They say, “Stand up for what's right, peacefully not violently.” Opportunists say, violently, "It is high time for anarchy!" There are unfair and unlawful acts from both sides of the coin, and not just the side of authority.
Let's ask the question then. Literal virus or spiritual? A genuine concern for your health? Protection from tension in the air or from being exposed as a criminal yourself? Maybe using airborne pestilences as an excuse to hide the admittedly shameful face of someone committing deep, selfish, cowardly actions, feeding the name of racism you so claim to want no part of. Which one do you mask your face for? “For nation shall rise against nation,” (Matthew 24:7) says Christ while predicting the engagement of race wars.
It's not really about race, and the Lord knew this. Motive exposed! Your face mask is useless. Do you think people are clueless? It's so interesting to see the immediate reaction on the face of a soul while it's motives are slightly revealed like an amateur sleight-of-hand artist. I'd wear a mask too if I were you; not to suppress my identity to the masses but because I get up in the morning to look in the mirror too.
They say, “If you don't protest against these tyrants then your inaction is an action against the oppressed.” This is puzzling to me. What about the soul of the meek? What about that One unlikely Hebrew victim of racial oppression who was hung on a cross by Romans... and Jews alike? While He bled, suspended in air, playing a flashback in His mind of the actions of His enemies who mocked and beat Him to a pulp and tried to silence Him, He made zero attempts to protest against them because He was too busy protesting FOR them!
Yes, to Christ, black lives matter too, but the cry He made towards His Father while hanging by nails on a tree fashioned into a cross, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do,” (Luke 23:34) reveal to us that the lives of those who hung Him also matter. “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee,” (Jeremiah 1:5) proclaimed God in Jeremiah. Clearly, aborted lives matter as well.
Mrs. White says:
The government under which Jesus lived was corrupt and oppressive; on every hand were crying abuses,—extortion, intolerance, and grinding cruelty. Yet the Saviour attempted no civil reforms. He attacked no national abuses, nor condemned the national enemies. He did not interfere with the authority or administration of those in power. He who was our example kept aloof from earthly governments. Not because He was indifferent to the woes of men, but because the remedy did not lie in merely human and external measures. To be efficient, the cure must reach men individually, and must regenerate the heart (DA 509.3).
You see, the reason why some don't engage in that popular kind of action is because they step back to look at the big picture, shaking their heads in dismay, knowing it's not about “this nationality versus that nationality”. That is just one of many wardrobes of the controversy—one sinner oppressing another sinner. Another sinner oppressing himself. An oppressor oppressing another oppressor while a bunch of oppressors use this opportunity to play the victim of oppression, and while focusing on one oppressed victim, they ignore the millions of other weak and oppressed oppressors, and no outcry for those. We are like shackled horses with visors and blinders under the yoke being steered by the enemy.
Christ was heavily and mightily oppressed. The One who can speak things into existence, in an instant, can speak His oppressors out of existence, but physically did nothing because He was trying to free His oppressors who were deeply and spiritually oppressed themselves. They were slaves of the enemy. His protest was to simply die for them.
So they protest your “injustice” one way and you protest theirs another way, but your protest against their protest will do nothing for you or for them unless we reflect the protest of the One who protested for us all. God is “not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance,” (2 Peter 3:9). Pray for your enemies that we may be able to see them in the kingdom too.
We are just as wicked as them and they—as us.
Spiritualism asserts that men are unfallen demigods; that “each mind will judge itself;” that “true knowledge places men above all law;” that “all sins committed are innocent;” for “whatever is, is right,” and “God doth not condemn.” The basest of human beings it represents as in heaven, and highly exalted there. Thus it declares to all men, “It matters not what you do; live as you please, heaven is your home.” Multitudes are thus led to believe that desire is the highest law, that license is liberty, and that man is accountable only to himself.
With such teaching given at the very outset of life, when impulse is strongest, and the demand for self-restraint and purity is most urgent, where are the safeguards of virtue? What is to prevent the world from becoming a second Sodom?
A the same time anarchy is seeking to sweep away all law, not only divine, but human. The centralizing of wealth and power; the vast combinations for the enriching of the few at the expense of the many; the combinations of the poorer classes for the defense of their interests and claims; the spirit of unrest, of riot and bloodshed; the world-wide dissemination of the same teachings that led to the French Revolution—all are tending to involve the whole world in a struggle similar to that which convulsed France (Ed 227.6 - 228.2).
Father in Heaven, forgive us all of our wickedness. Not just us little people on this side of the law but also those who abuse their authoritative power and have been deceived by the TRUE enemy.
In Jesus' mighty name.
Jan Capa, who goes by the alias “Attila Kakarott” of the School For Prophets YouTube channel, is a Seventh Day Adventist Christian who is the producer of one of the most viewed Adventist prophecy documentaries ever seen on the YouTube platform. The documentary is called “From Babylon to America: The Prophecy Movie” and has captured the attention of over 4.5M people on YouTube and the documentary was also recently published on Amazon Prime Video.
Jan is a husband and a father of two. He and his family reside in Chicago, IL. He was a former Catholic that had left the Catholic church to join the Seventh Day Adventist church due to his deep research of truth through Scripture. Jan has plenty of videos and movies on his YouTube channel and is still striving to produce more to reach the lost.