Since the foundation of our nation, no secular belief system has taken root in the hearts and minds of Americans as deeply as the current dogmas concerning public health. Even the terminology used reflects a kind of secular theology dedicated to certain pharmaceutical products. People don’t just choose or use vaccines or masks, they believe in them. This public health gospel has so deeply infiltrated the church that it even directs ministries and outreach. Church leaders and faith-based organizations regularly partner in the efforts of government programs and pharmaceutical promotion under the guise of public health, and the modern wave of vaccine believers – Christians who have never gone door-to-door sharing the truth of Jesus – are now signing up to canvas their neighborhoods sharing the good news of vaccination.
And just as the true Gospel has an adversary working constantly to thwart the mission of the Body of Christ, the public health gospel teaches that those who choose not to accept their doctrine are working against the good. The Christians who have come to believe that vaccination is necessary for life and health are also convinced that the “vaccine hesitant” or, relatively, “unbelievers,” are the enemy, and the priests of this new gospel loudly encourage this demonization of dissent.
The propaganda created to create division and fear or hate of the “other” is a well-known power play used by tyrants throughout history. Irwin Cotler of the Jerusalem Post recounts these methods as the start of a path to genocide, “The enduring lesson of the Holocaust and the genocides that followed is that they occurred not simply because of the machinery of death, but because of a state-sanctioned ideology of hate. This teaching of contempt, this demonizing of the other – this is where it all begins.”
Satan is a great deceiver, and an incomparable master of mimicry. He knows that his time is short, and he has discovered a vulnerability that enables him to exploit the good nature of Christians and use their commitment to selflessness in order to confuse their beliefs, leading them unwittingly into idolatry of this new gospel.
Subscribing to an ideology conceived and birthed by the world, that trains people to think that they know what is best for others, and that it is acceptable, beneficial, or even necessary, for those in power to coerce or force individuals to accept the demands of the ideology, is anti-Christian. Without even realizing that this is what they are doing, scores of Christians are enthusiastically participating in this exact scenario. Christians are not only condoning the efforts of a criminal industry, but are now lining up to carry water for it.
What begins as a seemingly benign act of cooperation with the world, even a selfless act of loving one’s neighbor, Christians are drawn into a secular theology that mimics Christian principles so cleverly that the believer transitions from following Jesus to following the culture seamlessly and unconsciously. Through repeated exposure to the teachings of the world’s current gospel, one comes to believe whole-heartedly that loving your neighbor equates to getting a vaccine or wearing a mask, or even plainly staying away from all people. In the mind of this follower, these prescribed actions are necessary for loving one’s neighbor. Now he is empowered and equipped to evangelize. It has become his new gospel, not only to follow, but also to preach.
As Christians, we so deeply want to obey the command to love our neighbors that scores of Jesus-followers and shepherds willingly roll up their sleeves for a COVID shot, because they have been told that it’s the “good neighbor” thing to do. These same communities of selfless believers in Jesus and vaccines are being called upon to serve as ambassadors for the vaccine program – “Amvaxadors.”
How quickly and seamlessly the vaccine program co-opted the good neighbor principle and made Christians agents to spread the gospel of vaccination.
Do Christians even still believe that God can heal without help from the pharmaceutical industry?
It is critical that we get very clear about the opposing beliefs at the heart of these divergent gospels.
At the heart of Jesus’ work is a love for individuals. Because of His great love for His creation, God has given man the freedom of choice. He could easily have forced all people to believe in and worship Him. But He didn’t. Because taking away a person’s right to choose is not loving. It is oppressive. No matter how good it is for people to know God and be in relationship with Him (and believe me, there is no better thing!), He will never force it. Free will is a foundational tenet of God, and we who seek to be like Christ are charged with promoting and protecting it. To think that I know what is best for another individual is to believe that I am like God. It is an idea born of pride and arrogance, and quite possibly rooted in fear as well. It feeds a lack of faith that God is in control of that person’s life, and that it is my duty to take over where He is absent. Every one of those traits – arrogance, pride, fear, and doubt in God, are tools of the enemy of our souls. This kind of presumptuousness is also an affront to the dignity of the individual who is being treated as though they are incapable of making their own decisions. This thinking is in direct opposition to the character of Christ. A discerning Christian is wise to reject any belief system that espouses asserting one’s will on another. PERIOD.
