Hebrews 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.
Therefore, sad as it may sound, we’re indeed facing the prospect that some persons might decide never to return to in person church services. But, because there is nothing new under the sun, we could take courage from one family that never stopped going to church, even at a time when things were looking pretty grim.
In the days of Eli and his sons, the children of Israel had become quite disoriented and discouraged, for they were facing, not a pandemic from a pathogen, but a virus of wickedness which had eaten out the fabric of church life, and people back then loathed to even go near the sanctuary.
The virus found its origins in the high priest’s family and it spread virulently across the land in so much that individuals and families began patterning their lives after what they beheld in their spiritual leader. People usually do not rise higher than their spiritual leaders, and thus, what Eli permitted in his sons was duplicated in thousands of households.
1st Samuel 2: 22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!