter began his mission to give man his message of salvation which is the antidote that saves and delivers from the sin virus. The religious leaders of that time would rather put the Saviour in quarantine and tried hard to do this with their various unsuccessful attacks. Many seekers of truth came to the Master and were delivered from their sin virus. To this day, earnest seekers can be sanitized in the word of truth and all who have been infected by the sin virus can recover if they eat and drink the antidote – the word of salvation. All who hunger and thirst for righteousness can also ingest the word of truth and those already suffocating can breathe in new life through the ventilator mediated in the living word!

The holy word remains the only vaccine that saves and redeems from the sin virus and false prophets who like quack doctors offer only empty dogmas just like offering stones in place of bread!

HOW DID MAN’S WRONG WAY OF LIVING CAUSE CORONAVIRUS DISEASE?

The virus which originated in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 has spread around the globe sending billions of people into lockdown as healthcare workers struggle to cope. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization categorised COVID-19 as a pandemic. As at 10.07 p.m. April 12, 2020, there has been 1,833,685 confirmed cases, 420,917 have recovered, 113,296 deaths, thousands more fighting for their lives in hospitals worldwide and the figures keep changing.

Consideration of the spiritual aspect of this monumental episode led to the recognition that the real germ causing the continuous global catastrophes including this pandemic is the germ of disobedience to the laws of the Almighty which man has reared over thousands of years.

How did the germ of disobedience and wrong way of living cause a disease now terrorising mankind? Where is the link?

Before we proceed, I wish to enter a caveat here. Indeed, we should all be remorseful, sober and humble at this time with our eyes turned upwards in humble supplication. And since the earth-shaking repercussions of our past are still ongoing worldwide, the present answer may not be considered complete and conclusive.

Events on earth follow a natural course, made possible through the Law of the Working of Creation, bringing us the experiences we need at this time for our redemption, for purification, or for our advancement.

Man is endowed with the power to shape his own earthly conditions with the all-pervading Power of the Creator. Just as in the life of every individual, the spiritual aspirations, thoughts, words and deeds that dominates amongst mankind are capable of shaping subsequent global events and conditions.  The consequences of man’s activities will react on him when the time for it is ripe and these consequences are always similar to the preceding human actions. Since the general conditions and the happenings on earth are the precipitation of the world of thought forms that surrounds us, we can understand that thoughts and acts of love will bring peace and thoughts of envy and hate will bring similarly evil outcomes. The consequences of every thought and action will exert their force on man for good or evil through his circumstances, his environment, or directly on his body.

To illustrate the effect mankind has on what happens in this world, let us picture to ourselves a potter sitting at his wheel with the clay that can be moulded into any shape. The potter’s wheel operates independently with the power of an engine. The potter applies the pressure of his fingers and his artistic talents to mould the clay placed on the wheel as it rotates thereby creating shapes of pots, dishes, mugs, vases, and other types of artwork of his choice. Depending on the pressure exacted by the potter’s fingers, the shapes may turn out beautiful, plain or ugly. That is exactly how the human spirit works in this world! Man, whose core is spirit, is capable of impressing its desires upon certain animistic (the substantiate) which then shapes matter. For man, the animistic is the finger that exercises the pressure according to the spiritual decisions of man, and the clay is the material physical substance while the movement of the potter’s wheel is like the automatic movements of the laws of creation which drives everything formed by man’s deep inner wishes towards development and manifestation. Therefore, the wishes of the human spirit are answerable for much that develops on earth. Man’s desires, his thinking and his actions take on form and becomes visible on earth through the mechanism of this world and his ignorance of this does not alter the effect.

A quick look at the predominant thoughts of men over thousands of years reveal that in the main, instead of engaging in good, loving, and peaceful thoughts, the thoughts favoured by the majority of men and their leaders are those of distrust, envy, hatred, greed and wickedness. Some world leaders precipitate needless wars and enrich themselves at the expense of their countries. Many followers secretly admire such leaders, and in turn think of how to cheat and harm their fellow men or enviously take for themselves what belongs to another.

