The Battle Of Crowns

Corona Virus our invisible enemy, an enemy that has scaled through the universe. Millions have been left jobless, the greatest economies of the world have come to their knees. It is recorded to be the greatest universal calamity after World War II. Not only have it affected us economically, families have been robbed of their beloved ones, with over 80 000 people dead and over 1.5 million people infected with the virus  world wide.

A Virus That Wears A Crown

                                             
Our social habits have been forced to change so as to accommodate the mitigating measures to reduce the spread of the virus. With most governments implementing nationwide lockdown, Social distance and restricted movement has become the order of the day. Those who depended on the socialization of the community for a living have been doomed as business have been put on halt.

Individuals have been asked to stay at home, which has been argued by the United Kingdom National Health Services and other Medical Practitioners as the most effective way to curb the spread of this high infectious disease that knows no boundaries, race, age, nor royalty. It has been as seen the greatest equalizer of humanity.


Its origins have sparked controversies ranging from biochemical man made weaponry, the 5G network radiation, to the Western Trade Tariffs equaliser. Not withstanding the Chinese dietary conspiracy, as result of the huge Chinese appetite of the wild life the Chinese wild life market has given room to its customers to come into contact with such animal like Bats and Pangolins which scientist are alluding that they might be the right carriers of the Covid19 Virus.

Religiously, more than 80 million people have failed to meet in churches, to fellowship and have prayers. The church has also added its voice to the Covid19 conspiracies pointing the world to the Doctrine of Eschatology which is the study of the end times.

 Advocating that the end has come and that the antichrist is setting up to introduce the new world order. Which will be the creation of one world order with a digital currency embedded in a chip as the mark of the beast.

Having looked at the great impact of Covid19 in the world it is almost impossible to come with all forms of fears, anger, confusion, hopelessness, and ways to create hope and security for the people. Hence, we have all these ideologies and beliefs. Remember people are always reinforced by ideas that inspire hope and define purpose and destine of something or someone. Leaders must inspire such hope thus why probably we could have such ideologies that hopes to bring hope.

In light of all these ideologies and beliefs, my personal thoughts and the things I have learned about the coronavirus (Covid19). Thoughts that should also inspire hope and direct us to move away from fear to faith. I will spend my time on the microscopic image of the anatomy of the Covid19 that is its image and representation.

As we look at the image, it surely looks like a crown, a virus that is crowned. Furthermore the term corona would mean according an anatomic definition: a part of the body resembling or likened to a crown.Anything that wears a crown means something in the world of power, dominance and in Kingdoms. In simply terms the anatomy picture of the virus shows and represents a virus that is wearing a crown. What does that mean to us, does it have a meaning?

A crown generally is a Royal headset that is usually made up of Gold or precious jewels. It represents Royalty, Authority and Power. A King or a Queen is seen wearing a crown. When we then observe the Covid19 anatomy picture showing us a virus that is wearing a crown. It therefore would loosely mean that the virus is in some sense considered to be a King, Authority and Power. Can it be really considered to be a King, Power or Authority simply because it wears a crown or because it represents a Crown?

If we think of all that we hold as Powerful, it has been challenged, confronted and ambushed by the seemly emerging King. Powerful nations have been questioned and shaken. It seems to me as if it is a battle of crowns.

As it seems this virus happens to be questioning and challenging the authority, and power of the other existing Kings (Kings in the Political, Economic, Religious, Spiritual and Technological. No doubt it has questioned it.

The basic laws of the kingdoms operations is that in any Kingdom there is only one King that is permitted to rule at any given time.
 If there be any King that seeks to rule, he must wage war with the existing king to either defeat or dethrone him through war or show of power and dominance. In the likelihood of this thought the Covid19 has waged war and has so far being trumping through deaths, fear and totally impoverished the whole world, with only in the USA over 10 million people are Jobless.

The target have been to establish authority, power, to disarm and dethrone the crown ruling currently. With the Kingdom of man, money, and health falling to the emerging king. This has made most of people to question what the world will be like.

Doubt has raced through the earth, with some religious kings in terms of the top healing ministers, top evangelist, and top faith preachers also coming to bow in terms of failure to address the issue.

The so called Prophet's have gone silent as if God has no word for the hurting world. In this time the Prophet's ought to prophesy more and the Healing minister ought to challenge this King that seeks to change the world as we see it.

The crowns of influence and power as we know them in the G20, UN, and international institutions like IMF and World Bank have come short of giving up because of the immense pressure that is coming with the existing of this Covid19 coronavirus in the world. This is the part of the world that we in the 3 world and South South regions would look up to. These represents a crown that is being fought to be replaced and dethroned. So where so should we now look to, which crown still stands?

The  King of Kings

Yes there is still one King we can look at, He defeated death and the one who hold the power to death. He penetrated into the Kingdom of darkness and took the keys of hades as he walked in victory of the Devil, Death, Sickness and Sin. He became the only King from humanity to enter the heaven and he is seated at the right hand of God the Father. Jesus Christ is the King of Kings, His Name alone is above everything that has been created or that was made. Just the mention of His name everything with a name will bow down to Him.

