A Different Look at the Days of Noah

 

I wanted to share a different way of looking at Noah and his family. When we read about that time period, we often compare it to our own times, but when we're honest, we realize that things were MUCH worse then. Why?  Because God tells us that every single human being alive, from the smallest child, to the oldest adult, except for Noah's family, were completely evil, that every single thought they had was evil!  That can't be said about today, thank God!  And won't be said again, because even during the Tribulation there will be people who are saved. 

But here's the really interesting part. We're introduced to Noah's family after his sons have wives. But where did those women come from? They came from families who's thoughts were totally evil! Yet somehow, the Lord made their hearts soft enough to accept the Truth and come to love Him when they were introduced to it by Noah and his family.  Perhaps it didn't happen until they were engaged.  Maybe they didn't become actually saved until just before God told them to board the Ark. Perhaps, somehow, the truth was put in their hearts a tiny bit at a time over many years before they met Noah's sons, and then it all came together for them. We don't know when it happened, or how it happened, we only know that somehow it did. 

A second interesting point: With all this evil surrounding them constantly, the minds of those in Noah's family were kept clean!  Let me digress here for a moment and remind everyone that when the Bible speaks of our minds, or our hearts, it's actually speaking of both. Each word in the original language means our thoughts and feelings, so both are covered.  I tend to use the words the same way, so when I speak of one, I'm actually speaking of both. 

To recap then, with all the evil around them constantly, the minds and hearts of those in Noah's family were kept clean!  We know how hard that is to do in our own time when things aren't nearly as evil as they were then.  We're constantly bombarded with evil every day by the things we hear and see.  For us, whether we like to admit it or not, it's impossible to keep our minds and hearts pure on our own. Only with the constant help of our Lord can we hope to do that.  And when we fail, we have the promise that when we confess, we will be forgiven and cleansed, so we can start anew.  The same was true in Noah's day - they couldn't have possibly kept their hearts and minds pure without the Lord's intervention and help. 

When we read Philippians 4:4–7 (I hate to break it up and hope you'll take the time to read it all.) we see that the Lord promises to help us do just that: “And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:7) Jeremiah 17:9 tells us that our hearts (and minds) are deceitful about everything and beyond cure, meaning only God can make that cure, and He does so as He renews our minds through His Word as we read it each day. In Prov 4:23 and numerous other scriptures we're warned to guard our hearts and minds.  We're told more in many other scriptures, such as: “Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.” (Proverbs 2:11) But the bottom line is that we can't do it without God's help. Yes, we have to do our part by being in His word daily, applying it to our lives, and asking for His help in prayer, but the rest, is what God does. 

When we look at Noah and his family, we can see what an amazing job God did in guarding their hearts and minds!  I'm not suggesting that none of them ever sinned during all those years, of course they did!  They were sinful humans just like we are. The difference was that they were saved and God was guarding their hearts and minds to keep them for Himself. 

Ever since I realized this, I've been praying for myself and my loved ones that our amazing God would guard our hearts and minds just like He did for Noah and his family.  I have felt such a peace about it since I started doing this!  With all the evil around us constantly and being shoved into our children's and grandchildren's minds at school and everywhere else, it seemed impossible to have peace that my loved ones would make it through this life without become full of the world's philosophies, and fall for Satan's schemes and traps.  If one didn't get them, there were hundreds more that could. Now I can simply pray that He would guard our minds and hearts so that nothing contrary to His Holy Spirit will rub off on us. That He would prevent the worlds philosophies from corrupting our thoughts, and shield us from our own self centeredness, sin nature, and from our own confused and corrupted thinking. That He would protect us from the corrupt worldview and keep the Truth of His Word in our minds and hearts as He did for Noah and his family.

I just had to share it with you all in the hopes that it would give you the peace of mind that it's given me.

Persecution and growth or the Rapture?

 

I often hear that persecution is coming to true believers and I'm sure that's quite true, but there's one problem with that. Generally when the Church is persecuted it causes the church to grow tremendously. But God says that this time is the time of the great falling away, so there won't be any huge numbers added to the church in our time. To me that says that the rapture most likely will happen before the persecution gets bad enough to cause the church to grow.  Of course God can cause anything to happen, but I'm hoping this is true!

Thinking Biblically About the COVID-19 Pandemic

 Thinking Biblically About the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Interview with John MacArthur

Is It a Sin to Fear COVID-19? A short interview with MacArthur (less then 4 minutes)

Corona Crisis: Plagues, Pandemics, and the Coming Apocalypse

https://vimeo.com/496504053

The Corona Virus...facts not panic

 Great Barrington Declaration

As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.  

Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice.

Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.

Fortunately, our understanding of the virus is growing. We know that vulnerability to death from COVID-19 is more than a thousand-fold higher in the old and infirm than the young. Indeed, for children, COVID-19 is less dangerous than many other harms, including influenza.

As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection to all – including the vulnerable – falls. We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity – i.e. the point at which the rate of new infections is stable – and that this can be assisted by (but is not dependent upon) a vaccine. Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity.

The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this Focused Protection.

Adopting measures to protect the vulnerable should be the central aim of public health responses to COVID-19. By way of example, nursing homes should use staff with acquired immunity and perform frequent testing of other staff and all visitors. Staff rotation should be minimized. Retired people living at home should have groceries and other essentials delivered to their home. When possible, they should meet family members outside rather than inside. A comprehensive and detailed list of measures, including approaches to multi-generational households, can be implemented, and is well within the scope and capability of public health professionals.

Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal. Simple hygiene measures, such as hand washing and staying home when sick should be practiced by everyone to reduce the herd immunity threshold. Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. Restaurants and other businesses should open. Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume. People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity.

On October 4, 2020, this declaration was authored and signed in Great Barrington, United States, by:

Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations.

Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations.

Co-signers

Medical and Public Health Scientists and Medical Practitioners  14,879

Current signature count: 856,4404

medical & public health scientists 13,985

medical practitioners 43,804

concerned citizens 797,721

If you would like to sign the declaration you can do so by just scrolling to the bottom of this page: ( I already did). 

gbdeclaration.org/    

News You don't see about Covid

 Why Israel fought the virus much better than the West

A wakeup call? All the factors that make fighting corona possible are an integral part of Israel's culture, but are purposefully lacking in Western postmodern nihilism.

www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/25636

The Coronavirus nightmare is the sweet dream of green death cultists
Environmentalists and anthropocentrism critics have transformed this pandemic into their misanthropic utopia. And we are forewarned.

www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/25595

Israel's success against the pandemic
Although it's only over when it's over, a look at corona statistics shows the startling difference between israel's containment of the pandemic and that of Europe.

www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/25583

What happened in Wuhan? The single most important question
Was it the creation of a virology lab, mutation in a bat or a combination? Will we ever know?

www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/25545

The pandemic poses a mortal threat to Western civilization
The virus was a great return to reality. Will we get the message or will we be its victim, and not just physically.

www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/25537

Atheist China buys the silence of a de-Christianized Europe

China managed to continue and even increase persecution and enslavement of religious groups despite the corona crisis. Nike, Apple and Dell are reportedly among the firms profiting from this slave labor.

www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/25473

The pandemic brings us closer to the Judeo-Christian culture of life
Nihilism or ethics? Is the life of an old man worth as much as that of a person in full possession of his faculties?

www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/25496

China, Article III: Every corona patient is a victim of China
Can the Chinese government be held responsible for 'criminal negligence'? This is the single most important political and cultural issue in our global crisis. Giulio Meotti Interviews an expert on China who heads the Population Research Institute.

www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/25437

Gantz calls COVID vaccine human trial 'source of national pride'
Defense Minister Gantz at IIBR, as COVID vaccine human trials to begin this month: 'Source of national pride'. Commercial name: Brilife
Arutz Sheva Staff, Yesterday, 9:50 PM

Defense Minister Benny Gantz visited the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) today on a working tour of the Defense Ministry-affiliated research institute, as it gears up to begin human trials of its COVID-19 vaccine, unveiled as 'Brilife,' at the end of the month.

www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/289439


For most of population, lockdown far more deadly than COVID-19

Given doubts by scientists about lockdown effectiveness, most moral choice is targeted protection for at-risk populations. Opinion

Mordechai Sones, Yesterday, 7:00 PM

Coronavirus is dangerous to people over the age of 65 or to those suffering from certain background diseases. They should be more careful in their close contact with others, at least until enough people around them become infected and develop immunity naturally. This, according to an article appearing in Walla News by researchers and physicians Dr. Uri Gavish, Prof. Ariel Munitz, Prof. Moti Gerlitz, and Prof. Udi Qimron.


The good news is that if you do not belong to these risk groups and you get infected with COVID-19, chances are you will not become ill at all. Antibody tests in Israel and around the world confirm that most of the infected are not ill. Most of the time, your immune system inhibits the virus before it spreads and causes any symptoms.


