This subject of this article is about COVID-19 but before ‘getting into it’ we need to establish context. The world is a bewildering place. Nations war and destroy. Individuals lie and lust and murder, and as if mere killing weren’t enough, they often do it in unimaginably heinous ways. Such things defy rational human thought and logic. The compulsion to worship drives the human soul The 20 th Century theologian C.I. Scofield pegged the reasons for nations and peoples’ behaviors. “The present world system” he noted in footnotes for Revelation 13:8, “is organized on the principles of force, greed, selfishness, ambition and pleasure.” These things are the hallmarks of Satan’s long warfare against God and humanity, Scofield declared.