COVID-19 and Compulsory Vaccinations

Jason, bless you brother. Yes, I hear you. I have had similar thoughts. Where is the line between Romans 13 "submit to the governing authorities", "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's", and Acts 4 where Peter and John refused to submit to the authorities trying to get them to disobey Jesus and proclaim the only name under heaven given to men through which we must be saved? Where is the line where we submit to please God and we do not submit to please God?

This is certainly a difficult line to find in real life, not so hard to recognize it in the Bible often times though.
If we look in Revelation, we don't really know what this mark of the Beast is that many will take in the right hand or forehead, but we can rightly infer that they should have REFUSED to receive it in order to please God and so be saved.

So it stands to reason there is a point where an authority trying to administer to the body of the descendants of Adam, that the individual has the responsibility to in at least this one case, to refuse to take it. So since we don't know what that will be, the Mark of the Beast that is, it stands to reason I think that refusing to take a mandatory vaccine is warranted.
Would love to hear others on this? May the Lord God help us all... together as the body of His Son.

Brett

Brother Hancock,

Thank you for your reply. I don't detect that you were insisting that a vaccine represents the mark of the beast, but I wanted to make sure for anyone else reading also that I certainly do not hold that a vaccine is on par with the mark of the beast.

I do feel pretty well edified by the Word to understand in the vast majority of situations when to submit and when not to submit. In that regard, I love not my life even unto death.

However, the uniqueness of the modern "science" of medicine (don't get me wrong, not all medicine is science falsely so called) and the specific area of compulsory (forced) injections is under investigation here.

Therefore, the idea of not submitting to a vaccine has my attention in relation to the authority I have as a believer over my own body (soma), whether the governing authorities should be obeyed in this regard in the event one's conscience (seasoned with a genuine evidentiary basis) is violated.

I appreciated your thoughts and reply. Blessing to you.

- Jason

No my brother, I do not in any way think that the JUST... fair... merciful God... and only God who is focused on how we treat each other and Him (which is what either fulfills the Law or does not fulfill it as James says that this is what fulfills the Law... and Jesus said he came to fulfill the Law)...

and so this one true God, creator of all things, foreknowing all and forming us in his image through Jesus Christ, would unjustly condemn someone for being coerced into taking an injection of any kind. I really think the expressions in Revelation is figurative in some way. The Bible is a combination of FIGURATIVE expressions (prophesy or not) and LITERAL expressions.

The whole ministry of Jesus was jumping back forth between speaking literally to his students and figuratively, and they could not keep up. For instance, "beware of the YEAST of the Pharisees and Sadducees" which the text reveals he meant their heretical teaching (twisting Moses or adding to Moses undermining Moses' commands) or with the account of raising of Lazarus in the gospel of John, as soon as Jesus heard he was sick, he stayed a few more days and showed up four days after he had died.

However, the conversation he had with his students, they did not recognize he was implying he was going to RESURRECT him from the DEAD pointing to his own Resurrection, so that they would believe. After John records Jesus' last statement of telling them "sleep" meant death, they still did not catch he was implying he was going to raise him from the dead, and so Thomas replies, "oh yeah, let's go there and die with Lazarus".

I really don't think God is going to let Satan sucker punch sincere students of his Son to whom God the Father gave the kingdom for coming here, defeating Satan, winning back the Kingdoms of this world, freeing the captives enslaved by deception of Satan, and all authority in heaven and on earth given to him as King, the Son of God, when the Mark of the Beast shows up on the scene.

So that when it is offered, it will be a clear rejection of God and Christ by those that do accept it, fair and square, and turning to some way that is idolatrous, worshiping Satan and demons in some obvious way etc. I don't think a medical injection is what God will allow to cut people off from him, rendering them nonredeemable. I don't see a JUST Judge behaving like that.

A righteous Judge that suffered to set them free, to let Satan create a medical deception that forces them to take it without a clear declaration they are in some way renouncing Christ. The martyrdoms of yesteryear were like that. That sort of thing makes more sense. Some mark of the Beast that clearly gives their allegiance to Satan, I am quite sure will be what John meant under the inspiration of the Spirit of God.
Shalom my new friend and brother in King Jesus our Rescuer
Brett

I have put some thought into this as well. One obvious concern I think would apply to all believers is that aborted fetal cell tissue is almost always used in research and development of vaccines. I think if that is the case for a mandated covid vaccine, it would be cause to resist to not be a partaker in another man's sin.

is it true that there are vaccines produced using aborted fetuses (bioethics.georgetown.edu) — https://bioethics.georgetown.edu/2017/01/is-it-true-that-there-are-vaccines-produced-using-aborted-fetuses/

abortion opponents protest covid 19 vaccines use fetal cells (sciencemag.org) — https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/abortion-opponents-protest-covid-19-vaccines-use-fetal-cells

Deryck, Thank you for the reply and links.