According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, mask-wearing is:
“A form of disguise or concealment usually worn over or in front of the face to hide the identity of a person and by its own features to establish another being.”
The mask completes the work of the Globalists to turn man into a cog so that all cogs are seen as mere replacement for other cogs. Look at crowds as they are each and all masked. What you gaze upon is a sea of undifferentiated human cogs. The individual and the personal is lost in a sea of sameness. Masking is the perfect egalitarian move.
Even more than the French Revolution Phrygian cap or the Chinese Maoist Revolutionary Mao Suit, the mask communicates the apex of the egalitarian drone. With the wide wearing of the mask an occult transformation has occurred. Man in the image of God has become the Borg in the image of the Sovereign State.
Mask wearing then, when not necessary, is anti-Christ and Pastors who keep writing hallmark tropes on how one is showing Jesus love are doing anti-Christ work. They fail to realize not only what has been said above but they fail to realize that the mask is merely conditioning for one more step into the breech of Government tyranny. Masks prepare the way for mandatory vaccines. These vaccines, like the masks, are violations of the 6th commandment. Ministers who support this stuff are ministering Lucifer more than they are ministering Christ.
If you are a member of a Church which is taking this whole Wuhan virus thing seriously you need to get out of that Church as fast as you can. You are in a Statist Church who worships according to the dictates of Caesar and not the dictates of God.
Amen- I totally agree. Ohio governor DeWine has just issued a fake order mandating mask wearing throughout Ohio. I am ignoring it and will acctively resist. I have been resisting the Cuyahoga County order for over a week. All Christians need to resist these fake orders.
Generally, I agree with a great deal of what you write. However, you seem more certain that the Wuhan virus is ALL a ploy now than you did several months ago. I’m not doubting that all of this was initiated for a purpose and was no accident; but which of us can determine for sure the degree of danger it poses to a large segment of the population that doesn’t enjoy optimum health and vigor. Are they simply collateral damage? I’ve listened to guys like Tucker Carlson sound off on how his ‘rights’ are being infringed by such government overreach. I open to a greater understanding on the dutiful interplay of obedience and resistance where the civil authorities are concerned, but I still like what Dabney says and offer it for consideration:
Few governments are strictly just; and the inquiry therefore arises how the Christian citizen shall act, under an oppressive command of the civil magistrate? I reply, if the act which he requires is not positively a sin per se, it must be obeyed, although in obeying we surrender a clear, moral right of our own. p. 870. Do we then inculcate the slavish doctrine of passive obedience, which asserts the divine and irresponsible right of kings, so that even though they so abuse their powers that the proper ends of government are lost, God forbids resistance? By no means. p. 871. The argument for passive obedience, from Romans 13, is at first view plausible, but will not bear inquiry. The end of government is not the gratification of the rulers, but the good of the ruled. When a form of government entirely ceases, as a whole, to subserve its proper end, is it still to subsist forever? This is preposterous. Who then is to change it? The submissionists say, Providence alone. But Providence works by means. We have seen that the sovereignty is in the people rather than the rulers; and that the power the rulers hold is delegated. May the people never resume their own, when it is wholly abused to their injury? There may be obviously a point then where “resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.” The meaning of the apostle is, that this resistance must be the act, not of the individual, but of the people. That is: if the individual moves, when he is not inspired by the movement of the popular heart; when his motion is not the exponent, as well as the occasion, of theirs, he has made a mistake—he has done wrong—he must bear his guilt. p. 872.
R.L. Dabney, ‘The Civil Magistrate’ (Lec. 73), ‘Religious Liberty & Church and State’, (Lec. 74)
#1 — I am more confident today than when this hoax first started that this is a hoax. There is plenty more evidence now that this Wuhan thing is crapola. Just recently the lead author of the Imperial College of London — the one who idiotically predicted 2.2 million deaths — has admitted that up to two-thirds of all corona-virus fatalities would have died from their comorbidities by the end of 2020 anyway. Dr. Tenpenny, Buttar, and a host of others have brought forth video after video demonstrating this thing is a a hoax. The exaggerations of numbers whereby the numbers of people infected and putatively dying from the “virus” has been documented. It’s nearly all bullspit.
