Thursday, June 30, 2022

Ineffective COVID Vaccines

Ineffective COVID Vaccines by Bill Wilson

What happened to COVID? You don’t hear much about it these days. But did you know that COVID infections in America are more than 10 times higher than they were last year at this time? Did you know that deaths from COVID are almost 25% higher than they were last year at this time? It’s true. According to statistics kept by Johns Hopkins University, the seven-day average of US COVID cases as of June 27 were 121,255 compared with 11,839 last year, and the seven-day average of COVID deaths were 398 as of June 27 compared with 308 for the same period last year. While the mainstream news media and the Biden Administration have moved on, the devastation of COVID remains.

All those doctors and nurses who were demonized for saying that the COVID vaccine would only weaken immune systems and cause the disease to spread even more were apparently correct. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine titled, “Effects of Previous Infection and Vaccination on Symptomatic Omicron Infections,” found “No discernable differences in protection against symptomatic BA.1 and BA.2 [Omicron] infection were seen with previous infection, vaccination, and hybrid immunity.” A Forbes analysis of countries with the highest vaccination rates indicated that per-capita COVID outbreaks are higher than the less vaccinated countries, causing experts to question the efficacy of vaccines. A UK study indicates that initial vaccine effectiveness of 45-75% rapidly declines after several weeks to 10% or less.

Moreover, the UK study confirmed that “9 out of every 10 deaths related to COVID-19 are found in those who are fully vaccinated.” A paper by MIT’s Stephanie Seneff, published in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research, postulates that the “unintended consequences” of the mRNA vaccines against COVID 19 are worse than the disease, including catastrophic adverse events such as the destruction of the immune system. In a May 19 Epoch Times article, Beth Giuffre and Dr Yuhong Dong conclude: “Prominent immunologists, vaccinologists, and researchers from every clinical expertise are now providing evidence to support COVID-19 mRNA injectable products are causing immune system dysregulation.”

Estimated to account for only one percent of vaccine injuries, the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System as of June 17 reports 1,307,926 COVID vaccine adverse events, including 29,031 deaths and 164,324 hospitalizations. There were 54,306 permanently disabled, 42,168 cases of myocarditis/pericarditis, 14,935 heart attacks, 4,751 miscarriages, 6,865 blood clots and 41,746 severe allergic reactions. So much for “safe and effective.” There have been over 400 studies that indicate the COVID mandates, vaccines and lockdowns did more harm than good, and will continue doing more harm. The government and corporations used fear to activate a control mechanism over everyone. In Isaiah 41:10 the Lord says, “Fear not, for I am with you.” Be wise. Know the Lord is with you. 

Breyer to Retire

 

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire Thursday: 'It has been my great honor'

The Second Mile

 

The Second Mile by Dr. D. James Kennedy

And whoever compels you to go a mile, go with him two.      Matthew 5:41

Centuries before Christ, Cyrus the Great was a mighty monarch of the Persian Empire, which stretched from one end to the other of the known inhabited world. He invented the first national postal system, probably because the decrees of the king of the Medes and the Persians were inviolable and could not be changed, so it was important that the people heard about it when the king made a decree. In the process of putting that huge postal service in place, Cyrus the Great issued a decree that the couriers could require any person to carry any burden on his person, his mule, his cart, a horse, in a ship or whatever, for one mile. After that, he could not impress or compel him any further.

The Romans adopted this postal system, along with the custom of compelling a person to carry a burden for a mile. It was a very onerous thing for the Jews, who already detested the fact that they had to pay taxes to the despotic and tyrannical Roman conquerors.

When Jesus said we should go a second mile, it was unthinkable to His Jewish hearers. It was unconscionable. Then they would have to walk two miles back—that’s four miles. Does Jesus know what He is asking? Ah, yes, He knows. Jesus not only taught it by precept, he taught it by example. It is one of the most difficult things anyone will ever learn to do. It is the art of true Christian forgiveness carried through to the end.

