What Are Your Ideas On COVID-19 Vaccines?

Welcome to God First with Brian C. Thomas, a program committed to encouraging you to put God first while viewing life through the window of the Bible. Now, in honor of the one and only true God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, let's join Brian C. Thomas for today's message. I'm Brian Thomas, and I thank you for tuning in with me to the God First program powered by the Truth Network. On today, we give honor to the God of the Bible, the one who sits high and looks low, the one who is worthy of all the glory, the honor, and the praise. And we honor him on today. We honor him forevermore. Well, folks, today I want to share with you a question that came in to our ministry, and it is a question that is such a heavy topic that I thought it would be a good idea to dedicate and devote an entire show to this issue.

Harriet N. North Carolina writes, What are your ideas about the COVID vaccines? I prayed and struggled with it for quite some time before arriving at the decision to take it. It's still not resting well in my spirit. I pray that I did not misunderstand what God said in this matter. I've read what other pastors have said. I'm still indecisive about whether to take the second dose.

Well, Harriet, I want to thank you for writing in this question. This is definitely a very, very important and valuable question with this time that we're living in, because there are so many people that have questions about what is going on in the world with COVID-19, these vaccines, how are we to go forward? And many Christians are looking for answers or looking for direction. I want to begin by saying that COVID-19 is real. And I must make that clear up front because there are some people out there that believe that the virus is not true. And some that just say this is all made up. It is not real. Well, I do truly believe that there are people out there that are getting sick and that are dying as a result of this virus. So I do believe that it is real.

But there are so many angles by which I can speak on this topic. And so I want to begin first by speaking from the Christian angle. Many people have the question, is this the mark of the beast? Well, I can say with 100 percent confidence that this is not the mark of the beast.

The COVID-19 vaccine is not the mark of the beast. And I know that because we are not in the tribulation. You may say, well, how do you know we're not in the tribulation? That is because the tribulation begins by the Antichrist confirming a seven year covenant with the nation of Israel.

That has not yet happened. And so the mark of the beast comes during the tribulation when the Antichrist is reigning. That is when the mark of the beast will be instituted.

So we are not yet at that time. So if you have any concern about that, anyone out there, rest assured, this is not the mark of the beast. The mark of the beast comes from Revelation Chapter 13. When we look at verse 16, we find he causes all both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sale except one who has the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name. So, again, for people who have any concerns about this being the mark of the beast, we have to remember that when you accept the mark of the beast during the tribulation, you are giving worship to the Antichrist.

You were given allegiance to the Antichrist. And we all know from history, you've heard about 666. That is what it relates to.

And when we look at COVID-19, what do you hear so often? Social distancing of six feet. And that gets people's wheels turning. And I must admit, I saw a graphic not too long ago and the graphic was showing this facility. And it was a sign in which they posted in the facility in the shape of a triangle. So there are three points.

The graphic was to show how people there should distance from each other. So one line was six feet. The bottom line was six feet. And then the third line was six feet. So when you look at it, there was a triangle that showed 666. That caused me to pause. I'll be honest with you. I looked at it and I say, wait, this is this is heavy.

What is really going on here? In Revelation 13, 18, it says, Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.

His number is 666. We must remember, though, that when it comes to the mark of the beast during the tribulation, that you will be killed for refusing it. All right. But I understand that when people see what's going on out there, there are there are so many little nuances, so many little hints at things that causes you to wonder, is this the mark of the beast? And sometimes it troubles our spirit. But we should not ignore what we're feeling in our spirit. And I'm going to address that a bit more here shortly.

But I can tell you with with great confidence, this is not the mark of the beast. There is this talk about something called a vaccine passport, which says you cannot do certain things unless you can show proof that you've been vaccinated. You cannot fly on an airplane or or go to certain places.

There have been colleges that are instituting. You cannot return to school unless you show you've been vaccinated. There is also a report that I saw a few months ago from Israel National News Online, and I want to read you a short excerpt from it. It begins, quote, Although Health Ministry Director Levy yesterday insisted to reporters that we won't force people to take a vaccine.

Israeli law does not allow for it. Speaking before the Special Knesset Coronavirus Committee, Sheba Medical Center chief medical officer and chief innovation officer, Dr. Eyal, listed measures that are being planned to maneuver the population into vaccinating as a way of regaining freedom of movement. The issue of how to motivate vaccine compliance has generated increasing interest with commentators such as Mike Cernovich writing, Government won't force you to take the vaccine. Amazon will. Airlines will. Banks will.

