WHEN TRUTH IS USED TO TELL A LIE

Undeniably, the COVID-19 virus is real. Understandably, those who love their families are fearful of it. Rightfully, at every level, folks are inquiring what leaders are going to do about it. However, I believe a more urgent question should be what the opportunists are going to do with it. I am speaking of opportunists more dangerous and threatening than scam artists who take advantage of calamities to con the vulnerable of their money. I am speaking of how the COVID virus is being used by those in the political and spiritual realms for their own nefarious destructive designs. When political leftists openly taunt that they never let “a crisis go to waste” for political ends, do we think that the master strategist of evil machinations, Satan, is going to let a crisis go to waste for his spiritual ends? Think of this: While Wal-Mart, Kroger, and Lowes were full, churches were empty. Blatant inconsistencies, contradictory directives, disingenuous inflated reporting, and every-changing reasons for alarm, must leave one suspicious that things are not as they are being portrayed. Again, I believe COVID is real. We have had three immediate family members contract it. That COVID is real is not a reason to dismiss that something conspiratorially is going on, it is more of a reason to suspect it. I have never been attracted to or espoused conspiracy theories. But, with COVID, the biggest conspiracy is the insistence that no conspiracy is happening. That COVID is real is even more of a reason to believe a conspiracy is afoot. You will be disappointed if you read on with the expectation that I will unveil the exact earthly conspirators. You may expect me to finger China or the Leftists. I won’t. My point is whoever is involved and however they are involved, and even if there are multiple uncoordinated conspirators involved, there is a master conspiracy and conspirator behind it all. Satan. Back to COVID being real. The realness of COVID lends legitimacy to the conspiracy. Perhaps, you’ve heard the aphorism, “an excuse is the skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.” True. If I could tweak that saying a bit: When you listen to folks mandate, demand, and make all these changes based on the COVID virus, the reason for it all is “the skin of a truth stuffed with a lie.” The Corona is microbially small, but some many lies have many stuffed into it. Satan has always worked this way. I was told as a child that Satan never came to us with bald-faced lies. He comes with a partial truth. We recognize the partial truth and accept the whole package. In accepting the partial truth, we accept the whole lie. I’ve noted this in theology as well. I’ve never encountered a false doctrine that infiltrated true Christianity that did not have some amount of Truth in it. If it were blatantly false, few would fall for its error. Apostle Paul notes “We are not to be ignorant of Satan’s devices.” We shouldn’t be. But often are. We should understand that however much truth he uses on the bait trigger, the trap is still there. However real the virus is, it is being calculatingly used to promote lies that are destroying both nation, economy, and visible church, all targets of politicians and Satan. Do not doubt for one moment that there are devious, designing minds orchestrating the responses to the virus. Believing in absolute truth, I do not think we should doubt the findings and conclusions of verifiable, observable, and repetitive scientific method. If results are truly a product of such methodology, adequately controlled, then they are true and real. Yet, math yields true and real results as well. From the first announcement of governmental directives, I immediately got out my calculator and did the math. I still read a newspaper. Almost every morning I have done the math with the reported numbers of cases and deaths in state and county. During this time, I have heard almost no one talking about doing the math on the percentages. I’m not talking about reporting the numbers of cases and death. I’m talking about doing the math. Let’s do the math for today, 07/15/2020. Before we do, let me make clear that every death is a tragedy and unimaginably painful for the family of the victim. People really are dying because of COVID. I do not minimize that loss in the least. Horrible. Anecdotally, that any die is reason for alarm and concern. But, let’s do the math. Today, the number of cases in our state was .57% of our state’s population. Rounded up, that’s all little more than ½ of 1 percent of residents who have contracted COVID. Now, deaths, each one tragic: Deaths in our state from COVID have been .026% of the populace. That 26/1000’s of a percent. Here’s what it is for our county: Contracted cases, ½ of 1 percent. Deaths, 6/1000’s of 1 percent. To give perception, these percentages on their face are minuscule. Now consider something else. This is not the percentage of cases and deaths for that day. These are the percentages of cases since tallies began! The totals have never been reset. Thus, the percentage of those per capita who currently have COVID is incredibly small. Yet, draconian measures (some necessarily) have been taken based on percentages that are minuscule in light of other dangers we routinely live with daily. But things are actually worse than just utilizing truth to tell a lie. We have reached that stage of idiocy and debauchery where, as the prophet said, they will call evil good and good evil. It is evil to go to church. It praiseworthy to in protest burn one down. It is wrong to have our college-age children in school but noble that they riot in the streets. It is wrong to sing unmasked in church but wonderful to shout slurs in the streets. No, I am not a conspiracy theorist. I am not even a prophet. I am just pointing out the worse danger of all--when truth is used to tell a lie.

WHEN TRUTH IS USED TO TELL A LIE

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