Covid and the Kingdom of God

As I write the polls have closed on election day and with millions of Aussies voting the result will almost certainly determine… nothing of any real importance.

In terms of how it is impacted all of us, Australia's over-arching issue is that for two years our major parties have adopted extreme measures to “keep us safe” from Covid and these have manifestly done immense harm.

The measures haven’t saved us, we need saving from them.

I won’t argue that case any further.

Having exhaustively, even obsessively, done so for two years I have found it is fruitless if your aim is to change minds rather than just win arguments.

However, there is a substantial number of Australians who think the same as I do.

So, the Covid resistance minor parties might do well today and make some noise but it won’t matter very much.

The majors have shown they will vote together on Covid policy, which is set in a “unity” National Cabinet, so parliament is largely by-passed.

Those who support Covid measures, or even want stronger ones, also have nearly the whole weight of fully committed worldwide authority and institutions on their side.

Out of those assembled ranks the few dissenters have been easily marginalized.

Some apparent “dissenters” aren’t even really that, such as Donald Trump who was the original vaccine pusher and is still very keen on them.

I have often seen the hope that “real” science and medicine will eventually prevail to show how damaging or pointless this has all been.

Sadly, “real” as in “actual” science and medicine are the key Covid culprits.

They are the domain of fallen human beings and largely subject to the same authorities who determine Covid measures.

So once more, the few medical and scientific dissenters have been threatened, punished and marginalized with ease.

There will be no salvation from men.

While this may seem bleak but it leaves the one hope people reluctantly turn to when every other avenue is exhausted – God.

As people are humbled by what is already coming and seems set to increase – hyper-inflation, disease and global conflict – I think more will turn to God as a last resort.

He should be the first resort but rarely is.

That’s because we are sinful proud and rebellious creatures running from the reason we were created, which is to be in relationship with the Almighty.

In our society faith in God has largely been displaced by faith in politics, science and medicine, the false idols that have created the Covid catastrophe.

Some no doubt blame God for what has happened.

This is not logical when we largely ignore him and his stated plans for us, except if we are in trouble.

Instead we chase after money, prestige and pleasure or other beliefs and this behaviour is what creates our reality.

Covid has been a particularly marked period of cruelty and suffering but our world is, and always has been, built on injustice, evil and immense suffering met largely by indifference.

The material prosperity and accomplishments of modernity may have convinced many the kingdoms of this world aren’t too bad - if you don’t look too closely at how they have been achieved.

For instance, all our now “indispensable” digital consumer and morally superior “renewable energy” tech are products of hideous exploitation and pollution in China and elsewhere.

The material flourishing of the relative many in the West may soon be over and perhaps deliberately so.

This will compound with the decreasing number of people who fear God, which leads to a more broken and unworkable society as morals decay.

The Kingdom of God is the only refuge and the only real hope of salvation, even if only for the next world, which is coming soon I believe.

There is only one passport that lets us into the Kingdom of God.

That is to confess we can’t get in because we haven't and can't meet God’s standards and need to be forgiven by the grace offered to us by the sacrifice of Jesus.

Jesus is the only “name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved”.