{"id":17418,"date":"2020-07-12T07:02:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T14:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=17418"},"modified":"2020-07-12T07:02:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T14:02:23","slug":"covid-confusion-vs-the-wisdom-from-above-who-are-you-listening-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/12\/covid-confusion-vs-the-wisdom-from-above-who-are-you-listening-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid Confusion Vs. the Wisdom from Above\u2014Who Are YOU Listening to?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Are you fed up with the conflicting and contradictory news and information coming out about the Covid “pandemic?” So am I, and here’s what you can do about it.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Two thousand years ago, Yeshua our Messiah<\/strong> made two interesting prophetic predictions about conditions on this earth just prior to his second coming:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. (Matt 24:37)<\/p>

So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. (Rev 12:15)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

What did he mean by these predictions, and what do they have to do with the Covid pandemic that is currently sweeping across the world bringing confusion, fear and destruction in its wake? Let\u2019s now explore this interesting question to find out what our reaction needs to be in light of the flood of words that is spewing forth from countless sources related to this pestilence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We live in the so-called information age. We receive news and information from many sources. When I was growing up, news and information about world events that were occurring primarily came through only three limited sources: the printed word (newspapers and magazines), radio and television. Now we have many sources, and all of these sources are instantly accessible from our hand-held electronic devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I was a kid, every morning my dad would get up at 5 AM and immediately turn on the radio news. I\u2019d hear the sounds of it wafting up form the kitchen just below my attic bedroom of our old farmhouse. At noon I\u2019d listen to the legendary Paul Harvey give his  new report, and then at 5 PM I\u2019d listen to Lowell Thomas\u2019 World News Round Up. Then every evening, like a religion, we\u2019d gather around the black and white television and watch Uncle Walter Cronkite and the CBS evening news. Of course, our local daily newspaper, the Oregonian, was always in our paperbox by about 5 AM every morning. I read the news every day along with the comics (which we called the funnies) of which I was a fanatical and avid follower. Eventually I even became a writer for the Portland Oregonian newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I no longer have a television set and I never listen to the radio anymore (I can\u2019t stand the advertisements!), but I\u2019m still a news addict. Even now, every morning and evening I still check my internet news sources (about 30), and I still listen to talk radio news podcasts while I\u2019m at work almost every day to keep up with the latest news and views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

However, my view about all these news sources is beginning to change and the necessity to listen to them religiously. I\u2019m getting absolutely fed up and sick and tired of all the hearsay that passes for news, all the slander and libel, all the fake news, all the lies, all the important news that is often overlooked, all the silly stuff that is reported that passes for news. Much of it, in reality, is nothing more than a slight-of-hand distraction to fool the masses away from what\u2019s really going on in the world. Add to this all the pro-leftist and Marxist, pro-perversion, secular humanist, God-hating, Antichrist, Bible-bashing slant in the mainstream news outlets and it becomes intolerable. I can\u2019t take it anymore! I\u2019m now mostly listening to music and audiobooks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m wondering if I need to break this lifelong addiction to the news. Is there such a thing as Newsoholics Anonymous? I\u2019m beginning to think that I\u2019m relying more on information form below than from above. What do I mean by this, and what does the Bible have to say about this? (We\u2019ll discuss this idea more later.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s now get more specific when it comes to the current news events that are forefront in everyone\u2019s mind right now. Let\u2019s discuss the supposed current Covid pandemic. This is important since there is so much conflicting information from the supposed experts that it\u2019s impossible to know who or what to believe anymore. These are some of the questions that many critically thinking people are asking themselves:<\/p>\n\n\n\n