Psychological Trauma of Covid-19 :: By Geri Ungurean

For many weeks, I have been, for lack of a better word – a mess.

I have been suffering in silence. I have thought to myself, “What is wrong with me?” and “If my readers could see me now, they would never read another word I write.”

I have hidden this quite well from my unbelieving family. I’m not sure if that was wise, but I think that I was more concerned for them to see that, as a Christian, I was doing okay.

I’m not doing okay.

Occasionally, I will ask my FB brethren for their input on certain matters. I did open up to them a couple of nights ago, asking if any of them were experiencing these mood swings, anxiety, sadness and even anger.

The responses were overwhelming. These brothers and sisters in Christ opened up their hearts and said that they were battling the same emotions of which I spoke.

Here is what I posted and following that are many of the responses from my FB brethren:

“I feel like I’m going to let my readers down. I’m just bearing my soul here. I’m not doing well. People think I’m so strong because I write these articles. But I’m sad and sometimes very angry, and I can’t seem to get a handle on this. I’m crying most of the time.

This has overwhelmed me so much so I looked this up online – whether this pandemic is affecting people like it is me. And I found so many websites devoted to this very thing. They are saying that it’s a loss of “normalcy,” a grieving of sorts.

I’m missing my kids and grandkids. It’s like there is a hole in my heart.

But then I thought “I’m a Christian. I shouldn’t be feeling this way.” But I’m still in this flesh – this wretched flesh.

I wondered if there are many other brethren experiencing this grieving. And then I wondered if this is what God wants me to write about. If there are many Christians going through this, it might comfort them to know that they are not alone.

I would appreciate your input.”

Responses:

“Very much so. I live alone; it’s impossible to even call friends or family–I don’t want to bring them down. My heart feels like it’s breaking all the time, and I see no reason to still be in this evil world. This must be one of those times when there’s only 1 set of footprints–HIS.”

“Oh, goodness yes! After I put my son down for his nap earlier, I went into my bedroom, shut the door, and just poured out my heart to God. I just started begging Him to just take me home!!!”

“I am definitely going through the same thing, and the words you said, “this wretched flesh.” I am ready to be made new. I keep looking up and remember that joy that we will soon have when we see Our Great God And King, soon Geri; we will be delivered soon.

“P. S. I HATE the way I have been acting, it’s a war.”

“Yes, but…, “Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13, KJV).”

“Geri, you are writing. I am brokenhearted and cannot get past the vitriol or do much productive other than care for my elderly dying mother. Keep writing. We need a watchman! Sound those alarms.”

“YES…This is Most Certainly “The Time” for All of God’s children to Fully Express Our Fears… Uncertainty’s with One Another as Led By The Holy Spirit…. WE ARE THE CHURCH, and We All Desperately Need Not Stay Silent; But to Seek Fellowship Together In One Accord…. If The Lord impresses upon us to share our fears… uncertainties… We Can then (all of us) come into agreement to Earnestly Seek The Lord in Fervent Prayer for One Another!…. After all… We Are His Church living in a fallen world…. YES… We All need support and prayer during these uncertain times…. But let us Never Forget… Since We Have JESUS THE CHRIST in Our Hearts… We are MORE THAN CONQUERORS IN CHRIST THE LORD!”

“I too share your pain and grief my sister…. My family is lost in much deception from WOF, Seeker Sensitive/Emergent, New Age, Luciferian, Humanistic Psychology. They too make fun of the true Gospel. But the hope I have is my mother is waking up a bit from WOF…. all else is very dark….”

“Praying for you and many of us trying to wake up the sleeping churches. But we are doing what God has called us to do.”

“Those that love this world system and being deceived by entertainment traps of this world just see this happening as a virus…and things will be better soon… they will have to find out the hard way I pray… and some may not think this is overwhelming, I know.”

“Yes, there are others with the same feelings. We’ve all felt loss and grieve, but I just try to remember that God will not give us more than we can handle. God bless and keep the faith.”

“It’s okay to grieve.”

“I am in grief as well. I think bc of the days are shortened, Jesus’ Return is upon us, and I’m concerned for the lost… all…. I’m sorry you feel this way, but I think as sisters in Christ, it is normal for us to feel this, especially now. It’s a tough time…. You can feel this. It’s ok to not be ok.”

“You’re not alone in your grief. Any time we experience a loss, we grieve that loss. We have lost our “normal.” It will never be the same again. That is hard to take. I too am having to work through this loss. And I’m having a hard time dealing with the uncertainty of what is to come, here on earth until we leave. That can be quite scary. Apart from God. He will always be with us. He will always give us the grace and strength we need. And he will give us peace. He is faithful to his promises!”

“God has been directing my husband and I to spend less time reading news stories and more time listening to and singing praise music. And listening to more good teaching that is focused on God and his word, and that gives us hope in these very trying times.”

