The Disaster of Lockdown
This week marks the fifth anniversary of the infamous UK Covid ‘Lockdown’.
Then Prime Minister Boris Johnson made his fateful announcement on Monday 23rd March 2025. The measures, to ‘Stay Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives,’ had been voluntary for the previous week. Now they were to be enforced by the Coronavirus Act 2020, which gained Royal Assent on 25th March and came into force on Thursday 26th. (See this timeline.)
Professor Neil Ferguson had published his computer modelling a week earlier, predicting ‘hundreds of thousands of deaths’. Despite his history of false prophecies, the mainstream media were now calling for ‘something to be done’. Following the politician’s fallacy, lockdown was ‘something’, therefore, they felt obliged to do it.
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Forsaking the meeting
As Christian Voice reported just two weeks later, ‘the entire travel, leisure, hospitality, High Street and educational sectors (were) shut down, with knock-on effects all over the United Kingdom.’ Churches duly followed, with the meeting together, especially in times of trouble, as commended by scripture abandoned by terrified bishops of the Church of England:
Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Some pastors courageously fought back. Nationally, Christian Voice was the only Christian ministry to oppose lockdown right from the start. From the second week, with the Lord’s leading, we were urging ‘the immediate lifting of the lockdown so that people can salvage the wreckage of their jobs and businesses and get back to providing for their families.’
Who is proved right now?
That stance was not popular, even amongst supposed believers. I had church ministers phoning me up and telling me we were doing the devil’s work by condemning lockdown, which they saw as a perfectly legitimate public-health measure.
Who is proved right now? The UK was plunged into our worst recession since the Great Frost of 1709. And even without the benefit of hindsight, was lockdown ever reasonable or legitimate? Telling people not to go outdoors? Authoritarian police in Brighton clearing people off the beach? Derbyshire police employing drones to check no ‘Covidiot’ was out and about on the fells of the Peak District?
The adverse health and social effects of lack of exercise and socialisation, of depressed immune systems, of missed hospital appointments and screenings for disease, all enforced enthusiastically by the establishment, with stricter measures in schools called for out of sheer self interest by teachers’ unions, for example, will be felt for years.
More to the point, was it ever scriptural?
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The Gift of God
Lockdown happened because our politicians, officials and church leaders left off to take heed to the Lord. Remember, wisdom comes from above. Stupidity comes from the world, the flesh or the devil, or as judgment.
If they had consulted the Lord in his word, our elites would have found in two places in the book of Ecclesiastes that to eat and drink and enjoy the good of your labour, indeed to rejoice in it, was the gift of God:
Eccl 3:13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
Eccl 5:19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
In the psalms they would have read that:
Psa 104:23 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
Businesses designated ‘non-essential’
So they would have concluded, as we did, that what Almighty God has ordained, and described as his gift, the ability to work and enjoy the fruits of your labour, no government on earth has the power to forbid.
Indeed, no government in the history of the world had ever before done such a thing. They have subjected people to slavery, but never before had they told their people not to work and paid them billions from taxpayers’ money and government borrowing to stay at home and do nothing.
We wrote at the time: ‘The millions affected do not want tax-payer-funded bail-outs. They want their jobs and businesses back.’
As for designating some economic activity as non-essential, how did they dare do that? The billion-pound beauty industry, laughed at by MPs when William Wragg asked a question about it in Parliament on 1st July 2020, is and was essential both for the families of beauticians and for hairdressers, and for the ladies who would go every week to have their hair done.
The clothing industry was essential for thousands of families in the developing world who made clothes for the likes of Primark. Both, indeed all the so-called non-essential businesses, were legitimate economic activity.
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Project Fear and love of money
I could go on to remind you of the elderly people locked up in care homes, forbidden to see their nearest and dearest. The complete idiocy of the police scouring shopping trolleys to check no-one had bought an Easter egg. Or taking a homeless man to court for leaving his home.
Then, as lockdown went on, Project Fear stepped up and we had the enforced wearing of ineffective, oppressive, dehumanising facemasks. The ludicrous and widespread use, even to this day, of anti-bacterial hand-sanitisers against an airborne virus. Even in church, believers forgot the words of the Lord:
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
And of course, huge pharmaceutical companies seized the opportunity to make billions out of useless pseudo-vaccines imposed on those who were at next to no risk from the Covid anyway. And of course, the bodies set up to regulate them being stuffed with industry insiders and shareholders.
As it is written:
1Tim 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil:
No ‘Reckoning’ without a miracle
An article on Spiked Online from their deputy editor, Fraser Myers, is headed: ‘Lockdown: a reckoning’, but the truth is, there will be no reckoning without a miracle of repentance among our entire elite.
The UK’s Covid Enquiry has shut down any discussion of whether lockdown was a reasonable response to the Covid, only arguing over whether it was strict enough, or brought in early enough. The Enquiry refused to discuss, let alone affirm, the first-dismissed and now-accepted conclusion that the virus was genetically engineered in and then escaped from, Wuhan’s Institute of Virology.
Five years ago, a stupid, frightened, arrogant Government oppressed the population by denying folk the ability to earn and the freedom to go out of doors, contrary to scripture:.
Lev 25:17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.
They deprived men and women of their wages, a sin which cries to heaven:
James 5:4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
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The spiritual dimension
Above all, they brought in measures which were clearly unjust but which were embraced by the godless media, accepted by a fearful people and enforced by the police and the courts with power-hungry enthusiasm.
The Bible says of God:
Psa 89:14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Human government is intended by the Almighty to follow that principle. There is a spiritual dimension to justice. The New York courthouse features a quote by George Washington, saying: ‘the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government’.
Justice flew out of the window five years ago and good government followed it. We shall be paying for it, and without a miracle feeling the effects in society of it, for generations to come. The lesson to be learned is that we must do things God’s way. That requires us to pray for those who lead us, constantly witness to them, and hope in faith for a miracle of repentance in them.
Previous Articles
9th Apr 2020 Lockdown to stay as Boris recovers →
17th Apr 2020 Vaccine mania drives continued lockdown →
24th Apr 2020 Covid-19 Lockdown not science-based →
23rd Sep 2020 Why do people love the lockdown? →
3rd Nov 2020 The disaster of Lockdown2 →
25th Apr 2022 Boris Johnson in Lockdown U-turn →
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