Why, if God is sovereign, is there a global pandemic?

Truman the Levite said:

1.Has the Almighty become less than before?
2. Is He losing His grip on things?
3. Or is there another reason why things are the way they are?
4. Is this judgement on us, His people?
5. Are we, as a whole, walking towards a cliff, and is He, in His faithfulness, allowing pain to drive us back to Him?
6. Are we putting Him first, despising all others in comparison, including ourselves?
7. Have we become arrogant, overfed, and unconcerned about the less fortunate.
8. Do we replace mercy with excuses?
9. Are we, for His sake, willing to lose our lives that we might find them?
10. Are we close to a terrible war and one-world government?
11.Are we willing to repent?
12. Will this thread be ignored?

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1. No, God is sovereign and He does not change.
2. No
3. Yes
4. No, Christians are pardoned from God's coming judgements against the ungodly. We are chastised, punished at times because He loves us. Pain and suffering are a part of everyone's life.
5. No, as Christians, we are not walking towards a cliff, we are moving closer to our redemption. Unbelievers are moving towards destruction.
6. Sometimes we put Him first, sometimes we compromise. Each individual has a path with different challenges and experiences.
7. Sometimes we are selfish and lack empathy - again we are evaluated individually by God and He works through each one of us differently to ultimately get us all to produce good fruit.
8. Sometimes we lack mercy and make excuses. That is also another personal thing that is assessed by Him and dealt with.
9.Yes - otherwise we are not Christians.
10. Yes
11. Yes
12. No

Ronald David Bruno said:

1. No, God is sovereign and He does not change.

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Correct.

God also has a plan which has been outlined in the book of Revelation, with some details, but not all. Other books supplement those details. But only God and Christ know every detail. If the coming of the Antichrist is near, then the Second Coming of Christ is also near. Which means that the Resurrection/Rapture (your redemption) "draweth nigh".

God has known from the very beginning that Christendom would go into apostasy. This would prepare the way for the Antichrist. And God has also planned to use the Antichrist for 3 1/2 years, which will be a time of testing for the whole world. But the Church will not subject to the reign of the Antichrist because the Holy Spirit must be "taken out of the way" in order to allow Satan full control for 42 months.

However, the Church is now being tested as to whether COVID tyranny will prevent Christians from gathering for worship or from spreading the Gospel by going out into all the world. If we are to render to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's, every church should be prepared to ignore all government directives designed to control Christians, and even take governments to court to show evidence why their directives are invalid and discriminatory (which they definitely are).

Governor Newsom in California has gone so far in his evil agenda that he has tried to prevent Christians from meeting in homes (using COVID as an excuse for tyranny). That directive was thrown out by the Supreme Court. But other courts are colluding with the powers that be to rob Christians of their guaranteed constitutional freedoms. Therefore Christians will also need to defy the courts and continue on with their business on earth, which is included in the Great Commission. Preach the Gospel, make disciples, and then gather with the disciples for the "apostles' doctrine, fellowship, the breaking of bread and prayers".

When the Jewish rulers tried to stop Peter and John from preaching Christ, the apostles told them plainly that they would obey God rather than men. The same principle applies right now. Not a single church should have gone along with the bogus pandemic nonsense (after doing their due diligence). And now every Christian must totally reject these bogus vaccines and vaccine passports. No doubt there will be consequences, but at the same time Christ has promised to be with His people at all times. We are to be fearless.

07-07-07 said:

It's a pestilence that Jesus foretold of, along with the convergence of many other signs.

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Yeah, I heard the same stuff 40 years ago...

Jostler said:

Hard as it may be to hear for many western Christian ears, much of what Jesus is doing in what He is allowing, is intended to sweep the Foundation clean of all the "temples men have built on it...and build His Church, according to His design. The gates of he'll will not prevail against THAT church. Maranatha....come quickly Lord.

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This is exactly how I see it... God is cleaning house... and He is doing a DEEP CLEAN... He is sweeping through the lies of false churches/doctrines... He is restoring what is TRUTH and destroying what is NOT. He is setting the foundation for His church to rise up.
Many Christians are caught up in fighting the wrong battle... instead of taking care of their affairs... repenting and getting close to Christ, they are screaming on the streets... to preserve something that has in all actuality LONG BEEN GONE.

Renniks said:

Yeah, I heard the same stuff 40 years ago...

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And the birth pains have intensified since then too

Truman the Levite said:

Has the Almighty become less than before? Is He losing His grip on things?
Or is there another reason why things are the way they are?
Is this judgement on us, His people?
Are we, as a whole, walking towards a cliff, and is He, in His faithfulness, allowing pain to drive us back to Him?
Are we putting Him first, despising all others in comparison, including ourselves?
Have we become arrogant, overfed, and unconcerned about the less fortunate.
Do we replace mercy with excuses?
Are we, for His sake, willing to lose our lives that we might find them?
Are we close to a terrible war and one-world government?
Are we willing to repent?
Will this thread be ignored?

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Have you ever thought that the reason we (mankind) have all the problems we have and that they're getting worst is because of what Revelation 12:9 says

Renniks said:

Sin isn't matter.

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That would not matter.

As you say, Scripture says he holds everything together.

Sin is a thing.

BARNEY BRIGHT said:

Have you ever thought that the reason we (mankind) have all the problems we have and that they're getting worst is because of what Revelation 12:9 says

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That's a future event.

Rev 12 has not happened.

Mankind aint seen nothin yet.

Rudometkin said:

That would not matter.

As you say, Scripture says he holds everything together.

Sin is a thing.

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No. Sin is the absence of good. God holds matter together. You are taking the verse out of context.

Truther said:

That's a future event.

Rev 12 has not happened.

Mankind aint seen nothin yet.

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it's your belief it hasn't happened yet and may also be that others don't believe it's happened yet and you and they are entitled to your believe. However others such as myself disagree with you.

BARNEY BRIGHT said:

it's your belief it hasn't happened yet and may also be that others don't believe it's happened yet and you and they are entitled to your believe. However others such as myself disagree with you.

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You have a right to be wrong, barney.