What happens when God's children are misled?

Update: I would like to comment on my use of the term pastors and on my description of COVID-19 as a deadly and disabling plague. 

I no longer have confidence in any church hierarchy, given that the Lord Jesus is recorded as saying in Matthew 23 that all disciples are siblings, none of whom should be called rabbi or guide, because we have one teacher (the Christ), and that anyone who exalts themselves will be brought low. In John 21, the Lord's commission to Peter can be read without any permission for hierarchy: the two Ancient Greek verbs used there, bosko and poimaino, had several senses each, such as "feed" and "tend" respectively.

I am aware, on the topic of COVID-19, that many readers will find my description offensive and undermining my credibility. My defence is that at the time I did believe this to be true, and that COVID-19 may indeed have been the cause of death and disability in many people. The work of science, of trying to develop more reliable knowledge about this matter, continues. 

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When people abuse God's name, teaching falsely and destructively, the logical response from Almighty God, as promised and seen in History repeatedly, is to demonstrate conclusively that Almighty God isn't protecting those people, isn't on their side, isn't with them, but allows them to become a hissing, a horror, an example of tragedy.

"whoever may snare one of the little ones, these, who believe in Me, it profits him that a heavy millstone be hung around his neck, and he be sunk in the depth of the ocean." (Matthew 18:6 CFB)

"our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord our God.... Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes." (2 Chronicles 29:6-8 AKJV)

"But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee...." (Deuteronomy 28:15 AKJV)

Today, there are people who, in the name of Christ, are teaching that fornication and abortion are permissible. Look for the evidence of how Almighty God is turning them into a hissing, an example of what not to do.

Likewise, there are people who, calling themselves Christians and even pastors, are encouraging people to disregard an ongoing deadly and disabling plague (COVID19), thereby endangering themselves and others, and bringing shame to the name of Christ. We can already see how Almighty God is distancing Himself from such people.

For example, one such "pastor" has quite obviously been deprived of logical comprehension and a sense of decency. "Pastor" John MacArthur has been declaring, without apology or correction, that people can calculate their chance of surviving COVID19 as the percentage of Californians not yet killed by the plague. This "pastor" has declared this atrocious falsehood several times: it has featured on Fox News, on the Eric Metaxas Radio Show, and in The Christian Post.