{"id":18751,"date":"2020-07-24T14:54:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T21:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=18751"},"modified":"2020-07-24T14:23:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T21:23:16","slug":"many-americans-see-the-hand-of-god-at-work-in-current-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/many-americans-see-the-hand-of-god-at-work-in-current-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Americans See The Hand Of God At Work In Current Events"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael Snyder<\/a> – July 23,2020<\/p>\n

2020 has been an incredibly bizarre year up to this point, and this has many people wondering if the hand of God is at work.\u00a0 And the worse things get, the more this sort of speculation will heat up.\u00a0 When things get crazy, people search for answers, and that can be a good thing.\u00a0 Because the truth is that during normal times most of us are way too self-absorbed and most of us spend far too little time thinking about the things that really matter.\u00a0 2020 has really shaken up a large portion of the U.S. population, and we should hope that all of this shaking ultimately moves our society in a more positive direction.<\/p>\n

Right now, COVID-19 is dominating the headlines day after day, and the debates that I have seen on social media platforms about this pandemic have often gotten quite heated.<\/p>\n

I knew that many people had extremely passionate opinions about COVID-19, but what I didn\u2019t realize is that a large percentage of them are also convinced that God is somehow involved.\u00a0 In fact, an Associated Press\/NORC survey found that\u00a063 percent<\/a>\u00a0of all religious Americans believe that this pandemic is \u201ca sign from God\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

Sixty-three percent of religious Americans say that the novel coronavirus pandemic is a sign from God, telling humanity to change its ways of living, according a new poll.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The poll, which was conducted by the Associated Press\/NORC, surveyed 1,002 U.S. adults who say they believe in God.<\/p>\n

I was stunned to see a number that high.\u00a0 The Bible does tell us that there will be \u201cpestilences\u201d in the last days, and it would have been very interesting to see how many respondents to that survey believe that this COVID-19 pandemic is one of those pestilences.<\/p>\n

In any event, if this pandemic actually does inspire vast numbers of Americans to live better lives, that would definitely be a positive outcome.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, that does not appear to be happening.\u00a0 Instead, surveys have shown that Americans are increasingly turning to drugs, alcohol and television<\/a> during this pandemic, and a survey that was released just this week found that Bible reading in the United States dropped precipitously \u201cbetween January and June\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Michael Snyder – July 23,2020 2020 has been an incredibly bizarre year up to this point, and this has many people wondering if the hand of God is at work.\u00a0 And the worse things get, the more this sort of speculation will heat up.\u00a0 When things get crazy, people search for answers, and that can … Continue reading Many Americans See The Hand Of God At Work In Current Events<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[15085,15086,14826,36,22,15084,3680,26,15083],"class_list":["post-18751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warning","tag-pestilences","tag-bible-reading","tag-covid-19","tag-disaster","tag-disease","tag-novel-coronavirus","tag-pandemic","tag-religion","tag-religious-americans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4Sr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18753,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18751\/revisions\/18753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}