Corona Virus a spiritual warfare

The Corona Virus pandemic is not simply a physical battle but principally a spiritual warfare that is being waged by Satan and his spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places to cause people to blaspheme God by placing their faith in the wisdom of men instead of in the power God, to defile the temple of God, and to deprive them from inheriting the Kingdom of God, For over two thousand years mankind has been forewarned saying: Therefore rejoice O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time" (Revelations 12| 12).

A short time in the spiritual realm can be well over hundred years because,  we have been admonished saying, |”But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” Even the little while that Satan will be released from the bottomless pit after his imprisonment for one thousand years could be as long as one hundred years because, in the new glorious creation we are told that, “No more shall an infant from there live but a few days, nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; For the child shall die one hundred years old, but the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.” (2 Peter 3: 8, Revelation 20:3 Isaiah 65: 20).

Therefore, the weapon one needs to fight this Corona Virus is spiritual and not carnal or physical as we have been duly admonished saying; "|For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled” (2 Corinthians 10: 3-6),

We therefore have been given a seven-fold weapon to help us defeat anything that will come our way if we truly believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.

 Gird our waist with truth 

To gird our waist with truth figuratively means to prepare ourselves for something difficult or challenging with truth which of course refers to the word of God, for this is what the Lord says; "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." And in His prayer to the Father He prayed saying; "Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth" (John 8:31-32; 17:17).

Truth is also figurative to Jesus Christ Himself who said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” In contrast, Satan is completely opposite to truth, As Jesus said to those who seek to kill Him, He said to them, “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me” (John 14: 6, 8: 44 45).

 Put on the breastplate of righteousness

Which figuratively means to be obedient to the commandments of God, because according to the Psalmist David; "For all Your commandments are righteousness." And of course, commemorating the act of righteousness by which we were made righteous as we have been admonished saying; "Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life" (Psalms 119:172; Romans 5:18).

For as often as one eats this bread and drinks this cup, they proclaim the Lord's death till He comes, and it is the improper discernment of this act of righteousness that is the downfall of the believer as we have been admonished saying; "Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep" (1 Corinthians 11:26-30).

God has ordained specific times for His children to offer to Him this act of righteousness, for this is what He spoke to Moses saying; "Command the children of Israel, and say to them, 'My offering, My food for My offerings made by fire as a sweet aroma to Me, you shall be careful to offer to Me at their appointed time" (Numbers 28:2).

It should also be noted that, as soon as one has been set free from sin, he| she automatically becomes a slave of righteousness and just as we presented our members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now we are to present our members as slaves of righteousness for holiness. For when we were slaves of sin, we were free in regard to righteousness and by practicing righteousness one becomes righteous even as Christ is righteousness.

To be continued

With brotherly love

Lucius Joseph