The flock of God is in a quandary. New vaccines, using a new genetic technology, are now freely available for protection against the COVID-19 virus. Many voices are raised, confidently asserting that these products are safe and effective. Federal, state, county, and employer mandates are coming down the pike, requiring millions of Americans, including children, to be vaccinated or face exclusion and/or termination. Meanwhile, other voices, just as confident, assert that the vaccines are not safe and effective, and that the mandates violate God-given principles and constitutionally guaranteed rights.

So many voices. So much confusion. So much fear, pressure, and division. How should Christians respond?

I want to begin by addressing my target audience: pastors. My message is: You must teach your people. It will not be enough, or even especially appropriate, simply to preach a sermon on Romans 14, urge them to study the issues for themselves, make the best choices they can, and then live and let live. We are not dealing here with an instance of Christian liberty in non-essentials. We are dealing with an especially sharp and dangerous satanic attack. The ruler of this world is coming against your flock—lambs included—in order to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10; 14:30). Using a wide variety of human instruments seated in high places, he is trying to confuse, frighten, shame, cajole, and intimidate your people into making a medical decision that could cost them their lives and the lives of their children. They need a good shepherd: someone who will tell them the truth and guide them to still waters, where once again they can hear the voice of the Good Shepherd.

Brothers, the Good Shepherd is counting on you (John 10:1-18).

 

INTRODUCTION

I am a retired pastor, putting myself in the shoes of active pastors, and writing this essay for them, their flocks, and all concerned citizens. I earnestly hope it helps.

The essay is divided into three parts. First, I discuss whether Christians should be vaccinated with one of the new genetic vaccines. Second, I discuss how I believe Christians should respond to vaccination mandates. And third, I offer a list of resources on this subject that have helped me greatly.

Parts 1 and 2 deal with prudential judgments concerning vaccines and vaccine mandates. A prudential judgment is a judgment that is not based on a direct biblical command, but on a relevant biblical principle. The Bible says nothing about vaccines and vaccine mandates. It does, however, give us relevant principles by which we can make biblically based decisions on both. In the paragraphs ahead I will try to identify the relevant biblical principles, supply trustworthy “facts of the matter,” and then apply the principles to the facts, so that God’s people can make prudential judgments that are wise, safe, and honoring to the Lord.


PART 1

Should Christians Be Vaccinated with One of the New Genetic Vaccines?

The Principles Involved

To my mind, the primary biblical principle involved here is quite simple: God has given us a body, purchased it for himself through the redemption that is in Christ, and therefore requires us to steward it carefully for our good and his glory. A corollary of this principle is that if we are parents, God has also made us stewards of the bodies of our children, with a charge to promote and protect both their spiritual and physical well-being, until the day comes when they are old enough to make health decisions for themselves (John 9:23; 1 Thess. 2:4-12; 1 Tim. 5:8).

Many biblical texts, all of which reveal the sanctity of the human body, affirm this principle (Matt. 6:22; John 2:21; Rom. 1:4, 6:12; 1 Cor. 7:34; 2 Cor. 5:10; Eph. 5:29; Phil. 1:20; James 3:6; Jude 1:9). Perhaps the most important is found in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. Addressing the issue of sexual purity, he writes:

Flee sexual immorality. “Every sin that a man commits is outside the body.” But the sexually immoral man is sinning against his own body. Or don’t you realize that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have received from God? Don’t you realize that you are not your own? For you were bought with a price: Therefore, glorify God in your body. – 1 Corinthians 6:18-20

Paul’s message is clear: Redemption in Christ has ethical implications for how we manage our bodies. We are not our own. Christ has purchased us for God: spirit, soul, and body (1 Thess. 5:23). Our bodies belong to him. They are, and always must be, set apart for his holy purposes. Day by day we are to present our bodies as a living sacrifice, which is our spiritual service of worship (Rom. 12:1). Yes, for wise reasons he may permit them to get sick or be injured. But that does not give us a license to defile, damage, or imperil them. On the contrary, we must conscientiously steward them, for they are precious vessels that God desires for his eternal home, purposes, and glory—and for our eternal joy. It follows, then, that as good stewards of a divinely created, redeemed, and sanctified body, we must never put any deadly thing into the temple of the Holy Spirit.


The Facts of the Matter

Keeping these principles in mind, let us now consider some important and well-established facts about the new COVID-19 vaccines. I understand that some who are considered experts will contest the truth or relevance of these facts. Such disagreements are part and parcel of the spiritual warfare I spoke about at the beginning of this essay. But they are also signs that God is testing our love of the truth. There is no escaping it: If we hope to make wise, safe, God-honoring decisions about these vaccines, each of us will have to examine the truth claims on all sides of the debate. Through prayer, personal research, and respectful dialog with others, we must discern the real facts of the matter for ourselves. Happily, we know that God will help us. He has told us that if any of us lacks wisdom, we need only ask, believe, and work hard to find the truth. All who do so may rest assured that God will give them the grace they need to make the right choices (James 1:5-8).

Having studied these matters for many months, I give you here, under seven headings, the fruit of my research. I believe this is trustworthy information. Using the resources supplied in Part 3, as well as those of your own choosing, you will be able to evaluate it for yourselves.


1. The new genetic vaccines are experimental, insufficiently tested, and irresponsibly promoted.

The widely used Pfizer and Moderna vaccines employ a technology never before approved for use on human beings. Traditional vaccines usually consist of inert or weakened pathogens (i.e., bacteria or viruses) introduced into the body in order to awaken our stunningly complex immune system. If all goes well, it sends out a diverse army of specialized cells (i.e., antibodies) in order to find and destroy the pathogens, and also to log a cellular memory of the invasion for war against future invaders. Henceforth, the body is prepared to respond to a stronger version of the pathogen entering from “the wild.” In short, traditional vaccines intentionally introduce weak pathogens into the body in order to prepare it for an unintentional invasion by stronger ones.

The mRNA vaccines are different. They primarily (but not exclusively) consist of trillions of particles of synthetic messenger-RNA (mRNA). As the name implies, these tiny strands of man-made genetic material were designed to enter our cells and send them a message: “You are now ordered to produce trillions of spike proteins, just like the one found on the COVID-19 virus: the one that could attach itself to you, order you to manufacture more viruses, and thereby sicken and kill your whole body.” The goal, then, of these vaccines is to temporarily turn our cells into spike protein factories, so that our immune system will be trained to attack the business end of a COVID-19 virus: its spike protein. (For more on the mechanism or mRNA serums, click here)

The Johnson & Johnson and Astra-Zeneca vaccine use a somewhat different technology. These contain adenoviruses that have been genetically modified to produce spike proteins identical with those of the COVID-19 viruses. Once again the goal is to awaken the immune system to go to war against the entering wedge of the COVID-19 virus: the spike protein.

Hindsight is 20/20. In the case of the mRNA vaccines, we now know that trillions of the messenger molecules do not remain in the tissues of our arm as intended, but pass by way of the lymphatic system into our bloodstream, where they are absorbed by the cells in our blood vessels, including the small capillaries. Henceforth, these cells produce large spike proteins, which clog the capillaries and produce tiny blood clots. This clotting can damage various bodily organs; and in the case of the heart, spinal cord, brain, and lungs, any such damage is irreparable. As we shall see in a moment, not only can this happen, but it does.

This is why extensive testing is so important. On average, it takes about seven years of development and testing in order to insure a vaccine’s long-term safety. But when the COVID virus reached our shores, people panicked (or were made to panic), rulers acted in haste, and pharmaceutical companies abandoned longstanding protocols for vaccine development, testing, and rollout. Researchers knew very well that all previous attempts at developing a coronavirus vaccine have ended in failure, and frequently resulted in injury and death when tested on animals. Nevertheless, the researchers skipped animal testing, as well as testing on specific human control groups. Also, full data for the trials of these vaccines is still not available to the public. As a result of this warp speed rollout, we had no clear idea about the short term effects of these vaccines, and no idea at all about long-term affects, or how they might affect our immune systems.

Thus, the pharmaceutical companies, which are immune to vaccine-related lawsuits, are actually experimenting on millions of people around the world. We are their guinea pigs. Dr. Eric Reuben, advising the FDA on the mass vaccination of children, said, “We’re never going to learn how safe the vaccine is unless we start giving it, and that’s just the way it goes. That’s how we found out about complications of other vaccines.”

