The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Numbers 17:11-13, “Moses then said to Aaron, ‘Take a censer, put fire in it from the altar, place incense on it and hurry to the community to perform the rite of expiation for them: for retribution has come from Yahweh, plague has broken out.’
12 Aaron took it as Moses said and ran into the middle of the community, but plague had already broken out among the people. He put in the incense and performed the rite of expiation for the people.
13 Then he stood between the living and the dead, and the plague stopped.
14 There were fourteen thousand seven hundred victims of the plague, apart from those who died because of Korah.”

The word plague () ????????maggepha( is mentioned more than 70 times in the Bible. It means: a blow, a slaughter, or a pestilence. What we are experiencing in the world today has brought forth historical thoughts of the Black Plague that occurred in the world in the mid-14th Century. Termed “the Black Death,” because black sores broke out on human flesh, it has been estimated that between 25 to 30 million deaths occurred, taking some 200 hundred years for European countries to recuperate completely.

“There were so many deaths and so many bodies that the authorities did not know what to do with them, and carts piled high with corpses became common across Europe. It seemed the only course of action was to stay put, avoid people, and pray.”

The Covid pandemic that we are currently experiencing may well be a judgment the LORD is bringing against our nation. It is easy to blame others, but we would do well to examine ourselves. We have allowed millions of innocent children to be aborted. We have corrupted our own morality, allowing crassness and filth to pervade the society in which we live. We have lessened the depths of serious worship and brushed aside ancient Biblical truths. We have trivialized those elements the LORD terms as sacred, sweeping away what is not convenient to our decadent lifestyles. Then we dare to approach the LORD God for mercy without the slightest thought of repentance.

It is time for us to engage in serious repentance for our sins. We are as a nation what we are as its citizenry. We who fail to speak up are as culpable as those who won’t shut up. We engage in willful disobedience to the principles of the God we purport to worship. We’re learning how to “stay put” and “avoid people.” When will be learn to engage in serious, soul-searching prayer?

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom