December 30th The D. L. Moody Year Book

And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?—Genesis 3:9.

A MAN once said to me, “How do you know that God put that question to Adam?”

The best answer I can give is, Because He has put it to me many a time. I doubt whether there ever has been a son or a daughter of Adam who has not heard that voice ringing through the soul many a time. Who am I? What am I? Where am I going? So let us put the question to ourselves personally, Where am I? Not in the sight of man—that is of very little account; but where am I in the sight of God?^[1]

 

^[1] Moody, D. L. (1900). The D. L. Moody Year Book: A Living Daily Message from the Words of D. L. Moody. (E. M. Fitt, Ed.) (p. 233). East Northfield, MA: The Bookstore.

December 30 Life-Changing Moments With God

Blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I, who once was alienated and an enemy in my mind by wicked works, now You, Lord God, have reconciled in the body of Your flesh through death, to present me holy, and blameless, and above reproach in Your sight—if indeed I continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and am not moved away from the hope of the gospel. I may become blameless and harmless, a child of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom I shine as a light in the world.

Looking forward to these things, I will be diligent to be found by You in peace, without spot and blameless. I will be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ.

Now to You who are able to keep me from stumbling, and to present me faultless before the presence of Your glory with exceeding joy, to God my Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever.

Keep me continuing in the faith, Lord, steadfast in my belief, and steady in my gospel hope. Empower to live a blameless life.

1 Corinthians 1:8; Colossians 1:21–23; Philippians 2:15; 2 Peter 3:14; Philippians 1:10; Jude 24–25^[1]

 

^[1] Jeremiah, D. (2007). Life-Changing Moments With God (p. 389). Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers.

December 30, 2020 Evening Verse Of The Day

10:34 The radical change in Peter’s attitude toward other ethnic groups is a case of almost instant release from prejudice. He lapsed but one time as far as the Scriptures show (Gal. 2:12). This experience for Peter (and others) was necessary in spite of Jesus’ ministry to Gentiles, which Peter surely witnessed (Matt. 8:5–13).^[1]

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10:34 God shows no partiality. The gospel is for both Jews and Gentiles (1:8; Rom. 1:16).^[2]

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10:34 one who shows partiality Peter realizes that God does not exclude people from joining his people (compare Isa 2:1–5). Salvation in Jesus is not based on ethnicity or culture but is an offer to all.^[3]

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10:34 God is not one to show partiality. Taught in both the OT (Dt 10:17; 2Ch 19:7; Job 34:19) and NT (Ro 2:11; 3:29, 30; Jas 2:1). The reality of this truth was taking on new dimensions for Peter.^[4]

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10:34. Peter commences with a principle that he later echoes in his first epistle (1 Pet 1:17), and which sets the tone for the events to follow: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality” (this particular word appears only here in the NT, although the concept appears in other passages, such as Rom 2:11; Eph 6:9; Col 3:25; Jas 2:1).^[5]

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10:34 “that God is not one to show partiality” This is the beginning of Peter’s sermon to Cornelius. It is a good example of the preaching of the early church to non-Jews. In the OT this judicial phrase characterized God (cf. Deut. 10:17; 2 Chr. 19:7) and is required of His people (cf. Deut. 1:17; 16:19). It is also a common characterization of God in the NT (cf. Rom. 2:11; Gal. 2:6; Eph. 6:9; Col. 3:24–25; 1 Pet. 1:17). In the OT this phrase literally meant “to lift the face.” In Hebrew courts the defendants kept their heads bowed so that the judge would not recognize the person and thereby be biased.

God has no favorites (nations, races, or individuals)! If this is true then how does predestination work? Or how is Israel special? Be careful of modern systems of theology!^[6]

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34. Peter said: “I truly understand that God shows no favoritism.”

This is Peter’s first address to a Gentile audience. As a representative of the Christian church, he is fully aware of the uniqueness of this situation. He realizes the significance of his vision in Joppa and knows that he is doing God’s will. He says, “I truly understand that God shows no favoritism.” The Jews of Peter’s day lived by the doctrine that God had made a covenant with Abraham and his descendants and that they were God’s chosen people. They despised the Gentiles because, according to the Jews, God had rejected the Gentiles and had withheld his blessings from them.

The Jews also knew that God had told Abraham that in him all the nations of the earth would be blessed (Gen. 12:3; 18:18; 22:18; 26:4). So, then, believers of all nations would claim Abraham as their spiritual father. Interestingly, in his sermon at Solomon’s Colonnade Peter had quoted the words God had spoken to Abraham: “And through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed” (3:25). But at that time, Peter had not fully fathomed the depth of this divine saying. Now, however, Peter sees the fulfillment of God’s word to Abraham. The Roman centurion, the members of Cornelius’s household, and all his invited relatives and guests receive God’s blessing.

Peter appeals to the Scriptures when he says that God shows no favoritism. For instance, Moses tells the Israelites in the desert, “For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes bribes” (Deut. 10:17, NIV).⁴¹

God does not look at a person’s external appearance, nationality, wealth, social status, and achievements. In the light of God’s teaching given in a vision, Peter sets aside his ingrained bias against the Gentiles and, as he states, truthfully accepts the doctrine of God’s impartiality. He is convinced that salvation belongs to all nations and not merely to Israel. He knows that his earlier view of God was defective.

There’s a wideness in God’s mercy,

Like the wideness of the sea;

There’s a kindness in his justice,

Which is more than liberty.

For the love of God is broader

Than the measure of man’s mind;

And the heart of the Eternal

Is most wonderfully kind.

—Frederick W. Faber^[7]

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34. Opening his mouth. We have already said, that the Scripture useth this phrase when it doth signify that there was any grave or weighty oration or speech made. In the fifth of Matthew, (Matth. 5:1,) it is said that Jesus opened his mouth when he would preach to his disciples, and intreat of most weighty matters, as if a man should say in Latin, he began to speak, having first well bethought himself what he would speak.

In truth I find. Καταλαμβανεσθαι is to apprehend, or to gather by reasons, signs, and conjectures. Cornelius was a Gentile born, yet God heareth his prayers; he vouchsafeth to show him the light of the gospel; he appointed and sendeth an angel to him particularly; thereby doth Peter know, that, without respect of persons, those do please God which live godly and innocently. For before, (being wholly possessed with this prejudice, that the Jews alone were beloved of God, as they alone were chosen out of all people,) [nations,] he did not think that the grace of God could come unto others. He was not, indeed, so gross that he thought that godliness and innocency of life were condemned because they were in a man that was a Gentile; but, seeing he did simply snatch at that, that all those were estranged from the kingdom of God, and were profane, which were uncircumcised, he entangleth himself unawares in that so filthy an error, that God did despise his pure worship and an holy life, where there was no circumcision; because uncircumcision made all virtues unsavoury to the Jews. By which example, we are taught how greatly we ought to beware of prejudices, which make us oftentimes judge amiss.

Furthermore, we must note what the word person doth signify, because many are thereby deceived, whilst that they expound it generally, that one man is preferred before another. So Pelagius denied in times past that some are chosen and some are [re] proved of God; because God did not accept persons. But by this word we must understand the external state or appearance, as they call it; and whatsoever is about man himself, which doth either bring him in favour, or cause him to be hated; riches, nobility, multitude of servants, honour, do make a man to be in great favour; poverty, baseness of lineage, and such like things, make him to be despised. In this respect, the Lord doth oftentimes forbid the accepting of persons, because men cannot judge aright so often as external respects do lead them away from the matter. In this place, it is referred unto the nation; and the meaning is, that circumcision is no let, but that God may allow² righteousness in a man that is a Gentile. But it shall seem by this means that God did respect persons for a time. For, when as he did choose the Jews to be his people, passing over the Gentiles, did he not respect persons? I answer, that the cause of this difference ought not to be sought in the persons of men, but it doth wholly depend upon the hidden counsel of God. For, in that he rather adopted Abraham, that with him he might make his covenant, than the Egyptians, he did not this being moved with any external respect, but (all) the whole cause remained in his wonderful counsel. Therefore, God was never tied to persons.

Notwithstanding, the doubt is not as yet dissolved, because it cannot be denied but that circumcision did please God, so that he counted him one of his people who had that token of sanctification. But we may easily answer this also, that circumcision followed after the grace of God, forasmuch as it was a seal thereof. Whereupon it followeth that it was no cause thereof. Nevertheless, it was unto the Jews a pledge of free adoption; in such sort, that uncircumcision did not hinder God, but that he might admit what Gentiles he would unto the society of the same salvation. But the coming of Christ had this new and especial thing, that after that the wall of separation was pulled down, (Ephes. 2:14,) God did embrace the whole world generally. And this do the words in every nation import. For so long as Abraham’s seed was the holy inheritance of God, the Gentiles might seem to be quite banished from his kingdom; but when Christ was given to be a light of the Gentiles, the covenant of eternal life began to be common to all alike.^[8]

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^[1] Criswell, W. A., Patterson, P., Clendenen, E. R., Akin, D. L., Chamberlin, M., Patterson, D. K., & Pogue, J. (Eds.). (1991). Believer’s Study Bible (electronic ed., Ac 10:34). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

^[2] Sproul, R. C. (Ed.). (2005). The Reformation Study Bible: English Standard Version (p. 1577). Orlando, FL; Lake Mary, FL: Ligonier Ministries.

^[3] Barry, J. D., Mangum, D., Brown, D. R., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Ritzema, E., … Bomar, D. (2012, 2016). Faithlife Study Bible (Ac 10:34). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

^[4] MacArthur, J. F., Jr. (2006). The MacArthur study Bible: New American Standard Bible. (Ac 10:34). Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers.

^[5] Valdés, A. S. (2010). The Acts of the Apostles. In R. N. Wilkin (Ed.), The Grace New Testament Commentary (pp. 536–537). Denton, TX: Grace Evangelical Society.

^[6] Utley, R. J. (2003). Luke the Historian: The Book of Acts (Vol. Volume 3B, p. 138). Marshall, TX: Bible Lessons International.

^[7] Kistemaker, S. J., & Hendriksen, W. (1953–2001). Exposition of the Acts of the Apostles (Vol. 17, pp. 391–392). Grand Rapids: Baker Book House.

^[8] Calvin, J., & Beveridge, H. (2010). Commentary upon the Acts of the Apostles (Vol. 1, pp. 436–439). Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.

Why Didn’t the Disciples Recognize the Risen Christ? (Video) — Cold Case Christianity

The gospels contain several accounts in which the disciples of Jesus don’t seem to recognize Him? Why was this the case? This clip was taken from J. Warner Wallace’s interview with Ragnhard Petersen, the general secretary of the student movement in the Faroe islands called KFS (the Faroese version of Intervarsity).

To see more training videos with J. Warner Wallace, visit the YouTube playlist.

Why Didn’t the Disciples Recognize the Risen Christ? (Video) — Cold Case Christianity

December—30 The Poor Man’s Evening Portion

A building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.—2 Cor. 5:1.

My soul! after thy last evening’s meditation on the shortness and unsatisfying nature of life, let thy present thoughts be occupied in beholding, with steady faith, the great contrast to it: and see whether thy confidence be as strong, and well-founded, as the apostle’s. His was not a mere hope only, but an assurance in Jesus. “We know (saith he) that if this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” Dost thou know this? Is Jesus thy foundation? Hath God thy Father built for thee? And doth the Holy Ghost set his almighty hand to the work, in sweetly witnessing to the writings, and sealing the deed, that it is thine? Oh! the blessedness to know this, to live already in the enjoyment of it; and while the pins of thy earthly tabernacle are daily loosening, and taking out, to be looking with full assurance of an entrance into this house “not made with hands, eternal in the heavens!”^[1]

 

^[1] Hawker, R. (1845). The Poor Man’s Evening Portion (A New Edition, pp. 354–355). Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle.

December 30 – Any ol’ Thing or Only My Best? — VCY America

December 30

Malachi 1:1-2:17
Revelation 21:1-27
Psalm 149:1-9
Proverbs 31:10-24 

Welcome to the last book of the Old Testament – Malachi! We’re just one day away from the end of the year – thank you for joining with us this year!

Malachi 1:2 – Stop and appreciate the first phrase of this declaration. “I have loved you!” God loves Israel, and God loves us!!

Malachi 1:13 – Have we ever thought going to church was “weariness”? Have we brought our best gifts to the LORD or have we brought our leftovers? As the satirical Patch the Pirate song reminds us, sometimes we say, “Any old thing will do for you“

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uzrTlo5no4

Our attitude should be, “Only my best will do for you!”

Malachi 1:14 – What does the LORD say about vows? Ecclesiastes 5:4-6 warns us that ”
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow.”

Malachi 2:7-8 – We see a strong warning for religious leaders. While we’re in the New Testament, we have similar warnings (James 3:1 – leaders will receive greater punishment, Luke 12:47 – shall be beaten with many stripes, Matthew 23:13 – problem with the scribes and Pharisees, 1 Corinthians 11:29 – “damnation to himself”).

Malachi 2:13 – Why won’t God receive our offerings? Peter tells us that if I am not “giving honour unto [my] wife” – my prayers will be hindered (1 Peter 3:7). Malachi elaborates on God’s hatred of divorce (putting away – Malachi 2:16). Jesus Himself reiterated this as well (Matthew 19:8). As we saw earlier, God’s treatment of us depends on how we treat our wives.

Revelation 21:4 – No more night, no more pain. No more tears, no more crying again!

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Revelation 21:7 – Not all are God’s children, only those who overcome? Who are the overcomers? Those who believe (Revelation 21:8).

Revelation 21:12-14 – Notice how God is uniting Israel (Revelation 21:12) and the Church (Revelation 21:14) for eternity in the eternal New Jerusalem!

Apocalypse 42. A new heaven and new earth. Revelation 21 v 29.
Petrus van der Borcht. . Phillip Medhurst Collection

Revelation 21:23 – Yes in the New Jerusalem, there is “No need of moon or stars by night, or sun to shine by day;”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uE4qZUdsM4

Revelation 21:27 – God can’t let any sin into His heaven, and you must have an RSVP to enter. If you don’t know for sure that your name is in the Book of Life, make sure of that today! We saw yesterday what happens to those whose names are not found in the book (Revelation 20:15).