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Quote from Leo Tolstoy

WHEN IGNORANCE DOES NOT KNOW SOMETHING IT SAYS WHAT IT DOES NOT KNOW IS STUPID.   Leo Tolstoy

Quote from Benjamin Franklin

SECURITY WITHOUT LIBERTY IS CALLED PRISON.     Benjamin Franklin

This and That

This and That by Dr. Jim Denison

The Supreme Court ruled six-to-three yesterday that a school district cannot bar a football coach from publicly exercising his faith on the field after the game. Writing for the Court, Justice Neil Gorsuch said coach Joe Kennedy’s prayers were private speech that could not be construed as representing the school district and were thus protected by the First Amendment.

The other side had argued that public devotions by a football coach could be seen as coercive, particularly to the players, since they depend on his approval on matters ranging from playing time on the field to college recommendations. However, Justice Gorsuch wrote that such students should consider the coach’s prayers a lesson for "learning how to tolerate speech or prayer of all kinds" as "part of learning how to live in a pluralistic society."


An attorney with First Liberty successfully argued the case before the Court. After the ruling, First Liberty President, CEO, and Chief Counsel Kelly Shackelford 
stated, "Our Constitution protects the right of every American to engage in private religious expression, including praying in public, without fear of getting fired. We are grateful that the Supreme Court recognized what the Constitution and law have always said—Americans are free to live out their faith in public" (my emphasis).

Whether we will or not is the question.

Alligator kills a man in South Carolina

Forty-six migrants were 
found dead in the back of a tractor trailer in San Antonio yesterday evening; sixteen others were taken to local hospitals with heat-related injuries. Three people were killed and at least fifty were injured when an Amtrak train derailed in Missouri yesterday after striking a dump truck.

In other news, at least twelve people 
died and 251 were injured in a chlorine gas leak at Jordan’s Aqaba port. An eleven-foot-long alligator killed a man in a Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, yacht club community. And a five-month-old girl was shot to death while in the rear of a car in a Chicago neighborhood.

When tragedies like these occur, they immediately make the news because they strike a chord deep within us. This is because we innately know that human life is innately valuable. This explains why the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s has led to the nearly unanimous condemnation of slavery, white supremacy, and racial discrimination today, while the abortion movement has been deeply divisive from 1973 to today.


However, the sanctity of every human life stands on a prior foundation that has been under attack for decades.


The Judeo-Christian tradition has held since its inception that "God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them" (Genesis 1:27). If Western society continues to reject the biblical worldview upon which our culture was built, we will lose the mortar that holds us together. And we will forfeit all that God can give only to those who live by his word and will.


Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Surgeon General of the Continental Army, and ratifier of the US Constitution, 
observed: "By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects. . . . It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published."

If you had the cure for all cancer

This is why living out our faith in public is not only our right but also our responsibility. We know the answers to the deepest questions of the human heart. We have experienced the "antidote" to the pandemic of sin, the only hope for eternal life beyond this life. Like Paul, we are therefore "under obligation" to pay forward the grace we have received (Romans 1:14).

We must never allow our skeptical, secularized culture to persuade us that sharing and standing for our faith is an imposition of our values on others. To the contrary, such bold witness is the most compassionate way we can love our neighbor as ourselves.

If you had the cure for all cancer, would sharing it with the world be an imposition or a gift?


However, it is vital that we live out our faith in public in ways that are compelling and attractive to the public. For example, while pro-abortion activists are 
lambasting the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, Anglican priest and New York Times opinion writer Tish Harrison Warren has published a brilliantly reasoned article defending the biblical sanctity of life.

Ukrainian officials are 
reporting that two Russian missiles slammed into a crowded shopping mall in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk yesterday; at this hour, at least eighteen are dead and fifty-eight are wounded. Meanwhile, Christians fleeing the Russian advance in Ukraine are ministering to other refugees with practical compassion and courageous grace.