Alarmed by such irresponsibility, and fearing its long-term consequences, Dr. Raymond Obomsawin wrote:

It is vitally important to appreciate that . . . there is only limited, short-term safety data for these vaccines, and that it is impossible reasonably to infer long-term safety without first observing the impact on human health over the next few years. Specifically, the potential for late-onset effects such as the development of autoimmune diseases, cancer, neurological disorders, and infertility is highly relevant for young people who have a lifetime ahead of them. These potentialities need to be fully assessed and ruled out with certainty before it is possible to proceed with confidence.


2. Cells lines derived from the bodies of aborted babies were used in the production and/or testing of these vaccines.

Both AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson used cell lines derived from aborted babies in the testing, development, and production of their vaccines. Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna used these kinds of cells in some of their testing, but not in development and production.

These facts are troubling to many Christians, who rightfully judge that abortion is the murder of an innocent human being, and who know that God condemns murder. They are confused, however, by Christian leaders who say we can (and should) condemn abortion, but are permitted to benefit from the cells lines of aborted babies, since God is a God who can trump evil by using it for good. What biblical principles should guide us here?

There are at least two.

The first is found in Romans 1:32, where Paul castigates the Gentiles, not only for practicing evil, but also for approving of those who engage in it. It is clear, then, that a Christian should never say or do anything that would approve—or seem to approve—of evil, for that would make him complicit in the evil so approved. But if we receive a vaccine that is associated in any way with abortion, are we not giving tacit approval to those who test, develop, or produce it in this way? Are we not—in effect, if not in intention—encouraging them to continue using cell lines from aborted babies? On the other hand, if we reject the vaccine, and freely tell folks why, are we not bearing witness to God’s truth, and hopefully awakening the consciences of many?

The second principle is found in Romans 3:8. In his dialog with an imaginary Jew, Paul asks, “Shall we do evil that good may come?” (Rom. 3:8). Obviously not. And that must be our own reply to all who say, “Yes, aborting the baby was evil, but now that she’s dead, shouldn’t we redeem the evil by using her cells for good?”

“What!” cry the disciples of St. Paul. “In order to save our own skins shall we encourage Big Pharma to keep striking hands with Planned Parenthood, or with any other abortuary that is trying to make extra profits from the murder of unborn babies? No indeed! Rather, we need to hear again the Word of God: ‘Come out from among them and be separate,’ says the Lord, ‘and do not touch the unclean thing; and I will receive you,’” (2 Cor. 6:17).


3. The vaccines are unnecessary.

If the COVID-19 virus were like the bubonic plague or the Spanish flu, threatening entire populations with death, there might be a case for fighting it with an experimental vaccine. But it is not:

  • The vast majority of people infected with COVID-19—over 99%–will survive; most will experience mild to moderate symptoms, some none at all.
  • Even among the most vulnerable demographic, ages 65 and over, there is a 95% survival rate.
  • It is true that those with two or three “co-morbidities” (i.e., medical conditions that weaken the immune system) are more vulnerable to serious disease and death from COVID-19. But as we shall see, common sense measures of prevention, together with early treatment with repurposed drugs, guarantee highly effective protection, protection that is far greater than that of the experimental vaccines.
  • There is an infinitesimal chance that a healthy child will die of COVID-19 (.0002%). Some children have an innate immunity to the virus, likely traceable to memory cells generated by common colds (which are caused by coronaviruses). Others, perhaps as high as 60% here in America, have already passed through a COVID-19 infection—usually with mild symptoms, or none at all—and acquired a natural long-lasting immunity that, unlike the vaccines, will protect them from COVID-19 variants. Nor, by the way, do children transmit the virus, though they can, and typically do, contract it from adults. As we shall see in a moment, there is a significant chance that a child will be injured, permanently disabled, or killed by the vaccine, especially if he as already acquired a natural immunity. Thus, the (alleged) benefits of vaccination come nowhere near to outweighing the risks.
  • The official Infection Fatality Fate (IFR) for COVID-19 is inflated, and perhaps dramatically so. People who died with COVID-19, including suicides and accident victims, were counted as dying from the virus. One wonders: How many flu-related deaths have been reckoned as COVID-19 deaths? The PCR test for COVID-19 is known to give many false positives. Governments gave hospitals strong financial incentives to report ordinary deaths as COVID-19 deaths. Pathology professor Timothy Allen wrote, “It seems clear that the correct IFR is just a little worse than the rate for the 2017-2018 flu.”
  • Once again, if COVID-19 vaccines are unnecessary for the vast majority of the general populace, then they are exceedingly unnecessary for all who have acquired natural immunity by passing through an infection. And again, it is now known that vaccinating people who have natural immunity causes more adverse reactions than vaccinating those without. Why in the world would we do that, especially to children?

Throughout this pandemic, powerful elites, enabled by various media outlets, have consistently misinformed or underinformed us, thereby keeping the public in a state of ignorance and fear. The simple truth is that a COVID-19 infection is not especially dangerous, a healthy immune system is nearly always able to fight it off, and we have safe, effective, and inexpensive medications to treat any who are in special need. The new experimental vaccines are unnecessary.


4. The vaccines are ineffective.

When the new vaccines were rolled out, Dr. Fauci told us that they were “virtually 100% efficacious.” This led people to believe that they would permanently protect us from infection, transmission, disease, hospitalization, and death. In fact, they do none of these things. Yes, in many cases they offer temporary protection from COVID symptoms. But when the protection wears off (usually after 4-6 months), the vaccinated are again vulnerable to “breakthrough infections,” hospitalization, and death.

Hard data confirm this truth. In Israel, over 85% of the populace has been fully vaccinated. However, as of this writing public health officials now report over 16,000 cases. They also tell us that approximately 80% of those who died were vaccinated, and that this year’s deaths from COVID are 12 times higher than last year. The situation is much the same in other highly vaccinated locales, such as the U.K., Ireland, Wales, Australia, and Singapore. Meanwhile, here in the U.S. nearly 90% of the adults in Vermont have been vaccinated, yet cases are surging, and, according to Dr. Robert Redfield, 40% of the recent fatalities were fully vaccinated.

These developments tell us that the vaccines do not work. If fact, it now appears that they actually make things worse, since they promote the evolution of variants and confuse and weaken our immune systems. Accordingly, many authorities now judge it far safer for most folks to let a COVID-19 infection run its course, while treating the elderly and the vulnerable with safe and effective repurposed drugs. This approach allows our immune systems to generate robust antibodies that will attack all parts of an invading COVID-19 virus (and not just the spike proteins), thereby protecting us from variants, and also nudging the entire populace towards herd immunity.


5. The vaccines are dangerous.

This is my single greatest concern. Something is wrong with these vaccines. They are sickening, disabling, and killing many people.

Again, some experts trace this problem to the trillions of large, durable, and toxic spike proteins generated by our vaccine-modified cells clogging our circulatory system and settling in vital organs.

Others spotlight additional chemicals used in the vaccines, some of which are “proprietary,” and therefore secret. Two well-known ingredients are polyethylene glycol and polysorbate, both of which can produce anaphylactic shock (sudden allergic reactions) in certain individuals.

Still others worry that the vaccines are actually encouraging the generation of more (and more toxic) variants. Presently we are seeing this in parts of Europe, where a new variant, impervious to all existing vaccines, is hospitalizing many. Also, it appears that the vaccines can confuse or damage the immune system, with the result that previously healthy folks are now experiencing viral infections such as mononucleosis, herpes, and shingles.

Whatever the causes may be, one thing is sure: The victims are many, and the adverse reactions are diverse and serious.

As of this writing, the CDC reports 17,000 COVID-19 vaccine-related deaths, 80,000 hospitalizations, 25,000 permanent disabilities, and 800,000 total adverse events. Eudravigilance, the European reporting system, now associates the vaccine with 26,000 deaths. Whistleblower data gathered from very reliable Medicare charts show that nearly 50,000 elderly Americans died within two weeks of vaccination. Since adverse events are under-reported or misreported, these numbers are actually much higher. Steve Kirsch, using eight different parameters for calculation, concludes that the new vaccines have killed at least 150,000 Americans, and permanently disabled 300,000. As we have seen, in highly vaccinated countries like the U.K., Ireland, Holland, and Israel, COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are surging. In Australia, multiple-cause hospitalizations are surging. In highly vaccinated countries all-cause excess deaths are surging. Are we asking why?