You won't be able to buy, sell or trade without the vaccine. End quote. Now, if you know the Bible, you know, eschatology, you know, the Book of Revelation, you know what's coming in the tribulation that can make the hair stand on your neck. Because I just read from you in Revelation Chapter 13, almost identical language that says when it comes to the mark of the beast, you will not be able to buy or sell unless you have the mark.

And so when you see quotes like this article, when you see these things happening, many people in their spirit, they're troubled by what is coming, what what we see happening and what is yet still to come. So that begs the question, is this conditioning us to accept governmental control? Is it conditioning us to accept the mark of the beast? Because again, I can say with 100 percent confidence that this is not the mark of the beast, but could it be the mechanism through which the mark of the beast is administered? This may be a dress rehearsal. This may be a dry run to sort of see how are people going to respond. And so that's something to keep in mind when you say you are troubled in your spirit. It may very well be because, again, this is something that is going to be used for future sinister purposes.

Only time will tell. Now, I want to talk about the medical aspect of this. And let me say up front, I'm not a doctor. I do not have a degree from any medical school. I am an ordained minister. So primarily I'm giving you information from a spiritual standpoint for spiritual discernment. And I will not say whether to take the vaccine or not. And I know Harriet did not ask me to say that.

She just asked me to give ideas from a medical aspect. The covid-19 vaccines are are designated as experimental and are approved for emergency use only. That is something we must keep in mind. They cannot be made mandatory because of this designation. So these vaccines do not have full FDA approval and the manufacturers are protected from lawsuits. So if you take the vaccine, you get very sick, you die, your loved ones, you cannot sue these manufacturers.

They are protected. Now, a typical lifecycle for approval of a vaccine is eight to 12 years. But look at how quickly this vaccine was manufactured and rolled out. And it makes me ask the question under ordinary circumstances, how many people would just willingly voluntarily take an experimental drug, a drug in which it is being told to you is not been approved by the FDA for full approval. It's only for emergency use. I don't think many people would sign up for that. But what if the administrators or administrators said, well, you know, we don't know about whether this virus will someday come. It may and it may be good to go ahead and take this experimental drug just to protect yourself.

I don't think many people would be signing up for that. But see, what has happened is. The way covid-19 has been reported with the media coverage, it has put so much fear in the people that people are willing to voluntarily go and take something that is experimental only. So that's something to think about, something to keep in mind. Now, another issue that's been on the table is what about aborted fetal tissue? There were reports that stated, well, there are parts of babies that have been aborted that are included in these vaccines. Well, I've done my research and I've found from very trusted sources that there is no aborted fetal tissue in the vaccines.

That's what's been reported. There were no abortions that were conducted specifically for the sake of creating these vaccines. But there is a tie to abortion when it comes to these vaccines. There were fetal sale lines from babies that were aborted in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Samples from these aborted infants were used to create new sales for research and development. So what that means is there were babies that were aborted back in the 60s, 70s and 80s.

Something called fetal sale lines were used there. There are samples that were taken from these aborted infants created these fetal sale lines in these fetal sale lines were used for research and development when it comes to these vaccines. That may be another reason why you're troubled in your spirit when it comes to these vaccines, because there is a tie to abortion, even though there is no abortion tissue from from fetal tissue from aborted babies actually in the vaccines themselves, at least based on what is being reported. Another aspect of this is something called the luciferous enzymes.

All right. That also was being reported by trusted sources to not be in the vaccines. Now, if you if you're listening closely, luciferous, the root word is Lucifer. There are these enzymes, enzymes that have this name, luciferous enzymes that again, they say it is not actually in the vaccines, but was used for research.

Again, something to think about if you're being troubled in your spirit, this could very well be the reason why. Now, the question that I ask when it comes to this is this vaccine. Do you really need a vaccine for a virus in which you have a ninety nine percent chance of survival? But there are many people who are so fearful because of the way things have been pushed.

And I do believe the media has has and has used this vaccine, has used this this covid 19 pandemic for the purpose of furthering an agenda. And I'm going to speak to that a little bit more here coming up. But there are so many people that are so fearful, even though you have a ninety nine percent chance of surviving. What if you went on the interview and when you sat down the person interview, when you said you have a ninety nine percent chance of getting this job, you're going to be so relaxed, cool, calm and collected in the interview because you say this is in the bag.

I got it. But when it comes to covid 19, people feel so uptight. And there are many that feel that there is something sinister because of these lockdowns, because the vaccines don't seem necessary.

And when you look at the state of Florida, they never shut down and they're in better shape than the states that did. And so there are so many different angles, so many aspects to look at this and reasons why it may be troubling people in their spirit. But we're going to take a short break. But don't go away on the other side. We're going to talk about it more as to how we as believers in Jesus Christ should approach covid 19 vaccines.