Talking of wars in the context of our subject, we need to mention here the use of bio-weapons in warfare. Even in the olden days, elementary forms of biological warfare were practiced. Thus, one of the earliest documented cases of the intention to use biological weapons is recorded in Hittite texts of 1500–1200 BC, in which victims of tularaemia (an infectious disease) were driven into enemy lands, causing an epidemic.

In modern times, fingers have been pointed at Japan and Britain for having made plans to use plague as bio-weapon at one time or the other. The US President, Richard Nixon terminated the production of biological weapons only just before the emergence of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention in 1972.  However, the Soviet Union continued research and production of massive offensive biological weapons and to this day at least nine countries are still suspected (not proven) to possess offensive bioweapon programs.

Let us now consider briefly the attributes of viruses. According to the National Human Genome Research Institute a United States Research body, a virus is an infectious agent that occupies a place near the boundary between living and the non-living. They are sub microscopic and can be described as parasitic as they can only survive inside a host cell in order to survive and replicate, thereby harming the host. Virologists say that you should think of the interaction between the virus and your body as a war. This battle can cause all sorts of problems in the body. Depending on the virus and its location, inflammation, fever, mucus and more can occur and in the case of COVID-19 the lungs can be affected leading in the extreme to mortalities.

Are there any similarities between the way viruses operate and the actions of men? Is it not the case that many men through their greed and materialism are just like parasites? If viruses precipitate wars on entering the human body, is this not an imitation of the attitude of the majority of men who are coarse, lack consideration for others and cause disharmony everywhere they go?  Today, a virus is at war with the entire world population, as all of us are affected in one way or another.

The basic answer to our question therefore is that if mankind’s former actions require that a global pandemic should break out in reciprocity, then the inflexible weaving of Creation is bound to bring about the natural conditions that will give rise to it! Once man has called for it in thought and action, the animistic takes it up and ensures that these desires manifest in the material world, for good or evil just as man has desired earlier on. Perhaps a study of how past pandemics start can help us make a link of how the non-observance of creation laws can bring about disease to bring us back to our senses. 

During the final months of World War I, the Spanish flu broke out and historians now believe that the conflict may have been partly responsible for the spread. Some report that the men in the Western Front were cramped together in dirty and damp conditions. Coupled with low immunity and malnourishment, the men got sick. The sickness spread worldwide, 500 million were infected and the death toll is estimated to have been anywhere from 17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million. If the higher figure is accurate then this pandemic killed more people than the two World Wars put together. Another factor in this occurrence was falsehood and denial by governments, leaving people ill-prepared to handle the outbreaks. This is a clear example of a disease bringing home the repercussions of engaging in a war based in part on distrust and imperialism, living in unhygienic conditions and lies at top governance levels. The little cause: infection of some soldiers led to a great effect: a tragic pandemic.

Another little cause, great effect examples worth mentioning are the unwholesome interaction between man and animal, eating animals that intuitively we should not consume and eating raw meat, uncooked poultry and raw seafood. These can lead to the transmission of disease-causing pathogens from animals to humans. Some researchers are suggesting that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is the cause of the current Covid-19 pandemic, might have been transmitted from animal to man. Same has been said concerning HIV.

Let it be noted that the little causes such as the ones mentioned above may not spiral to having global effects unless such a large-scale retribution is due in accordance to the creation laws. But when a global reciprocal action is due, a small cause might suddenly snowball to having a tremendous effect! When the time comes when the effect of the evil thoughts that have come to reality falls back on their originators, then retribution will first of all strike those who through their thinking had been producers and constant supporters. However, it is inevitable that this destructive rebounding force will also touch wider groups of people and affect even those who only have tendencies similar to that of the real wrongdoers. 