Psalm 149:5 – Yes it’s ok to sing alone and aloud! Praise ye the LORD!

Proverbs 31:10 – The Sunrise Ruby, a 25.59-carat Burmese ruby sold at Sotheby’s in May 2015 for $25 million. I’m so thankful for my wife!

Proverbs 31:11 – We read earlier about the condemnation of men who cheat on their wives, and here we see praise for the woman who is safely trusted in by her husband. Jesus’ first miracle was at a wedding in Cana (John 2), He loves Christian marriages!

December 30 – Any ol’ Thing or Only My Best? — VCY America

December 30 What’s It All About Anyway?

A man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.
(Luke 12:15, NIV)

In the 1920s, some of the world’s most successful men met in the Edgewater Hotel in Chicago. Present were the presidents of America’s largest steel company, utility company, and gas company; also the presidents of the New York Stock Exchange and the Bank of International Settlements. Together these were the faces of power and success. The ones we all want to be like!

But twenty-five years later the story was so different. The president of the largest independent steel company, Charles Schwab, lived his last years on borrowed money and died bankrupt. The president of the largest gas company, Howard Hopson, went totally insane, and the president of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney, was released from Alcatraz to go home and die. Finally, the president of the Bank of International Settlements, Leon Fraser, committed suicide.

Every one of these men knew how to make a living—but not one of them knew how to live! Jesus told us, life is not built on things; it’s built on relationships, and the first relationship you need is with God.

 

Do you have one today?^[1]

 

^[1] Gass, B. (1998). A Fresh Word For Today : 365 Insights For Daily Living (p. 364). Alachua, FL: Bridge-Logos Publishers.

William McGurn: Eric Swalwell and Hunter Biden are only the tip of the Chinese influence iceberg

President-elect Joe Biden might be tempted to think his son’s case and that of Rep. Swalwell will pass. But they won’t. Here’s why.

Source: William McGurn: Eric Swalwell and Hunter Biden are only the tip of the Chinese influence iceberg

CBN NewsWatch PM: December 30, 2020

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Mitch McConnell Introduces Bill that Gives $2K Stimulus Checks, Addresses Section 230, Creates Commission to Investigate Voter Fraud

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday introduced a bill that addresses President Trump’s three requests tied to signing the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government spending bill — increasing the amount of individual stimulus checks to $2,000, addressing Section 230, and creating a commission to examine voter fraud.

Source: Mitch McConnell Introduces Bill that Gives $2K Stimulus Checks, Addresses Section 230, Creates Commission to Investigate Voter Fraud

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley Says He Will Challenge Certification of Electoral College Vote

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) announced on Wednesday that he will oppose the certification of President-elect Joe Biden when Congress meets on Jan. 6 to certify the electoral college results.

Source: Republican Sen. Josh Hawley Says He Will Challenge Certification of Electoral College Vote

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Watch Bill Gates’ reaction to the question, “Is the vaccine safe?”

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Social Engineers Use Weaponized Psychology to Push Unproven Vaccines | The Daily Bell

 

In the coming months, more unprecedentedly rushed COVID-19 vaccines will likely be approved and subsequently introduced to market.

Whereas most vaccines take ten or more years to develop at a minimum – a necessary precaution to screen for adverse reactions in human test subjects who receive them — the COVID-19 vaccines currently in development across the globe will likely make it to market in less than a year from the starting line.

The monkey wrench in the pharmaceutical machinery, though, may prove to be widespread (and rightful) skepticism on the part of the public regarding the safety and/or efficacy of the eventual vaccine.

That people will be harmed by the COVID-19 vaccine once it is introduced to the public is inevitable. All vaccines, which re-jigger the immune system to produce antibodies against the targeted pathogen, can cause adverse reactions in a small percentage of the populations that receive them — even the safest, most thoroughly vetted ones.

This scientific, physiological reality is not disputed even by vaccine advocates. In fact, in the last 30 years, the U.S. government (using taxpayer money) has compensated victims of adverse reactions to vaccines to the tune of $4.4 billion. The COVID-19 vaccine will be no exception in terms of the damage it will inflict – in fact, because of the rushed nature of the vetting process and the proposed population-wide vaccination regimen, it will likely be far more destructive than previous vaccines in terms of scale.

Read more: Social Engineers Use Weaponized Psychology to Push Unproven Vaccines

Why Should Christians Study the Bible? | Ligonier Ministries

Many people believe that theological study holds little value. They say, “I don’t need theology; I just need to know Jesus.” Yet theology is unavoidable for every Christian. It is our attempt to understand the truth that God has revealed to us—something every Christian does. So it is not a question of whether we are going to engage in theology; it is a question of whether our theology is sound or unsound. It is important to study and learn because God has taken great pains to reveal Himself to His people. He gave us a book, one that is not meant to sit on a shelf pressing dried flowers, but to be read, searched, digested, studied, and chiefly to be understood.

