The coronavirus pandemic and the Second Coming of Christ.

The coronavirus pandemic and the Second Coming of Christ. 

 

It is time to recognize, from a spiritual perspective, what really happened between 2020 and 2023 with the coronavirus pandemic, because we are spiritual beings and too often allow ourselves to be blinded by the material, limiting our view to the external and transitory level of our lives, which prevents us from understanding how something has affected us more deeply. By spiritual, I do not mean psychological, but rather transcendental questions of the human soul. A purely physical and mental approach to health is not enough to understand the effects of the crises of our earthly existence. The consequences of our reactions to these crises extend far beyond our lives on the material plane. 

The coronavirus pandemic is no exception, so let's take a brief and concise look through the veil of matter at our souls and set the stage there for the past events of the COVID-19 epidemic. 

Reality has levels or degrees, and everything that happens at one degree has a correspondence at another, either as an effect or as a cause. Thus, material reality, which is external to us, is the reflection of an immaterial or spiritual and inner dimension. The decisions we make about our material reality arise from within us and have consequences in both realities. The recent COVID-19 pandemic was the setting for decisive choices for our lives, which each of us had to make, both externally and internally, because one cannot exist without the other. This brings us to the question of personal responsibility. Every decision made externally was preceded by a choice within the soul, a choice that affected love and the deepest beliefs. This is the issue I want to investigate and expose here, because humanity was exposed, the inner self of each person in the external world. As the Bible says, we made ourselves known by our actions, our fruits, and these were not good in most cases. Personally, I am ashamed of what I saw happen. I can only trust in the infinite mercy of God, which even the absence of general repentance cannot wipe away, thank God!

The coronavirus pandemic was not an attack on our health and physical life; that was only the outer appearance. Our health threatened by the virus was only an external means to an internal end, the planned path to a goal that is spiritual and concerns our souls. The key word is "suppression." 

CV19 was an attempt, probably the greatest since Christ, to shake our faith in God and establish the kingdom of death on earth, a kingdom of fear and total dependence on the world power mafia. 

The coronavirus was a global offensive, a planned attack on the eternal life of the soul promised to us by Christ through true faith in God and active charity. It was an attack on our love as mutual support, driving us, through fear of suffering and death, to self-love and selfishness, which we call the survival instinct. The fear fueled by news reports about an unknown virus separated us from one another with great force, but it also drove many beyond mere self-protection and pushed them into hatred of all those who did not act as they did, who bowed to the terror of death, a death that ruled the world and dictated its laws of psychological terror, a terror that was fed and spread by the media. Those who could not control their fear pointed the finger at others who were able to maintain their inner peace. People reported their neighbors just to save their own lives. 

But the coronavirus, like all lies, was a totally exaggerated fantasy about the dreaded end of the world. And that is precisely the crux of the matter, this false idea of an end, of a bitter end to our lives, which is undoubtedly a direct attack on the teachings of Jesus Christ, who clearly promises us eternal life in the Kingdom of God and tells us that it is not worth clinging too much to our existence here on earth. 

So, those who have a firm faith say to God: Thy will be done, Lord! But those who have lost their faith surrender to the will of those who have taken it from them. They simply do not believe in a life after this life, a life that also represents our return home to the kingdom of God, because Christians are Christians because they follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ, which also includes entering heaven. 

But in that kingdom, the inhabitants do not only care for themselves, but mainly for the weak, who need to be strengthened for eternal life. The kingdom of God is the kingdom of mercy in our souls. And it was precisely there, on mercy, that the bombs fell which the media and politicians dropped on the people by stirring up fear and hatred and exploiting the weakness and vulnerability of many who listen to what their leaders and false prophets say on television. For others, it was the decisive moment to never again hear a word from the mouths of these hypocrites, cynics, and liars. Some have not turned on their televisions since. I call that survival instinct. 

If the motto during the pandemic was "every man for himself," then the motto in heaven is "save your neighbor." The pandemic was therefore a brutal attack on charity. However, that does not mean that the entire staging and implementation of the COVID-19 story was a complete success for those who wanted to destroy our love. While for many the field was already overgrown with weeds, the seed of selfishness that was sown among humanity with the pandemic fell on solid rock for many others, namely on an unshakeable faith in God. 

But this global war against humanity, waged by a small group of people in power who have already been clearly identified, has spiritually killed a large part of humanity and damaged their health, whether through a laboratory virus or through the so-called vaccine. Over them, the triumph of the agents of death is twofold, physical and spiritual.  

Those who believed the coronavirus propaganda and even allowed themselves to be injected with the mRNA vaccines have not only endangered their physical lives, as proven by the numbers of serious side effects from these experimental vaccinations, but they have also rejected eternal life by breaking charity and abandoning faith in the Lord and His promise to us. Yes, they have abandoned God. 

And we must understand this: they have not only placed their lives in the hands of unscrupulous people for whom 80% of the world's population is superfluous, but they have also sold their souls to them. All those whose faith was only feigned or weak have turned their backs on Christ during the coronavirus pandemic! 

But we are not here to judge those who were weak in faith and love for Christ, and we certainly do not believe in eternal damnation by God, but in His infinite mercy, which means that anyone who has sinned can be freed from sin through genuine repentance and penance, even if in this case their health has been damaged because they were weakened in spirit by the storms of this world, which the Lord has allowed in order to test the strength of our faith. 

Conclusion: Within the framework of faith that every practicing Christian can understand, those who have doubted the goodness and protection of the Lord so much during COVID-19 should now examine their consciences in order to regain their status as children of God, which means their spiritual status after this life on earth. Those who boast of being men and women of faith should gather themselves together and ask the Lord to give them light so that they may recognize where they truly stand in relation to Him. This crisis was and still is a unique opportunity to cleanse the soul of lies, arrogance, and the shadow of fear of death!

