Many people, including some preachers, have blatantly said that ‘God sent COVID19 pandemic to the world’, to ‘punish us for our sins!’ This is definitely far from the truth. This is not the way God works.

Let’s first consider this: the gospel of Jesus Christ has never been preached on this planet as it is being done today. In the last hundred years alone, more people have died for their Christian faith than several centuries put together. The Bible has been printed in more languages and more people are reading the Bible today than in any other century. Now, if you were God, would you decide to punish and kill people who are being reached with the gospel at this time? Secondly, let’s bear in mind that not all who died of corona virus were non-Christians; some Christians also died of the virus.

I believe God simply allowed it, and for a reason. Apparently to alert the world that we are indeed in the last days, and that Bible prophecies are rapidly being fulfilled in our very eyes and in our own time, as well as the imminent rise of key players in the final events. This is one of the ‘signs of the times’, (Matthew 24; Luke 21). God did not give us the exact dates of ‘the times’. All He gave us are the ‘signs of the times’. Looking at those signs and the unfolding events in our world, it may be possible to conjecture that we are at the very fringes of the ‘final countdown’.