An important text in the writings of the Apostle Paul is found in his second letter to Timothy: “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work” (2 Tim. 3:16–17). That text should put an end to claims that we do not need doctrine or that doctrine has no value. There is profit from a careful study of the Bible. Because the Bible is inspired by almighty God, it gives us a valuable and profitable asset, and that asset is doctrine.

The Bible is profitable also for reproof. The academic world devotes much energy to biblical criticism, sometimes called higher criticism, which is an analytical critique of Scripture. However, the biblical criticism in which we ought to engage renders us the object rather than the subject of the criticism. In other words, the Bible criticizes us. When we come to the Word of God, the Word of God exposes our sin. The biblical doctrine of man includes us, as does the biblical doctrine of sin, and we are reproved for our sinfulness when we come to the text of Scripture. We may not listen to the criticism of our peers, but we are wise to heed the criticism of God as it comes to us in sacred Scripture.

Scripture is also profitable for correction from both false living and false belief. Some time ago, at the request of a friend, I read a New York Times best seller about how to become a medium and communicate with the dead. I got about halfway through the book and had to stop reading. There was so much spiritual filth in that book, so much falsehood, that those with even a simple understanding of the law of God in the Old Testament would have been able to detect the lies. Such is the profit of correction from false teaching and false living that we can gain from Scripture.

Finally, Scripture is profitable “for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.” The purpose of theology is not to tickle our intellects but to instruct us in the ways of God, so that we can grow up into maturity and fullness of obedience to Him. That is why we engage in theology.

Looking to read more of the Bible in 2021? For your convenience, we’ve compiled a list of Bible reading plans for you to choose from. Whatever it is you’re looking for in a reading plan, you should find it here.

This excerpt is adpated from Everyone’s a Theologian by R.C. Sproul.

Source: Why Should Christians Study the Bible?

Gunshots, Motorcycle Deaths Count as COVID Casualties | Global Research by Dr. Joseph Mercola

Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, families have been separated, businesses have been shuttered and schools have been closed down. Many people are living their lives shrouded in fear of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 — a direct response to media coverage and health officials’ claims of its dire associated risks.

Understanding the real risks, and being able to make choices on how to live your life in response to them, is only possible, however, if you have real facts, like how many have died from the virus and what the death rate actually is. Is it a lethal virus that warrants lockdowns and panic, or is it one more akin to influenza, which can indeed be deadly but, in most cases, is not?

Early on during the pandemic, COVID-19 infection mortality rate claims varied from 2.7% to 7%, with most being in the 4% range. But according to some experts, the actual infection mortality rate may be much lower, ranging from 0.05% to 1%, with a median of about 0.25%.¹

The number of COVID-19 deaths may also be skewed, as health officials may count deaths from unrelated causes — even gunshots and motorcycle accidents — as COVID-19 deaths if the person had the virus within the last 30 days.²

Are COVID-19 Deaths Being Inflated?

In Grand County, Colorado, five COVID-19 deaths were reported, but according to coroner Brenda Bock, two of them were actually deaths from gunshot wounds. Speaking to CBS4 News, Bock spoke out against the misleading classifications, as the deaths from gunshot wounds were counted as COVID-19 deaths because the victims had tested positive within 30 days.

The distinction comes down to some tricky working: deaths “among” COVID-19 cases and deaths “due to” COVID-19. Someone who died with COVID-19 may be counted as a death among COVID-19 cases, even if the virus had nothing to do with their death. When a death is said to be “due to” COVID-19, this is intended when COVID-19 caused or significantly contributed to the death.

According to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, even deaths among COVID-19 cases must be reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):

“This information is required by the CDC and is crucial for public health surveillance, as it provides more information about disease transmission and can help identify risk factors among all deaths across populations.”³

But according to Bock, the inflated numbers could hurt the region’s economy, which is largely dependent on tourism:

“It’s absurd that they would even put that on there. Would you want to go to a county that has really high death numbers? Would you want to go visit that county because they are contagious? You know I might get it, and I could die if all of a sudden one county has a high death count. We don’t have it, and we don’t need those numbers inflated.”⁴

Hundreds of ‘COVID-19 Deaths’ Subtracted in Washington

Washington state was also accused of inflating COVID-19 deaths, by up to 13%. According to the Freedom Foundation, the state’s Department of Health was counting every death in a person who had previously tested positive for COVID-19 as related to the virus.