Unveiling the variety, frequency, and seriousness of the adverse reactions, the official OpenVAERS website pointedly mentions blood clots, low platelets, strokes, anaphylaxis (allergic reactions), heart attacks, myocarditis (especially among young boys), Bell’s Palsy, miscarriages, and menstrual irregularities. Heart-rending personal testimonies, available for viewing on websites designed to publicize the stories of vaccine victims, put flesh on these statistics, and reveal the dreadful human cost of our errors.

I am especially concerned about the vaccination of children and youth. On the one hand, we have seen that this demographic is essentially impervious to serious illness and death from COVID-19. On the other, there is grave danger that many of our children will be injured, permanently disabled, or even killed by a new COVID-19 vaccine. Based on reports to the CDC, Steve Kirsch calculates that some 570 American youth, aged 12-17, have already died from vaccination. In the highly vaccinated UK, teen deaths are up 125%. Anecdotal evidence continues to pour in, giving us stories of teens who die in their sleep, in front of their computers, or on the playing field just days after their vaccination. Maddie de Garay, a 12-year-old girl, was part of a test group of about 1,100 youth. She nearly died from the vaccine, and now appears to be permanently disabled. Many outspoken medical authorities, decrying the great push to vaccinate children and youth, use words like insane, heartbreaking, and criminal. I could not agree more.

No vaccine in history has generated this range of adverse reactions. The official indifference to this fact is stunning, as is the failure of our media outlets to report it. Normally, 25-50 deaths that are even remotely associated with an experimental vaccine would bring testing and distribution to an immediate halt. In 1976, 32 deaths shut down human testing of the swine flu vaccine. Yet here and in much of Europe the march towards universal vaccination goes on, despite the fact that these vaccines are proven to be both ineffective and dangerous.

Who will tell the people the truth? Who will be for them a watchman on the walls?


6. The way out of the pandemic is not through mass vaccination, but through common sense methods of prevention, and through early treatment with cheap, safe, and effective repurposed drugs
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This point cannot be overemphasized, for it is the prime antidote to the fear that controls the masses. Currently, the powers that be in Europe and America are fixated on a one-size-fits-all strategy: vaccination. But for well over a year respected scientists and doctors around the world have been exploring other strategies, not only to prevent infection, but also to treat one when it occurs.

And they have found them. We now know that fresh air, sunshine, exercise, and a daily regimen of vitamin C, vitamin D, and zinc offer significant common-sense protection against infection. In some countries, governments encourage protection by distributing hyrdoxychloroquine or ivermectin for regular use. Very importantly, we also know that in the event of an actual infection, early treatment with hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, zinc, and other safe, repurposed drugs, including humble aspirin, will mitigate symptoms and prevent hospitalization and death for multitudes. The Fareed-Tyson protocol, relying upon such medications, has saved the lives of over 7,000 COVID-19 patients, and has resulted in a 99.76% risk reduction, with no deaths or disabilities. The websites of Steve Kirsch and the FLCCC offer us more. (See below)

Further support for this strategy comes from India. The state of Kerala, which banned the use of ivermectin, presently has about 186,000 cases of COVID-19. This is 65% of all cases in India. Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh, which aggressively promotes the use of ivermectin, has only 193 active cases, despite boasting over 200 million more citizens than Kerala! Yes, inexpensive repurposed drugs offer high levels of protection against COVID-19. But more than that, they allow our immune systems to develop special antibodies that will attack the entire virus (and not just a particular spike protein), thereby supplying robust protection against future variants. The end result, for folks who are willing to walk this path, is strong protection against severe illness, hospitalization, and death, as well as peace of mind, durable acquired immunity to COVID-19 variants, and a major contribution to herd immunity.

The vaccination path confers none of these benefits; indeed, it appears to work against them. Which path, then, is it most reasonable to take?


7. People are now becoming aware of these facts, rejecting the vaccines, and pushing back against vaccine mandates.

Just as you cannot keep a good man down, so you cannot keep the truth from getting out, especially in the age of the Internet! (2 Cor. 13:8). And thanks to the conscientious, courageous, and costly labors of a growing cadre of medical professionals, the truth is getting out, despite a flood of opposition from various powerful elites.

The truth-tellers are manifold. They include scientists, doctors, nurses, and public health officials. Space does not permit me to share their extensive credentials, but I am well pleased to lift up the names of just a few: doctors Peter McCullough, Robert Malone, Pierre Kory, Simone Gold, Joseph Mercola, Ryan Cole, Charles Hoff, Lev Zelenko, Harvey Risch, Scott Atlas, Peter Breggin, and many more. While differing among themselves on minor points of science and policy, all of these professionals challenge the safety of the new vaccines, oppose vaccine mandates, eagerly promote early treatment as our best weapon against the pandemic, and vociferously denounce authorities who would keep us from supplying that treatment to the needy.

Very importantly, their leadership has caused thousands of other professionals to join with them. As a result, over 10,000 doctors and scientists from around the world have signed the Rome Declaration, a public statement that articulates the principles mentioned above.

Happily, the people themselves are also speaking up. We now have websites where the vaccine-injured tell their stories, and where the relatives and friends of the vaccine-killed can do the same, hoping to alert a slumbering public. Similarly, victims now meet and exchange information on various social media platforms. Meanwhile, concerned citizens collaborate in Facebook groups, demonstrate in county squares, write letters to local newspapers, and contact government leaders and public health officials. In short, truth is going out and minds are being changed.

The result is major push back against the powers that be. We especially see this in the growing opposition to vaccine mandates coming from lawyers, doctors, nurses, soldiers, teachers, police officers, border patrol agents, firemen, pilots, air traffic controllers, and more. This opposition is quite revealing. If the new vaccines were properly vetted, shown to be effective, and known to be safe, most folks would receive them gladly. But they are not. Accordingly, more and more people are rejecting vaccination, even as influential leaders lie to them, bribe them, shame them, threaten them, fire them, and otherwise try to force them to take the jab.

The people’s response to all this pressure is visceral, and in full accord with nature and nature’s God: “Life is good. I need a healthy body to enjoy it. Nothing you can say or do will induce me to destroy it.”

For a comprehensive survey of the evidence for vaccine failures and dangers, click here.


The Principles Applied

I have argued that the biblical principles involved in the vaccination quandary are simple and clear. First, we must conscientiously steward the health of our bodies and the bodies of our children. We must never do anything that might injure or destroy these precious temples of the Holy Spirit. And second, we must never approve, or seem to approve, of an evil; nor are we to encourage an evil in any way, even if it might seem that through the evil some measure of good may come.

Speaking personally, after applying these principles to the relevant facts of the matter, I have concluded that I must not be vaccinated with one of the new genetic vaccines. The risks far outweigh any of the supposed (and largely disproven) advantages. To do so would be to jeopardize my life, health, capacities, and future fruitfulness in ministry; and to do so in the case of my children would be unthinkable. And again, these particular vaccines are morally tainted through their association with abortion and abortion profiteering. I cannot be a party to that. However, I can tell folks the reasons for my decision, and so become a voice for the unborn and the sanctity of human life.

Pastors, I urge you to share these principles and facts with your people. I also encourage you to direct them to any other resources that will help them educate themselves and stay abreast of developments in this highly consequential public debate. Having done that, you can safely leave the final decisions with them, knowing that you have done your duty, and that you are “innocent of the blood of all men” (Acts 20:26; Rom. 14:1-23).


PART 2

How Should Christians Respond to Vaccine Mandates?

The Principles Involved

Once again, the central principle involved here is quite simple: “We must obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29). However, in order to understand and apply it correctly, we need to think for a moment about the idea of authority.

What is authority? A basic definition, fully harmonious with biblical teaching, would be: Authority is the right to exercise power in order to enforce conformity to one’s will, or to discipline or punish those who refuse to conform.

In the Bible we meet the supreme authority in the universe: God Most High, the creator, sustainer, providential ruler, and moral governor of all men and nations. For our good and his glory he has instituted laws by which he would have us live. If we obey them, he will commend and bless us. If not, he will discipline or punish us. In all of this, his motives are good: The High King of Heaven uses his supreme authority to maintain order, enforce justice, secure the well-being of his creatures, and preserve his proper honor and glory (Ex. 20; Deut. 28; Mal. 1:6, 14; Matt. 28:18; John 17:2, Eph. 1:18-23; Rom. 13:1-7).

