No matter how we assess the pestilence labeled COVID-19, God PERMITTED IT. Judgment has common characteristics: "And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him." Judgment fell equally on the beastly system and God's people. Famine looms, war rages, inflation soars, and storms rage. "The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word." "(Isaiah 24:2-4, / Cf: Leviticus 18:25).