If you're alive and well today, there's one thing on your mind biblical implications of the coronavirus is a pastor, a teacher, Mark Hitchcock.

Mark, welcome back to Prophecy Watchers.

Thanks for having me. It's great to be back here with you again. Mark Hitchcock. Mark, welcome back to Prophecy Watchers. Thanks for having me. It's great to be back here with you again.

Mark Hitchcock is pastor at Faith Bible Church in Edmund, Oklahoma. He is a professor too. And tell us about that.

Yes, I'm an associate professor in the Bible Exposition Department down at Dallas Seminary where I graduated. I got my

master's degree there and my PhD. So I'm able to do that and pastor of the church. That's a great

blessing too to be a part of that. It's it is a great blessing and you have been at it for a while.

Today we're going to focus on COVID-19. Corona crisis is the name of Mark's book. And I think if there is one

subject that needs to be presented to Christians in a positive light, not a negative light,

it is this question of what's going to happen to us now with this pandemic. Yeah, that's right. I mean, the thing my wife and I talk about this a lot, we hear it on the news, and it seems like you get all kinds of conflicting reports. You know, you'll hear, you know, one person will say it's going to come back this fall, you know, worse than ever before. Other people say it's going to go away on its own. You know, this drug works, that drug

works. I mean, we hear so many different conflicting things. And that's one of the good things about

going to the Bible. The Bible tells us the truth about plagues and pandemics and various things.

And the Bible also tells us what's going to happen in the future, what's going to happen in the

end times. And we can know that what the Bible tells us is true. And again, we appreciate the physicians and scientists and all the people are working on cures or whatever they're trying to do at these times. But, you know, I think the jury's still out really, though, on this coronavirus about how bad it's really going to be. If it's going to come back this fall. We really don't know.

Now, the subtitle on this book, and let me read it again, plagues, pandemics, and the coming

apocalypse.

And it is the coming apocalypse.

The apocalypse being the last book in the Bible, we call it Revelation.

And what it is is the revealing of the Lord

Jesus Christ amid a number of absolutely globe-changing events. And people look at that, Mark.

They look at the things that happen in the book of Revelation and they say, I don't want to think about that very much.

You know, let's push that back into the future.

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