The Bible also reveals that God delegates some of his supreme authority to men and angels. Focusing our attention on men, we learn first of all that he delegates his authority (and therefore assigns responsibility) to individuals. That is, he gives each of us the right, the power, and the prerogative to govern ourselves according to his will. Of all delegated authorities, this is the most fundamental. It is the only one over which we have complete control, and the only one for which we must give an account to God (2 Cor. 5:10; Gal. 6:5). In the face of every spiritual test, including the test of new vaccines and vaccine mandates, we must take care to exercise it well.

There are several other kinds of delegated authority, all of which are given for specific purposes, and to be exercised within fixed limits. Thus, God delegates authority to husbands to govern their wives (Eph. 5:22). He delegates authority to parents to govern their children (Eph. 6:1). He delegates authority to elders, to govern their flocks (1 Tim. 3:4; Heb. 13:17; 1 Pet. 5:5). And finally, he delegates authority to magistrates to govern the citizens under their jurisdiction (Rom. 13:1-8; 1 Pet. 2:13-16).

But again, God has placed certain limits on those to whom he delegates authority, and this in two main ways.

First, leaders in every sphere must use their authority in obedience to the will of God. They are not at liberty to act on their own, but only as his ministers: as his representatives upon the earth (Rom. 13:6). As a general rule, this means that they will always use their authority to protect and promote the physical and spiritual well-being of those under their care. This is true even in the case of magistrates who are called to use their authority to punish evildoers, since the administration of divine justice secures the overall peace of a given community. If a leader uses his authority well, God will honor him and reward him (Rom. 13:7; 1 Tim. 3:13). But if he uses it selfishly, in order to promote his own interests and/or harm those under his charge, he has lost the mandate of heaven, fallen under the judgment of God, and forfeits the obedience of his subjects. Indeed, he rightly elicits their principled opposition. More on this in a moment.

Secondly, leaders are authorized to use their authority only over those within their jurisdiction, and for the purposes proper to that jurisdiction. For example, a husband and a father has God-given authority over his wife and children so that he may effectively protect them and provide for them, spiritually and physically. But if he tries to exercise this kind of authority over another man’s wife and children, he has stepped outside of his jurisdiction, violated God’s creation order, and stirred up a hornet’s nest.

Again, a church leader has authority from God to govern the affairs of his church and administer church discipline. But if he tries to use his ecclesiastical authority to control the decisions of individuals, husbands, parents, or magistrates, he has stepped outside of his jurisdiction and violated God’s order. And this too will bring on the hornets.

Much the same is true in regard to magistrates. They have God-given authority over the citizens in their community, but only for the purpose of praising those who do what is right, administering civil justice to all equitably, and imposing discipline and punishments on those who do what is wrong (Rom. 13:1-8). If any citizen—an individual, a husband, a wife, a child, a church leader, or a temporal ruler—has committed a crime, the magistrate has God-given responsibility and authority to judge, acquit, or punish them. But beyond that, he has no right or responsibility to touch a hair on their heads.

Summing up, God is the supreme authority. He delegates some of his authority to different kinds of leaders. He authorizes them to govern over those under their jurisdiction, for the purposes proper to that jurisdiction, and for the good of those under their care. However, when a leader oversteps any of these boundaries, his reach becomes overreach, his commands become null and void, and his subjects need not comply. Indeed, his subjects now have a positive duty (respectfully) to resist, for he has lost the mandate of heaven, and God—the supreme authority—is now against him.

Taming the Tension

Living as we do in a fallen world, we see this kind of thing all the time. Sin infects the lives of all people, including leaders. Therefore, whether in the home, the Church, or the State, leaders will all too often abuse their God-given authority.

Turning to the subject at hand, let’s consider some examples from the sphere of government. In Communist China magistrates dictate to parents how many children they may have; and in the recent past, they have forced abortion upon women whom they thought were having too many. In Germany, homeschooling is now illegal; in effect, German children are considered the property of the State, which pretends to have greater authority over a child’s spiritual and intellectual formation than his father and mother. Here in the United States, government officials, citing an alleged public health emergency, invaded any number of jurisdictions not properly their own, closing schools and businesses, shuttering churches, barring private gatherings, forbidding hospital ore rest home visitation, enforcing mask mandates, and (now) trying to mandate universal vaccination.

Who is sufficient for these things? Who has the wisdom to discern the lawfulness and justice of such acts, and to make a correct response to them? Answer: those who have understood from Scripture the nature, purpose, and limits of divinely delegated authority. It is only through biblical wisdom from God that we will be able to make wise, just, and safe decisions about any mandate coming down from “the powers that be.”

However, those decisions will not always be easy. For again, we live in a fallen world, a world in which we Christians often experience a distressing ethical tension.

On the one hand, we take seriously all the biblical texts that tell us to submit to temporal rulers. We understand that honorable rulers are ministers of God and administrators of his justice. We recognize the power of sin, the works of the devil, and the horrors of anarchy. Therefore, our default position is to eagerly support good government, and to work hard to achieve, maintain, and improve it.

On the other hand, we also know—both from Scripture and painful historical experience—that Satan can attack, and sin can infect, any human institution, including government. When it does, the result is that wicked magistrates reach beyond their jurisdiction, promote evil instead of good, harm those under their care, disobey the law of God, and forfeit the moral authority they had from him. Under these painful circumstances, when justice has become injustice, it now falls to the Christian to declare, “I must obey God rather then men” (Acts 5:29).

Jesus Christ and his apostles all experienced this tension. When they did, they responded biblically and memorably, giving us the wisdom, courage, and pattern we need to do the same (Rev. 11:8). Though our Lord had received orders from his Father to go to an unjust death like a lamb to the slaughter, he did not hesitate to point out the lawlessness of his trial; nor, throughout his lifetime, did he fail to challenge, reprove, and shrewdly evade the hostile and illicit powers that were arrayed against him (Matt. 23:13-26, 26:47-68; John 8:59; 18:28-32). Similarly, when the Jewish authorities commanded the apostles to no longer teach or preach in Jesus’ name, Peter and John boldly replied, saying, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in the sight of God for us to listen to you instead of him. As for us, we cannot help but speak about the things we have seen and heard.” (Acts 4:19-20).

Down through the centuries multitudes of discerning Christians have followed their courageous example, and some have paid the supreme price in order to stay safely on the side of God and his will. Today, in the midst of various encroaching tyrannies, many brave Christians are doing the same. I reckon Archbishop Carlo Vigano to be among them. With governmental responses to the current pandemic very much on his mind, he said, “Submission to legitimate state authority is the soul’s link to divine justice; but submission to illegitimate authority turns submission into subservience, and renders the soul complicit with evil.” For earnest Christians, either one of these failures would be calamitous. We must obey God rather than men.


The Facts of the Matter

Our subject here in Part 2 is vaccine mandates. If they haven’t reached you yet, they will. Though numerous legal challenges are working their way through the courts, President Biden has ordered the vaccination of all federal workers, including military personnel. Also, he has directed OSHA to compel businesses with more than 100 workers to mandate their vaccination or regular testing. Though OSHA has yet to act, and though the legality of such a dictate is in dispute, many businesses, including hospitals and universities, are already complying voluntarily. While some governors and state legislators are opposed to COVID-19 mandates, others are not. Here in California, for example, Governor Newsom has expressed his determination to mandate the vaccination of all students age five and over, in both public and private schools. The mandates will not likely stop there. Christian leaders, employers, and employees must prepare themselves.


The Principles Applied

Based on my reading of the biblical principles involved, and applying those principles to the facts of the matter, I judge that all such mandates are unlawful, destructive, and unconscionable.

Basically, my reasons are two-fold.

First, by mandating any medical procedure, temporal rulers are operating outside of their proper jurisdiction. God has given them authority only to administer civil justice for the good of the community. In the promotion of the latter, it is perhaps conceivable that in the event of an especially dangerous pandemic rulers may lawfully mandate a temporary quarantine of the symptomatic and contagious citizens; such a mandate, which must never cancel the right of healthy persons to work and worship, would resonate with common sense and genuinely reflect the love of one’s neighbor. (For a short discussion of the bearing of Levitical laws concerning leprosy on the issue of government mandated public health, see the Warrenton Declaration, Sections 17 and 18)

There is, however, is no biblical precept or precedent that could ever justify the State forcing a particular medical procedure upon any of its citizens, Christian or otherwise. Such a mandate would violate the sanctity of the God-ordained relationship between the citizen, his own body, and his creator. God has not granted the State stewardship over the bodies of its citizens; he has granted it to individual citizens, and to them alone. Intuitively, we all know this, especially those who cherish freedom and individual human rights. Bible-believing Christians are among them, and for very special reasons: They know that God has redeemed their body; and they know that he has given them a stewardship to take care of it (1 Cor. 9:17). My body is under my jurisdiction, and I am under God’s. My body is not under the jurisdiction of the State.

