With the outbreak of the Coronavirus or COVID-19 and Social Distancing our society is on a whole new track. Prophetically speaking this matches the description spoken by Jesus found in Matthew 24:7, 8 where He said, “For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.” Obviously there have been all three of these disasters over the two millenniums since Jesus prophesied concerning them, however like labor pains on a pregnant mother which is what sorrows is referring to, these have increased exponentially over the span of time indicating that we are nearing the return of Jesus or His deliverance of His people from this earth. In John 16:19 – 22 Jesus again refers to the sorrows of labor pains; “Now Jesus knew that they desired to ask Him, and He said to them, “Are you inquiring among yourselves about what I said, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’? 20 Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. 21 A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. 22 Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you. ” In other words the closer a mother gets to the deliverance of her baby the closer together the birth pains will come and the closer we get to the deliverance of God’s children when the Father speaks the day and the hour of Christ’s return the closer together and more intense will come the sorrows.
This pestilence of COVID-19 seems to be spreading more rapidly than previous pestilences such as the Swine Flu or the Ebola Virus and the quarantining of people didn’t take place in those epidemic’s like what is happening with COVID-19. We need to be alert spiritually to this crisis, for as Jesus said in Matthew 24:8-10;
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. 10 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. We could be closer to the beginning of the Tribulation than we think. Stay close to Jesus.