While the governor denied the inflation, internal emails revealed in May 2020 that the Department of Health (DOH) was, in fact, counting deaths in their official COVID death numbers that weren’t directly due to the virus.⁵

By December 2020, Washington’s DOH had responded by subtracting more than 200 deaths from its COVID-19 fatality count after “methodological improvements.” However, a Freedom Foundation analysis suggests their fatality counts are still too high. And if this is going on in Washington, it’s likely happening in other states and countries as well.

According to the analysis, some of the questionable examples of the DOH’s “COVID-19 deaths” include the following:⁶

Motorcycle Death Initially Counted as COVID-19 Death

Another misleading instance occurred in Orlando, Florida, where a man in his 20s who died in a motorcycle accident was initially counted as a COVID-19 death because he had tested positive. In a significant stretch, Orange County health officer Dr. Raul Pino told FOX 35 News, “[Yo]u could actually argue that it could have been the COVID-19 that caused him to crash.”⁷

That death was reportedly removed from the official count, but how many others weren’t? In April 2020, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, also detailed the loose case definition being used for COVID-19 deaths:

“If you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live, and then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means technically even if you died of a clear alternate cause, but you had COVID at the same time, it’s still listed as a COVID death.

So, everyone who’s listed as a COVID death doesn’t mean that that was the cause of the death, but they had COVID at the time of the death.”⁸

Are Total Deaths in 2020 Excessive?

Michael Yeadon, Ph.D., a former vice-president and chief scientific adviser of the drug company Pfizer and founder and CEO of the biotech company Ziarco, now owned by Novartis, said in an interview, “You cannot have a lethal pandemic stalking the land and not have excess deaths.” Yet, excess deaths on the level of a lethal pandemic just aren’t occurring.

About 1,700 people die each day in the U.K. in any given year, Yeadon says — but many of these deaths are now falsely attributed to COVID-19. “I’m calling out the statistics, and even the claim that there is an ongoing pandemic, as false,” he said, noting that the definition of a “coronavirus death” in the U.K. is anyone who dies, from any cause, within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test.

In the U.S., it’s a similar story. As of December 22, 2020, the provisional total death count from all causes, according to the CDC, is 2,835,533.⁹ For comparison, the total number of deaths from all causes in 2018 was 2,839,205¹⁰ while in 2019 it was 2,854,838.¹¹

Some estimates suggested that 2020 deaths may top 3.2 million when all the final figures are added up,¹² but how many of those deaths are directly attributable to COVID-19?

According to Yeadon, some of the slight uptick in deaths being presorted in the U.K. — primarily people aged 45 to 65, with equal distribution between the sexes — are mainly from heart disease, stroke and cancer, which suggests they are excess deaths caused by inaccessibility of routine medical care as people are either afraid of or discouraged from going to the hospital.

These deaths may be characterized as being COVID related, but that’s only because they have been falsely lumped into that category due to a positive test being recorded within 28 days of death. In the U.S., other deaths have also increased, including, according to Robert Anderson of the CDC, “an unexpected number of deaths from certain types of heart and circulatory diseases, diabetes and dementia.”¹³

Drug overdose deaths are also at record numbers. According to the AP, in late December 2020, “the CDC reported more than 81,000 drug overdose deaths in the 12 months ending in May, making it the highest number ever recorded in a one-year period.”¹⁴

Flu Deaths Disappear

Another curiosity in 2020 is what happened to the flu. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracks influenza (flu) and pneumonia deaths weekly through the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Mortality Reporting System. But, “April 4, 2020 was the last week in-season preliminary burden estimates were provided,” the CDC wrote on its 2019-2020 U.S. flu season webpage.¹⁵

The reason the estimates stopped in April is because flu cases plummeted so low that they’re hardly worth tracking. In an update posted December 3, 2020, the CDC stated:

“The model used to generate influenza in-season preliminary burden estimates uses current season flu hospitalization data. Reported flu hospitalizations are too low at this time to generate an estimate.”¹⁶

They also added, “The number of hospitalizations estimated so far this season is lower than end-of-season total hospitalization estimates for any season since CDC began making these estimates.”¹⁷ Meanwhile, the “COVID” deaths the CDC has been reporting are actually a combination of pneumonia, flu and COVID deaths, under a new category listed as “PIC” (Pneumonia, Influenza, COVID).

Their COVIDView webpage, which provides a weekly surveillance summary of U.S. COVID-19 activity, states that levels of SARS-CoV-2 and “associated illnesses” have been increasing since September 2020, while the percentage of deaths due to pneumonia, flu and COVID-19 has been on the rise since October.¹⁸

As noted by professor William M. Briggs, a statistical consultant and policy advisor at The Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank, “CDC, up until about July 2020, counted flu and pneumonia deaths separately, been doing this forever, then just mysteriously stopped … It’s become very difficult to tell the difference between these,”¹⁹ referring to the combined tracking of deaths from “PIC.”

