Jim Bakker Show - The Phases of the Church's Response - Dr. Jim Garlow
Aired: 2020-05-11
Duration: 03:20


=== Government Trust Shift (03:04) ===

[00:00:00]  What have you have you analyzed this and talked to the leaders in Washington?
[00:00:05]  Well, I haven't talked to a lot of leaders in Washington on this.
[00:00:07]  Here's my sensing nationally, though, in terms of a national mood, and that is I see we've been through three phases, is my estimation.
[00:00:16]  The early phase was one of kind of denial and shaking our heads and saying, what?
[00:00:21]  And that all changed on about March 13, 14, 15, that weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
[00:00:27]  I saw a complete change atmospherically, so to speak, in my country, where people said, oh, this is for real.
[00:00:36]  And they hunkered down and they followed the mandates.
[00:00:40]  They started trying to get masks.
[00:00:42]  They made sure they washed their hands over and over and they stayed at home six foot distances.
[00:00:47]  And so Americans really tried to comply overwhelmingly.
[00:00:51]  And that continued for five weeks.
[00:00:53]  But another shift took place just a few days ago.
[00:00:57]  That was April the 17th, 18th, and 19th.
[00:00:59]  I sense a shift, a paradigm shift in the country.
[00:01:03]  That was another weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, where all of a sudden people were saying, wait a minute, enough is enough.
[00:01:10]  They'd gone five weeks.
[00:01:12]  You know, it's interesting.
[00:01:13]  40 days is mentioned a lot in the Bible.
[00:01:15]  It's kind of like we were down at day 40.
[00:01:18]  And it's kind of like that's as much as Americans can go.
[00:01:21]  And they also realize, and this is where it gets serious, if there's a lack of trust in our government, we have a pretty critical problem happening in our governors and our mayors and such.
[00:01:31]  And so there were some overstatements made that so many millions are going to get it and one or two million are going to die.
[00:01:39]  And then they factored it down to, well, okay, 240,000 Thompson, and then 60,000.
[00:01:45]  And Americans begin to distrust their government on this.
[00:01:49]  And they also did not want one size fits all.
[00:01:53]  They wanted to be able to adapt to their environment and bring government down more localized, which I totally support.
[00:01:59]  Always localize the authority anytime you can, because localized authority can do better than somebody generically, you know, a thousand miles away.
[00:02:09]  And so we do have a, it changed, it changed as of that weekend of April 17, 18, 19.
[00:02:16]  I saw the mood change and people saying, no, we're not going to stay at home.
[00:02:21]  Now, the protesters, by and large, they had a legitimate claim because they were objecting to the overstatements.
[00:02:29]  However, if protesters want to have credibility with their government leaders, they ought to be wise enough to have masks and gloves and protective gear.
[00:02:38]  And they ought to at least stay six feet apart.
[00:02:41]  They shouldn't just flaunt it.
[00:02:43]  Some of those, when they do that, they're going to end up getting the virus themselves and perhaps some would even die.
[00:02:48]  So they need to be wise in their protest and have credibility before government leaders to say, look, we can go back to work and observe the rules.

=== Vastly Reduce Infections (00:30) ===

[00:02:58]  Allow us to open certain things and we'll observe the social distancing rules.
[00:03:03]  We'll try to be prudent.
[00:03:04]  It won't totally stop the coronavirus, but it'll vastly reduce the number of people infected.
[00:03:10]  So the protesters need to exercise a level of respect and responsibility for them to have credibility.
[00:03:16]  But I'm generally supportive with some of their claims, objections.