The Core Message of the Gospels
The Gospels should be read as books on spiritual work by Christ Jesus but not as a fairy tale or reports on His worldly activities.
The main purpose of acts by Christ Jesus is to tell the poor that there is life after death. And, the poor will be welcomed in Heaven but the rich will be condemned to the hell.
If any person without authority claimed so, nobody would believe in those words. So, Christ Jesus had to first assert and prove that He was the Son of the God by performing various miracles based on His spiritual work.
Indeed, if there is no life after death, the spirit world, Heaven, the hell in addition to the God and Satan or evil spirits, the Gospels are mere fairy tales or fantasies. And, Christianity based on fantasies and superstitions cannot survive these 2000 years.
It is estimated, according to surveys, that 40% of Japanese believe in existence of life after death while about 80% of Americans believe in an afterlife. Note that Japan is not a Christian country, and more and more Japanese have lost faith or interest in Buddhism recently. So, this difference between the two countries shows power of Christianity and the Gospels or influence of the words of Christ Jesus.
But, even in the U.S., a majority of people look not believing that the poor will be welcomed in Heaven and the rich will be condemned to the hell after their death. However, this is the core of the messages of Christ Jesus.
In Palestine 2000 years ago, people there must have believed in existence of life after death as even Egyptians believed in it. But as Egyptian kings and elites tried to have rich life after death in the spirit world, people must have though that the states of rich and poor in this world must be inherited in an afterlife. But unlike other Jewish priests, rabbis and elites, Christ Jesus declared that the poor will be welcomed in Heaven and the rich will be condemned to the hell after their death.
If you do not believe that the poor will be welcomed in Heaven but the rich will be condemned to the hell after their death, you will not follow 100 percent of the words of Christ Jesus from the bottom of your hearts and minds. Indeed, every evil and unhappiness in this human world come from the state of difference between the poor and the rich. Conversely, if it was not resolved or addressed by Christ Jesus, you had better doubt whether He had true authority given by the God.
So, the Gospels are the books to present good news or a good theory to give hope and salvation to the poor suffering in this world by assuring them that they are welcomed in Heaven after death, since life after death is real. In this context, the Bible says that those rich and happy in this world have nothing to do with the God, since they are rich and happy by accepting Satan consciously or mechanically.
It must apply whether or not you are suffering from the corona-virus.
John 5, King James Version
26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.