God Gave Pharaoh Ten Plagues....We're Probably At Number Five Or Six

                One cannot just start something up....take an interest in it....and right away become an expert. One might be able to pick up a ball or a musical instrument and in a very short time become very good at it.....but that's not what I'm talking about....for even if you sat down at a piano for the first time and very quickly began to play beautiful music....you still would know nothing about music itself. There have been a number of celebrities who tried acting for the first time....and won awards.....even Oscars....but that Oscar came also because of a terrific Oscar-worthy script and a great director....and who knows how many other influences. One just does not become a Christian and all of a sudden know everything....or even become a teacher. Charles Finney tried that....they begged him to get his Christian education before he would begin to teach....he refused....and disaster resulted....that continues to plague the church today. Even Charles Spurgeon who had no formal seminary training but quickly after conversion became a magnificent preacher of the gospel....so much so that others were amazed....even he had....unconverted at the time....sat throughout his young life at the feet of Christians and pastors in his family who did attempt to teach him....and he read the Puritans as a youngster....incessantly....out of interest....because of his own admission.....he wasn't any good with any type of ball that would otherwise occupy his time
               So all that I can do....and I'll bet you also...is read on what a virus is....and read and read some more....and do the best we can to be informed rank amateurs. So it is as that informed rank amateur that I give these thoughts.....and I'm going to put it in very simple terms.....for that is what I here understand best. The virus replicates....and scientists study it and treat it....but the more it has the opportunity to replicate....the more chance there is that that replication might mutate. That is what we have today with the four most dangerous mutations so far. The less opportunities that that virus gets to replicate....the less chances are of it to mutate. If someone would pitch a baseball to me I would surely swing and miss it.....and if they pitched to me ten times....I would miss the ball ten times....but if they pitched the ball to me one hundred times....I'm going to hit the ball at least once.
               So the scientists who are the actual experts....the people who have spent decades studying how a virus mutates....probably doing this research all their life....becoming workaholics in the process because of this passion....and this probably because they also are no good with any type of ball that would take up an exorbitant amount of their time....these scientists tell us that we need as many vaccinations as possible....and any other preventive measures that might lower the number of infections....and thus the chances for mutation....but we choose rather to listen to our podcast and radio and cable TV stars....for in believing them we get to watch and play with these many and various shaped balls....which brings out in us emotions and praises that church worship services only wish they had.
               So this problem is present also in the church....for men....and women....(hundreds...thousands actually)....without a sound education in the doctrines of the Christian faith....become very influential self-proclaimed experts....false teachers as God's Word calls them....often Gnostics hearing directly from God....and then the doctrinal mutations begin....and the church becomes sick....as it is today....lacking discernment in what has happened in politics....unable to preach....and unwilling to warn.
               God gave ten plagues to Pharaoh before Pharaoh said to the Hebrews...."Go"....and this even was only temporary. We may have more virus mutations....more virulent and dangerous mutations....before this is all over....for they are judgments....but whether they be the plague or something else....these judgments will continue....because we are giving them no attention as judgments from God.