Strong Faith is Needed For This Time

Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Daniel 11:32b The people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits

This is a message for us right now, who are facing threats from powerful corrupt authorities even in what used to be a free country. And not just the USA but other traditionally free countries of the west, Austrailia and Canada. Daniel is at least prophesying the exploits done by the Maccabees when Antiochus Epiphanes desecrated the Jewish temple a couple hundred years before Christ, but the prophecy also extends into the future end times context where we are today, and we should take it as a promise that God will enable us to defeat our enemies as we put all our trust in Him.

Oh wow. While writing this I've been listening off and on to Jan Markell's latest Understanding the Times program, just went back to it to hear her guest saying exactly what I just said above about Daniel 11:32, and I have to report this because otherwise it will seem like I got it from him, but I didn't, we both had the same thought. A nice reinformcement at least. (Sure I often do take inspiration from her radio show or other sources but it's clear when I do and in this case I didn't) I think I'll put up her show at the bottom of this post.

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As I mention in my previous post I think Cicely Tyson was a genuine Christian. She also played Christian characters, particularly in "A Trip to Bountiful" and "A Woman Called Moses" about Harriet Tubman. In our current cultueral context we often don't hear about the Christian identify of celebrities. I didn't know much about Tubman except that she is known for helping slaves escape to freedom in the North in the nineteenth century, and for all I knhew she could have done it as an atheist inspired by the sort of thinkinhg we know today as Marxism. But as she is portrayed in the movie we see her as powerfully motivated by her faith in Jesus Christ who called her to the work of leading slaves to freedom. The couple of scenes of her hearing from God I thought were very believably done by Cicely Tyson. I did a little reading up on Tubman and it seems the movie was fairly accurate.

Yes Tubman was black and a woman and she is celebrated as a heroine of both identities, but I want to celebrate her as a Christian above all. Her story is as Christian in its essence as the stories of, say, Brother Andrew who smuggled Bibles into Communist countries, or Corrie Ten Boom whose family hid Jews from the Nazis and ended up in a concentration camp for it. Both those stories are about people primarily motived by faith in Christ, and so was Harriet Tubman. These are people who knew God and did exploits. She "never lost a passenger" she said, she faced some harrowing close calls but was never caught. I don't know of course but if she'd been motivated by her own desires and not by the calling of God and her faith, I'd guess she wouldn't have had such a perfect record of success.

She was illiterate but would have heard the Bible at church. In the movie she quotes something the "spirits" said to her and it was a Bible passage _(2 Peter 4-7 about the characteristics a Christian should cultivate) although it was not identified as a Bible passage. Since I haven't read her biography I don't know how true the movie was to the book but "spirits" doesn't suggest anything biblical, so I was surpised that the quote was straight from the Bible. Later when she is shown praying for guidance it is a soundly biblical expression of repentance and faith. She gives herself to what she experiences as God's call to lead the slaves out of bondage.

I just happen to have seen the movie and it happens to be a good example of a Christian who put all her trust in God, what we need above all right now.

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Here's the Understanding the Timjes show with guest David FiorazoL: When Government Must be God:

Sometimes I Think About Who I'll See in Heaven

I used to be able to use my other blogs for messages that don't really belong here but Blogger/Google messed that up for me because I'm too low-tech to know how to navigate whatever they did to my blogs. Anyway here's another oddball topic I would have put somewhere else but have to put here:

I discovered two actors recently I expect to see in heaven, which considering the way things are going on this miserable planet could be very soon, and I just feel like noting the discovering. One of them is highly unexpected.

These are Cicely Tyson and Steve McQueen.

Start with McQueen since he's the unexpected one. I was never a fan of his, a macho actor typ-e I didn't pay much attention to, and I never heard anything about his having any Christian beliefs before he died. But then recently I happened to flip my radio dial to the FM Fox Channel when the local AM conservative KOH was doing something boring, where it happened they were doing "our Americaqn Story" about McQueen. I like that program when I get to hear it. It was almost at the end of his story and the narrator talked about how McQueen had visited a church and respobnded to a call to give his life to Christ, then some time later grilled the pastor about questioned he had. The pastor wanted to know if he was born again and McQueen assured him that he was, and it sounds like he was just from the fact that he was dedicated to making things right with people. He died of cancer not long afterward at the young age of 50.

Steve McQueen in heaven? How unlikely? But I think I'll see him there.

