The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Psalm 106:21-30, “They forgot God their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt,

22 Wonders in the land of Ham, And awesome things by the Red Sea.

23 Therefore He said that He would destroy them, Had not Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him,

To turn away His wrath from destroying them.

24 Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe in His word,

25 But grumbled in their tents; They did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

26 Therefore He swore to them, That He would cast them down in the wilderness,

27 And that He would cast their seed among the nations, And scatter them in the lands.

28 They joined themselves also to Baal-peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

29 Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds; And the plague broke out among them.

30 Then Phinehas stood up and interposed; And so the plague was stayed.”

From Genesis to Revelation, the word plague () ?????nega( and ????? (plege) strikes fear in the hearts of thinking people.

We are most fearful of things we cannot physically see or mentally comprehend. Historically, plagues have not been mere happenings, but encompassed peoples of nations, who had forgotten or neglected the LORD. Few truly intelligent people today would overlook what our world is experiencing in the Coronavirus as incidental. I say “truly intelligent people,” because everyone in that category view nothing as “chancery”; they all see such tragedies as either severe warnings or sure judgments from Almighty God.

Look at our verses above: Were the people of that day worse than the people of our day? Determine for yourself. “They forgot God; they despised the pleasant land He had given them; they did not believe His Word; they grumbled in private and refused to listen to the Voice of the LORD.” Further, they engaged in the vilest evils of their time, joining themselves to false gods and sacrificing to the dead. All of this provoked the LORD God to anger, and “the plague broke out among them.”

You may say that nothing of what His people did in ancient times to provoke Him is occurring today. And I would reply that “none is so blind as him who will not see.” It was the German philosopher Friedrich Hegel who said, “The one thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn from history.” And George Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” We have

a worldwide plague of evil existing in the Church today, and many pastors, are both personally and professionally denying and repudiating the very Word of God, leading congregations across the globe deeply into apostasy. Do we think the LORD is asleep? Do we think He has not seen what is being done?

We need a Phinehas today, someone who will stand up and intercede for the Church and for the world-at-large! Note that Phinehas stood alone! He had no cadre of believers supporting him. He had no position of national authority. He stood alone for God. And God plus one is still a majority. David stood alone against Goliath. The boy’s five loaves and two fish stood over against 5,000 hungry people. We’ve learned a lot from science; but science itself is not an active power. The LORD God alone is the power. It is time for us to forsake all sin and trust in human endeavors and call upon Him in serious prayer. “And so the plague –this plague (will be) stayed.”

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas 72764

United States of America

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”