Covid-19 Psalm 19 Isaiah 26 and the Evangelical Proof-Texters

Covid-19 and the Evangelical Proof-Texters

‘proof-texters,’ sensation-mongers + chain-letter writers got their teeth into the present Covid-19 crisis

•  enter your chambers, + shut your doors behind you +hide yourself >Until the indignation is past ?=? lockdown + self-isolation.
•  Charismaniacs are urging people to ‘decree and declare’ authority over the virus + urging people not to ‘break the chain of prayer’ (whatever that is) by posting the deception on their own social media pages as well.
• evangelicals of all stripes have been prone to proof-texting like this.
• 1° rule of biblical understanding = Context! = help to get to the core of the question > ‘What does this verse mean?’
• Isaiah 26 = warning to people of ancient Israel (God’s people) to shelter from the wrath of God. >> we can apply it to coming judgement of God upon the world, when Jesus shall return & all men of every age and nation shall give account of their lives => their wickedness punished.

 

shelter in a time of storm > So many being afraid – reason enough to step in the boat with Christ + “In The Midst Of The Storm”

• • refuge = Jesus.

search the Scriptures > in them you have eternal life (John 5:39)

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Preceding

CoViD-19 warnings

Christian Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

So many being afraid – reason enough to step in the boat with Christ

“In The Midst Of The Storm”

Love in the Time of Corona

When 1 699 676 people worldwide are infected and the number of deaths had totalled 102 734 in 210 countries or territories

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Additional reading

1. Today’s Thought “You will keep … in perfect peace” (May 03)
2. Extra memorizing verses Isaiah 26:3-4: Focused on God finding perfect peace

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Related

1. Isaiah 26: Content in God alone.
2. Daily Devotion: Isaiah 26:3-4
3. Numbers 1, Isaiah 26, Acts 11
4. The rock on which we stand
5. Housebound
6. Mystical Ceremony Reveals ‘Cure’ for the Coronavirus: Jews Must Return to Israel – Breaking Israel News
7. Hide Yourself

The Salty Scrivener

Covid-19 and the Evangelical Proof-Texters

Well, it didn’t take long before the ‘proof-texters,’ sensation-mongers and the chain-letter writers got their teeth into the present Covid-19 crisis.  The misinterpretation of psalm 91 was sure to happen sooner or later, – without any reference to Psalm 90, of course.  But a recent ‘don’t break this chain‘ scam on social media has been based on a proof-texting use of Isaiah 26:20.  The text reads,

 

Come, my people, enter your chambers,

And shut your doors behind you;

Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment,

Until the indignation is past.

So, of course, the proof-texters want to find in the words of that verse a prediction of our present state of lockdown and self-isolation.  Some have even claimed that there is more than a coincidence between between the text reference (26) and the date of the Lockdown announcement.  Worse still…

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