The idea that Cicely tyson would be in heaven is not such a big surprise but of course you never know about someone until you know. I was impressed by her tears and singing along with the performance of "Blessed Assurance" at the Kennedy Center's honoring of her life at the age of ninety. Since she'd sung that hymn herself in the Broadway production of "The Trip to Bountiful: just a few years earlier, her response could have been mostly sentimentality, but it didn't feel that way. It felt like genuine Christian faith, and happiness to hear such a true gospel song at such an event.

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine,
Oh what a foretaste of glory divine.
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His spirit, washed in His blood.


That's a hyman that packs the whole gospel message into very few words. (by the way you can see her in the movie version of "A Trip to Bountiful" on Amazon, maybe other places but I saw it at Amazon.

Then as I did my usual thing of tracking down interviews with her since I didn't know much about her, eventually I ran across her speech at the memorial service for Maya Angelou which she opened with the line from another solid gospel hymn: "My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blodd and righteousness." So here's the first verse of that one:

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
Bur wholly lean on Jesus' name.

On Christ the solid Rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand.
All other ground is sinking sand.


She was a member of the Abysinnian Church of Harlem until her death this last January at the age of 96. I have the strong impression that she inhabits the gospel message of both those hymns. I'll be happy to see her in Jesus' prsence.

Rome and the Vaccines

Chris Pinto is among the very few Christians these days who are up on the role of the Vatican and especially the Jesuits in wrecking America and promoting the globalist agenda. I've quoted John Adams a number of times in my posts about how of all people they deserve Hell. Today there is also Ronald Cooke and he has sermons at Sermon Audio though I've only heard one of them so far. Richard Bennett who died a couple years ago has plenty of information at his website on Rome in general and the Jesuits. The nefarious work of the Jesuits used to be pretty well known among Christians but over the last century they've acquired a positive public image and are able to work without being called out on it.

Pinto's radio show rambles around quite a bit but it's worth hearing to the end: We need to know that the Vatican, the Jesuits inj particular, are pushing worldwide vaccination on us.

Noise of Thunder Radio, Jesuits and the Vaccines

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Taking Down the Propaganda Against Ivermectin: Rogan vs. Gupta, BBC's Zero Evidence, Its Use in India Brings Down their COVID Death Rate

__ It's become popular on the Left these days to characterize Ivermectin as "horse dewormer," in their neverending effort to keep people away from it, for what reason we still can't say for sure. But here's a clip that includes Joe Rogan calling out Dr. Sanjay Gupta for not condemning CNN's misreprentation of Rogsn's use of Ivermectin by that same term, although Rogan was taking a prescription for him as a human being. It's always nice to see propaganda confronted, but unfortunately half the country isn't going to see the confrtonation and will just go on believing the lies of CNN and the other leftist outlets. Anyway here's the clip:

Rogan Takes Down Sanjay Gupta

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ADDED BY EDIT A COUPLE HOURS LATER: Got off the computer and turned on the radio to find Dan Bongino talking about this very incident between Rogan and Gupta. He went on to mention that after agreeing with Rogan that CNN shouldn't have said he was talking horse dewormer, later on CNN he said that Rogan was wrong,m that Ivermectin IS horse dewormer, a if that exconerated CNN's use of the term

But of course it doesn't. Ivermectin has many uses and its veterinary use was not its original use. Its discoverers got a Nobel prize for it, and not for its use as a horse dewormer. It wiped out the parasite that made the men in parts of Africa blind by the age of forty. That is, it's FIRST use was for human beings, not animals.

I started hearing about people using the veterinary form of it a few weeks or months ago, and the reasons for that was the unconscionable restriction of its availability for human use by this same concerted propaganda against it. Because it was, and still is, so difficult to get, people were buying the veterinary paste version of it which was readily available, and using it according to the guidelines based on body weight that are put out by various medical sources. This is of course based on the assuption that it's exactly the same chemical, and all I know about that is that the people who use it say so.

As I reported a few posts ago, there are now stories of Ivermectin overdose cases overloading hospital services --Rachel Maddow seems to have been the one to spread this claim -- at least one of them in Oklahoma later denying it in a letter to the press. My own guess is that a case of one overdose was magnified into many and disseminated through local newspapters all owned by one company, making it seem like a sudden vast upsurge in Ivermectin overdoses in the communities served by those particular newspapers (and as far as I know ONLY those which is suspcious in itself). I hope someone does an expose on this. In any case people are using the veterinary form of Ivermectin because the Powers That Be have made the people kind hard to get, and most of them without negative effects.

