July 7
1 Chron 4:5-5:17 | PS 5:1-12 | Prov 18:19 | Acts 25:1-27
I have to say I'm still shocked that people seem to hang on every word that the doctors, nurses, and scientists say, as though this profession is somehow more ethical than others. The past pandemic showed more vividly than ever before that many things will be done "for the greater good". This is a very dangerous ideology that was prevalent in Nazi Germany. Most are not aware that physicians were seven times more likely to join the SS than German males from other professions. These doctors in the lead up to the Nazi overthrow were groomed on the "greater good" of racial hygiene, euthanasia, forced sterilization, enlightened science for the betterment of society. See, those Nazi doctors who were well known for their atrocities of horrible experimentation in the camps, overshadow the rank and file who are often overlooked. But these other health professionals were pivotal in the forced euthanasia of roughly 250,00 children and adults with mental and physical disabilities. Realize these health professionals were deemed enlightened. Germany was a legitimate center for medical and scientific knowledge. What we just evidenced in our own nation with forced injections to the masses "for the greater good" with threat of livelihood, threat of infecting others, despite no proof (even from the head of the NIH) that the injection would decrease this spread, to the school closures (despite the fact that it was the adults who were infecting the children, not the other way around), to the firm recommendation to give it to pregnant women and children with no proof of safety, to the forced isolation of the healthy, all for the greater good of society, should send ripples down our spine. Why mention this? Because this did not end well in the lead up to 1933 in Germany. So, just beware, as new diseases and vaccines are right on the horizon. Many are happy that the last pandemic is over. Sadly, it is not hard to imagine how the medical community and the people in our nation will respond when the next medical emergency arises.
Realize that the high priest, Annas, had died. But "the Way" or Christianity still was deemed as a threat to the Pharisees. Their thoughts had not changed. We read in Acts 25:2-3, "Then the high priest and the chief men of the Jews informed him against Paul; and they petitioned him, asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem—while they lay in ambush along the road to kill him." Paul was guilty of nothing that he was being accused of. Paul for his own "greater good" he could have remained silent, but filled with the Holy Spirit he never stopped speaking about Jesus Christ and Him crucified, to his own physical risk. We read of King Herod Agrippa II, the son of King Agrippa, who killed the apostle, James, who later died, being eaten by worms, after raising himself as a god. King Agrippa II lived in an incestuous relationship with his sister, Bernice. He, the last of the Imudean descendants of Edom not Israel) line of kings of Herod, for the "the greater good" sided with Rome in the end and eventually lived out his days there, despite being "almost persuaded in Acts 26, by the words of Paul.
We are in dangerous times. We need discernment during these times. We need Jesus Christ. We need to come into a true relationship with Him, by repenting and accepting His sacrifice, and by then making Him Lord of our lives. This is when we will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, God Himself, residing within us. He is our counsel. The Word of God, Jesus being the Word, Himself , (John 1:1)., is our counsel. This is where we must place our hope. Not in doctors, politicians, and certainly not in the news. We must all decide, for it is a decision, do we side with God or the world. Even worldly counsel, by well meaning individuals, as it was in the lead up to the third reich, can be very dangerous counsel, though it might not be realized until countless masses are hurt in the process.
Messages from Pastor Lloyd Pulley: