'A Strange Immunity'

Queuing to pray May 1940

Following my YouTube clip – Prayer Changes things – May 1940

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI9YdwFl5gk&t=116s

which I would encourage you to listen to before reading this blog, I wanted to write and refer to the fact that it seems strange some people are catching the virus and having no or very little symptoms – there is a ‘strange immunity’ for some.

This reminds me of one of the miracles entitled ‘the strange immunity’ as recorded by Rev. David E Gardner in his trilogy entitled ‘The Trumpet sounds for Britain’:

In early May 1940 German panzer forces burst through and began a rapid advance across France and Belgium. This movement was threatening the British army with encirclement, and British forces were being obliged to withdraw

Back in Britain Winston Churchill feared that it would be the greatest military disaster in the history of the British empire, whilst on 27 May the German High Command went so far as to boast that ‘The British army is encircled and our troops are proceeding to its annihilation.’

The decision was reached to evacuate our forces from the Continent. But the only port from which to evacuate the British Expeditionary Force was Dunkirk, and that was already being seriously threatened by the Germans – all seemed lost.

His Majesty King George VI requested that Sunday, 26 May should be observed as a National Day of Prayer. In a stirring broadcast, he called the people of Britain and of the Empire to commit their cause to God. Together with members of the Cabinet, the King attended Westminster Abbey, whilst millions of his subjects in all parts of the Commonwealth and Empire flocked to the churches to join in prayer.

Four miracles happened:

The first miracle

The first was that for some reason—which has never yet been fully explained—Hitler overruled his generals and halted the advance of his armoured columns at the very point when they could have proceeded to the British army’s annihilation. They were now only ten miles away! Later, Mr Churchill asserted in his memoirs that this was because Hitler undoubtedly believed ‘that his air superiority would be sufficient to prevent a large-scale evacuation by sea.’ That is very significant in terms of the second miracle.

The second miracle

A storm of unprecedented fury broke over Flanders on Tuesday, 28 May, (1940) grounding the German Luftwaffe squadrons and enabling the British army formations, now eight to twelve miles from Dunkirk, to move up on foot to the coast in the darkness of the storm and the violence of the rain, with scarcely any interruption from aircraft, which were unable to operate in such turbulent conditions.

The third miracle

Despite the storm in Flanders, a great calm—such as has rarely been experienced—settled over the English Channel during the days which followed, and its waters became as still as a mill pond.

It was this quite extraordinary calm which enabled a vast armada of little ships, big ships, warships, privately owned motor-cruisers from British rivers and estuaries – in fact, almost anything that would float – to ply back and forth in a desperate bid to rescue as many men as possible.

The fourth miracle -A strange immunity

Even though some German airplane squadrons did get through, it seems that yet another miracle happened.

Many of the troops on the beaches were favoured with a strange immunity. When about 400 men were being machine-gunned and bombed, systematically, by about sixty enemy aircraft, one man who flung himself down with the rest reported that, after the strafing was over, he was amazed to find that there was not a single casualty.

Another man, a chaplain, was likewise machine-gunned and bombed as he lay on the beach. After what seemed an eternity, he realized he had not been hit, and rose to his feet to find that the sand all around where he had been lying was pitted with bullet holes, and that his figure was outlined on the ground.

Winston Churchill on the 4th June made a statement to the House of Commons, speaking with a voice charged with emotion he reported that, rather than 20,000 or 30,000 men being re-embarked, ‘335,000 men had been carried out of the jaws of death. He referred to what had happened as ‘a miracle of deliverance’.

Extracted from a trilogy entitled ‘The Trumpet Sounds for Britain’ written by Rev. David E Gardner, who died just before the trilogy was republished. Whilst serving in the Royal Navy during WW2, an emergency in a submarine caused him to recognise the miraculous deliverance of God.

As a society we need a miracle of deliverance from this deadly Coronavirus so we can see hundred of thousands saved from death and illness ( and have IMMUNITY) I would encourage us all around the world to pray the following this Sunday at 7pm.

Dear God

We turn to you and ask that you will please crush this virus just as Jesus crushes Satan under his feet

(Genesis 3:15 and Romans 16:20 – for a more detailed exposition of these passages see my blog next week entitled ‘the Snake is under our feet’).

We acknowledge that as the creator of this world you have all power and authority over all things and that you can destroy this virus

We put our faith in you

Amen

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