If you still catch it, chances are your symptoms will be mild. The chance that you will survive, by the way, is higher than 99.9%. If you are a parent of preschoolers, you will surely be happy to know that coronavirus is far less dangerous to them than the flu. This, according to dozens of studies and hundreds of state and regional reports. This is also the official position of the American Center for Disease Control.

more:  www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/289428

Most states have religious exemptions to COVID-19 social distancing rules

In an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus, every state in the United States has issued guidelines or orders limiting social interaction. But these rules don’t always apply evenly when it comes to in-person worship services and other religious gatherings.

see map showing differences and read the rest here:
www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/27/most-states-have-religious-exemptions-to-covid-19-social-distancing-rules/

More facts about the Corona virus

 New York Data Confirms Once Again – 99% of Coronavirus Fatalities Have Pre-Existing Conditions – 94% of Fatalities Over Age 45!…Open The Economy!

By Marsha West

It’s very difficult to find the numbers – as if they are being hidden. The reason may be because the actual numbers of coronavirus fatalities indicate the China coronavirus is not nearly as deadly as heralded by the Mainstream media and the results are similar to flu-like data.

Initial data out of New York show a pattern consistent with the rest of the world – the elderly and the sick are almost exclusively at risk by the coronavirus. Individuals without pre-existing conditions and younger Americans under the age of 65 are at a very very low risk of dying from the coronavirus.

Steve Elliott Grassfire reports today that the “New York Coronavirus Data Confirms EVERYTHING about age and condition of victims, meaning it’s time for a more targeted strategy”.

Data was finally located related to the China coronavirus deaths in New York:





View rest of article:
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/breaking-new-york-data-confirms-99-coronavirus-fatalities-pre-existing-conditions-94-fatalities-age-45-open-economy/

The Corona Virus...what's happening?

National Center for Health Statistics Mortality Surveillance System

Here's Candace Owens comment about the corona virus video that's circulating lately; the link to the interactive map is posted toward the end of her post.  Jessica Harris posted this on Facebook yesterday.

Dear America— there is a video circulating in the media today that shows bodies being loaded into a truck in Brooklyn. The insinuation is clear: bodies are piling up in the city as a result of the #coronavirus.
But This is factually incorrect.

I finally was able to locate a CDC state by state chart that shows weekly death rates in America. The chart (posted below) shows weekly flu deaths, weekly pneumonia deaths, and finally—weekly death totals (which is inclusive of every death category).

What does this chart reveal? It reveals that death rates have dropped EVERYWHERE in America as soon as pandemic began. This means that there are not more bodies, anywhere. In case you are thinking “it’s because people aren’t going outside”, that is not true for NYC. New York City is unusual because there are very few car accident fatalities, due to citywide traffic. The overwhelming majority of people in New York City die from heart disease, cancer, & respiratory failure. Staying inside would not see a drop in any of these categories, as they are not contagious.

This chart reveals that there has been a steep decline in pneumonia and flu deaths. For those of you that are thinking “well— don’t people normally stop dying from the flu in March”, the answer is no. Last year, flu and pneumonia deaths PEAKED in March (always shown by using this map).

So what does this interactive map reveal? For one, it reveals that there are not more dead bodies, so please discredit any media organization that is telling you that there are overwhelming deaths.

This map also reveals that the biggest question that any respectable journalist should be asking is— why did everyone suddenly stop dying from pneumonia and the flu? If the coronavirus rate is really increasing “exponentially” as they’ve been telling us— shouldn’t death rate be higher by now? Why is is it getting lower?

Is it possible that people with the flu and pneumonia are now having their deaths recorded as “coronavirus”. My instincts tells me that Covid-19 isn’t nearly as deadly as they say. My instincts also tell me that it’s been here in America since before January.

My instincts tell me that if it truly was as deadly as they say— there would be mass graveyards built in Bangladesh and India right now where millions of refugees are now walking alongside the road because the railroad system was shut down.

To be clear— I fully believe that Covid-19 is a real virus, but quite frankly, after more than a month— there just isn’t a single country that is proving the thesis of its deadliness. Least of all America.

Here is the link to the interactive map. California is down more than 2,000 deaths a day. Best to use this map on a desktop. Please share you thoughts. They’ve take so many of our rights already— we must hold on to our right to free speech."

