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Confessions

“The CDC said it doesn’t spread at all by air, then Friday they came out with this poster.” “They admit that these particles or droplets may land on objects such as doorknobs and that Ebola can be transmitted that way.” (Dr. Meryl Nass, of the Institute for Public Accuracy in Washington, DC).

This surreptitiously published poster reportedly states: “Droplet spread happens when germs traveling inside droplets that are coughed or sneezed from a sick person enter the eyes, nose or mouth of another person."

Dr. Meryl Nass according to her profile is a physician in private practice who is known for uncovering the use of anthrax as a biological weapon in Rhodesia. She has shown that many studies indicate anthrax vaccine is one cause of Gulf War Illnesses. She has provided testimony before two Institute of Medicine committees on Gulf War Illness exposures (Dec. 15, 1999). Dr. Nass discussed experimental anthrax vaccine use in testimony to the House National Security Subcommittee on April 29, 1999, and discussed accelerated drug licensing and abbreviated testing of vaccines and drugs intended for responding to bioterrorism in testimony for the House Government Reform Committee hearing on Nov 14, 2001 ("Preparing a Medical Response to Bioterrorism").

See also:  http://just-before-midnight.blogspot.com/2014/10/an-inconvenient-truth.html

The Valley of Elah

A major Jewish American policy group today insisted that the administration “hold to account” the senior U.S. official who cursed Benjamin Netanyahu. Even the National Jewish Democratic Council, articulated “surprise and disappointment at the profane and inappropriate language attributed to a senior administration official in describing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.” Undoubtedly a manifestation of top-down administration contempt for Netanyahu.

Who is this senior U.S. official “that he should defy the armies of the living God?” (cf. 1Sa 17:26); this is not a trivial transgression:

Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand… that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel” (1Sa 17:45-46).

As the "Midnight Hour" approaches, so also the “Day” when the “God of Israel,” a phrase repeated over 200 times in Scripture, will recompense His namesake:

“… Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee” (Numbers 24:9). “I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink” (Joel 3:2-3). "And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left” (Mat 25:32-33).

“It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God” (Hebrews 10:31).

How can I be saved?

It's Slowing?

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported from its Geneva headquarters today that “we are seeing slowing rate of new [Ebola] cases, very definitely” in Liberia.

However, the timing of the WHO’s announcement seems suspect, exactly one week before elections and before justifying statistics were officially posted on the WHO website; quite consistent for the Geneva based organization: “GENEVA — At the U.N. agency spearheading the fight against swine flu [the WHO], key decisions are based on more than just health issues — politics plays a big role, too…. measures such as travel bans, border closures, and raising alert levels can meet stiff political opposition” (Associated Press, 5/3/2009)

Also, WHO’s self-edifying statistics based on low patient count and empty beds at Liberian Ebola treatment centers are "intentionally deceptive," e.g., “MONROVIA, Liberia — Even as Liberians fall ill and die of Ebola, more than half the beds in treatment centers in the capital remain empty, an unintended consequence of the government’s order that the bodies of all suspected Ebola victims in Monrovia be cremated” (Associated Press 10/23/14).

How can I be saved?

Complicity of Silence

Bellevue Hospital Center was forced to transport all its intensive care patients to NYU Langone Medical Center, to accommodate the care a “single patient”!

Ian Michaels, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation Director of Media Relations, explains “It’s not to free up space. It’s to free up staff.” “All the staff working with the Ebola patient are from the ICU,” i.e., New York City’s first confirmed Ebola case, Dr. Craig Spencer.

The math that everyone seems to ignore is not that complicated, i.e., ONE HOSPITAL per Ebola patient, and according to a confident CDC, New York City has seven more. “… Bellevue Hospital is one of eight New York State hospitals that Governor Cuomo has designated to treat Ebola patients.” (CDC, News Release, Thursday, October 23, 2014).

There appears to be a media and other entities complicity of silence as the flu, Ebola, open borders, and election season approaches.

How can I be saved?

The Snowden Chronicles

The Snowden chronicles revealed that mankind has developed the capability to globally monitor connectivity and store without bandwidth constraint the constituent text, voice, video, and GPS coordinates of every transaction initiated on the "Omnipresent" internet; the archived data to be processed by algorithms yet to be imagined. Such is the propensity of mankind for Omniscience, albeit a synthetic Omniscience.

"And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil" (Genesis 3:4-5).

However, Omniscience is more than just knowing, 'Scientia Potentia Est' i.e., “Knowledge is Power”, the ultimate power that comes from knowing the thoughts and intents of the heart of every cyber-connected soul on earth, a power that even the serpent never had until now!

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Horse Sense

Appended are excerpts from a recent letter to the editor of the Lewiston Morning Tribune from a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM); essentially a comparative study of the divergent quarantine standards of “man and beast.” Hard not to emphasize with the author’s subtle lament that "horse sense" i.e., the institutively obvious is no longer an attribute of those who guide our nation.

“If I wish to import a horse into the United States from Liberia or any African country other than Morocco, the horse needs to undergo a 60 day quarantine period at a USDA approved quarantine facility prior to mingling with the general population of horses in this country….” “I can't legally cross state lines in the United States with a horse or cow without a health certificate signed by a USDA accredited veterinarian stating that the animal has been inspected and found free of infectious disease….” “[but] If I am a resident of Liberia incubating Ebola, to enter the United States all I need to do is present a valid visa, and lie when asked if I have been exposed to Ebola. Within hours (no quarantine required) I can be walking the streets of any city in the United States.”

How can I be saved?

Come November

Bellevue Hospital predictably had a case of “lab-coat flu” on Friday; Bellevue, the hospital hosting New York’s first Ebola patient. The isolation ward in particular was literally an “isolated” ward with many out “sick” or to traumatized to enter Doctors Without Borders Dr. Craig Spencer’s isolation chamber.

Come November, if the winds of November bring us a confluence of indistinguishable flu and Ebola, will a multiplicity doctors and nurses and other professionals and staffers decide it is time to retire or find other employment? If so, can any hospital remain sufficiently functional and profitable to remain open?

“He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap” (Ecclesiastes 11:4).

How can I be saved?

The Blood

Nina Pham, in caring for Liberian national Thomas Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in America, became the second. The 26-year-old nurse walked out of a Maryland hospital today having joined the fellowship of those who received life from the blood, i.e., the blood of Samaritan’s Purse doctor Kent Brantly. Freelance cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, also received life from Brantly’s blood: “[Brantly’s] generous blood donation played a pivotal role in my recovery.” Fellow missionary and Samaritan’s Purse doctor Richard Sacra infected in Liberia also received life from Brantly’s blood.

During the 1800s doctors discovered the life giving power of the transfused blood of those who had survived bacterial and viral infections. However, the efficacy of the blood goes back further, to the People of the Book “...the life of the flesh is in the blood… for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul” (Leviticus 17:11).

Last fall, Kent Brantly moved with his wife and young children to work at a hospital in Monrovia, ELWA (Eternal Love Winning Africa). Last March when he and a few colleagues learned of the outbreak, they were led to prepare for a contingency to help contain the outbreak. Although there was resistance, it was granted:

“The only available space… a yellow cinderblock tin-roofed chapel in the hospital's courtyard, where the staff gathered each morning for devotions. Now they rolled in six beds and separated them with plastic tarps. They cleaned the floors and walls. They placed a sign out front that read, ‘Isolation unit. Authorized personnel only.’ And then they waited” [On an evening early in June the call came.]

“[later in July] Brantly, covered head to toe in protective gear, identifiable only by his blue eyes peering through goggles, spoke into the camera for a video being put together by Samaritan's Purse” [begged] "Please come help us." (Lena H. Sun, Brady Dennis, Lenny Bernstein and Joel Achenbach, “How the world let Ebola spread,” The Washington Post, 10, 7, 2014).

Then as other doctors and nurses were becoming sick, some dying, Brantly continued battle against the invisible foe, that they might know the blood of Him that could make them whole, that is, until he became one with them.

He later recalled: “I held the hands of countless individuals as this terrible disease took their lives away from them. I witnessed the horror firsthand, and I can still remember every face and name. “When I started feeling ill on that Wednesday morning…. When the result was positive, I remember a deep sense of peace that was beyond all understanding.”

“Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant” (Hebrews 13:20). “… made peace through the blood of his cross….” (Colossians 1:20).

“... if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1John_1:7).  

How can I be saved?

The Beasts of the Earth

"Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would've gone through clinical trials and would have been ready" (National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins deflecting criticism of his organization’s failure to develop a hemorrhagic fever vaccine).

“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth” (Revelation 6:8).

The Greek word for "beast" here is "therion," (G2342) i.e., the diminutive form of the word “ther” meaning a small, little, or tiny beast. Perhaps a virus or bacteria.

How can I be saved?

An Inconvenient Truth

The only information forthcoming from those coordinating the response: “It's spiraling out of control. It is getting worse. It's spreading faster and exponentially,” and the mandate that the only measure that may belay a viral conflagration will not be imposed.

Unmentioned is the “inconvenient truth” that proactive diagnostic capabilities quintessential to combating this scourge are essentially impossible until after full metastasis or death? As well as that heads up of several decades ago:

"Those monkeys [infected with a hemorrhagic fever virus comparable to Ebola] were dying in a pattern that was certainly suggestive of coughing and sneezing — some sort of aerosol movement." "They were dying and spreading it so quickly from cage to cage. We finally came to the conclusion that the best action was to euthanize them all." (Dr. Charles L. Bailey, Executive Director, National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases)

Dare I say it, i.e., the other pending “inconvenient truth”?

“... behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth” (Revelation 6:8).

How can I be saved?

A Tide in the Affairs of Men

Our President’s continued refusal to restrict Ebola-stricken West African travel appears to be irrational, but he has his reasons.

When a tide in the affairs of men turns, jeopardizing a legacy of great power and authority, what will be his probable behavior, and the consequence for those under his shadow?

Walter C. Langer, Consultant, M.O. Branch, OSS compiled a comprehensive psychological analysis of Adolph Hitler to answer just such a question. Langer begins with a multiplicity of observations and apt summations e.g.,

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it" (Walter C. Langer, Office of Strategic Services, Washington, D.C., "A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler, date illegible, (declassified, 12, March, 1968).

Langer concludes with a number of potential scenarios, the more dramatic seem most characteristic of the Fuehrer's rhetoric, "We shall not capitulate...no, never. We my be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us...a world in flames."

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and... He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision (Psalm 2:1-4).

How can I be saved?

It's Spiraling Out of Control

Our “we are no longer a Christian Nation” President, in an unprecedented display reminiscent of the panic stricken radio reporter witnessing the Hindenburg conflagration, recently confessed:

"… Ebola is now an epidemic of the likes that we have not seen before.... It's spiraling out of control. It is getting worse. It's spreading faster and exponentially. Today, thousands of people in West Africa are infected. That number could rapidly grow to tens of thousands… And if the outbreak is not stopped now, we could be looking at hundreds of thousands of people infected with profound political and economic and security implications for all of us."

The United Nations Security Council is expediting a resolution coercing countries into providing the urgent aid required to mitigate the contagion-stricken region.

The World Bank approved a $105 million stopgap grant to help cope with the economic impact of the plague.

The Department of Defense pleaded for "an additional $500 million in Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funds to combat the pestilence, while the U.S. military has been charged with an unprecedented logistical challenge for which it is totally unprepared.

The C.D.C.’s "commensurate" response to the pandemic: “among the largest deployments of C.D.C. personnel ever.”

“The World Health Organization's failed response to the Ebola crisis showed anew that the group is more a politically minded policy-making body than a relief agency. The WHO claimed that it lacked the resources to respond to Ebola, but while the outbreak was spiraling out of control in West Africa, the organization had plenty of time and money to mount an international campaign to combat what it flagged last month as a ‘grave concern.’ Not Ebola, but electronic cigarettes.”

“The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general issued a highly critical report finding that DHS lacks sufficient supplies and preparedness to handle a domestic pandemic…. We're still far less prepared than we should be, and far more vulnerable than we're admitting.” (Scott Gottlieb And Tevi Troy, Ebola's Warning for an Unprepared America, The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 16, 2014).

“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God…. Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight. Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah” (Psalm 9:17-20).

How can I be saved?

The Best of Times, the Worst of Times

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way....” So begins A Tale of Two Cities in “the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.” A tale of nations and souls when it was "the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

“It was the time of unraveling. Long afterward, in the ruins, people asked: How could it happen?… It was a time of disorientation. Nobody connected the dots or read Kipling on life’s few certainties: 'The Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire and the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire.' Until it was too late and people could see the Great Unraveling for what it was and what it had wrought.” (Roger Cohen,The Great Unraveling, The New York Times, Sept. 15, 2014).

"And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh...."
For some "the best of times." For some "the worst of times.

Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning (Mark 13:35) ."

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