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Welcome back to the God First program. We are today discussing the topic of covid 19 vaccines and what are my ideas concerning it? I do believe, folks, that, again, covid 19 is real, but I do think that there are many people that have manipulated it for various agendas to cause people to be more uptight about it than what is necessary. I do believe that. And I think that a lot of the shutdowns and the lockdowns that have been taking place, especially when I see churches that have closed their doors, that trouble that really troubles my spirit when I see churches that have been closed for over a year as a result of this.

And I think that there is a coercion that is going on to try to further an agenda. But I must say this when it comes to two vaccines, my perspective, I had an experience in 1994 when I was 18 years old and I took the flu shot. And two weeks later, I developed tonsillitis, which quickly spread into my heart, my lungs, and I became so sick. I was back and forth to the doctors. They could not get the infection to go away. I was taking three, four different antibiotics at one time and the infection just would not go away.

It couldn't kill it. And I had it for a full year. And it wasn't until I got my tonsils removed until it finally went away.

And even after getting my tonsils removed, the infection still lingered for six months. And I was so sick during that time period that I thought I was going to die. And I prayed to God. I said, God, I don't want to continue living this way.

And if you're ready for me to go, I am ready to go. So so I'm already leery about about vaccines. And I said that day after that experience, you know, a year and a half after I had that flu vaccine, I said never again.

I'm not I'm not doing that again. And then I had an experience in which my daughter years later, when she was four years old, she took the flu missed vaccine. And within two days, she developed a fever of one hundred and three. She became very sick and she stayed sick from October of that year until until March of the following year. Her fever would come and go. Her congestion would would would increase and subside. But but she kept a runny nose or some level of congestion or fever for the entire winter.

And I said I would never put her through that again. So that's something to think about, folks. Vaccines have side effects. You have to weigh the options. Is the reward worth the risk? And there are some people out there that say, well, I have a ninety nine percent chance of surviving this disease.

The possible risk is not worth the reward. So, again, I want to be clear. I cannot tell you dogmatically whether to take the vaccine or whether to not take the vaccine. But we must also remember that a massive rollout in vaccines is nothing new.

We have for those who are old enough to remember back in the 1950s, it was before my time. But there was the polio vaccine that was rolled out and there were times in which there were things that did not go well. There were investigators that believe that some died and some were paralyzed from those vaccines. So we have to keep that in mind. And when we look at the covid-19 vaccines, there are reports of blood clots. There are reports of some deaths.

And so you have to weigh the risk versus the reward. Another aspect of this is autism, autism. There's been an explosion of it over the last several decades throughout the world. And people are asking the question, what is causing this autism? And there's a lot of research taking place and some are coming to a conclusion that this is a result of vaccinations that happened decades ago. There again, research is ongoing, but but oftentimes when it comes to these side effects, these long term side effects, they don't find out until decades down the road. Again, this covid-19 is an experimental drug. Who knows what 10 years from now they will say is a side effect.

That's just something again, folks, to keep in mind. I'm not trying to talk you out of taking it. I'm not trying to talk you into taking it. I'm just giving you things to think about. And then I saw a doctor who was on an interview not too long ago and he said he wants children as young as six months old to take this vaccine.

And you asked the question, why? Because there is basically no risk to children when it comes to covid-19. And then there are several doctors out there that say, well, if you've had covid-19, you already have the natural antibodies. So there's no need to get the vaccine. So these doctors are encouraging people don't go take the vaccine.

If you've already had covid, you are you are protected from it now. And another troubling report that's just came out within the last week is that women are reporting that their menstrual cycles have been affected after receiving the vaccine. They said their cycles got got thrown off. And so there's the question of fertility. Could this affect a woman's fertility? There were many women now who were saying that they want to have children. Do I want to take this?

I don't know. Could it affect it at some point in the future? These are things, folks, that we need to think about when it comes to something that's experimental, that's not fully approved. And even if it is fully approved, still, you need to think about these matters to say what is in my best interest when it comes to this vaccine. The Book of Romans, Chapter 14, verse five, says one person is themes one day above another.

Another is themes every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. I share that scripture with you because there is a lot a lot of manipulation and there is a lot of peer pressure that is going on concerning these vaccines.

I hear people saying that they have coworkers, colleagues, friends and family who are shaming them, who are pressuring them to get the vaccine. Some pressure others who who who claim to be Christians and they're pressuring others by saying you shall love your neighbor as yourself. Well, folks, I can say I love you as my neighbor and I love myself enough not to just automatically go in and have someone inject something into me that is experimental and tell you to have them injected into you as well.

