It’s easy to pick on Pharaoh because of his stubbornness in the face of the plagues that God kept bringing upon him, but would there not be modern-day equivalents to him if the same thing happened in today’s world? Before answering, consider the My Pillow guy.
James Lindell is an inventor and an entrepreneur—the CEO of My Pillow, Inc. He is one of several CEOs who are helping to combat the Coronavirus. At a Press Conference on Monday, March 30, 2020, he spoke briefly about the fact that his company is now producing cotton facemasks. In fact, 75% of the production of the company is geared toward this effort. He is one of several businessmen who is determined to use his company’s resources to fight this pandemic, which is commendable. If that were all he said, probably no one would have mocked him, but he said something else. Christians who do not care for our current president should just ignore Lindell’s praise of him and consider the plea that he made.
God gave us grace on November 8, 2016, to change the course we were on. God had been taken out of our schools and lives; a nation had turned its back on God. I encourage you to use this time at home to get back in the Word. Read our Bible and spend time with our families.
He also encouraged daily prayer. Several in the news media were quick to make snarky comments; some suggested the whole matter be turned into a Saturday Night Live skit. Would they have made all these derogatory comments if he hadn’t made the religious comments? No. Had he just reported what his company was doing, no one would have felt the need to mock him, but the media does not want to hear about God, Christianity, reading the Bible, and prayer. They are far too erudite and sophisticated to consider or even listen to such suggestions. They feel insulted because, in their view, God has nothing to do with this world or how people ought to live.
Are they any different in their thinking than Pharaoh was? What would be their reaction to the idea that the Coronavirus is a plague from God? Hah! They would not even consider it. Now, what would happen if in July and August four hurricanes ravaged the south? Having already spent trillions of dollars on the virus, who would pay for this additional destruction? Then what happens in October if, like the Spanish flu, the United States and the world are hit with a mutant strain of the virus with ten times the number of cases and deaths that we currently have? There goes what’s left of the economy.
Now if we had three such plagues in one year, would the media elites begin to say, “Maybe the country went too far in legalizing homosexual marriage”? Would they decide that Roe v. Wade should be overturned and that we should repent of killing 70 million infants? Would they promote rescinding the laws passed in New York and Virginia that allow for killing babies born alive during the process of abortion? Would they be calling for a National Day of Prayer and clamoring for the Bible to be taught in schools? No, they’d probably blame it all on global warming. Of a surety, they would: 1) Insist that these are natural events (rather than supernatural); and 2) Scoff at the notion we have national sins to repent of. They would fight tooth and toenail