We can with confidence look up to Him, His crown is greater than the crown of the coronavirus. He is called the Truth, there is no other truth outside of Him, and He is called the Way and the Life. In Him there is life and life in abundance. He came to restore the world, and He offered his life as the ultimate sacrifice for the redemption of man kind.

Friend in Jesus Christ the world has hope and in Him we have life. The life that can only be given by Him which is in nature the same as that of God. You too can become alive to this Divine life as you believe in Him and the work he did on the cross for you. He died and rose from the dead in Him there is life He is that King no other King can overcome. Jesus the king of kings.


                                                                                                                    | The Wordnocrate | 2020

The 21st Century Church A Replica of the Christendom Era's Church Failures

The Church was instituted in the Christendom Era where the Gospel of Christ thrived. Jesus Christ was the center of the Teaching of the Church, they preached about the coming Kingdom. And indeed the message of Christ was so fresh in the mind of the populous. In the 21st Century the focus of the Church is it still Christ and its message is it about the coming Kingdom?

The word Christendom generally refers to the global community of those who adhere to the Christian faith, with religious practices and dogmas gleaned from the teachings of the Bible. Spread throughout the world, Christendom consists of literally billions of people among many nations and peoples of various ethnicity. Correspondingly, Christendom also refers to those countries where Christianity is the dominating or territorial religion


In the age of Christendom, the church occupied a central and influential place in society and the Western world considered itself both formally and officially Christian. 

So when we speak of post-Christendom, we are making the point that the church no longer occupies this central place of social and cultural hegemony and Western civilization no longer considers itself to be formally or officially Christian. http://www.christianpost.com/news/31585/#upAPO4xTpxqffgKC.99

According to Abraham Kuyper 'When the first contest eventuated in this that the emperor bowed to Jesus, then... the kingship of Christ began to be triumphant in society...The kingship of Christ from this time on stood as a direction-giving power above the imperial power, which, in order to strengthen its influence, tried for an ever increasingly close integration with the kingship of Jesus...

When in the fourth century persecution ceased and the imperial power evinced a readiness to accommodate itself to Jesus, the basic victory became apparent...This principal victory continued on during the entire course of the long period known as the Middle Ages'. http://missionalchurchnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/christendom-murray.pdf

It is evident during this period that the Church obtained a very powerful position in the society. As highlighted by Murray in his article christendom ( page 2).

Christendom meant: ·
The adoption of Christianity as the official religion of city, state or empire, thus the message of Jesus Christ to be central and the pivotal focus of Faith. It was attractive and receptive to all societies and nations.

Furthermore in the Era we witness the imposition of a supposedly 'Christian morality' on the entire population (although normally Old Testament moral standards were applied)
In this Era the defense of Christianity by legal sanctions to restrain heresy, immorality and schism, and by warfare to protect or extend Christendom.

Indeed the Church as an institution was very powerful and its teachings and life style was the model for the whole communities. From the Government to the Peasants in the land their lives were hinged on the Gospel.

That which brought the downfall of the church as a central power

It with great displeasure to note that Corruption erupted in the church as a result of the favors that the church was receiving from the Empire and the power the Papacy had amused. The church was involved in the Politics of the day. Priests and Bishops would spend much of their time in the Political debates and not in the church teaching and molding the believers to keep moving in the faith.

Church in the 21 Century must bring its members to the place where Christ is back to be the center of their focus. However, we see the almost the same image of the church, Most Nations have even Christianize their Nations and have vowed to live by the principles of the Bible and later on to be molded by the Message of Christ. Some Great Nation have even crafted their national Constitutions with the foundations of the Bible.

The church and the State have been separated technically, but from time to time the two always satisfy each others missions and goals. Directly the Clergy are not running the State and not involved in the day to day Politics. But there do contributes much in the formulation of its Policies and Moral Practices.

In Africa at large one can witness the emerging of new ministries which seeks to milk and suck believers of their resources. Such Corrupt events we witness in the Church, Individuals raising to pursue their self goals at the expense of the Gospel and defrauding man by simply manipulating their faith. Paganism and Christianity has not been separated, the scared and profane is as it were one and the same thing.

This why we can be having a Nation having statics that shows that there are 90% of believers and yet there is again 90% people who are corrupt. Is the Church still relevant in our Time?

The Church is that part of the human community which responds first to God-in-Christ and Christ-in-God. It is the sensitive and responsive part in every society and mankind as a whole. It is that group which hears the Word of God, which sees His judgments, which has the vision of the resurrection.

 In its relations with God it is the pioneer part of society that responds to God on behalf of the whole society, somewhat, we may say, as science is the pioneer in responding to pattern or rationality in experience and as artists are the pioneers in responding to beauty. Niebuhr, H. Richard. "The responsibility of the church for society." The Gospel, the Church, and the World. New York: Harper & Row (1946).

To a great extend the church's message needs to remain making Christ the center of its Message. The Christendom Era and our 21st Century Church, which is under the Modern Era have not  much to offer in terms of transformation and realigning the church's life to the message of Christ.


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