The Ongoing Corona Virus Epidemic and an Ancient Prophet of Old

Minister Paul J Bern
8 min readMar 24, 2020

A Description of Our Modern World From 2,700 Years Ago

(Biblical prophecy series part 9 of 12) by Minister Paul J. Bern

For my next posting of this 12 part series on Biblical prophecy as it applies to modern life, I’m feeling God encouraging me to compose still another warning concerning the tumultuous times in which we are living. I sometimes get attacked on the Web for these kinds of postings. Some compare it to yelling “fire!” in a movie theater, and I’ve been called worse than that, but I don’t care. This is the mission God has given me, this is what I am doing with my life, and I will let nothing stand in my way. I can’t — it’s critically important that I bring you all up to speed, spiritually speaking, about the events that are currently unfolding, and what the Bible has to say about it all.

What I’m going to write about for this week’s commentary will be the first 9 verses out of the 4th chapter of the Book of Hosea in the Old Testament (that’s right between Daniel and Joel in the latter part of the O.T.). So let me quote the first 5 of those verses for everyone, and they read as follows: “Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelite’s, because the Lord has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: There is no faithfulness, no love, no

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Minister Paul J Bern

Rev. Paul J. Bern is a Web pastor and blogger on The Social Gospel Blog on Medium and Substack. Longtime Atlanta Ga. resident; stroke survivor; piano player