All said, we may wish to attach a deeper significance to the precautionary measures prescribed for us to avoid infection. Let us isolate and tear ourselves away from all base thoughts. As we wash our hands let us engage them for noble deeds and as we practise social distancing let us voluntarily offer each other respect, compassion and understanding. We can make the best of the present circumstances by embracing an attitude of remorse for our past wrong doing, agreeing to make a permanent change for the good and resolving to come out of this experience stronger, unassuming and ready to mediate only love, happiness and peace to our neighbours.

WHAT IS THE MARK OF THE BEAST?

Will the prophetic number 666 or mark of the beast be given to approximately 7.77 billion earth dwellers by lining them up in the sun, snow, wind and rain, day and night to take a mark on their arms and foreheads? Will the Antichrist or the beast capture men by implanting some radio-frequency identification microchip in them? Will some technology, telecoms network or vaccine suddenly bring about the mark of the beast on men?

In 2009, before WhatsApp and other social media applications became major news carriers, an email went viral regarding a plan by the Barrack Obama led United States government to have microchips implanted in citizens by law! Some thought then that Obama was fulfilling the 666 prophecy! Now, Bill Gates an American software developer and investor is being touted as the man planning to use microchip implants to fight the coronavirus thus cleverly fulfilling a dreadful apocalyptic prophecy!

But what really is the mark of the beast?

When mankind succumbed to Lucifer’s temptation to rely more on the intellectual brain, man neglected the tool provided for him to receive spiritual impressions which is the cerebellum. This over-reliance on the intellect eventually became the hereditary sin, because the one-sided development of the frontal brain was in the course of time passed on to each child as inheritance right from birth. Thus, the cerebrum grew to become what is known now as the big brain and the cerebellum became stunted and became the small brain of today. This large brain and small brain thus created a ‘physical mark’ on man’s body which is not ordained by God but came about as a result of temptation out of the darkness. Leaving all decisions to the earthly intellect appears beautiful but it is a destructive implement of Lucifer which makes man behave selfishly, harmfully and imposing his self-will upon others. It brought corruption, malice, murders, wars and all the evil prevalent in the world today. It also means thinking of only material gains and benefits and thinking less, if at all, of the spiritual and God’s Will. In fact, the man of intellect is spiritually deaf and cannot understand spiritual messages. The domination of the intellect and the enthronement of materialism makes life on earth really difficult for a person who refuses to live and work (buy and sell) in the unconscionable and corrupt way of the worldly slaves of the intellect who are currently in the majority. This is the repercussion of the over cultivation of our intellect which we nurtured till it grew into a monstrous beast that now endangers us and deals decisively and wickedly with anyone who refuses to bow to it. Man’s overbearing intellect is the ambitious beast and its mark is the large brain and small brain men bear in their physical bodies!

That we are still thinking that the mark of the beast is the implanting of microchips in humans and that another fellow man and slave of the intellect is the Antichrist only shows that we are still under the deception of the beast, our intellect.

A follower of the beast the intellect is described in scripture as man who is ruled by the flesh and who does works of the flesh. Such a person cannot see the deep spiritual concepts or anything pertaining to God. All that matters to people like this is vanity, love of ease, sordid sensuality, greed and all things similar.

However, the question that faces each and every one of us at this critical moment is how we stand inside. Are we tired of being a slave to our intellect? Do we wish to know the laws of God and live accordingly thereby freeing ourselves from the bondage of the intellect? These are the real questions before us.

What we need to do now is to recognise in all seriousness that through our preference for intellectual cleverness, as against the guidance of our spirit, we all have been in the deceptive but dangerous embrace of the beast and the Antichrist all the while without even realising it. We have to resolve to tear ourselves away from this grip. No matter how painful it may be, we must wrench ourselves from the hands of the beast which is opposed to anything spiritual and of God. We will be able to do this by accepting the mercy, salvation and redemption offered by the Almighty in His Holy Word. This is now given to us anew at this time on earth in a Book of Truth that states and explains the Laws of God with all clarity and without gaps.

WHO IS THE ANTICHRIST?

