Sunday May 3, 2020
Our Sermon Reformation Hope Church in Brookfield, Wisconsin by Dr. Wayne Sedlak
The biblical doctrine of plague and its consequence, quarantine is, like so many other areas contained in the Law of the Lord, underdeveloped by commentators, pastors, and theologians. One of the reasons for this reluctance to deal with these two issues (plague, quarantine) is that it is presumed the word of God is primitive – not medically and scientifically up-to-date – so as to be trusted with the subject. Tragically, it is the churches themselves that have helped foster that view. This is simply an area in which a person could have lived his entire life, never having heard even one sermon upon the subject!
When one studies this subject, there are quite a few surprises the Holy Spirit has interwoven throughout the subject’s theme (plague) as it is pursued in the Word of the Lord. Though the dual-subjects of plague and quarantine are heavily stressed in dealing with the disease group called “Leprosy” (Lev. 13), elsewhere the overall practice involved with plague and quarantine is invariably concerned with something considered by the word of God to be a sign of God’s consuming anger…
…famine.
Famine is repeatedly addressed in Scripture. When a nation is plagued – and that can be any one of a number of dangerous calamities – famine is the ONE consequence to such plagues about which the Church is to be most concerned. And it is famine the church must be equipped to handle, and to help our neighbors understand as well.
“Plague” is used as a term likened unto an invading army and incorporates all kinds of overwhelming calamities engulfing a nation, including, of course, pestilence and disease. So what is the biblical response? More importantly, what is it that the Lord is making us to understand concerning His Will?
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