Public policy panic about the COVID-19 pandemic not supported by the facts

"All COVID-19 deaths are tragic. Yet, for every frail or chronically ill person (regardless of age) with underlying medical conditions (whether known or unknown) who succumbs to COVID-19, there are hundreds of people, mostly younger, healthier students and working age adults who will have their lives ruined for months or perhaps years by the economic collapse ostensibly created to control the epidemic. We estimate that the economic disruptions will destroy many more lives than the social distancing and economic shutdown would save."

more:
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/26/public-policy-panic-about-the-covid-19-pandemic-no/?fbclid=IwAR3E8jt7Y_q3s9a3fAjPbkZWFPqy5kJyv25dwKHeQvW41kSUQfxoJ5xrjZE


How China, The WHO, The CDC and the Mainstream Media Worked Together to Create the Greatest Pandemic Hysteria in World History

“The media in the US and around the world are corrupt and repeating China’s talking points. What the media seldom mentions is that the individuals who are dying from the coronavirus are elderly and those with pre-existing conditions. Everyone else is at a very, very low risk of dying. The fatality rate for young people is almost zero but we keep children from their schools.”

(Jim Holt – The Gateway Pundit) China, the World Health Organization, the CDC and the leftist media combined to create the greatest pandemic hysteria in world history. Here’s how they did it.

China

The entire coronavirus pandemic started in Wuhan, China. A large city estimated at around 13 million in the heart of China. This city rarely sees a blue sky and is busy and overcast from the smog that is constantly in the air. This is where the coronavirus was first reported.

Initially it was a curious case but soon the media began reporting incidents of people dying in the streets and a healthcare system totally overwhelmed. (The media never told you that the health care in Wuhan is third world with very few facilities and doctors.) Stories of crematoriums working overtime were reported.

But was this all a set up by the Chinese as was warned twenty years ago? The China economy was in shambles after its own overbuilding and faulty financial reporting. The Trump policies also made a huge impact on an already collapsing economy. Was the coronavirus a means to fight back?

read the article here:  https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/how-china-the-who-the-cdc-and-the-mainstream-media-worked-together-to-create-the-greatest-pandemic-hysteria-in-world-history/


Epidemiologist Behind Highly-Cited Coronavirus Model Drastically Revises Model

“He now says that the U.K. should have enough ICU beds and that the coronavirus will probably kill under 20,000 people in the U.K. — more than 1/2 of whom would have died by the end of the year in any case [because] they were so old and sick.”

(Amanda Prestigiacomo – Daily Wire) Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, who created the highly-cited Imperial College London coronavirus model, which has been cited by organizations like The New York Times and has been instrumental in governmental policy decision-making, offered a massive revision to his model on Wednesday.

Ferguson’s model projected 2.2 million dead people in the United States and 500,000 in the U.K. from COVID-19 if no action were taken to slow the virus and blunt its curve.

However, after just one day of ordered lockdowns in the U.K., Ferguson is presenting drastically downgraded estimates, revealing that far more people likely have the virus than his team figured. Now, the epidemiologist predicts, hospitals will be just fine taking on COVID-19 patients and estimates 20,000 or far fewer people will die from the virus itself or from its agitation of other ailments, as reported by New Scientist Wednesday.

Ferguson thus dropped his prediction from 500,000 dead to 20,000.

Author and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson broke down the bombshell report via Twitter on Thursday morning (view Twitter thread below).

View article →
https://www.dailywire.com/news/epidemiologist-behind-highly-cited-coronavirus-model-admits-he-was-wrong-drastically-revises-model/


CBS News Uses Footage of “Worst Hit” Hospital in Italy While Describing New York Coronavirus Outbreak

(I'm unsure of this one)

https://summit.news/2020/03/30/cbs-news-uses-footage-of-worst-hit-hospital-in-italy-while-describing-new-york-coronavirus-outbreak/?fbclid=IwAR38y7oYXOFxP2MJMcrMxTmPnqa3hTXhGl86aWdsQn0c6NIpkL8lkfv09gc



Global measles deaths rise to 140,000; young kids hit hard   Written in December 2019

Last year 140,000 people worldwide died from complications of measles infections, according to the latest data compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In 2017, the WHO tracked 110,000 measles deaths. Most of measles-related deaths are in children under the age of 5.

more:
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2019/12/global-measles-deaths-rise-140000-young-kids-hit-hard?fbclid=IwAR2tqtUd_83ZWfnTGHS_BcXvdDW76tMTqueAwoIATobkaPBqa-hDd2oeKbs

"Last year 140,000 people worldwide died from complications of measles infections, according to the latest data..."
*Why wasn't the world locking down for that?