Is the Antichrist a man or an institution? The prophetic number 666 which has always been linked with the Antichrist has also been associated with some human beings and even institutions over the centuries. Protestant preachers including John Wesley and Martin Luther have pointed to the Papacy as the seat of the Antichrist! Apart from this revered institution, another one that has been accused is the American Presidency. Every American President since George Washington has been suspected of being the one to usher in the end times. On the individual level, we have had Nero, Napoleon Bonaparte, Hitler and even Henry Kissinger. Obama and now Bill Gates have joined the group of those suspected of paving the way for the Antichrist.

But who really is this Antichrist? Can the Antichrist be a human being or an institution? Prophecy reveals that he will succeed in deceiving many.  If the Antichrist acts openly will he be able to get the majority of people to follow him?

From the prophecies, the Antichrist would have the world in his grip and would not be one man who can be mocked by people. He will not be easily found out as is the case with the past and present personalities who have just been victims of conspiracy theories. At the end-times the Antichrist would be at the zenith of his dominion with mankind gladly worshipping him. Those who hesitate face dire consequences! In connection with the activity of the Antichrist, the book of Revelations in the Bible speaks of a trio of the dragon, a beast from the sea and yet another beast from the earth also known as the false prophet and the three are aligned in opposition to God.  With these predicted paraphernalia of the Antichrist, it becomes obvious that no human being or human institution, no matter how powerful or wealthy, can have the strength and power to be the Antichrist!

Revealed spiritual knowledge holds that the Antichrist is none other than Lucifer, the only real enemy of God! He showed his antagonism as early as when he tempted man to damage his brain which is the fine and highest part of man’s physical body meant to help him on earth. How did Lucifer do this? Man was granted two brain parts; the frontal brain (intellectual part) and the back brain (seat of the intuition). Both parts of the brain should have been developed absolutely equally, for joint harmonious activity, like every other dual organ in the body. Lucifer enticed man to rely on his frontal intellectual brain more than the intuitive back brain. The intellectual brain is meant to execute on earth the intuitive decisions of the human spirit which is relayed to the intellectual brain by the intuitive brain. By suppressing the activity of the spiritually receiving part of the brain in favour of the intellectual brain, man became handicapped spiritually. The aberration makes it more difficult to understand spiritual things and anything pertaining to God. That is also tantamount to being cut off from spiritual recognition and ascent and being cut off from God! For example, the intellectual brain can see visibly that seeds of oranges can only yield more oranges. However, it would take the intuitive brain to come to the recognition that the same law that applies to the physical orange applies also to our unseen thoughts, words and deeds, which are also seeds that will produce fruits of a similar kind. Only the human spirit can understand this using his intuitive brain. 

Following from relying mainly on his intellectual brain, which in scripture is described as working with the flesh, man began to live based solely on material earthly concepts which is an error. This led to self-worship and wickedness in the extreme as we see today. All admonitions by prophets and many teachers failed to find a path to the inner core of man as all such teachings are first dissected by the intellectual brains of men and made into lifeless dogmas.

Lucifer earned the name Antichrist when he worked assiduously against Christ’s Work of Redemption. As soon as Jesus appeared on earth, the Antichrist set to work immediately. The earthly effect of this was seen with the wicked attempt by Herod to terminate the earthlife and mission of Jesus at infancy! Later, Jesus was unsuccessfully tempted by Lucifer all in bid to deal a heavy blow on his mission. Eventually, Lucifer, using the leaders of religion of that time attacked Jesus aggressively at every turn and eventually brought the Truth Bringer to the cross! Meanwhile, the people Lucifer used acted under the delusion that they were serving God by silencing Jesus who they saw as a troublesome blasphemer of the Father Who sent him. Ironic and sad! But that is the hallmark of the Antichrist. He uses mankind to achieve his sinister aims while deceiving them that they are on the right path. Even amongst those who listened to Christ, only a few accepted his teachings. Many others listened with a total lack of understanding due to the weakened intuitive capacity earlier described. Today, those who serve the Antichrist abound and they have no idea that they are already under his rule.