Since we speak so much about the Lord and claim that many have turned away from him, we are faced with the question of his role or presence in this crisis. 

And this is by no means a trivial question! 

The Christian world nurtures the idea of his return to earth, a second coming for our eternal salvation. According to the Holy Scriptures, at this return, some will be saved by Christ and others will not, each according to their faith. 

So what does the COVID-19 pandemic have to do with this return of Christ? 

First of all, some will immediately say that this would have been an excellent time for him to show himself and deliver us from our distress. The second question immediately arose, as it always does when people suffer: why does the Lord allow such things to happen? This question is understandable if one believes that God, with His omnipotence, should intervene in our free will, and if one does not understand that it is precisely our free will that guarantees a firm relationship with Him, and nothing else! 

The disappointment must have been great for many Christians, while for many others who are waiting to see Christ in the flesh, the wait simply continues and this waiting is a source of hope and income. 

I am a Christian without an external church; my church is Christ in my soul; He is the temple within me, on whose altar I offer my life to Him, this life here. And I can assure you that I have felt Christ within me, even heard Him, during the coronavirus pandemic. He gave me strength, peace, and steadfastness, and so I was able to help my family and a few friends not to give in to the media that wanted to make us all feel small. I saw right through them, through their lies, and I looked straight into their black hearts, where I saw fear and cruelty, and no trace of love for their fellow human beings.

But many did not see it because they did not let the Lord into their hearts. Their eyes were only directed outward, toward the grotesque spectacle of a blind humanity. For them, Christ was elsewhere, if He existed at all. 

Once again, we encounter the evil of materialism. If Christ does not appear in person, there is no Christ! To tell these people that the Lord was on earth during the worst pandemic ever known is to expose oneself to incomprehension, ridicule, and probably insults. 

They are all blind because they seek Christ here and there, but not within themselves. Their church is a house of stone or wood, and the word of God is only in the Bible, preferably the one recommended by the leaders of their sect. 

So: Where was Christ in 2020? 

Those who allow themselves to be blinded by material things will hardly find an answer to this question, or their answer will be a clear no: Christ did not return, certainly not during COVID-19. We prayed to God as always and got vaccinated, that's all. We did this because we obeyed our leaders. 

You should be more honest and admit that you obeyed your fear of illness and death. You had no faith and even attacked those who did have faith because they recognized the crisis as a great test and therefore did not give the lies of the evil one more power than God as Father, a Father who protects His children! 

But those who recognize life here on earth as a test of firm faith in God for the soul will see this response to Christ's return to earth laying at their feet like a large stone that has fallen from the sky. 

And on this stone will be written: 

If you are looking for Me, look inside yourself. When you needed me most, I was there like a gentle breeze in your heart; I was a whisper of peace for your soul and love for you; a friend's voice that protected you from the cries of fear in the world that was beside itself. I was that calming silence in your soul when the bombs were falling around you and you saw scenes of horror and death. I, Christ Jesus, Father and Brother, came to you in the midst of the storm and gave you refuge and hope. For I look into your heart and know whether you have listened to me and recognized my light and my life in you, or whether you have allowed the noise of your fears to cover you with the night of death. For during my coming among you, some have recognized me and others have denied me in their hearts. The first are the ripe wheat that I harvest, and the second are the dead chaff that is burned in the field to fertilize the soil for the next sowing, for my work of salvation for you, my children, knows no end and no rest! 

So when we look for signs or indications of Christ's return to earth in the CV19 pandemic, as in Matthew 24:41, where it says: Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be accepted and the other rejected. Or in Luke 17:33: Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it; and whoever loses it will gain it. Yes, such signs of Christ's return are undoubtedly found in the events on Earth during the coronavirus pandemic, for from a spiritual point of view, exactly what the Gospels tell us has happened: Christ has now come to those who have remained steadfast in faith and love during this severe trial, in which the number of physical casualties is far less than the number of spiritual casualties, i.e., those who were not caught up in the Lord's return because they did not believe in Him, but in death, which they feared so much that they surrendered all their faith to those who first made them sick with the virus and then with the vaccines. These "believers" have appointed death as their Lord, until further notice. I say for the time being because God always keeps His doors open for those who sincerely seek Him and listen to their hearts, even if they are persecuted to death, as was the case with the CV19 pandemic. 

Who can still doubt it? The coronavirus has been a veritable persecution to the death for true believers, in which many who were weak in faith have perished under the sword of world powers, while those who remained steadfast in faith despite the strong winds that blew have become even stronger in spirit than ever before, which anyone with a little sense will attribute only to the Lord Himself, i.e., to his return to us, in spirit! 

Therefore, and without any doubt, Christ has already returned to us, at least for me, because he loves us. In a global crisis such as the coronavirus pandemic, Christ does not abandon those who are destined to be his children in the hereafter; he does not stand by and watch passively as we (spiritually) perish, but is deeply moved by compassion and strengthens in spirit all those who entrust themselves to him in times of need. 

On the other hand, God cannot help by force those who have rejected him or even blamed him for this evil, because he loves us as completely free beings.

Thus, everyone has freely chosen his Lord, and Christ was with and in those who chose him, and has remained with them to this day, in his announced return to earth in these times. 

But the Lord says that one cannot serve two masters at the same time, and God, as has been said, cannot force anyone to love him; this love must come from the freedom of the soul. 

Amen. 

René Bijloo.               renebijloo@fastmail.fm