If not for the drumbeat of fear pounding on us from the media, from social media.. from our own families..
If not for the governments promising monies to keep us quiet.,,and home We might be using our brains,lifting our hands in worship, praising God and seeking to help. Sadly, this is not the case. Instead, many people are screaming "apocalypse!" so here are some truths that may help you begin to sort it out. The death rate even in Italy is ten percent. here it is 1.5 percent. no, millions will not die. We knew, even a couple of years ago, that hand sanitizer failed to kill the "bad bugs"... it is not as good as washing your hands soap and water alone will remove 90 percent of germs. there, feel better? This is now totally forgotten. you are advised to sanitize everything from your mailbox ( er, what about the mail itself, or at least the envelopes.) .to your car seat and steering wheel, Washing your clothes after a trip out, and a shower after you return home if you are totally wigged, is a good plan, physically remove dirt from yourself and from surfaces, yup. soap and water, kitchen bath etc. will do you far more good than spraying disinfectant sprays everywhere .some of those sprays are pretty toxic. If you want more thorough protection and cleaning.. set up a shoe bath by the door. clorox and water,( 2 tbsp per gallon) or a good livestock solution .. I have listed kennel products on my facebook page, amazon has the..some even safe for food prep areas.. every aviary zoo and livestock place in the world uses these techniques. And overalls which come off before you come in the human dwelling. the state of the cruise ship ..17 days later they detected virus everywhere.. and nursing homes passing the virus .. point to the level of fear and the failure to follow protocols .Those crew members were not cleaning, they could not have been, and nursing homes aren;t following even standard medical protocols gloves off/new ones on between each patient no one working with a fever, etc. perhaps the best cure for that is getting anyone you love out of the nursing home, yes, caring for a sick frail elder can be hard .. but current conditions are deadly. And remembering , that cruise lines want to make a profit. Legionnare's disease and noro virus spreading were our big red pointers... "floating petri dish"... but in spite of hearing about a new virus outbreak in China, everyone boarded those ships anyway. as of a couple of days ago, there were a dozen or more not allowed to dock anywhere. Our current crisis really is a modern one, but maybe similar to earlier outbreaks, with travel so common, all over the world, with most products in tankers, roving around the world (black death came from rats on ships, and swine flu followed a world war, people moving around, etc.) we also lack enough local authority to control travel , access, etc we are mobile, in every way. If you feed yourself on conspiracy theories, on being consumed by the possibility of your own death, you have given yourself over to the spirit of fear. Every human dies.you cannot avoid it. but Jesus Himself said to Satan, in response to Satan saying.. "oh throw yourself down, the angels will catch you.." "thou shall not tempt the Lord your God" God gave you a brain, stay out of harm;s way, it's not a contest, God;s not your magical genie. ..Dont think God saves you from stupidity. It will not change the fact that you are saved. our salvation is assured. But God set up governments, gave us instincts, etc to help us on this journey of life. I am hearing reports that many hospitals are nearly empty. with elective surgeries canceled, etc, our capacity is good ( except for New York ,California, and possibly other large cities. some help has arrived. the hospital ships, military mobile hospitals, etc) I am also hearing that some of the testing going on leads to many many false positives.a few false negatives. and therefore, our whole view of the spread is false. ( whether worse or better, who knows) And as far as this being birth pangs,, only if you believe God is about to return to dealing with Israel, and this previous generation has been all about rebirthing Israel, and not about the gentile nations..that Jesus was speaking to His coming Kingdom even in that birth pangs chapter..not to the age of grace,,, does that even make sense. What makes more sense is that even in such difficult times,there are people who seek to profit. and maximum profit means total control ( think 1984, by Orwell) Having been shown that even modernity isn't stopping ..disease war, hatred.. we are vulnerable and seek a solution ( peace and safety no matter what the cost).and that leads to the "man with a plan" who will cause such suffering on earth. I prefer God's solution. Jesus died and was resurrected. shedding His blood to pay for our sin. But many blame God for their current predicament ( which has been,, since the Garden..) without modern medical care many more would have died from the virus.we are working to contain this threat. and that is all good news. It has come to our attention that governments lie for their own agendas. I do expect mandatory vaccinations after this ( regardless if they will sicken or kill some of us, no exceptions.and there are always some who respond badly to an immunization. that;s also a fact ) It has come to our attention that politicians put themselves first. These were obvious truths, but we ignored them Viruses live to reproduce, they need hosts. no morality, no heart. we thought we had beaten back the tide ( and we had, now our populations are mixing and moving again and old, defeated enemies are on the march) We are not in the Tribulation period. the four horsemen haven;t yet ridden out. and if that doesn;t scare you into looking into whether the Bible is a true account, and therefore you might want to consider your eventual fate.... nothing will. Jesus said even someone coming back from the dead would not convince some people. He did come back from the dead and ..a lot of people didn't believe it. Saints in the grave ( that is Jewish believers who awaited the Messiah's coming) got out of the grave and went into Jerusalem. it didn't change anything .But then, witnesses are only responsible for delivering the message. No soul is forced to accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. If you are waiting for a sign form God... He gave you one. |
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