"The duty of the present moment"

Paul told the Corinthians, "A wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries" (1 Corinthians 16:9). 
Wide translates the Greek mega, "great." Effective work translates energes, meaning "active, powerful, strong."

At the very same time this great opportunity for the gospel has been "opened" to the apostle, "there are many adversaries." Commentator David Garland notes, "The gospel always meets with resistance because it topples all persons from their thrones, great and small, and it is no surprise that many adversaries rise up in resistance."


Paul’s story is our story. The digital era presents a "wide door" unprecedented in human history for living out our faith in public. However, this platform is equally available to "adversaries" of the gospel.


If we will submit our day and influence to God’s Spirit (Ephesians 5:18), we will be empowered to stand publicly and persuasively for God’s word and will. Our faithfulness will mark lives for eternity, whether we know it at the time or not. As Oswald Chambers 
noted, "When we choose deliberately to obey God, then he will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist us."

In 
Abandonment to Divine Providence, the French Jesuit Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675–1751) wrote: "We find all that is necessary in the present moment. If we have abandoned ourselves to God, there is only one rule for us: the duty of the present moment."

Have you abandoned yourself to God yet today?

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Eight Foods

 

Available for God

 

Available for God by Dr. D. James Kennedy… "...according to your days, so shall be your strength."   Deuteronomy 33:25

What is the greatest ability we can have when it comes to serving God? Is it the ability to preach great sermons and lead thousands to Christ? Is it the ability to cross the ocean and serve in some great missionary enterprise? Is it the ability to stay home and rear children in the Christian faith? All of these things are important and have their place.

I believe, however, that the greatest ability that the Christian needs is availability. Are you available to God? Are you available to Him today and each day to use you?

When we make ourselves available to God, He equips us for every good work He wants us to do. He gives us the strength to accomplish that which He has set before us.

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13 NKJV). Someone recommended taking that verse and repeating and emphasizing separately each succeeding word. “I can do all things through Christ,” not merely the apostles, or the martyrs or super saints, but “I can do all things through Christ.”

That is a promise to you. Do you believe it? “I can do all things … I can do all things.” I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

A Prophetic Exhortation

 A Prophetic Exhortation

Pastor William Agbeti, a minister partner in Ghana, West Africa, wrote this prophetic warning and exhortation for the Church in America: 

The body of Christ is in crisis as reflected by the universal church’s current state of lethargy! Lethargy may be defined as “lack of divine power and passion.” Lethargy is also as “a pathological state of sleepiness or deep unresponsiveness and inactivity” to and in issues affecting mankind. Take the sad case of the body of Christ in America, a country considered in recent years past as the beacon of truth, home of democracy, the last post of hope and the bastion of revivalism! Today, it is a pale, miserable shadow of itself and this is representative of the global situation in Christendom.

What we in Africa see happening to the church in America is two-fold: First, false teachers who are “wolves in sheep skins” have broken and entered into our ranks. Many Christians receive, even embrace, false teachings. Many of these false teachings are based on scriptures taken out of context to build, project and buttress personal opinions. Some are replacement theologies to please men and build cults. Others are wrong teachings from zealous men without knowledge, these being half-baked Christian leaders without any solid foundational training, who use bits and pieces of scripture, here and there, to weave a labyrinth of lies to further personal agendas. Of course, there are also those who have genuine zeal to teach, but teach wrong doctrines because they teach without knowledge! All this has greatly harmed the body of Christ, leaving the majority of the brethren in a state of stupor; not knowing what to do or who to believe!

Secondly, the pulpits of the false teachers and leaders have become open platforms that orchestrate embarrassing public theatrical programs witnessed and shunned by the world, leading to mass avoidance of the church and an unprecedented loss of souls to the world. Both of these occurrences constitute and are caused by one and the same problem--false teachings and false teachers! Can the situation be salvaged? Yes, when Christ eventually comes the second time and even now there is an answer. The answer is both found in the Old Testament and re-echoed in the New Testament: 1 Chronicles 12.32: “And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.”