And while I'm at it I'll just add a note on the validity of its use against COVID. In the interview of Dr. Pierre Kory and Bret Weinstein by Joe Rogan that I'[ve mentioned a few times now (it's on Spotify, Episoe 1671) Kory said its antiviral properties were original discovered in the labl and when tried with patients proved to be even more effective than expected from such a lab experiment. Bret Weinstein in that same interview gave the opinion, which he said was eventually confirmed by Dr. Robert Malone who had at first disagreed with him, that Ivermectin if used properly could drive COVID to extinction. Zev Zelenko, who was the first to bring the efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine to public attention, believes that either of these "repurposed" drugs that have antiviral properties could have saved 85% of those who have died of COVID. There are many others who have used both HCQ and Ivermectin with huge success and saved thousands upon thousands of their own patients. /EDIT
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Here are a couple of discussions of the COVID sitaution by Dr. John Campbell. I don't know anything about him excpet that I run across him at You tube from time to time and he has an appealingly objective way of dealing with information. He's in favor of the vaccines and I haven't found a video of him discussing them yet but I'll post it if I do.

Meanwhile these two are interesting I think. In the first he presents information about how India brought down their death rate from COVID. They distributed home care kits to people who tested positive, which included among other aids vitamins C and D, Ivermectin, Doxyclycline and Zinc.

How India Reducedd Their COVID Death Rate

The second video is about the BBC's debunking of Ivermectin, and Campbell's analysis of the studies they based it on, which amounts to their having no evidence whatever to base it on.

BBC Article Debunking Ivermectin

Effectiveness and Suppression of HCQ and Ivermectin: Sensationalism or Simple fact?

I know some of the information about COVID and especially the alternative treatments as versus the vaccines, can sound fairly sensationalistic, but the thing is they are easily shown to be based on fact.

UPDATE Oct 10. For instance, The article I posted below about the witholding of lifesaving treatments from COVID patients in an Alberta hospital sounds pretty sensationalistic, except that it's highly believable in the light of the known unavailablility of such treatments in the US as well. I've just added a long excerpt from that article to that post by the way.

================================= It certainly sounds sensationalistic when I quote Zev Zelenko's estimate that 85% of those who have died of COVID -- we're talking over five h7undred thousand at this point -- could have been saved if the antiviral therapeutics, especially Hydroxychloroquine in theearly months, had not been bannded, that's based on impeccable reasoning from his own experience and that of others who cured thousands of COVID patients with it. Ivermectin, which came to prominence in the Fall of 2020, is at least as effective as HCQ in both preventing and curing COVID and it too is now being treated to the disinformation blitz that makes it unavailable for use. this is sensationalistic beyond the numbers because of the banning which raises questions about the motives of those opposing the use of these drugs. While in the early phase there was enough confusion to make this understandable, after more than a year has gone by and the first phase errors have been publically corrected, it's not so understandable any more. I've probably covered all this sufficiently over a number of posts but it keeps coming up so maybe another I can try to condense a lot of it in one more. Here agaihn is the link to the Joe Rogan discussionj with professor Bret Weinstein and Dr. Pierre Kory that is mostly about Ivermectin. You Tube banned this talk so you have to go to Spotify to find it, and you'll have to register there, but it's pretty easy. I don't use Facebook at all but I did register there so my Facebook registration is enough to log me into Spotify. Joe Rogan Podcast #1671:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7uVXKgE6eLJKMXkETwcw0D

The most consistent focus on Ivermectin begins about 42:00 and runs for a half hour at least. Dr. Kory has earlier said it was first found to have antiviral properties from laboratory stucies but when used with pateints it was consistently effective at curing COVID. In the segment I mentioned he expresses amazement at just how effective this drug has been found to be in trials with thousands of patients, the kind of amazement that could sound like hyperbole or sensationalism but is based on observed facts.

This is a well reasoned scientific discussion of Ivermectin, nothing at all sensationalistic about it.

The warnings against the vaccines could also be considered to be sensationalistic and since so far the majority have not had any observed ill effects it's too early to knohw if the fears are warranted of their possible future ill effects. One thing is known for certain, however, which is that threre has been an unprecedented hihh number of deaths and injuries reported by the authorized health organizations caused by the vaccines, a number which is likely much lower than the reality.

