Hello
@CadyandZoe
That pastor was not suffering for Christ: and he can stand on a street corner and preach the gospel, or in a local park; he does not need to enter a building in order to do so. This is a ridiculous analogy.
It is time to behave like mature adults, and consider those at risk within our communities.
Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris
Charity, I very much appreciate and look forward to your posts so please understand that my intent is to speak to you with much love and respect.
I have no reason to believe that this pastor is doing anything other than acting like a mature adult. He appears convinced, as many of are also, that there is no actual health crisis, the hoax being another system of control. Why is the government taking these measures, i.e. masks and lockdowns? The actual goal is to prevent or highly restrict communication between human beings. The world system intends to implement draconian restrictions on human activity and the world system fears opposition to such measures from the public.
One can't simply make a law limiting the size of any assembly of people to four or five, which would make it difficult for people to organize a resistance movement against them. However, if there were a "pandemic" one could make a quarantine order that achieved the same result and the public, out of fear, would comply.
Why attack churches? AntiChrist? Not necessarily, but I don't doubt that the hatred of Christians has something to do with it. Historically though, churches were the place where local people assembled to discuss actions to be taken in light of the actions taken by tyrannical governments. This was certainly the case prior to the American Revolution.
Notice that the Pastor was arrested for "lockdown violations", which limited his assembly to 15% of capacity. So we see that the building itself was not the issue. It wasn't that the building itself was unsafe. A true and actual quarantine would limit the assembly to zero, not to allow 15% of people to enter. By limiting the assembly to 15%, the enforcement arm of the government feels justified in saying things like this. "[T]he RCMP's objective is not to interrupt church services, prohibit services, nor deny peoples' right to practice their religion—merely to ensure that public health restrictions are adhered to while doing so."
One wonders what would happen if the building were on fire. Would the man from the RCMP allow 15% of the people to remain inside the building? The answer is as obvious as the fire itself. An actual health and safety emergency allows no one to enter.
Wonder why they call it a "lockdown" rather than a quarantine? According to one definition, a "Quarantine aims to separate and restrict the movement of people who have been exposed to a contagious disease to watch and see if they become sick." In order to quarantine a church, the government would need to prove that members of the church were exposed to a contagious disease, keep the entire church locked in the building and watch them for a couple of weeks. But the lockdown rules are not intended to control the spread of a disease. The lockdown rules are intended to control the spread of contagious ideas.
The actual purpose of the lockdown is to restrict large gatherings of people, not for health reasons, but to restrict human interaction, prohibiting people from talking to each other. The mask does nothing more than muzzle those who wish to speak and make it difficult to use non-verbal cues to communicate. Limiting bars, restaurants, sporting events and church attendance to 15% is not about protecting the public from a disease. It's to keep the public from finding out that
they have the actual power -- in numbers -- if they could only figure that out. They want you divided; united you can't be defeated.
The point of the matter, dear sister, is this. The Pastor of Gracelife Church has decided that the lockdown is doing more harm than good to his congregation. He has decided that there is no actual physical threat, but that a lockdown is both psychologically and spiritually harmful and a form of torture. A mature adult pastor, who loved his flock, would do everything to keep them from suffering in this way.