Selection Bias and Problems With Testing

Dr. Reid Sheftall has also suggested that COVID-19 fatality rates may be inflated, by about 40 times. In an interview with Ivor Cummins, a biochemical engineer with a background in medical device engineering,²⁰ he said selection bias was being used in the counting of cases, and organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and CDC were drastically undercounting the number of people who were infected, which inflated the mortality rate.

Sheftall looked for data in which every case had been counted, ending up with a cruise ship, in which every person had been tested, and a small town in Germany that had also tested all residents. “When I crunched the numbers, the infection fatality rate came out to 0.14%, so I knew … there were some gross errors going on.” Sheftall cited COVID-19 survival rates by age, posted by the CDC September 10, 2020, which are as follows:²¹

• Ages 0 to 19: 99.997%
• Ages 20 to 49: 99.98%
• Ages 50 to 69: 99.5%
• Ages 70 and up: 94.6%

This translates into a 0.1% infection fatality rate, using the CDC’s own numbers. More than 224.5 million COVID-19 tests have been conducted in the U.S,²² which includes an unknown number of tests conducted on people with no symptoms.

The costs for such testing could be used for a more productive purpose, according to Sheftall, particularly for asymptomatic people. “The whole basis of medicine,” he says, is to test people with symptoms so you can find out what’s wrong and treat them accordingly:

“In 2017 to 2018 … between 70 and 80 million people in America got the flu … nobody noticed for the most part and no one was tested. I’m a doctor and I vaguely remember that it was a bad flu season. That was it. And yet with COVID we’re testing so many people you wouldn’t believe it.”²³

What’s more, positive reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests have proven remarkably unreliable with high false result rates, and a positive test does not mean that an active infection is present.

Fear May Be Causing More Deaths

Taken together, what’s clear about the COVID-19 fatality rates being reported is that there’s a lot of room for error and misinterpretation. Solid analysis of any “excess” deaths being attributed to COVID-19 are needed before policy decisions are made. When this was done in England in October 2020, deaths were only 1% higher than expected, and many of them were due to heart disease, stroke and diabetes.

“Notably” fewer deaths due to respiratory conditions and acute respiratory infections were found, yet deaths occurring in homes due to non-COVID-causes increased. This may be another sad outcome of the fear being propagated in relation to COVID-19. According to the study,

“The data suggest that mortality has shifted from hospital to home, especially for deaths not associated with COVID-19. This ‘displacement’ may be due to the reluctance of individuals to receive treatment in hospital or of clinicians to admit non-covid patients … Deaths in the home remain persistently high, and yet they receive little attention.”²⁴

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Notes

³ Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment September 28, 2020

⁴ CBS Local December 14, 2020

⁸ Week April 20, 2020

⁹ U.S. CDC, Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

¹⁰ U.S. CDC, Deaths and Mortality

^{11, 12, 13, 14} AP December 21, 2020

^15, 16, 17 U.S. CDC, 2019-2020 U.S. Flu Season: Preliminary In-Season Burden Estimates

¹⁹ YouTube, Discernable November 24, 2020, The Flu Has Disappeared!

²² COVIDTracking.com December 17, 2020

²⁴ The Center for Evidence-Based Medicine October 23, 2020

Featured image is from OffGuardian

Source: Gunshots, Motorcycle Deaths Count as COVID Casualties

Moody Radio, AFR, and Others Drop Ravi Zacharias From Programming — The Roys Report

Moody Radio, one of the largest Christian radio networks in the U.S., is among several radio organizations dropping Ravi Zacharias broadcasts from its lineup after Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) confirmed many of the allegations of “sexual misconduct” made against the late apologist. Moody Radio made the announcement Christmas weekend with the cancellations effective immediately.…

Moody Radio, AFR, and Others Drop Ravi Zacharias From Programming — The Roys Report

41 Evidences of Pride | Revive Our Hearts

It’s important to be aware of signs of pride in ourselves because pride can be extremely subtle. Here are 41 questions we can ask ourselves to see if we have any arrogance we are not aware of.

