Norbert is really upset with people being prohibited from gathering together due to the coronavirus shutdowns around the country and the world.
The false prophet and false teacher is appalled that people cannot gather for birthdays and for church services and is perturbed that the idiot pastor in Florida was arrested this week because he gathered hundreds of people in defiance of the ruling.
This has been the typical reaction of narcissistic leaders of various Churches of God for the last few weeks. No one can tell them what to do! They speak for God!
This brings up a news story that appeared today about a community of Orthodox Jews in Israel this past week.
BNEI BRAK, Israel (AP) — Early this week, the streets of the central Israeli city of Bnei Brak were bustling with shoppers as ultra-Orthodox residents, obeying their religious leaders, ignored pleas to stay home in the face of the coronavirus threat.
By Friday, Bnei Brak had become the country's worst hot spot and now resembles a ghost town. The military will soon be sending troops in to assist local authorities. One expert estimated that nearly 40% of the city's population might already have been infected.
The city has become a lightning rod for anger and frustration by some secular Israelis who allege insular Haredi communities — with disproportionately high numbers of confirmed cases — are undermining national efforts to contain the virus.
The pandemic also has threatened to upend deep-seated customs in the religious world, including blind obedience to religious leaders and the belief that religious studies and traditions take precedence over the rules of a modern state. After ignoring warnings, Israeli ultra-Orthodox hit by virus
This is exactly the same thing Church of God leaders are doing. They run off at the mouth, like Norbert Link and Dave Pack are doing and people continue to come to church and congregate in social gatherings. Even milquetoast Bob Thiel is letting the leaders of his "house churches" determine whether they want to meet or not. He does not have the balls to say STOP meeting.
No Church of God member needs to feel that God is requiring them to sit there every week during this pandemic. To do so is putting their life and the lives of their children in danger. Likewise, no Church of God member needs to feel that they are required to send in tithe and offering money to their leaders during this time OR to even tithe on the stimulus check being mailed out. There is not one single Church of God leader out there that deserves their money.
Any Church of God leader that continues to demand their members meet on Saturday needs to be turned in to the police. Then, if a member does become sick after gathering, these men need to be prosecuted.
Stop listening to this bull crap that it is an infringement upon their rights. It's not.