Another subtle but vast difference between the public health gospel and the Gospel of Jesus Christ is their opposing perspectives on suffering and death.
The medical system exists for the very purpose of alleviating suffering and prolonging life. God’s word repeatedly extols the high value of suffering, instructing us to consider it joy and a path to closeness and likeness with Christ. The enemy of our souls, however, cunning in his understanding of human nature, has capitalized on our human desire to avoid suffering and drawn us into a dependent relationship with the medical system. We justify this dependency by convincing ourselves that the medical system is a gift from God. This is a great deception! God may work through some individuals within the medical complex, but the system as a whole is most definitely not a benevolent manifestation of God’s love! This system thrives on greed and bondage. It aims to create customers for life, driving masses of people into physical and/or psychological addiction to its elixirs, and appears to hypnotize its followers into turning a blind eye to the inconceivably large-scale and continuous practice of baby murder. As a culture, we want so badly to avoid suffering and to keep ourselves and our loved ones alive as long as possible that we choose not to look at the hideous truths of the system that provides us with the shallow and temporary hope that our flesh longs for.
I am convinced that Jesus is offended by our rebellion from His power to heal and to participate in His suffering, and that this is why we rarely see His miraculous power manifest in manners of health. I also wonder if our aversion to and avoidance of suffering has led to the catastrophic loss of the divine and unshakable hope found in Jesus. If it is true, as Paul wrote in Romans 5:3-4, that suffering is the starting point to perseverance, character, and hope, then it seems logical that our avoidance of suffering is the cause of our generation’s deepening crisis of these three Christ-like characteristics.
In Hebrews 2:14-15, we read about the very purpose of Jesus’ death:
“Because God’s children are human beings—made of flesh and blood—the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death. Only in this way could he set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.”
According to Paul in his letter to the Phillipians, death in Christ is so desirable that it’s hard for him to hold onto the will to live! God sent His only son to suffer and die a grisly death in order to set us free from the fear of death, but how many Christians actually live in that freedom? I have to think that our denial of this birthright is awfully offensive to the one who went through the effort to give it.
Understanding this principle, it is clear that the coercive, punitive, and even mandatory public health policies in our culture are inhumane and anti-Christ. Similar to the media’s manipulation tactics leading up to the 2020 election, Americans are being convinced daily that there is no middle ground and all must choose a side – you’re either for us or against us. The government’s push for division between those who follow their dogma and those who question it has become reminiscent of 1940’s East Germany, with neighbors and family encouraged to report dissenters. The intensifying persecution of those who question public health policies or who choose not to comply signals a growing cult-like dedication to the doctrine of public health and its ambassadors.
Any circumstance or policy that restricts an individual from being allowed to decide what goes into or onto their own body is oppression. The freedom to govern one’s own body is the most basic freedom of humanity. Losing that basic freedom for any reason is a form of bondage, plain and simple. And every form of bondage is from the devil.
So please take hold of this truth:
No matter how good-neighborly or “Christian” a public health program may appear to be, the very foundation on which it is built is anti-Christ. Therefore, every fruit that grows out of it is rotten.
Maybe there are some saints who can use the medical system without becoming reliant or dependent on it, but I’d say those are rare. It takes great attention and resolve to resist the temptation which is executed by a powerful an insatiable system designed to take hold of every person within range and keep them in its grasp until they are convinced of its power and treat it as their God. It has gone beyond cradle to grave possession and now includes the very creation of life, completing the greatest deception and deepest idolatry possible, making humans dependent on it for the very creation of life!
I am urging the body of Christ, as a unit and as individual members of it, to exercise great caution, praying for wisdom and discernment and the strength to choose God’s will over the will of your flesh when considering any participation in the medical system or public health programs and campaigns. Be on guard! You are entering the domain of the god of this world. And if you now realize that you are already deep into that inconspicuous idolatry of self-preservation at all costs, seek the Lord! Turn your reliance back to him, give him reign over all of you! He is worthy, mighty, and able!
1May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13
Charmaine Rusin 