Evangelist and teacher Anne Graham Lotz, who has long tied biblical prophecy to world events, is asking if the coronavirus is a sign of the end in a new post on her website.
“It’s almost as though our nation is being attacked by an invisible enemy seeking to destroy us,” she wrote after summarizing a list of closures from ballparks to schools, ongoing travel restrictions and an unruly stock market.
Graham, who completed chemotherapy last October for breast cancer, acknowledged that her age and compromised health puts her at a higher risk of contracting COVID-19, but added, “I am more concerned about the fear the coronavirus has provoked than I am of the virus itself. We seem to be caught up in a national panic.”
Lotz, the daughter of the late Rev. Billy Graham, used Luke 21:11 and 28 as the foundational Scripture for her blog post.
There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven…When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.
“As I reflect on all the above, I remember the words of Jesus,” she wrote. “He warned us that at the end of time there would be pestilences. In the last few years, we have endured SARS, the swine flu, ebola, avian flu, MERS, West Nile virus, and now the coronavirus. Could COVID-19 be one more sign that…
… Read More
Click here to read the rest of the story from our content source/partners – Christian Headlines.