“Yes. In the end I know everything will be right… but from here to there is what scares me a lot. I know we won’t go through the Tribulation, but what other stuff are we going to see before we leave? I certainly didn’t expect to be a victim of a bioterror attack, and half of our own government taking the side of the attackers!”

“The heaviness has been overwhelming. Frustrated, and frustrated that I am frustrated. Thankful to know it’s not just me. Thank you, Geri Ungurean.”

“This is TRUTH, I know. Still the human side gets weary sometimes, but GOD always replenishes.”

“Same here, Geri. All I do is stay teary-eyed. I miss normal, church, family. No heart to do anything. I’m not one to get depressed, but I am now. Let’s pray for each other. Your sister in Christ.”

“As I was reading through the posts, this scripture came to mind that would be good to “consider” during this dark and evil time:

Heb12:1-3 “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.”

“Blessed are they who mourn: for they shall be comforted. I cling to His promises. If I were there beside you, I would be quiet and let you mourn. There is so much oppression in the air. Tonight, as I was looking for a verse, my eyes fell on Isaiah 60. “Arise, shine, for the light has come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For behold the darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee and His glory shall be seen upon thee.”

“I am feeling the same, and that you shared how you feel makes me think it is normal due to the circumstances and that I am not alone. I was asking the Lord to forgive me for feeling like that, but then I realized this was a time for mourning, a time to cry but not alone but with our Lord. He will comfort us and give us the peace we need in the middle of all this. Thank you for sharing how you have been feeling; certainly, it makes me feel better. God bless you”

“Yes. You should write about this. We are at war with our own flesh. I believe the Lord wants His children to let go of this world and all the trappings that keep us bound to it. You can articulate this to our brethren.”

“Yes, and it is so unexpected to me! I usually have a very positive attitude, but this is rough. Good training in case something bigger comes along before the rapture! I was getting groceries today and had a mix of fear and grief seeing the shelves so bare. But I reminded myself that the rapture is not far off and what we are seeing is proof! I know God will provide all we need in the meantime, but it is unsettling to see our lives changing so dramatically.”

“I think most of us here are grieving over this. Particularly, the lack of having our children and grandchildren with us, and local churches now gone virtual. There are sorrows heaped upon sorrows. Despite that, and because there are great warriors for Christ like you, Geri, we have the strength to soldier on. Happy Easter – He is Risen! We have overcome.”

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Brethren, as I thought about our “grieving and sadness,” my mind went to a part of Scripture when Jesus was on the Cross – taking the sins of the whole world upon Himself. He cried out:

“And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matthew 7:46).

Jesus cried out those words to His Father because, at that moment in time, Jesus had taken the sins of the world upon Himself – His Father in heaven could not look upon Him. God cannot abide sin!

Can you imagine the anguish felt by both Jesus and His Father?

But then, the Bible says that Jesus “Gave up the ghost.” And we celebrate His miraculous Resurrection from the dead which enabled us, who belong to Him, to have eternal life!

Another Scripture which came to mind was this:

“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us” (Romans 8:18).

I hope that this helped even one of the brethren who might be struggling right now. He will wipe away every tear!

And when we have our glorified bodies, we will never have to struggle like this again!

How Can I Be Saved?

Shalom b’Yeshua

MARANATHA!!

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Freedom is Essential :: By Rob Pue

It’s time to open our country back up again — NOW!  Today, as I compile this message, it’s been exactly one month since President Trump issued a National State of Emergency to combat the coronavirus. The United States is not alone. More than 100 countries worldwide are in the same boat.

Initially, we were told it would only be for two weeks. Then we were told the country would open back up by Easter. Well, Easter has come and gone and still the world is in quarantine mode; and now some reports say it will only be another two weeks. Bill Gates has said we must remain in a national shutdown for at least ten more weeks. I have to wonder, what is HIS area of expertise? He can’t even keep viruses from infecting his Windows computers! And that little tyrant, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has stated that the world must remain locked down for another 18 months.

I can tell you, that if that’s the case, there’s going to be MASSIVE pushback. In fact, massive pushback is already percolating here in the US. On April 9th, protestors held a demonstration at the capitol building in Columbus, Ohio, chanting “Freedom is essential!” Meanwhile, the people of Michigan are also furious and are planning a protest at the state capitol there this week. And, a “Global March for Freedom” has been announced for May 2nd if the “stay-at-home” orders are extended past April 30th. Organizers of this event are hoping for international participation in every city hall, public park, and downtown in every country.

