So, I finally did it. I listened. Here's the breakdown:
3:30 "Statists are using this moment to expand government power."
4:05 "The same people that said borders are bad now say borders are good!"
4:20 "It's illegal in Hungary to homeschool your kids."
[Commenter's note: it's not illegal in Hungary to homeschool your kids. You just have to register school age children with the schools because that's how the government keeps tabs on kids. It's just a
bunch of HSLDA nonsense.]
6:40 "Church feels different, it's just me here plus a couple of AV guys."
[Commenter's note: I included to show this that they're at least complying and trying. I thought that was worth it for context.]
9:30 "It's only deadly to certain types of people, and even then it's only deadly if they catch it! Plus there's lots of other things that can kill you! Like car accidents!"
10:05 "Of course our ungodly world's highest cause of death is abortion. That's a very important thing to consider, and who's talking about that?"
13:10 "The first thing to establish is the fact that the bible establishes the coronavirus issue."
[Commenter's note: He also discounts numerology at this timestamp. I thought that was interesting.]
15:00 "COVID is the power of the horseman to kill with death in verse 8."
[Commenter's note: It's the behold a pale horse verse, that's what this whole sermon is based on.]
20:00 "These are the prophesies by Jesus Christ of the last days. One of the pestilences predicted in Revelation 6 is the Coronavirus."
20:50 "I said COVID is
ONE of the diseases in Revelation 6. People die of the flu! There's 7 billion people. People die of diseases. Malaria. Heart disease. Tuberculosis!"
22:40 "Because of sin, every part of the human body can fall prey to disease. It's unavoidable. Diseases are unavoidable."
25:10 "Take for instance, the White Man's Graveyard!"
[Commenter's note: He's talking about diseases that are novel to an area, like when the Europeans came to America and wiped out the native population with diseases. "The White Man's Grave" is an interesting thing to bring up, because it is VERY much an
old racist term from the late 1700's with connotations such as "primitive tribes" who could work in Africa where the white man was not fit to work. White Man's Grave was the term colonizers used to justify slavery since the White Man would perish if he worked in tropical areas.]
25:45 "The Spanish Flu, just at the end of World War 2 and the latter part of it. It was so deadly, they think it killed more people than World Ward 1."
[Commenter's note: Spanish Flu was during WWI, not WWII. I mentioned this just to show the endemic lack of attention to detail in the PRC and the hilarious notion that PRC sermons are divinely inspired in some way.]
27:00 "Diseases and war are proof of total depravity and that God's curse is upon us."
[Commenter's note: k]
28:20 "Beasts of the earth, snakes, dogs. Wild dogs and domestic dogs are killers. I'm not criticizing those who own dogs. That's just a fact. Elephants. Mosquitoes kill more humans, but they don't count as beasts of the earth because
they count as disease."
[Commenter's note: He's talking about the other things the pale horseman can kill with, which includes the beasts of the earth. I thought it was funny that he rambled about how dogs kill people, but nothing against dog owners, and that elephants also kill people, and mosquitoes do too but they don't count. Like,
what? Also note, this marks the beginning of where things start to wobble on the rails a bit].
36:30 "Everyone can see COVID, but the Christian has the spectacles of scripture and is called to look at it and not despair in their hearts like the world, but say 'I look and behold a pale horse'."
[Commenter's note: He had literally JUST finished making the point that COVID is so scary to the world because it is invisible, then leaps into his next point which is that everybody can see COVID. I also find it funny that the point is that Christians should see disease outbreaks and be like "Don't worry, take comfort, it's just the apocalypse."]
37:20 "You won't hear that (take comfort) on the radio! Unless it's Christian radio or you call in to some chat show!"
[Commenter's note: I think that Angus listening to a lot of Christian radio and chat shows makes a lot of sense for his last couple points that come later."
37:45 "You only hear on the TV COVID from an unbelieving, naturalistic perspective. Some that is useful to the Christian."
38:15 "You shall not live by bread alone, or by modern media alone, but to live by faith. Walk by faith and not by sight."
[Commenter's note: Yes, clearly when Jesus said "Man shall not live by bread alone" it was a critique of modern media.]
38:50 "The world's hearts, they faint and fail about about COVID because they have a guilty conscience. They know that there's a God in heaven and it scares them."
[Commenter's note: Or, and follow me here, OR they don't want themselves and their loved ones to cough themselves to death in solitary confinement, and they want to reduce the suffering of people in general. You don't have to add that extra step of "Aha! But
why don't they want to die an awful death or potentially have lifelong consequences of COVID infection? Must be they hate God!"]
--- Here's where things really go off the rails ---
39:45 "Who sent this pale horse? Some say, well, it was the Chinese government! The Chinese government started this in Wuhan in order to clamp down on dissent and what's going in Hong Kong and the unfavorable media attention."
39:55 "Other people say the Chinese Government did it because they want to wipe out the Uyghurs out west. Hmm. Wow."
40:20 "Various theories. Conspiracy theories. I've even heard people on the left in Brazil that say president Bolsonaro is behind the whole thing!
40:40 "I'm not commenting on any of those things, y'know
here, but I'm saying.
Well. Y'know."
[Commenter's note: Coward. Afraid to say you believe in conspiracy theories on tape after feeding a bunch of bullshit to your congregation under the pretext of it being holy words from God? What, do you fear the opinion of
man?
This quote is particularly telling. When I say the PRC is rife with conspiracies, shit like this is what I'm talking about.]
40:50 "Maybe the devil's behind it? Our text says Christ sends the horseman, just like he sends the other
horseman."
45:40 "Jesus is behind it. That's comforting. That may seem shocking to some, but the first taste of Scripture is bitter."
48:00 "The fourth seal is opened, that includes this virus"
48:50 "Some only hear the panicked talking heads on the TV, but others listen and hear the hoofbeats of the pale horse."
49:45 "Some don't want to hear the hoofbeats! That's the last thing they want to hear. They're trapped in an evolutionary, atheistic, humanist world. They're closing their ears, but they're still scared."
[Commenter's note: Can't have a PR sermon without saying that evolution is bad and something only atheists believe and that humanism is bad. We almost made it to the end of the sermon without saying evolution is bad, better slip that in there quick.]
50:00 "Through faith we can rise above this."
[Commenter's note: Translation "The world is so worried about COVID, but we don't have to be because Jesus. The biblical thing to do is to not take this whole COVID thing that seriously. Also, blame the Chinese."]
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I need to go take a shower.