The vaccines were given Emergency Use Authorizatoin because they had not been tested to anywhere near the usual standards required of any drug released to the p8ublic. Their high rate of death and injury reflects the dangerous of these experimental drugs. But beyond that, their emergency use status was unwarranted because it is only to be granted when other treatments are not available, but both HCQ and Ivermectin were available and they are not the only "repurposed" antiviral treatments.

g Is it sensationalistic to suggest that there is something sinister about the withholding of knjown effective treatments while the death count mounts every day? I just posted an article about how such treatments areaggressively withheld from COVID patients in some hospitals, and in that article even vitamins and antibiotics were taken away. Should we assume that report was false? But we know that both HCQ and Ivermectin are banned from use in hosptials and even by doctors in their own practice. My own Provider said she couldn't prescribe Ivermectin. It's just about impossible to get it. It's just about impossible to find a medical professional who will prescribe it, or a pharmany that would fill the prescription.

The facts sure sound sensationalistic, but they really are facts. There's no avoiding the conclusion that the influences in all this are not medical in the slightest but purely political. to what end is not completely clear yet but we can certainly make some reaosnable guesses that it doesn't bode well for the future of our supposedly Constitutional republic or for the world in general. Vaccine mandages based on a virus that 99.97% survive without treatment? A "pandemic of the unvaccinated"" Even quarnatine camps? One authoritzed for construction by the governor of the state of Tennessee, ads in newspapers for workers for such camps in the state of Washington? When it's the vaccinated and not the unvaccinated who are getting COVID in the highest numbers, and if HCQ and Ivermectin were readily available NOBODY would be getting it. Austraolia is already under strict mandates against normal life and their leaders have even called COVID The New World Order.

So welcome to the New World Order. It aint gonna be quite the heaven on earth some say. At last not for a lot of us, and in the end not for anybody.

Oh sorry, guess I'm being sensationalistic.

Perilous Times Are Here

This week's Understanding the Timnes radio show with Jan Markell: The Set Up for the Great Reset. Vaccine passports. What's in Australia is coming here soon. Leftist Naomi Wolf continues to warn us about how they intend to use the pandemic against us (1:10). Govdernor Hochul of New York is shown making her near-blasphemous attack on the unvaccinated (about 10:27 in the video below).

(My comment: Nobody ever says how the unvaccinatged could possibly threaten the vaccinated but it doesn't matter in this age of lies,you can say anything and make people believe it. It's the vaccinated who are getting COVID, not the unvaccinated despite the propaganda to the contrary. And many of the unvaccinated have had COVID and therefore immune and that's why they don't need the vaccine. What is this huge push to vaccinae everybody? There is no rational explanation for it.)
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Aggressive Pressure to Deny Lifesavintg Treatment for COVID in Alberta Hospital

UPDATE Oct 10: Added quote from the referenced article at the bottom of this post:
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Just received this in email. Canadian doctor is fired for giving Ivermectin to three of his patients. It took some doing to get hold of the drug in the first place, in fact I'm amazed he was able to find someone who got it for him. Despite the "empty shelves" theme of the previous post, unless you are talking only about the veterinary version you simply can't get hold of it at all. It is never out on the shelves in any case, it's available only by presription so the empty shelves is clearly propaganda. You'd think people might start to wake up. Doesn't seem to be happening.\

I'm not sure this Canadian story is much different from what is going on here though it seems to imply that. ER Physician Simone Gold got fired from her Southern California job last year for promoting Hydroxychloroquine as an effective treatment for COVID. It's happened to others but still others give in and deny their patients the lifesaving treatments for fear of losing their jobs. Boy that must eat at their conscience.

https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/04/canadian-doctor-says-something-malicious-is-going-on-after-hes-punished-for-treating-covid-patients-with-ivermectin/

UPDATE: Quote from the article:

All the patients were on Oxygen and extremely short of breath. The only medication these patients were on were steroids—a medication that will decrease inflammation but increase the chances of a bacterial infection by suppressing the immune system. That’s right, the only medication the COVID patients at this hospital were on were immune suppressants.

One woman said it felt like we just put her in a corner to die. We weren’t doing anything for her. I told her, I can’t speak for the usual doctors during the week, but it’s the weekend, and I’ll do everything I can to help. I offered Ivermectin. She wanted to try it because she heard nothing but good things about it. All 3 patients wanted to try ivermectin.