Meanwhile, things are getting crazier. According to World Net Daily, the “experts’” prediction of 50,000 people being hospitalized in New York by April 1st turned out to be 400% too high. Hospitals across the country are hurting, along with all the rest of the businesses. As they prepared for a huge influx of new COVID-19 patients, they cancelled all elective surgeries, and most are only open now for emergencies.  But the coronavirus patients never came, so most hospitals are now sitting empty, as we’ve seen in videos posted online by citizen reporters who have personally GONE to their local hospitals and clinics to check the situation out for themselves. What they found was that what we’re seeing on the evening news is NOT what is taking place in real life. We’re being LIED TO, folks, on a MASSIVE scale.

In actuality, doctors, nurses and other hospital staff are being laid off or let go, because there are no patients to treat, and there won’t be, until this nationwide lockdown ends. My own daughter, who is a registered nurse, was let go from her job last week. There are no patients, and the hospitals are hemorrhaging money. They had no choice. The truth of the matter is that medical workers are getting laid off by the thousands all across the country.

Meanwhile, state and federal restrictions of American citizens are becoming more and more ridiculous.  In Kentucky last week, judges ordered at least a half dozen people to wear GPS ankle monitors (just like convicted criminals), because they violated the “stay-at-home” orders. An official of the World Health Organization has stated that they “may need to start entering private homes and remove family members” — for their own “good,” of course. I can just imagine the Nanny State starting to go door-to-door and forcibly removing children from their parents, placing them “who-knows-where,” and forbidding any contact between parents and children.

If you think such a thing could never happen here, just look around you. Never in my wildest imaginations would I have believed our entire COUNTRY — and even the entire WORLD — could be FORCED, through a united effort of ALL the world leaders to close down private businesses, forbid meetings of any kind, and penalize people for leaving their homes.

People are literally being arrested now for going outdoors, while at the same time, prison and jail officials are releasing convicted criminals with no supervision or oversight — once again, for their safety.  This makes NO sense. I thought they wanted us to “self-quarantine.” What could be more “quarantined” than a prison or jail? But they’re letting the inmates go free, while arresting and penalizing law-abiding citizens.

And people are also going “stir-crazy” as they are now unable to really GO anywhere or DO anything, because everything is closed. No more “date nights” for married couples. They can’t even go out for dinner at a restaurant, unless they drive through and eat in the car.

But even being in your own car, completely separated from other people, is not “good enough” now for the tyrants that have imprisoned us all. Police in Greenville, Mississippi, raided the parking lot of the Temple Baptist Church last week and issued $500 fines to everyone in attendance at the church’s “Drive-in” service. On Easter Sunday, the Maryville Baptist Church in Hillview, Kentucky, held their service as usual. But prior to the service, church workers had to clear the parking lot of nails, which were spread throughout the parking area by “someone” who wanted to stop the service. Police there issued warnings and a 14-day quarantine order to every person.

I also think of all the brides-to-be that have planned for spring weddings. They can likely still get married, if they can find a courthouse that’s open now to fill out the legal paperwork. But the bridal shops are closed, the reception halls are closed, the photographers are closed, the caterers are closed.  Everything is closed. So there will BE NO church weddings until further notice, nor will newlyweds be allowed to celebrate and eat a meal with their family and friends.

Here in Wisconsin, the governor has closed forty state parks, forests and recreational areas; so, while technically, you are “allowed” to go for a walk or to go outside and walk your dog, they don’t want you going very far. It goes without saying that children are not allowed to play or visit with friends, go to the park, or in some cases even play outside with their siblings in their own back yard. In one case, a couple of kids were playing in their backyard, and neighbors called the police to report them for not “social distancing.” The police showed up with FIVE squad cars, called the kids’ father on the phone, and ordered him out of his house, with his hands in the air, at gunpoint, then proceeded to question him about his kids playing in the back yard, while all the neighbors watched the excitement of the dad being interrogated in the driveway by a SWAT team. I can just imagine the neighborhood gossip.

This is insane, people. How much longer are we going to tolerate this? I understand that the end-goal of the UN, the WHO, the CDC, Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, George Soros and other members of the “deep state” are to use this so-called “pandemic” to bring about a One-World government and implement the UN’s ID-2020 “vaccine,” complete with a microchip implant to track everyone on planet Earth. The question is, are we going to simply go along with all this like good little guinea pigs?

You can call me a “conspiracy theorist” if you like, but if you do a little research, you would see that there DEFINITELY IS a conspiracy, but it is FAR from a theory. This has been in the planning stages for years. Yes, there is a virus out there. As a matter of fact, there are MANY viruses out there. And other germs too. But let me ask you this: if the TV news didn’t TELL you there was a virus, would you even know about it? Truly, the mainstream media has worked hand-in-hand with the New World Globalists to indoctrinate us with fake news and propaganda, to keep us all under control and fearful for our lives if we do NOT comply.