Secondly, by mandating this particular medical procedure (i.e., the injection of an unnecessary and demonstrably dangerous vaccine), rulers and/or employers are forcing me to expose the temple of the Holy Spirit—whether mine or my child’s—to injury, disease, and possible death. Moreover, they also are forcing me to receive a product that is morally tainted by association with abortion and abortion profiteering, with the result that I am indirectly encouraging pharmaceutical companies to continue their evil practices.

In short, this particular mandate pressures me to violate my conscience. But this I can never do, for Scripture instructs me to live in all good conscience (Acts 23:1), to keep my conscience void of offense towards God (Acts 24:16), and to hold the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience (Acts 24:16). It is a great evil—and a great folly—for the State to coerce the conscience of any of God’s children. Nevertheless, in order to test his children and to convict the world, God permits it from time to time. Knowing these things, the committed Christian will not cave in to evil edicts (Dan. 3). His conscience is not captive to the State; it is captive to the Word and Person of God.

Pastors, some of your people have already faced vaccine mandates, and it is certain that more will. They will feel great pressure to “take the jab” in order hold their jobs, feed their families, protect their careers, keep their kids in school, maintain amicable relations with their employer, and honor God by submitting to “the powers that be.” This test of their wisdom and courage is a raging river; you must help them to cross it.

Teach them the powerful biblical principles involved in this matter. Give them all the information they need to make wise, safe, and godly decisions. Help them understand that God’s command to submit to magistrates is not absolute; that there are times when it is not only permissible, but even imperative, to disobey. Yes, they must do so respectfully and, if at all possible, non-violently; but they must do so, firmly and steadfastly. Remind them that when push comes to shove, they must obey God rather than men.

Further Healthy Reminders

Along the way, you might also remind them that the supreme law of our land is the Declaration of Independence and the U. S. Constitution, with its glorious Bill of Rights; that these documents embody many biblical principles; and that these principles trump all unconstitutional mandates, federal laws, state laws, court decisions, or bureaucratic rulings.

Does God tell Christian Americans to obey “the governing authorities” (Rom. 13:1)? Well, those would be the Declaration and the Constitution. Accordingly, in God’s sight the highest civil duty of American Christians is to obey the principles and precepts contained in these two documents, and therefore to challenge any president, congressman, Supreme Court justice, or lesser magistrate who departs from them. The Church is the light of of the world, the pillar and support of the truth in the earth. Here in America she is under orders to speak prophetically to the powers that be, insisting that all rulers obey the law of the land, rather than break it themselves (Matt. 5:14-16; Rom. 13:1-7; 1 Tim. 3:15).

Finally, you might also remind them of the Nuremberg Protocols, a short list of principled procedures developed in response to the gross malfeasance of the medical establishment in Hitler’s Nazi Germany. These protocols, now ensconced in our own federal statutes, specifically address medical research, but also apply to medical treatments. They reflect timeless principles that are well supported by common sense, natural law, and biblical precept. Here are four that seem especially relevant to our present discussion: (1) Medical treatment must never be coerced, but always follow after the patient’s voluntary consent; (2) doctors must inform their patients of all known or possible dangers prior to any treatment; (3) the benefits of a treatment must be known to outweigh the risks; and (4) treatment must be immediately stopped if harm ensues.

Are American Christians now being required to submit to federal, state, city, or employer mandates that violate the Word of God, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Nuremberg Protocols? Pastor, your flock needs you to help them answer these important questions.


CONCLUSION

Let me close this section—and this essay—with a few practical words addressed to all God’s people.

As a retired pastor, the vaccines mandates have not (yet) affected me directly. However, I have read widely on the subject, and thought hard about what I would do if they did.

My counsel to you is that you carefully study the biblical principles and facts of the matter on vaccine safety and vaccination mandates, asking the Lord to help you reach full conviction on both of these issues.

If your conscience will not permit you to receive a genetic vaccine, and if you face a vaccination mandate, you can seek a religious exemption. Though anything is possible these days, it is hard for me to imagine that in the end the U.S. Supreme Court will not uphold them. (See the relevant resources in Part 3.)

Do not quit your job; instead, force your employer to fire you. In the midst of your spiritual test, this will put him to the test, and perhaps give you an opportunity to speak of your faith.  Hopefully, it will also insure that you receive unemployment compensation, and possibly even reparations in due season.

Be bold in discussing your convictions with your fellow employees; if push comes to shove, ask likeminded folks to join with you in stepping away from your employer. All of you together are more powerful than any one of you alone.

If appropriate, you might consider joining with others in a class action lawsuit challenging the legality and/or constitutionality of the mandate that led (or may lead) to your dismissal. The legal resources cited below should be of help.

Are you a Christian parent, concerned about the health and safety of a child who is attending public school? Might your situation be the voice of Providence? Might this be time to consider a Christian school or homeschooling? Yale epidemiologist Harvey Risch certainly thinks so: “If it were my child, I would home school them. Honestly, I would organize with other parents to take them out of the school and create homeschooling environments. There’s no choice. Your child’s life is on the line.”

Yes, it is hard to find a new job or a new school; but it is impossible to find a new body. At all costs you must protect it, except at the cost of spiritual compromise. Furthermore, radical action out of loyalty to the faith will inevitably call attention to that faith. Perhaps God has prepared you for such a time as this (Esther 4:14). Perhaps he desires that your Christian witness will win souls to your Savior.

So then, let us be willing to pay the price: certainly for the health of our families, but especially for the honor and glory of our God. And take comfort: The Lord himself told us that this kind of thing would happen (John 16:33; Acts 14:22). But he also told us that we are not alone: Others have experienced it before, and many are experiencing it today (1 Pet. 5:9). As we join with them in holy obedience, we become faithful witnesses who are purchasing gold tried in the fire, and acquiring true and lasting wealth (Rev. 1:5, 3:18).

But above all, remember Immanuel: the God who is with us in the midst of every test (Dan. 3:25). And remember that he has promised to richly supply all our spiritual and physical needs, so that we can boldly say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?” (Phil. 4:19; Heb. 13:6).

PART 3

Helpful Resources

The resources listed below will help pastors, Christian laymen, and all concerned citizens to educate themselves about the COVID-19 pandemic, the new genetic vaccines, and vaccine mandates. Hopefully, the materials will enable you to reach conviction on these matters, make wise personal choices for yourselves and your family, and serve in your communities as a well-informed and responsible citizens. I have sought to include only the most essential links (they will carry you to many others), and to categorize them in a way that will give you easy access to the information you seek. Occasionally you will need to search for a resource: Just place the key words supplied in the title of the resource in the search field of the website involved. Also, please consult this page from time to time, since I plan to add further resources in days ahead.

May God richly bless you all with his wisdom and courage in these challenging last days.


Helpful Websites  

America’s Frontline Doctors
Global Covid Summit (Very Valuable)
National Vaccine Information Center
Truth for Health Foundation
Children’s Health Defense
Daniel Horowitz / The Blaze
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
Vaccine Safety Research Foundation
The Brownstone Institute
Collateral Global
The Expose (UK)
Covid Call to Humanity

Helpful Newsletters

CHD: The Defender
Joseph Mercola
Jeff Childers
Alex Berenson
Eugyppius

Helpful Articles, Videos, and PDF’s

AFLDS White Paper on COVID-19 Vaccines (Search)
Dr. Charles Hoffe on mRNA Vaccines
Dr. Ryan Cole on mRNA Vaccines
COVID-19 Vaccine Secrets w/Resources
Guide to Home-Based COVID-19 Treatment (Search)
Dr. Thomas Siler: The Unvaccinated are Looking Smarter Every Day
Dr. Robert Malone on Vaccine Mandates
Dr. Peter McCullough on Vaccines and Vaccine Mandates
The Warrenton Declaration on Medical Mandates, Biblical Ethics, and Authority
CDC Lies Documented
How the mRNA vaccines work and do harm

Expert Forums and Declarations

Global COVID-19 Summit
Physicians Declaration
The Great Barrington Declaration
The Warrenton Declaration on Authority and Mandates

