DEALING WITH THE TIME OF CRISIS

(Final Part)

Did we learn anything through this experience? Certainly we did even if there is still much more we will yet have to learn.

A next virus and a next crisis, and more after that, are a certainty. That is why the importance of understanding these crises in a Biblical context. The time is more than right now to understand and develop a Biblical worldview of what has happened and what the Bible says will happen in the years ahead.

Dealing with other world problems has only been temporarily postponed while the world’s attention is turned to fighting this virus and the impact it has created. Meanwhile Iran and North Korea will continue to develop nuclear weapons and threaten world stability. Millions of people will continue to flee war, violence and poverty in the Middle East and Latin America, seeking asylum in Europe and North America.

Nationalism and global trading will return. Better or worse, there will again be international relations. These are to be adapted to the different world that follows.

Are you learning from this? How will you react to the time beyond the next crisis?

China will make its next play to create a larger global footprint. The nations will return to the goal of shaping a global world order. Certain lessons from the handling of this present crisis will not be forgotten by those who desire a transnational global order.

We are at a moment when God is taking the measure of the nations. A pestilence has spread among all peoples. Financial worry is everywhere. But rest assured, God is fully aware of what is happening. He has allowed this just as He allows all the affairs of man to happen. God is giving the nations an opportunity to stop and consider His Word and our lives.

What will you learn from this pandemic?

Will you use this moment to seek God while He may be found, and His truth understood?