That's experimental. I love you enough not to just tell you blindly to go out and do something like that. And I think about red flags, things that come to mind for me that are red flags is when you see others that are pressuring you to do things. I've experienced it in which people in college, they they're going out and getting drunk on the weekends. And so they're pressuring you to do the same thing. They can go out and do what they consider fun all they want.

You know, I want to stay back in my dorm room. But to them, they just can't rest easy unless I'm out there doing it with them. That's that's something that is spiritual behind it.

That's a demonic spirit behind that. Even when it comes to sexual activity, there are people that will shame you when you're young, you're growing up through school, they're out having all their their fornication and sexual partners. But if you're keeping yourself pure, they're pressuring you. They make fun of you.

They'll try to say something is wrong with you. And so when you see manipulation, when you see pressure, peer pressure, that's a red flag for me. And I see things like that going on when it comes to this vaccine. I'm not saying taking the vaccine is a sin, but I ask myself the question, why is there this manipulation?

Why is there this peer pressure? And there are reports that I've heard of churches that have almost split because the pastor recommends everyone to get the vaccine. There are churches in which they are encouraging people to get the vaccine before returning to church. Folks, that's that's bad. That's not wise.

That is a lack of discernment. This is a private matter. That's why we have HIPAA laws, because your medical decisions are private.

That should be between you, your doctor and God, and maybe your spouse if you have a spouse. That should not be for others to know in these churches. You shouldn't be church leaders should not be pressuring people or encouraging people to go out and take an experimental drug before they return to church.

And I'm just blown away. I'm dumbfounded by reports of that taking place, because again, this is a private matter. We as believers must not accept when churches say they will not reopen until all or most are vaccinated. I've seen virtual services in which the pastor is telling people at the beginning and at the end to go and get vaccinated. And that troubles my spirit. Psalm chapter 118 verses eight through nine says it is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. We must keep those scriptures in mind when it comes to these vaccines.

Trust in the Lord. I'm not saying you don't take medicines. I take medications. I get migraines.

I take Excedrin migraine. I take I take various medications. So I'm not saying when you get sick to just oh, trust in the Lord. Yes, the Lord gives us medications.

He blesses us with the wisdom and the understanding as a society to get medications for healing. But you must weigh the risk versus the rewards because there are side effects. But this is a private matter.

No one should be shaming you whether to take it or not to take it. And there are people who post on social social media, their vaccination cards, and then they'll have a friend that'll see it. That feels like we should not take the vaccine. And then they'll have in these fallouts over it. Folks, this is a private matter.

Don't don't go posting on social media whether you are taking the vaccine or not. And then we have when I talk about, again, manipulation and peer pressure. There is a CNN executive that was secretly recorded stating that they reported on their network COVID-19 in a way to keep people fearful because that drives up ratings. He also stated that his boss one day said he wished the death count ticker on the screen was higher because they want to drive ratings.

So there's a manipulation going on. Again, folks, COVID-19 is real, but there are people that are using it for their advantage for different reasons, for different agendas. Was COVID-19 planned? I don't know. Some people call it a plandemic.

Only time will tell. But I do know that in 2019 there was this war games type of scenario that was done for a coronavirus. And then a few weeks later, the COVID-19 coronavirus came on the scene. And then there were leaders out there, the World Economic Forum, that say COVID-19 has provided the chance for a great reset. They want to reset the whole worldwide system. And this should stop and make us think.

Many churches and institutions have closed doors. Is this conditioning us to accept governmental control? And when I see the politicization of the matter, when a political figure says she will not take the vaccine if rolled out under the Trump administration, but will if rolled out under the Biden administration, that makes me say something is going on here.

When I see a governor tell his people to not go out to eat, but then he's found out eating. That makes me say something is going on here. But let me close with this.

Talk to your doctor, research, pray and leave it in God's hands. For those of you out there who have decided to get the vaccine, I'm not shaming you. I'm not saying that you're wrong. It's a private matter. It's a personal matter.

Everyone must make the decision that they feel is right in their heart for their personal situation. Jesus warned to not be deceived concerning the last days. He said, if possible, even the elect will be deceived. And there are people out there, if you do not take the vaccine, they'll ridicule you. They'll call you a religious kook, a nut, a fanatic. There are already surveys out there targeting Christians and Christians are most likely to not take the vaccine.

So they're putting the target on the backs of Christians. But again, trust in the guidance of the Holy Spirit. So, Harriet, I hope that brings some clarity to the situation for you. I pray that God will bring you peace in whatever decision that you make.

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