Vaccine Injuries and Deaths

OpenVAERS
1000 COVID-19 Stories
COVID Vaccine Victims
The Expose (UK)
Vaccine Safety Research Foundation
Vaccine Injured Speak Out
Senator Ron Johnson’s Panel on the Vaccine Injured
75 Prominent Athletes Suddenly Dead
Vaccines Increasingly Dangerous to Youth
Dramatic Increase in Still Born Babies
Doctors for COVID Ethics
Over 300 Athlete Deaths
Testimonies of/about the Young
Vaccine Deaths
Survey of Evidence for Vaccine Failures and Dangers
Dr. Stephanie Seneff of Danger of Vaccine Induced Neurodegenerative Disease
1000 Articles Documenting Vaccine Injury
Embalmers Descry Strange Blood Clots in the Vaccinated
Latest Summary of Dangers/Harms (May, 2022)
How the Covid Vaccine Kills (June, 2022)

The Abortion Connection

Desmond Allen: Moral Objections to Current Vaccines
Clifford Grobien: Exemptions Are Needed

Early Treatment: Options and Outlets

Steve Kirsch: Vaccine Research and Resources
Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC)
America’s Front Line Doctors (ALFDS)
Seven Cells
Speak With an MD
Push Health
Horowitz: Fauci’s Criminal Disregard for Early Treatment Options 
Dr. Thomas Siler: Getting Through the Next Six Months
Studies on Efficacy of Ivermectin

Vaccine Mandates

The Next Prohibition
West Point Vaccine Mandate an Unlawful Order
Worldwide Protests of Vax Mandates, Passports, Lockdowns

Legal Resources

Parallel Economies, Legal Resources
The Healthy American
The Liberty Counsel
The Thomas More Society
The Warrenton Declaration on Authority and Mandates

Keeping our Kids Safe

Why Are We Vaccinating Children Against COVID-19? (Research Article)
Paul Alexander on Vaccinating Children
CHD: The Defender
Dr. Thomas Siler: What Questions Must We Ask Before Vaccinating Our Children?
13 Reasons Why You Should Not Let Your Child Take the Covid-19 Vaccine (Expose, UK)
Dr. Peter McCullough: Why Kids Must Avoid the mRNA Shot
Dr. Harvey Risch on Vaccine Mandates for Children
Why Kid’s Immune Systems Can Handle COVID-19
Dr. David Gortler: The FDA has Failed in Its Duty to Protect Children
Why Do They Want to Vaccinate Children?
The Unity Project (Parents, Turn in Here!)
“Leave the Kids Alone!”
A War on Children
Children: The Faultline Exposing the COVID Narrative 
Two 15 Year Olds Dead
Dr. Robert Malone: Omicron and the Kids
Kids Getting Killed in the UK
Should You “Vaccinate” Your Kids?

 

 

 

 

 

35 Comments

  1. As a physician and a committed believer, I respectfully disagree with your conclusions. The virus, whether you choose to believe it or not, is objectively significantly more dangerous than the vaccine. An unvaccinated person is up to 11 times more likely to die from COVID. The list of resources above does not represent the views of more than 99% of physicians, and we’re the ones treating patients for COVID everyday. We have no reason to lie to you, many reasons to tell the truth to save lives.

    1. Thank you for your respectful reply, Dr. Murray. I offer a couple of non-professional responses.

      First, I doubt that an unvaccinated person who receives early treatment with the protocols mentioned in my article is more likely to die of Covid than from the vaccine.

      Secondly, while early treatment radically reduces morbidity and mortality, long-term “protection” by vaccines is proving to be a deadly mirage. Let me encourage you to follow Alex Berenson on substack, or Robert Malone on Twitter, or Daniel Horowitz at the Blaze. You will see that the situation in highly vaccinated European countries is rapidly deteriorating, with a new variant now on the scene that is impervious to boosters, and that is making vaccinated people quite sick.

      https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-is-europe-getting-crushed-by-variant-completely-immune-to-covid-shots

      We ought never to have adopted the mass vaccination approach, since, in this case, the best and only real path to herd immunity was to let the virus work its way through the population, and let our immune systems do the job God intended.

      Well, I honor you in the Lord; may he richly bless your search for truth and your service to your patients.

    2. I want to thank Dr. Murray for his comment. This article is very sad. Literally full of misinformation. Listen to medical experts on this. We are dealing with a virus that has killed hundreds of thousands in the US alone and, even if you recover, you have a 30 percent chance of long-haul issues. Get vaccinated. Protect yourself and those you care about. Do not listen to any pastor or other non-expert who tries to create fear.

      1. Hello Brian.

        You charge me with purveying misinformation, but you are not specific. I am eager to be corrected where I am wrong. Fire away with the specifics.

        I have addressed the claim that “hundreds of thousands” have died in the U.S. Only the Lord knows how many died FROM Covid, but according to my research it is far less than is commonly claimed. Reasons given in the article.

        As for long-haul COVID, a recent study completed in France argues that in fact there is only one proven “long-haul” effect (loss of sense of smell), and we don’t really know how long that will last. The other effects are psychosomatic among people who think they had COVID but in fact did not.

        Here is a link to the study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2785832

        Also, visit the website for the FLCCC where I believe there is a discussion of protocols for long-haul COVID.

        1. Brian Jonson

          You accuse Pastor Davis of disseminating misinformation and encourage people to listen to the “medical experts”…while completely ignoring the fact that Pastor Davis based his conclusions on information and data from medical experts, which he cites in his article.

          So, is it your contention that the people Pastor Davis cites are idiots who got their medical degrees in a cracker jack box, while you and your preferred sources are the experts? Given the credentials of the people Pastor Davis cites, that sounds like pure hubris to me.

          This leads me to a couple questions.

          1. Dr. Murray claims that more than 99% of physicians are in opposition to the sources of information that Pastor Davis provides. Can Dr. Murray (or you) provide proof of that claim?

          While I’d be interested to see your response, I’ll just say the claim is simply not true. There is no broad consensus in the medical and scientific communities around COVID and the vaccines. There are tens of thousands of esteemed doctors, scientists, nurses, and other medical professionals who are on record, in writing and on video, voicing their serious concerns about everything for which Pastor Davis voiced concern. The problem is, they are being canceled and censored.

          BTW: Even if it were true that 99% of doctors and scientists agree on all things COVID and vaccines (which it is not), would that automatically mean the 1% are wrong? I can think of many examples in life and science where the lone wolf crying in the dessert ended up to be the right one. As a believer in Christ, Dr. Murray need look no further than his Bible for examples of this.

          2. I’m going to assume Dr. Murray and you are unable to prove the claim of 99%+ concensus in the medical and scientific community around COVID and the vaccines. This then leads to a follow-up question – are the differences between docs and scientists minor?

          Again, I’ll answer – no the differences are not minor. One group says COVID is an existential threat to humanity which requires a vaccine to control it…and the mRNA technology (vaccines) that were developed are safe and effective. The other group says COVID can be dangerous for people over 70 and with commorbidities, but there are proven treatments that are highly effective and a vaccine is not needed…and the vaccines that were developed are neither safe nor effective.

          Two diametrically opposed viewpoints cannot be simultaneously true, so one is right and the other is wrong. This leads me to the next question.

          3. Does the trustworthiness of the sources of data and information on which doctors and scientists base their conclusions matter?

          I hope you’ll agree that it does.

          Dr. Murray mentioned that he, and other physicians who disagree with Pastor Davis’ conclusions have no reason to lie to people. I don’t doubt that at all. Indeed, I am quite confident that Dr. Murray and most doctors are honest brokers who care about the well being of their patients. But, that doesn’t mean the sources they are relying on for data and guidance are trustworthy.

          For instance, many in the medical field have been taught to trust the CDC and the FDA, but both organizations have been caught many times over the last 24 months boldface lying to the American public and/or making deceptive statements.

          The truth is, it is the doctors and scientists who are standing up against the lies and misinformation being propagated by Faucci, the CDC, the FDA, the Biden administration, and the media that have nothing to gain. Rather, they have every thing to lose by speaking out. They are risking their livelihood, their professional esteem, etc. Indeed, they are all being maligned, cancelled, and censored.

