Yeshua Explored
Exile
Dec 2021
What is the relevance of the pandemic to the Church?
(This series of articles were written at the beginning of the first lockdown in March/April 2020)
We have all been through a bitter experience, the Covid-19 pandemic, and many of us would be hard pressed to find a positive angle to it. Around 588BC the Kingdom of Judah also went through a bitter experience, the exile from their land and into Babylonian captivity. In contrast to the disparities in current thinking about the cause of the current virus, the cause of the Babylonian exile was quite clear, disobedience and idolatry:
