Jon Kropf wrote a piece earlier this year which he titled “We Are Facing More Than a Virus.” I don’t know when he wrote it — I received it the evening of March 6, 2021. After securing Jon’s permission, I published it online the next day.
I’m using this post here at Ain’t Complicated to highlight some chunks from his lengthy article. I link to the article itself at the end of this post. I urge you to read it.
I am asking myself the question, “Should I accept a coronavirus vaccine if it is offered to me? What if it is made obligatory by the government?” We have been praying about this. It has been a prayer request on Wednesday evenings. Maybe it seems odd that I would open this discussion about deception with, the garden of Eden and a coronavirus vaccine. Many of you know I work in healthcare. I do not present this as an expert voice. Let me explain that I know very little about vaccines and have not done extensive research on this subject. In short, my understanding of the science behind the 2020 events and the various vaccines is minimal. To be honest with you, I don’t really know who I can trust to tell me the truth in medical journals or on media sites.
Is our primary problem at this hour a lack of respect for authority or a lack of love for our neighbor? We do see repeatedly that there will be rebellious attitudes permeating society in the last days. The last days will be marked by great self-love.
Over the past months I was waiting and expecting to see different recommendations from church leaders giving perspectives on how to relate to the 2020 chaos. Maybe there have been more than I realize but it seems that there are only a few. And what we do see does not draw from passages speaking expressly to end-times. Should we consider these passages when making statements about vaccine guidelines and the church’s relationship to the government? It seems that would be appropriate. I am troubled that there could be a lack of love for the truth in our generation.
We must always respect the offices of president and authority, but to what extent can a Christian obey lawlessness? I realize that this is not exactly where we are now, but this is where we are quickly heading. It is not good to plan disobedience, but we need to see that according to scripture, at the height of evil in the last days, the list of what we can obey may be short in comparison to what goes against God.
Today we cannot have full confidence in what we find on Google, in medical journals or with the public media. What we are finding is that the reputation of the majority of the leaders of prominent world entities relating to politics, health, disease control and drug regulation, have reputations so cluttered with corruption that the comparison of a fox in the hen-house does not sufficiently describe the problem of the hour. We need more formal, solemn, and honorable descriptions like “mystery of iniquity; those who make war with the saints and overcome them; wear out the saints; a falling away; depart from me ye workers of iniquity”, to get a sense of the magnitude of the danger facing us.
We have seen that “appropriate recommendations” for the control and treatment of Covid-19 are given and in a relatively short time, those recommendations are shown to be useless or damaging.
I have been praying about the vaccination recommendations and desire to have peace about this issue. This is not easy, because I want an answer that tells me if the treatment is good or bad. Today I have more peace that the appropriate measure is to wait. So many of the frustrations of 2020 were resolved through simply waiting.
Many are saying that waiting to vaccinate is a lack of love for our neighbor. Let’s be careful not to put our brother on an unnecessary guilt trip. I will emphatically declare that the accusation of a lack of love for our neighbor is a tool of the Enemy of our souls. Coercion to make a decision when we don’t have sufficient information to make one is inappropriate. Let us not confuse caution with a lack of love.
We live in a time when much caution is advisable. It is completely appropriate to wait when we are unsure of a decision. Even if the government insists that vaccination is obligatory, avoiding those recommendations when we do not have peace about the decision should not be viewed as sin. If you have peace that God is blessing your decision to accept a coronavirus vaccination, that is also acceptable. But have you pondered the possibility that the information you are accepting is deceitful?
Read Jon’s full piece: We Are Facing More Than a Virus