One Year of 15 Days to Flatten The Curve
March 16, 2020 is the day in which President Donald Trump largely caved to the demonic forces surrounding him. Anthony Fauci had just lied to Congress about his views on COVID-19. And the administrative state was listening to pandemic models created by modelers who believed that we only have 9 years left to live because of global warming.
Overnight, the Branch Covidians became the largest religious group in the United States. They consisted of atheists, environmentalists, communists, Democrats, Republicans, and even church goers. They had their own pope, Anthony Fauci. They had their own canon of acceptable models, scientific studies, and cherry-picked data. They had their own salvation/soteriology with masks, social distancing, lockdowns, and the vaccine. Above all, it was an eschatology. They genuinely believed that this was an apocalyptic level event.
The Branch Covidian religion would kill people, destroy businesses and livelihoods, and be the greatest threat to liberty globally. In return it would give Big Pharma billions and untold control over our lives. It would give its followers a newfound purpose. They truly believe that they are saving lives by masking, social distancing, staying home, and taking an experimental vaccine. They believe themselves holier for their adherence to CDC guidelines. In the name of protecting the elderly, they treated them like prisoners, only worse because they released prisoners during all of this.
The Bible is clear on how the world will end, with room for debate on the exact order of operations. The Bible is exceedingly clear that Christ, not the Pope, nor Caesar is head of the church. However, we saw that churches disagreed in their actions. They not only closed their doors, they also barred their small groups from gathering. In direct opposition to Acts 5:29, churches cited Romans 13 in participating in unconstitutional edicts. They conceded and affirmed that the government had the authority to ban churches from gathering. Not only was Romans 13 misused in an American context, it was also used to promote heretical ecclesiology. Christ is head of the church. There is no equal.
Instead of following the Bible, the American church groveled to the government, in many cases pleaded to let them reopen. But Jesus declared in Matthew 28
18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
He begins by declaring all authority has been given to Him, not some. And this authority is on earth, not just in heaven. The church disagreed. Jesus didn’t really have that authority when there is a virus with a 99% chance of survival. We have a mission. Many churches treat Sunday morning as the mission field and therefore abandoned their own mission field without hesitation.
Churches justified assuaging the Branch Covidians by stating that this was only temporary. One year later, the church grovels to the state with ungirded loins. In Daniel 6 we see the proper response to “temporary” edicts that render onto Caesar what is to be rendered onto God.
10 Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open toward Jerusalem); and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God, as he had been doing previously. 11 Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
The temporal nature of the wicked edict had no bearing on Daniel’s faithfulness. We are to fear God, more than we fear men. But American church is lacking in its meekness and fear (1 Peter 3:15). But we are abundant in our timidity and fervently lukewarm. Churches were so quick to close their doors and just as quick to take that PPP money from the government. And for the most part the pattern and correlation is that churches that accepted PPP loans peddled the Branch Covidian lies.
We learned two major lessons moving forward with the Great Commission. The first is that the church, the universal body of believers is a lot smaller than we thought it was. The number of people who claim Christ but preached the Branch Covidian religion was astonishing. The number of professed Christians who lived in fear instead of hope for God’s wonderful providence is really telling. The second lesson is just like the first. We learned that the mission field is a lot larger than we previously assumed.
As a religious minority in the age of the Branch Covidians, the church in the United States needs to gird its loins and recommit its ecclesiology to Christ and not Caesar. The church is the physical assembly of believers. We have a mission to disciple and spread the gospel. We should not be putting barriers like masks, social distancing, capacity limits, vaccines, nor lockdowns in the way of proclaiming the gospel and fulfilling the Great Commission.
Big Tech censorship has been expanding beyond just Conservatives… Christians are next!
While many of us have been warning about the coming persecution of Christians, I don’t think any of us thought that it would be ramping up so quickly. While we are luckily not facing physical persecution yet, such as beatings or death, we are facing censorship, deplatforming and even jail time in some instances. These are just the birth pangs of what is coming next.
While we still have a voice here at The GateKeepers, we are doing everything that we can to bypass the algorithmic walls put up by Big Tech and the Social Media companies like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Our videos used to get thousands of views across all of our platforms, while now they are being throttled and hardly getting distributed at all. An added wrinkle is that, while our video content is seeing lower views, traffic to our website has never been higher. Over the past year we’ve seen a 700% increase in traffic, and it’s been amazing to experience this kind of growth. Because of this, we’ll be launching GKTV very soon, hosting all of our shows exclusively on our platform.
While The GateKeepers started out as nothing more than a blog for me to post my articles relating to concerns within Christianity, it has now expanded into a full-fledged Christian podcast network featuring fifteen shows, a publishing company that has published three books over the past year and we are now hosting conferences on a regular basis. We’ve seen the addition of contributors to The GateKeepers such as Denise McAllister, Pastor Cary Gordon, Pastor Ken Peters, Dr Mike Spaulding, Dr Bobby Lopez and many other amazing Christian leaders. Our lineup of shows has expanded, as well, featuring shows such as The Shining Light Podcast, Conversations with Jeff, The Big Brown Gadfly, Battlefront: SouthGate and The Verum Monitae Report with Dr Mike Spaulding, in addition the the several other shows we also carry on The GateKeepers.
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While we’ve seen some amazing growth and expansion, we are also working hard to make this be a long-term play, and with that comes with how to fund our work here. I’ve intentionally not turned The GateKeepers into a non-profit organization because I don’t want to become beholden to the government, and I also don’t want to be focused on sending out fundraising letters constantly begging for money like most non-profit ministries do.
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