As the world begins to celebrate the emergence of a vaccine that is possibly effective against the current threat, the church has long ago missed the opportunity to herald Jesus Christ as the Miracle Healer, the Hero of Humanity. This is due to the historic and orthodox unbelief, and the satanic gospel of sickness, that Christians have embraced for many centuries. All this time the church has held the solution to all diseases, all viruses, all injuries, all tragedies and accidents, all poisons and biological weapons, and all variations of these things through faith in Jesus. But it never had faith in Jesus. It had never regarded Jesus as master, but only as mascot.

By the time the pandemic invaded the world, it was too late to introduce the good news of Jesus the Healer, because even much of the church had never believed in it. To make the situation worse, the sermons and writings that mused about the pandemic from a supposedly Christian perspective reinforced the tiresome assumption that something like this is the “will of God,” so that we are to consider what we ought to do given that we are helpless against it — at least until science saves us — rather than declaring that all sicknesses are helpless against the name of Jesus Christ, so that we are to rally humanity to overcome the sickness by faith. All things are indeed in God’s power, but this is the very reason we can heal the sick by the name of Jesus. The God who controls all things has revealed the doctrine of healing to us. Success is guaranteed when we obey him by faith.

The church has achieved the seemingly impossible — in less than one year, it has made itself even more pathetic and irrelevant, and more loathsome. Amidst calamity, while everyone else is scrambling to save lives — or at least to save their livelihood — the church has been a self-righteous nuisance philosophizing about suffering and clamoring about the right to assemble while providing no direct solution to the disease. It has never been considered a disease healer, but now it is globally spurned as a disease spreader! And in its usual fashion, it victimizes itself and regards this as persecution.

While relatives and friends are perishing, Christians come along and announce that this is the “will of God” and lecture people about how to live with it and what lesson to learn from it. And it is patronizing nonsense, empty platitudes. Jesus Christ went about doing good and healing those who were oppressed by sickness. His lesson was that God saves, God heals, God provides, and God dominates. The church teaches that God is “in control,” so that we must accept our circumstances, but Jesus teaches that God is “in control,” so that we can overcome our circumstances. He said that, by faith, we can even uproot a tree or remove a mountain by a mere command. No sickness can withstand this kind of power. Yet this is the kind of power that any Christian who has faith can exercise. The sovereignty of God tells us that this is what the faith of man can do. The God who is in control over all things puts us in control over our circumstances by his authority.

Now that a year has passed and the world has possibly discovered its own solution with no help from the church, the unbelievers consider this further confirmation that the church is irrelevant and non-essential, and by extension, that God is irrelevant and non-essential. Christians insist that their God offers no direct solution to the world’s needs and desires, and if he had ever done this, he has gloriously ceased doing so. Why? Supposedly because he has finished his memoirs and he has nothing left to prove. Unbelievers roll their eyes and say, “Well, good for him.” Then they move on. Most of them do not even bother to argue.

The church deserves the contempt that it is receiving. Having rejected the God of miracles, the God that its own Bible teaches, in the eyes of unbelievers it has become nothing more than a creepy book club that spreads outdated myths and morals. Now it also spreads deadly viruses. But Jesus does not deserve this. Jesus heals the sick, and he is more reachable today than when he walked the earth. But the church has lied about him, claiming that he has ceased. And now science, which is another name for humanity, is enjoying all the honor that belongs to God alone. The church is broken. The cure is in the Christ that it has rejected. The solution is in the message that it calls heresy. This is a recurrence of the ancient tragedy. As it is written, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.” The church has insisted on corporate worship for its own sake, the church for the sake of the church, when it does not worship the God of the Bible, the God of endless miracles. The Bible does not know a God that has ceased to heal the sick by signs and wonders.

“Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues.” The way forward is for individual Christians who have been awakened to the truth to revolt against corporate disobedience, against the historic and orthodox gospel of unbelief and sickness, the gospel of suffering, and to reinstate the gospel of Jesus Christ, which is the gospel of power, healing, and victory. “My people, come out of her!” If the current embarrassment does not wake up slumbering believers, what will it take? It is time, not to fight for the church against the world, but to fight for Jesus Christ against the church.

The conflict between Jesus’ doctrine of supernaturalism and the church’s doctrine of naturalism, between Jesus’ doctrine of expansion and the church’s doctrine of cessation, and between his doctrine of healing and the church’s doctrine of sickness, is nothing less than a contest between good and evil. Each individual must choose a side and wage war against the other. Leave churches that do not practice healing and prophecy. Overturn seminaries and denominations that teach a gospel of sickness and poverty. Excommunicate cessationist preachers and professors. Stand up in public and confront them. Pray against them with the imprecatory psalms. Curse them in the name of Jesus, so that their work will die from the roots, just as he cursed the fig tree that did not bear fruit.

It will take many years for Christians to establish a credibility and reputation for miracle healing before the world. First, we must reinforce the doctrines of miracles in believers as individuals, and after that throughout the churches. Practice these doctrines so that miracles consistently happen in our midst. Then we must bring this power to the unbelievers so that they can examine these miracles and recognize the church as an institution of healing. If Christians fail to accomplish this, then what happened this time will happen the next time — and there will be a next time. If the church remains in unbelief and disobedience, and if believers continue to tolerate such things in their leaders and institutions, and continue to endorse their sermons and writings, then this will happen over and over again, and the unbelievers will become more and more convinced that science — or humanity — is their true savior all along, even the one and only God.