#2 — While I love Dabney, I’ll stick with John Knox on the issue of aberrant civil Magistrates and what must be done with them.
“In this idea (resistance to female rulers), a principle emerged that Knox would make more of in his “The Appellation” — he no longer considered tyrannicide as the exclusive mission of divinely inspired individuals, but the vocation of every saint who would assume it.”
Kyle & Johnson
John Knox; An Introduction to his Life and Work — pg. 99
What if the state merely supports the idolatrous practices of the church? Then the people must resist. Even lowly individuals — if they speak as God’s ambassadors — have the authority to rebuke princes for their transgressions…. the real treason was not to oppose idolatrous monarch to the death.
Kyle & Johnson
John Knox; An Introduction to his Life and Work — pg. 102
“Failure to resist idolatry incurs corporate guilt and will be punished collectively.”
John Knox
“Let a thing here be noted, that the prophet of God sometimes may teach treason against kings, and yet neither he nor such as obey the word, spoken in the Lord’s name by him, offend God.”
-John Knox
In “The Appellation” Knox denounced the orthodox doctrine of (that required) Christian obedience (to wicked rulers) as sinful. He declared blind compliance to a wicked command to be sin. God has not required obedience to rules when they decree impiety. To say that God does is no less blasphemy than to make God the author of sin. Moreover, if the nobles and people comply with their sovereign in manifest wickedness, they will be punished along with him.
In “The Appellation” Know also laid the foundation for the theme of his “Letter to the Commonality,” which declared “None provoking the people to idolatry ought to be exempted from the punishment of death.” The personal status of such an individual was of no consequence, be they monarch or commoner. Moreover, the punishment of idolatry and blasphemy does not pertain to only kings and rulers. Rather, it relates to all persons according to their Christian vocation and the opportunity afforded to them by God to administer vengeance. CITING DEUTERONOMY 13, KNOX ISSUED THE CALL FOR REVOLUTION — HE DIRECTED MOSES’ COMMANDMENT TO SLAY IDOLATERS TO ALL PEOPLE, NOT JUST T THE NOBLES.
Yet Knox never called for indiscriminate slaughter. He distinguished between the treatment to be accorded idolaters, who had never known ‘true religion,’ and those who had known it but has forsaken it.”
Kyle & Johnson
John Knox; An Introduction to his Life and Work — pg. 104
In the Appellation,” Knox now gave the covenant new political implications. Previously, the covenant obligation only demanded separation from idolatry. But now the godly (nobles and people) must punish idolatry.
The covenant provided an important theological argument for Knox. It enabled him to overcome the idea that only the lesser magistrate can revolt, thus leading him to advocate popular rebellion as a means for removing idolatry and tyranny. Knox insisted that not only the magistrates, but the people are also bound by the covenant to uphold the rule of godliness and to revenge any injustices done to God’s majesty or laws. The covenant binds not only the chief rulers but the whole people to punish idolatry and tyranny.
Kyle & Johnson
John Knox; An Introduction to his Life and Work — pg. 105
You’ve given me much food for further thought. Thank you. I’ve always preferred Knox over Calvin on this question myself.
I’m not sure though that there’s a real conflict between Knox and Dabney’s positions. In the works you cited, Knox does qualify that it must be a ‘popular rebellion’ of the ‘whole people’, and not just a personal slight or abridgment of one’s ‘freedoms’.
Also, I think there’s still an open question about balancing our doing as we please as over against our duty to love our neighbor as ourselves. I’m as skeptical as you are of globalist motives … maybe more so. But with all the misinformation out there, we don’t really KNOW enough to separate the reality and the hoax.
The mask is God’s judgement on a world of actors pretending to be God.
“The mask demands to be watched.” …by more powerful pretenders.
http://novoscriptorium.com/2019/07/16/ancient-greek-drama-mass-psychotherapy/
Peter Meineck has been
researching on this topic.
In his paper,
“Neuroscience and the tragic mask”
https://www.academia.edu/3421383/Unveiling_Emotions_in_the_Greek_World_Introduction