          4. Lastly, what do you do with the numbers on the VAERS reporting system, which is co-managed by the CDC and the FDA? http://www.vaers.hhs.gov

          18,078 lives lost…from the supposed solution to the “Pandemic”? I know, can’t draw causality, but other vaccines have been shut down for less than 50 reported deaths. Instead, we are talking about mandating this??? Of note, 18,078 represents almost 70% of ALL the vaccine reported deaths on VAERS.

          167,667 hospitalizations reported from the COVID vaccines, representing 53% of ALL vaccine related hospitalizations reported on VAERS. Nothing to raise an eyebrow at? Do these people’s stories matter to you and Dr. Murray — https://youtu.be/lkVN3KwDfvI

          VAERS is rapidly approaching 1 million COVID vaccine reports. Nothing to be concerned with

          How about that the CDC & FDA, right on the VAERS website, acknowledge that the data on the site represents only 1% of actual adverse events? No worries?

          And then there’s the inconvenient fact that breakthrough cases are spiking in the most highly vaccinated nations (Israel, the UK, etc)…and renowned doctors are warning that Antibody Dependency Enhancement is happening with the vaccinated crowd. We are on the cusp of virus season and we will soon see if those concerns are warranted. I pray they are not, but because I followed the phase one clinical trials I fear they are indeed warranted…and God help us if they are!

          1. Hello Tom,

            Thank you for your comment. We share a sense of deep concern. In response to you concluding paragraph, I am posting here a recent report from Jeff Childress. We may be facing a tough winter ahead. Let us pray the pastors will hear from the Lord on this.

            Jeff Childress reports:

            KHN News published an article last week headlined, “ERs Are Swamped With Seriously Ill Patients, Although Many Don’t Have Covid.” Swamped. Swamped is another word for, “overwhelmed.” But, oddly, the corporate media doesn’t seem too interested in THIS “overwhelmed hospitals” story. Even this article doesn’t use the word, “overwhelmed.” For some reason.

            The article describes a difficult situation at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing. According to KHN, Tiffani Dusang, the ER’s nursing director, “practically vibrates with pent-up anxiety,” looking at patients lying on a long line of stretchers pushed up against the beige walls of the hospital hallways. “It’s hard to watch,” she said. The ER’s 72 rooms are completely full.

            Sparrow Hospital isn’t the only one. “We are hearing from members in every part of the country,” said Dr. Lisa Moreno, president of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. “The Midwest, the South, the Northeast, the West … they are seeing this exact same phenomenon.”

            The hospitals are so full that many patients are laying around on gurneys, in hallways, unattended for hours or even DAYS. “This is not humane care,” Moreno said. “This is horrible care.”

            In a survey of hospitals around the country, doctors and nurses say the severity of the mysterious illnesses ranges widely, including abdominal pain, respiratory problems, blood clots, heart conditions and suicide attempts, among other conditions.

            Got that? Respiratory problems, blood clots, and heart conditions.

            The article mentions another problem. Hospital staff shortages. But WHY? Why so many staffing shortages? The article says it’s stress. Stress from what? Short staffing. So, people are experiencing stress because of short staffing caused by … short staffing.

            Why isn’t all the demand attracting new nurses and healthcare workers? It definitely doesn’t have ANYTHING to do with jab mandates. Because that’s just crazy. Plus, science.

          2. Pastor Davis,

            Yes, I am definitely in the same boat with you brother! In fact, your post closely resembles a White Paper that I wrote about 8 months ago, called “The Covid 19.” My paper documents 19 questions that every critical thinking person should be asking and researching surrounding all things COVID and vaccines. I provide the research I have done on each of the questions and include a ton of links to data, interviews, presentations, and articles. I update my paper about once every 3-4 weeks as additional info becomes available. I conclude with a special word to my brothers and sisters in Christ that examines the spiritual dynamics driving all of this.

            On that note, we are also told in 2 Timothy 1:7 that “God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self discipline.” And in 1 Corinthians 14:33, we are told that “God us not the author of confusion, but of peace…” We know that the enemy of our souls traffics in fear and confusion…and if there are any two words that describe the state of the entire word right now, they would be fear and confusion. Sadly, many believers are consumed by fear and confusion right now.

            I am praying for more docs, nurses, and scientists to join the tens of thousands of other docs, nurses, and scientists who are daring to ask the tough questions and go outside of the prevailing sources (many of which have been compromised by an agenda) and start doing their own research.

            I am also praying for all those who call on the name of Jesus — that they will do the same…and that the Holy Spirit will awaken them to the deeper spiritual battle that is raging around them. Scripture tells us that in the last days, there will be powerful delusions that will come upon the earth and that people will refuse to love the truth. I believe we are seeing this right now… and I believe people are being conditioned to accept a much greater and more eternally consequential delusion that is coming soon.

            Pastor Davis, thank you for your tenacity to do the research and share boldly your findings and your concerns. Hosea 4:6 says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” So, keep sounding the alarm, and standing for truth…regardless of the attacks you receive. As believers, we are called to be people who seek the truth and live in truth. We know that the truth brings freedom…so those choosing NOT to agressively seek and live in truth are by default in bondage to the lies of the enemy of our souls. Over the last 24 months, my favorite brothers from the Bible have become Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. May we have the courage to stand as they did!

            Blessings to you brother,
            Tom

          3. So well said, Tom. Thank you. Also, please send me your white paper, or tell me how to view it online. I would like to keep up with your research. d

      2. Hello Brian. Thank you for your comment. “Experts” would be a good subject for another essay. Who are they really? And why are there “experts” on all sides of this and other questions. Seems to me that in the end it falls to poor pastors–and their flocks–to process claims on all sides and then make the best judgments they can. And surely this is possible. Surely everyday Christians can arrive at truth and wisdom if they will pray and put in the work. The article is my best shot at it, undergirded by men and women whose expertise I have come to trust. \ Blessings to you, brother. Be well.

    3. With all due respect there is no way that 99% of physicians agree with you. Do first-line responders agree with you? I don’t believe so and it’s the reason so many of them would rather leave lucrative jobs than be part of this experiment.

      Do yourself a favor and watch Senator Ron Johnson’s hearings on this fiasco. There are many reputable doctors, Peter McCullough being just one of the many who are speaking out about this EXPERIMENTAL gene therapy. Look at the latest research on the myocarditis and pericarditis due to the spike protein causing inflammation. The fatalities of some many at the beginning were due to NO early intervention and then using Remdesivir and ventilators! I applaud this man for posting this. He’s obviously done his research and actually looked at the real science, something you may want to try.

  2. Thank you (this insufficiently communicates my gratitude) for your “baking” skills that the Lord has supplied me bread with. As I lay awake at 1:45am reading this, this comes in a manner that manifests this passage,
    “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
    Matthew 7:7‭-‬9 ESV

  3. Since the large pharmaceutical companies all are using fetal stem cells in their research, wouldn’t the best response is to not support their continued research by not using their products?

    1. Ken, there are several kinds of fetal stem cells that are not secured through abortion. These would be fine to use, if given by permission. For example, I believe there are stem cells in a mother’s umbilical cord.

      But I would refuse to use or purchase any product tainted with abortion.

      Thankfully, there was quite a brouhaha over this matter in regard to the vaccines. I feel sure the pharmaceutical companies got the message! Will they act on it. God knows. d

  4. Thank you for your words of wisdom. I work for a tech company located in California which is a Federal Contractor. I was recently informed that EO 14042 mandates that all employees be vaccinated even though I am 100% remote. I have submitted my religious accommodation request, but have yet to hear back.

    The information contained within your essay further solidifies my stance on this unconstitutional mandate.

  5. I am a Christ follower, a nurse and public health professional (MPH).

    I want to deeply thank Rev. Davis for his contribution to the life of the church with this essay. May God bless the work of your hands.

    Rev. Davis’ first point: that shepherds must TEACH their flock, so the shepherds may remain innocent of the blood of all men cannot be overemphasized. The web of deceits and frauds that have been carefully intertwined are not ones that lay persons can untangle on their own. It bears repeating that this is not a run-of-the-mill issue of Christian liberty. This is at its core a fundamental issue of LIFE.

    It will be necessary for pastors to spend several dozen hours studying this web of deceits in order for them to be capable teachers. Alternatively, utilize the many nurses among you, ( they are nearby) who can help teach your people.

    Peter McCullough, MD ‘s podcast on America Outloud are good means of staying current.

    Rev. Davis has listed many great resources. Here are a few more: Reiner Fuellmich, JD has collected hundreds of hours of testimony via the German Corona Investigative Committee available on YT or alternate channels.