The hospital didn’t have any, so we had to ask Red Deer Hospital’s Central Pharmacy for the medication. They refused to send Ivermectin. Red Deer’s central pharmacist said Ivermectin was useless for COVID. He even had the Pharmacy Director for all of Alberta contact me to tell me Ivermectin didn’t work.

The Pharmacy Director for Alberta Health services is Dr. Gerald Lazarenko. Remember that name. He is both a Pharmacist and a Doctor. And he insisted that Ivermectin had no place in the treatment of COVID. So we checked the local pharmacies. And God bless that charge nurse, although both pharmacies in town did not have ivermectin, there was one pharmacist who would do everything he could to get some even if it took all day.

We didn’t have all day, my patients were sick. So I started everyone on the next best thing, Hydroxychloroquine which the hospital did have. I also started Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and Zinc. And because the patients were coughing and short of breath I gave them inhalers… Salbutamol and Flovent, the same inhalers that have been used for asthma for over 50 years. I also gave them Azithromycin.

Surprisingly by late afternoon, the town pharmacist finally found some ivermectin.

He couldn’t get it from his usual chemical supply, because it was a Saturday. He had to get it from an agricultural supply. He checked to make sure that it was the exact same Ivermectin a pharmacist would give to a person, brought it back to his pharmacy and checked it again. He then called me with the good news. I handed Ivermectin to each of my 3 patients with their exact dose of according to their weight. And you’ll never guess what happened next. Within hours of getting Ivermectin, I got a call from the Central Zone medical director, Dr Jennifer Bestard. She called me to tell me I was forbidden from giving Ivermectin to patients. I told her she’s never met the patients, she’s not their doctor, and had no right to be changing the care of my patients without the patient’s permission.

She said Ivermectin was forbidden from the hospital. Even if the patients had their own Ivermectin. (Which I would have happily given to a relative so they could to hand it over to them), Patients would not be allowed to take their own ivermectin. She said it was a violation of Alberta Health Services Policy to give Ivermectin for COVID.

But that wasn’t good enough. The next day she called the hospital and gave me 15 minutes notice that I would be relieved of my duties. I told her that it was unreasonable. I had an emergency department full of patients who can’t be sorted out in 15 minutes. An hour later another local doctor came to replace me. They didn’t even want me to check up on the patients who I gave Ivermectin to.

Not even 24 hours after getting Ivermectin, two out of my three patients were almost completely better. They were out of bed walking around and all the crackles I heard in their lungs from the day before were gone. All it took was about 18 hours and one dose of Ivermectin. The third patient who was 95 years old, stayed the same. She didn’t get any worse like she had done the night previous.

I found out later that no sooner had I left Rimbey hospital, the next doctor who came to replace me stopped the antibiotics, stopped all the vitamins, she even stopped the patient’s inhalers. Within hours of my leaving the hospital this doctor even took away the patient’s inhalers, to help her breathe. The patients were not even allowed vitamins.

Thankfully, both my 70 year old patients who had immediate recoveries after a single dose of ivermectin left the hospital that week. I’d like to speak briefly to the healthcare professionals in the crowd: No doctor would take away antibiotics and inhalers for ANY viral pneumonia, never mind COVID. No doctor would do that to ANY patient with a pneumonia. Unless they were… Well I’ll let you think about that. We are remembering Nuremburg after all. And for healthcare professionals, I want us all to think very deeply about that.

But it gets worse, In my brief day and a half in the small town of Rimbey, I saw 2 patients who had recently been discharged from Red Deer Hospital after being on the COVID ward. They were sent home with NOTHING. Not even an inhaler. These patients ended up in ER at a small hospital wanting help. Just days after being sent home from a tertiary care hospital with nothing.

There is something malicious going on. I hope you can all see the bigger picture. This is more than me having all my assignments to take care of small communities cancelled for the rest of the year. This is more than the medical director, Dr. Fraincois Belanger banning me from hospital practice throughout all of Alberta.

Just a week after giving ivermectin and then filing a complaint against the Alberta Pharmacy Director, a complaint sent to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, about the Pharmacy director for an entire province denying 11 pages of studies showing 0% mortality for patients given Ivermectin. In study after study after study, 0% mortality, 0% mortality, 0% mortality… with Ivermectin.

And in “Severe” COVID? A 50% reduction in mortality with Ivermectin