I do extensive research on this topic just about every day. I get all the latest RELIABLE news and information from trusted sources — NOT the mainstream press. The infection rate and the death rate that was PROJECTED to be accurate has proven to be all an incredible hoax. Did you know that an Army field hospital set up in Seattle (which is supposed to be one of the so-called ‘hot spots’) closed down after 9 days? It never saw even one single patient.

LifeSiteNews described our situation well: “the American economic boom of the past three years has been reversed in a matter of days, millions have lost their jobs, tens of thousands of small businesses have been shuttered and will probably never reopen, and three-quarters of the American population has been subjected to some form of house arrest by state, county and city governments.

“All over the country people are being fined or arrested and jailed for violating suddenly imposed restrictions on their every movement and gathering, often with the aid of their neighbors, who turn them in to the police, following instructions on how to be a ‘snitch.’ Attendance at religious services has been forbidden altogether or limited to ten people, even in vast cathedrals, while ‘permission’ is granted to crowd supermarkets and convenience stores, buy booze, purchase cannabis and have pets groomed.”

This article goes on to say, “In New York State, the Bill Gates-subsidized Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IMHE) “model” predicting doom in that state has been exposed as little short of a hoax, as its dire predictions are continually being slashed to match actual numbers and are still wildly off the mark. Yet, in New York City, hovering drones bark out commands to observe ‘social distancing’ of ‘at least six feet’ in a message that ends on a chillingly Orwellian note: ‘We are all in this together!’

“America’s almost instantaneous transformation into a police state is based on ‘models’ that ‘predicted’ upwards of 2 million deaths from the Wuhan virus without ‘mitigation’ in the form of a preposterous attempt to quarantine 330 million people. And the people have obsequiously bowed to every ridiculous command.

“It is becoming clearer with each passing day that the death toll from the Wuhan virus is not rising exponentially as the ‘experts’ predicted but only modestly in some places while leveling off and even declining almost everywhere else in the country — as well as the world.”

Until now, I’ve given President Trump the benefit of a doubt for his actions in this. I DO believe he wants the best for this country, but I also believe, now, that he is being controlled, somehow, just as all the other world leaders are being controlled — and FORCED to comply with these “lockdown” orders. I believe he WANTS to open the country back up immediately, but he is being forbidden from doing so by powers greater than him.

We know some of the players that are behind all this, and we can guess who some of the others are.  But my question is, how much longer are we going to put up with all this? How much longer are we going to cower in our homes, keep our businesses and industries and churches closed, keep ourselves separated from one another so we cannot communicate as a group of like-minded patriots and freedom-seekers?

Will we allow this to go on into the summer and fall? Are we content watching our American way of life be taken over by communism, relying on the government to “save” us and supply all our needs? What will Independence Day, 2020 look like — you know, the day we celebrate our American history and FREEDOM? Will there be any parades, any family get-togethers and cookouts, any fireworks or summertime vacations? Or not?

We’re on a dangerous course, friends. This cannot continue. Those who are planning the Global March for Freedom on May 2nd are not fooling around. Because freedom IS essential.

To those who say I’m being reckless and irresponsible by calling for a total and complete end to this nonsense right now, because they say by encouraging that, I’m putting people in danger of infection and possible death, my advice to you would be to turn off the TV news. Even Fox News. Turn it all off, and do some research. We are still, at least at this time, able to research and study all this for ourselves through independent CREDIBLE sources online, and we’re able to get the truth. And the more truth I learn about all this, the angrier I become. We’ve all been duped, and the “solution” the so-called “experts” have called for to this “Planned-Demic” is destroying us.

Don’t bother writing your congressmen — they don’t work for you, and if you didn’t know that already, I don’t know what to tell you. No, our “public servants” have made us their slaves. And if we don’t see a complete end to this tyranny within a week or two now, then I do believe it’s time for American patriots to rise up and demand our freedom back. We’re not just fighting a battle with a foreign enemy; we’re also fighting the enemy within — not to mention the spiritual battle in the heavenlies behind all of it.

God is allowing all of this to happen. He’s allowed all our idols to be smashed, and He’s given us the opportunity now to wake up, rise up, rebuild and revive His people. This is a great last-chance for many, who are now suddenly open and interested in what the Bible has to say about all these things. We’re at a point in history like no other. Please understand, that what each of us decides to DO now will have eternal significance.

Let’s not waste this opportunity God may yet give us; and IF He allows us our freedom back, let’s do life right — as we rebuild and CLEANSE America of all the evil, all the filth, all the liars and lies, all the blood guiltiness and perversion and immorality. Because if we’re going to see the “swamp” that America has become drained, it’s going to be up to US. Meanwhile, let us always remember, Jesus is LORD… and one day even the tyrants who now seem to be so invincible will bow their knees in shame and admit just that.

Rob@WisconsinChristianNews.com