    His interview in Dec. 2020 with Michael Yeadon and Clare Craig will explain the fraud of the PCR test.

    Dr. David Martin, has given two lectures this past weekend, also exposing the criminality of the public health tyranny.

    Jessica Stone, PhD analysis of VAERS data can be found at IPAK. James Lyons Weiler, PhD writes at Popular Rationalism on substack.

    Denis Rancourt, PhD is a research scientist whose analysis of all cause excess mortality is very important. He has his own website and also contributes to PANDA.

    Elizabeth Vliet, MD has been helping to expose the tyranny within the hospitals across the nation. She, Dr McCullough and the phenomenal Paul Elias Alexander,PhD are active in The Truth for Health Foundation. Paul also writes at the Brownstone Institute and ‘shreds’ data with an especially passionate advocacy for children. At the T4HF there is a recording of the proceedings of the ‘Stop the Shot’ symposium.

    Rev. Davis’ analysis is accurate regarding the lack of safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 injectable products. The absolute risk reduction (ARR) provided by the Pfizer injectable product was 0.7 percent. Very, very small impact. Ron Brown, PhD has done a good job of explaining why the FDA was duty bound to report the ARR and not just the relative risk reduction (RRR). (Trial Site News) By failing to do so, the agency deceived the masses into believing the products were 95 percent effective—- but efficacious for what?

    Read Peter Doshi, PhD editorials in the British Medical Journal to understand. Doshi explains the clinical endpoint was reduction of severe disease, NOT prevention of disease, nor disruption of transmission.

    The most important messages for the church is: protect life.

    Do not jab kids.
    Do not jab the COVID recovered.
    Do not do the boosters.
    Treat COVID EARLY.

    Establish with your MD an agreement to form an Advanced Directive with you for the early treatment of COVID.

    Do not accept a flippant answer from the receptionist: ‘oh we don’t treat COVID.’

    Print out McCullough’s paper from pubmed: “ Multifaceted highly targeted sequential multi drug treatment of early ambulatory high-risk SARS-COV2 infection.”

    Make an appt with your MD and tell the receptionist the purpose. Have a FACE to FACE visit with your MD and remind them of your dependence upon them to read the medical literature and stay current so that they have every tool at their disposal to try to save your life, and keep you from developing lingering symptoms. should you become ill with COVID-19.

    Hand them PMC’s paper stating that this is the most cited paper on the early treatment of COVID and get up to leave. Thank them for giving it their serious attention, and let them know you will be back on ‘x’ date to discuss their advanced plan for you if you become ill with COVID.
    We must press our humanity back upon the ‘house of medicine’ and nudge them back into the circle of empathy so they remember their covenantal oath to preserve and protect our lives.

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    Note:l on boosters:
    The boosters were voted down by the FDA Advisory Committee 16:2 because Pfizer data shows a 5:1 death to life ratio. In approving the boosters anyway, , the FDA destroyed regulatory science.

    All available COVID 19 injectable remain under EUA.
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    We are in a lawless free fall and there is so much work for the church to do (McCullough, AAPS speech, 2021)

    This week it is a week for sackcloth and ashes as innocent children are led by parents to be injected, many will be maimed and die.
    Molech’s gaping mouth is swallowing them whole, while parents give them up to the wishes of the State.

    When the church has ears to hear, there is a faithful contingent of HCPs ready to help pastors to help their congregants. We are sad that it is likely not until we are standing at gravesites of the innocents that ears will open.

    1. This is fabulously helpful. Thank you for taking the time to post it, Carol. I would urge you to write an article of your own and submit it to Dominic at the Aquila Report. I feel quite confident he will honor your expertise and point of view, and will post your article. d

  6. Thank you for writing this piece! I have 2 of my sons who are both Eagle Scouts who joined the military a few years ago and now face courts-martial over their request for a religious exemption. Religious persecution is coming to the saints in America.

  7. Thank you for writing this. Understandable information and reasoned analysis is hard to find in all the noise we live in. Thank you so much for wading through data, research, and disinformation with a Biblical lens. I’m praying that God blesses you and your family.

  8. Great article which organizes the jumbled snippets of information we are exposed to and the exhortation for truthsayers to tell the truth! is refreshing.  

  9. As a believer living in the UK, I would encourage everyone to get vaccinated. Statistics here clearly show that death rates have drastically reduced among those who have been vaccinated. Elderly residents in our care homes are now better protected and the wider population can now get on with some kind of normal life, including church life which is re-commencing. God has provided vaccines for polio, hepatitis, flu and countless other diseases and we accept them gratefully. Please, please disregard this false information for the sake of your health and your families health.

    1. Thank you, Mervyn, for your comment. / In my reading, it appears that the vaccines have actually killed a number of the elderly; how many is hard to say, since there is an official reluctance to associate deaths with the vaccine. But if you will read the testimonials of their children, you will see. Here is one: https://www.habingfamily.com/obituary/michael-mike-granata / It is true that in some people the vaccines mitigate symptoms; but the argument of my trusted leaders is that re-purposed drugs do the same, and with far less danger to the patient. As Steve Kirsch likes to say, “The only folks you’ll find in the hospitals are those who did not receive early treatment.” / Yes, by God’s good providence we now have SOME effective vaccines. Many, however, were immediately withdrawn from the market because they proved dangerous or deadly. Also, flu vaccines are known to have relatively poor effectiveness. Far worse, however, are the new genetic vaccines, which, as I wrote, should have been tested before mass distribution. Please visit OpenVaers and read about all the adverse reactions. Many authorities are convinced that it is giving us only a small percentage of them. Please be sure to read the info at Children’s Health Defense: The anecdotes are heart-breaking. / Finally, here is an article about the state of things in England: https://theexpose.uk/2021/11/12/england-83-percent-covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated/
      Peace to you in Christ: Soon he will come again and sort all things well.

  10. Pastor Dean,
    Thank you for your very well thought out and intensively researched article. It amazes me how anyone could just reject it out of hand. I don’t believe any opened minded person could. I have known you for years, and know you to be extremely honest, biblically astute, intelligent and amazingly thorough in research and writing. I know that you are unbiased, unlike others who are so extremely biased. They keep telling us that these experimental vaccines are safe, ignoring the vast number of documented injuries and deaths that have already occurred. No one has any idea of the long term affects these synthetic injections will have upon our very fine tuned innate immune system, heart, blood, DNA,etc. Finally I believe the testimonies of people by the hundreds of thousands damaged by these shots. I believe the testimonies of the families of the many, many thousands killed by these shots. Thank you, Dean, for taking the time to do the research and fearlessly present the facts.

    Gary Campbell
    Carson City, NV

    1. So grateful for your kinds words, brother. The situation is unfolding rapidly. The increase in worldwide protests shows that people are becoming aware of the truth. Please make good use of the links supplied in this essay. I update them from time to time. I love the words of Paul: “We can do nothing against the truth, only for it.” The truth will out, and the truth will win. We pray that not too many will be hurt before it does. Blessings. d

  11. Great essay. Thank you so much. Have shown it to many and will be linking to it on my blog. I just wanted to let you know that Fakebook has banned this article and deemed it to transgress their so-called “community guidelines”. Also, if someone tries to click on the link to your article in Messenger, a big screen flags up saying “You won’t be able to go to this link”, as it does not follow “community guidelines”. The spiritual warfare against truth is now coming to a climax. When you throw Transhumanism, posthumans, and Human 2.0 into the mix, we are in for a rough ride. 😉 All I can say is this: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter”.

    1. Hey Alan,

      Thank you for your kind words. I have been sidelined by FB for over a year. Please feel free to share the article in any venue that you think helpful.
      Yes, the battle of the ages would appear to be coming to a climax. Even so, come Lord Jesus, come!

  12. Excellent article. Thank you for writing it. I think it will be very helpful when trying to persuade our church leaders.

    I think it is important to note that the supreme law of the land is God’s Law. The Constitution is under that. So, if the feds are successful in passing laws or altering the Constitution, giving the government the legal authority to control our medical decisions, or achieving Supreme Court decisions that appear to do the same, it is still not within the scope of the civil sphere’s authority.

    1. Hey Chris, thank you for commenting. I totally agree with your remarks. The government’s pandemic overreach is the nose of the camel, poking around in the tent of the Church. God means for us to learn our lesson. At all time, in all respects, we must obey him rather than man.

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