Pop star Justin Bieber invited his 130 million Instagram followers to his church’s online broadcast. Churches are using drive-in theaters as a way to offer worship services in time for Easter.
And a public art nonprofit in Georgia is delivering yard signs that read, “EVERYTHING WILL BE OK.” Profits will be used to support local artists and art teachers.
Via Davey Sherwinter with Create Dunwoody.
The pandemic has been dominating our world long enough for certain faith questions to become common. Let’s take time this morning to address them from the word of God.
Is this the end of the world?
“In around 2020, a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments.” This is a prediction made in 2008 by a woman named Sylvia Browne in her book End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies About the End of the World.
Her prediction faded from public memory and she died in 2013. But the coronavirus pandemic has brought her book new attention; it shot up to No. 2 on Amazon’s nonfiction chart and was selling for hundreds of dollars.
Is this the end of the world?
Revelation 6 describes the “four horsemen of the apocalypse,” the fourth of which was “given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth” (v. 8, italics added). Jesus spoke of a day when “there will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences” (Luke 21:11, italics added).
But he also stated, “You do not know on what day your Lord is coming” (Matthew 24:42). In fact, he will come “at an hour you do not expect” (v. 44).
In other words, if this were the end of the world, it would already be the end of the world. And as horrific as coronavirus is, historians have been reminding us that humans have faced…
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