Acts 17:11 says, “Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.” What America and the world needs now are men that scripturally understand the times, and know what to do about what’s going on, so everyone will listen to them! This is because we seem to be in a period of famine of the Word. God seemingly is no longer speaking to us. Would you be “a child of Issachar”, “a citizen of Berea” and “a man with zeal and knowledge” to help salvage the situation? All it takes are few hundred men, a remnant of true believers, to disrupt the world! Join this move. You can make a difference! 

Monday, June 27, 2022

Roe after Roe

Roe after Roe by Bill Wilson

 The US Supreme Court overturned the previous Supreme Court decision of 1973 that the constitution conveyed through the right to privacy a right to abortion. In doing so, SCOTUS is establishing that unless a “right” is enumerated in the Constitution, it is left for the states or the people to decide. Abortion was never an enumerated right in the Constitution. In fact, if anything, the Constitution, its preamble and the Declaration of Independence all uphold life and the right to defend it. Today, there are millions of leftists, many who could care less about abortion, rioting in the streets, demanding that the ”right” to kill the unborn be reestablished. Can anyone see the absurdity in this? 


They are violently demanding the “right” to kill a baby in the womb. These people are vandalizing pregnancy care centers, places where women can go to receive alternatives to abortion and obtain legitimate “reproductive health” care. In this, one can see the demands of these people in the name of “reproductive health” is hypocritical at best. It is amazing that in a country where laws are established to protect classes of people—minorities, sexual orientation, handicapped, etc.—that the law did not protect those least able to defend themselves: babies in the womb. In fact, a Supreme Court nearly 50 years ago conjured up a “right” that because of individual privacy an expectant mother could choose to kill her unborn child. How shameful.

There are many, however, who call themselves Christians who believe abortion should be legal. Many pastors preach it from the pulpit, or secretly support it. Imagine the public outcry if today’s so-called “civil rights” leaders would take abortion on as the issue it was intended to be—Margaret Sanger, eugenics champion and founder of Planned Parenthood, wanted abortion legalized for the purpose of eradicating Black people. Yet leftist politicians, Democrats—the same party that fought for slavery and instituted the racist Jim Crow laws whose residue oppresses Black people even today--claim they fight for the rights of people of color. What about their right to life? There are so many things wrong with abortion that no nation, doctor or prospective parent who participates in abortion will escape judgment save for the blood of Christ.

These people are shrill in their claim that abortion is a “right.” But the Declaration of Independence cites that every person has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Without life, one cannot experience liberty and pursuit of happiness. As Deuteronomy 30:19 commands, “Choose life that you and your seed might live.” The Supreme Court rightly determined that there is not a “right” to kill the unborn enumerated or implied in the Constitution. Such a shame for the 70 million plus who died at the altar of this false “right.” Roe after Roe will face tantrums, violence, threats, demands and schemes to reestablish the “right” to kill the most innocent among humans—the unborn child. God help us! 

Biggest Positive Ever

Biggest Positive Ever by Dr. Jim Denison

"I thought I was going to throw up. But I didn’t. I knew this was gonna happen." This is how a staff member at an abortion provider in Illinois responded to the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade. By contrast, a woman in Oklahoma said, "I am overjoyed. This is not a negative for women. This is the biggest positive that’s ever happened."

When the ruling was announced last Friday, I 
issued a Daily Article Special Edition discussing what happens next in the states. Today, let’s focus on what should happen next for pro-life Christians. After the Supreme Court’s historic ruling, a pro-life leader responded, "We are ready for the challenge of a post-Roe America."

Each of us will need to be.

