Did God Cause This Pandemic?
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- Let's say a fatal disease, or pestilence, has spread around the world. That shouldn't be too difficult to imagine.
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- Did God cause this pandemic? Well, in Exodus, God sent plagues upon Egypt, including boils in the death of the firstborn.
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- When the Israelites worshipped a golden calf, God afflicted them with pestilence. In Leviticus 26,
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- God said, If you spurn my statutes and hate my rules, I will visit you with panic and with wasting disease.
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- In 2 Samuel 24, David sinned against God, and God punished Israel by sending a plague that killed 70 ,000 people.
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- In 2 Chronicles 7, 13, and 14, the Lord says that when He sends a pestilence among His people, it's a call to repentance.
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- Between the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel, pestilence is mentioned more than 30 times because the people did not repent.
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- In Habakkuk 3, 5, the prophet sees the Lord come in judgment. Before him went pestilence, and plague followed at his heels.
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- So, would God have caused this pandemic? Whom else would it have come from? God is the one who made disease and cursed creation because of the sin of mankind.
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- But God is merciful, and He has made the way of salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ. Isaiah 45, 7 and 22 says,
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- I form light and create darkness. I make well -being and create calamity.
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- I am the Lord who does all these things. Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth.