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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Chad Kreuzer

Covid and the Little Time of Trouble

Hi there, this is Chad cruiser with anchor point films, and you're going to be listening to a message that I had shared for Advent hope Is specifically in Loma Linda, California?

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Well good morning we're really happy to be here we wish we could be there with you all in person obviously not in not something that is possible right now, but we're very happy to still be able to do this over Zoom at this point.

But I'm gonna share with you a message here on coronavirus and speaking in the context of the last days.

Now as we look around the world and as I talked to different people I was even talking to a young man who I would not have expected was thinking about...

I wouldn't have expected that he would be thinking about the news and looking around the world at this time and as I talked with him he was talking to me about what was taking place and it surprised me that he as a young man would be interested in the news and so forth.

And as you look around the world right now, whether it's politically, we see things taking place, whether it's in the natural world, we see famines potentially taking place in Africa right at this moment, a plague of locusts that are ravaging parts of East Africa right now.

They're talking about starvation maybe doubling in this portion of the world to around 250 million people maybe moving towards starvation, a part as a result of the locust plague, but also as a result of the side effects of coronavirus, not from the disease itself, but from all that's taking place politically and even with the food system today.

And, you know, but Looking at people in general, not necessarily Christians, just society in general in the United States, maybe you've seen in the news that coronavirus may prompt a migration out of the cities, we're told.

Nearly 1 third of Americans are considering moving to a less densely populated area because of the novel coronavirus outbreak, according to a Harris Poll survey released Thursday.

2 paragraphs down, it says by the numbers, 39% of urban dwellers said that the COVID-19 crisis has prompted them to consider leaving for a less crowded place, according to this survey.

It's interesting that in the midst of this crisis that people are thinking of moving to the country and these aren't necessarily straight-laced, conservative Adventist, anything like that.

These are just humans who are looking at what is taking place in the major metropolitan areas and they're saying, man, maybe this isn't really the safest place for a human to live.

And so they're actually considering moving away, moving out into a less populated area.

And it's interesting, they seem to have a fear and Jesus said that in the last days, Luke 21-26, men's hearts would be failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are to come upon the earth.

So people are realizing that there are things taking place, people are nervous.

Some people who are struggling financially, I've heard some terrible stories about a mother who didn't know where she was going to get food and she took her 10-year-old child and they went and they jumped off a bridge together.

And I can only imagine that she didn't have many family and friends because surely, surely good family and friends would help out but there are certain people who feel so desperately alone.

But the reality is Jesus can give us hope in the midst of these trials that are taking place.

Now looking, why would these people consider moving out of major metropolitan centers?

I mean, when you look at it, this is from the New York Times just looking at the COVID-19 outbreak and where the centers of the area that are being the most affected.

You can see, for instance, here in New York State, Southern New York, the New York area there, the city there, Greater New York area, is the area that is the worst hit in all of the United States, no question.

But then when you look at upstate New York, other than maybe Buffalo to the west and just northeast of there and in Rochester, most of upstate New York has very little cases.

Now in part because there's not very many people there, but in a place like New York City, things can really take off.

We were actually told this over 100 years ago.

We are told that cities would be centers for because of the foul air, because of the unhealthy dwellings.

Even though today we may have better ventilation systems than they once had, yet still having this many people right on top of each other has a serious effect.

You look at California, you see the same thing, that the city areas, the urban areas are the most affected.

And then you look at the eastern portion of the state and the northern part of the state that are more rural have very, very few cases.

And once again, they have very few people.

You probably heard that Detroit has just been ravaged with this disease.

But you see that it's basically a disease of the lower half of the lower peninsula of Michigan.

And then as you get up into the rural areas, there's much less.

Now the disease will probably continue to spread regardless over time.

But we see that people are looking at these kind of things and nearly 40% of city dwellers are saying, man, maybe I need to consider moving out of the city.

This is 39% literally people who are in urban areas are thinking, hey, maybe I should move to the, you know, at least out of these, this major city area that I'm living in.

And you may have also seen, this is a great title of an article, Vegetable Seeds Are the New Toilet Paper.

If I would have shown you this title 6 months ago, you would have probably had a very different interpretation.

Vegetable seeds are now the new toilet paper.

But now, toilet paper means something very different to us.

Now I know exactly what it's like myself as we've gone into grocery stores and literally there's no toilet paper.

People cared more about toilet paper than they cared about food obviously at the beginning of this crisis but now vegetable seeds online are selling out like crazy.

Actually, multiple companies have had to shut down multiple times, multiple seed companies on the Internet and to restock, to clean the the facility that they're in because People are just buying food like crazy.

They're having these coronavirus gardens or victory gardens as some people are referring to it in this situation.

They just can't keep up with people wanting to grow their own food.

Actually, I see this as actually a very positive side effect, not that they're running out of seeds per se, but it's wonderful that in, not that you would want this disease, I don't want this at all, I wish it weren't the case at all, but it is what it is and it's causing people to begin to think about the simpler things of life, things that bring a joy to the heart, the research actually I've shared I believe at Advent Hope in the past on some of the research on gardening and what it does for the mental health and physical health, it's fantastic.

And so in this situation people are turning to the natural things of life and finding the blessings that come along with it.

Also, in this situation, they're not just looking for peace.

They're looking to grow their own food because there are talks of there not being enough food right now.

In some areas, there are some portions of meat shortages.

They're talking about a protein crisis as if meat is the only way to get your protein, which is not the case.

But regardless, now yes, typically you can still get seeds in the stores, but people are having this sense that, man, maybe I need to even prepare some of my own food.

This was given to me a number of years ago by a emergency room physician.

And the title of this article is some hard talk about towns.

And it says, it isn't just an urban myth, life in a city really is getting more dangerous.

And the sources, this is nothing to do with coronavirus, this is long before it.

And the sources of peril are not just human ones, like muggers and reckless motorists.

A report by the UN Habitat, an agency responsible for human settlements, says the number of natural disasters affecting urban populations has risen four-fold since 1975.

They're telling us that since 1975 there's been a 400% increase in natural disaster specifically targeting city areas, these urban areas.

And we actually were told that as we got toward the end of time, more and more cities would begin to suffer with natural disasters and these kinds of things.

Now even, you know, The Economist magazine, They're noticing this very same thing.

And we were told about prophecies in the cities.

I find this fascinating, and I had to study this out.

It says, let all those, this is from Last Day Events, page 95, let all those who would understand the meaning of these things, read the 11th chapter of Revelation, read every verse, and learn the things that are yet to take place in the cities.

Read also the scenes portrayed in the 18th chapter of the same book.

And I had read them before, I had studied them before, but hadn't seen the real picture of what would take place in the cities.

To me, I just saw Revelation 11 as a historical experience that took place in France during the French Revolution and how the Bible, there were some laws that were suppressing scripture, that atheism moved into the city of France.

It talked about a city that was spiritually called Sodom and Egypt.

In Sodom we can clearly understand the depravity, the moral licentiousness that took place in the city as they turned away from God.

So you have this city that is called Sodom and spiritually Egypt.

Egypt had to do with how you know like you look at the Pharaoh who said, who's your God?

I don't follow your God, I don't believe in your God.

This is this skepticism that you would have seen in Egypt.

So it was a city that began to be very immoral and number 2 it began to be on top of that atheistic or skeptical.

And so we're told that these chapters are a picture of once again what would happen at the end of time, that cities would become more immoral and more skeptical.

But also in the midst of this city, there began to be great persecution that took place.

And so this is, it was persecution of religious people and part of it was because the church had become so corrupt, the Catholic Church had become so corrupt that the people just turned away from God altogether.

They instead of saying, hey, we need to reform, they said no, reform, let's just get rid of God altogether.

If this is what God is all about, We should just get rid of him and follow reason rather than following, you know, some God.

And so they made him out to be fictitious and then they had their goddess of reason.

But we look at these things, we see Revelation chapter 11, go study it out, Revelation chapter 18, and it tells us in Revelation chapter 18 is the fall of Babylon and then there is a financial crisis that takes place.

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