The so-called "Night of Rage"

After the ruling, the 
New York Times reported that "thousands of mostly outraged abortions rights demonstrators" gathered outside the Supreme Court building. They clashed with "small groups of joyful anti-abortion activists who blew bubbles and celebrated the end of the federal guarantee of [what the Times euphemistically called] access to a safe and legal means of ending a pregnancy."

One protester said, "All these males out here who are chanting against abortion and are enthused and happy—smiling, singing songs, and laughing—it’s just really disgusting." The so-called "Night of Rage" was 
filled with anger and the display of protest signs, some of which were profane and blasphemous.

As pro-abortion advocates continue to express their anger at the Court’s ruling, it is vital that pro-life advocates respond in ways that are truly "pro-life."


Each protester is someone for whom Jesus died. Our Lord’s admonition is clear: "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you" (Matthew 5:44). He asked, "If you love those who love you, what reward do you have?" (v. 46).


We should see every pro-abortion activist as our sister or brother, someone created in the image of God just as we are (Genesis 1:27). Otherwise, when our opponents label us merely "pro-birth," we are guilty as charged.

What Americans thought of the Court’s decision

In a poll released yesterday, 52 percent of American voters 
said the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was a "step backward," while 31 percent called it a "step forward" and 17 percent said it was neither. In CNN’s polling dating back to 1989, the share of the public in favor of completely overturning the landmark 1973 decision has never risen above 36 percent.

As I 
noted last Friday, the Court’s decision does not eliminate legal abortion. At least sixteen states still offer elective abortions. Demand for so-called "medication" abortions (which is how more than half of abortions in the US are obtained) is surging; these pills are available to anyone who orders them from within a state that allows abortion. And congressional efforts to legalize abortion on a federal level are continuing as well.

As a result, it is vital that pro-life supporters continue to make the case for life in all its dimensions. Women who chose abortion 
said they did so primarily because of finances (40 percent), timing (36 percent), partner-related reasons (31 percent), and the need to focus on other children (29 percent). Churches and ministries can and should respond to each of these needs.

Women facing an unwanted pregnancy need help with childcare, employment, parenting resources, and financial support, especially as the economy worsens. If we celebrate the Court’s decision, it is incumbent on us to respond to it as proactively and compassionately as possible. This includes 
support for ministries on the front lines of caring for women, daily intercession, and personal outreach to those we know who need what we can offer.

Jesus taught us that when we care for those in need, we minister to our Lord himself (Matthew 25:40).

"Though men treat me as a doormat"

To manifest the character of Christ in these divided and divisive days, it is vital that we seek the power of the Holy Spirit.

Oswald Chambers observed, "Jesus Christ calls service what we are to him, not what we do for him. Discipleship is based on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on adherence to a belief or a creed. . . . Our Lord’s first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.

"If I am devoted to the cause of humanity only, I will soon be exhausted and come to the place where my love will falter; but if I love Jesus Christ personally and passionately, I can serve humanity though men treat me as a doormat."


When we are "filled" and controlled by the Holy Spirit, he will manifest the "fruit" of love for Jesus and for everyone Jesus loves (Ephesians 5:18; Galatians 5:22). Without such empowering, I will "soon be exhausted and come to the place where my love will falter." So will you.


But with the Spirit’s help, I can love those who reject my pro-life beliefs with compassion and humility.

"Enter the temple of your heart"

The animosity being directed toward pro-life supporters in these days is our opportunity to prove how "pro-life" we are. It is our chance to demonstrate the sincerity and consistency of our love for our neighbor (Matthew 22:39), no matter who they are or how they respond to us.


To this end, let’s follow the advice of St. Lawrence Justinian (1381–1456), the first Patriarch of Venice: "Enter the temple of your heart that you may be purified in spirit and cleansed of the pollution of your sins. In everything we do God considers our disposition rather than our actions.


"And so, whether we retire mentally to God in earnest contemplation and remain at rest or whether we are intent on being of service to those around us with good works and worthy undertakings, let our object be that we are motivated only by love of Christ."


What love motivates your faith and life today?