1. Do you look down on those who are less educated, less affluent, less refined, or less successful than yourself?
2. Do you think of yourself as more spiritual than your mate, others in your in your church?
3. Do you have a judgmental spirit toward those who don’t make the same lifestyle choices you do . . . dress standards, how you school your kids, entertainment standards, etc.?
4. Are you quick to find fault with others and to verbalize those thoughts to others?
5. Do you have a sharp, critical tongue?
6. Do you frequently correct or criticize your mate, your pastor, or other people in positions of leadership (teachers, youth director, etc.)?
7. Do you give undue time, attention, and effort to your physical appearance—hair, make-up, clothing, weight, body shape, avoiding appearance of aging?
8. Are you proud of the schedule you keep, how disciplined you are, how much you are able to accomplish?
9. Are you driven to receive approval, praise, or acceptance from others?
10. Are you argumentative?
11. Do you generally think your way is the right way, the only way, or the best way?
12. Do you have a touchy, sensitive spirit? Easily offended? Get your feelings hurt easily?
13. Are you guilty of pretense? Trying to leave a better impression of yourself than is really true? (Would the people at church be shocked if they knew what you were like at home?)
14. Do you have a hard time admitting when you are wrong?
15. Do you have a hard time confessing your sin to God or others? (not just in generalities but specifics)
16. Do you have a hard time sharing your real spiritual needs/struggles with others?
17. Do you have a hard time praying aloud with others?
18. Are you excessively shy?
19. Do you have a hard time reaching out and being friendly to people you don’t know at church?
20. Do you resent being asked or expected to serve your family, your parents, or others?
21. Do you become defensive when you are criticized or corrected?
22. Are you a perfectionist? Do you get irked or impatient with people who aren’t?
23. Do you tend to be controlling—of your mate, your children, friends, those in your workplace?
24. Do you frequently interrupt people when they are speaking?
25. Does your husband feel intimidated by your “spirituality”?
26. Does your husband feel like he can never measure up to your expectations of what it means to be a good husband, spiritual leader, etc.?
27. Do you often complain—about the weather, your health, your circumstances, your job, your church?
28. Do you talk about yourself too much?
29. Are you more concerned about your problems, needs, burdens than about others’ concerns?
30. Do you worry about what others think of you? Too concerned about your reputation or your family’s reputation?
31. Do you neglect to express gratitude for “little things”? To God? To others?
32. Do you neglect prayer and intake of the Word?
33. Do you get hurt if your accomplishments/or acts of service are not recognized or rewarded?
34. Do you get hurt if your feelings or opinions are not considered when your mate or your boss is making a decision or if you are not informed when a change or decision is made?
35. Do you react to rules? Do you have a hard time being told what to do?
36. Are you self-conscious because of your lack of education or natural beauty, or your socio-economic status?
37. Do you avoid participating in certain events, for fear of being embarrassed or looking foolish?
38. Do you avoid being around certain people because you feel inferior compared to them/don’t feel you measure up?
39. Are you uncomfortable inviting people to your home because you don’t think it’s nice enough or you can’t afford to do lavish entertaining?
40. Is it hard for you to let others know when you need help (practical or spiritual)?
41. When is the last time you said these words to a family member, friend, or coworker: “I was wrong; would you please forgive me?” (If it’s been more than a month, mark it down!)

Are you sitting here thinking how many of these questions apply to someone you know? Feeling pretty good that none of these things really apply to you?

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Source: 41 Evidences of Pride

Ukraine Press Conference Explicitly Ties Hunter & Joe Biden To Corruption | ZeroHedge

Authored by Andrea Widburg via AmericanThinker.com,

A video from a press conference in Ukraine is going viral. It is the follow-up to a video press conference that Ukraine released over a year ago, in which Members of the Ukraine Parliament demanded that President Zelensky and President Trump investigate billions of dollars of corruption in Ukraine that is tied to the U.S. The newly released video is meant to provide documentary and eyewitness information about the corruption – and the Biden family figures prominently in the story.

The video is long – over an hour – and not all of it involves the Biden family. This post quotes those portions of the press conference that address Biden family corruption. The gist of it is that, while Democrats obsess about Trump’s purported criminality, despite the absence of any evidence, their chosen standard-bearer is extraordinarily corrupt.

Indeed, I would argue that Biden is one of the most corrupt politicians ever in America. In the past, corrupt politicians have confined themselves to playing dirty in their own back yard, making money from deals with fellow Americans.

I believe that Biden is the first person ever to serve in the highest reaches of government – the Senate and the Vice Presidency – who sold his country out to the highest foreign bidders. It’s an insult to everything America has stood for since its inception that massive election fraud might allow this person to set foot in the oval office.

With that intro, here’s the video, followed by quotations from the video regarding Joe and Hunter Biden. I recommend Nabu Leaks for more information, enlarged pictures of the relevant documents naming the Bidens, audios of phone calls between Biden and former President Poroshenko after Trump won the election, and the full transcript of the press conference.

From the introduction:

At one of the first press conferences about a year ago, we showed bank transactions for hundreds of thousands of dollars to the family of former US Vice President Joe Biden, namely to his son Robert Hunter Biden. The latter was a member of the board of directors of the infamous gas production company Burisma.

Burisma belongs to the fugitive Yanukovych-era minister Mykola Zlochevsky.

The inclusion of Biden in the Burisma leadership and payment for his services is nothing more than a political cover that protected Zlochevsky from the Ukrainian law, namely from the criminal code.

Two foreign witnesses whose identities are protected – Witness 1 and Witness 2 – came forward to testify about the facts of the case. Konstantyn Kulyk, the Head of the Group of Prosecutors of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, explained what the witnesses offered:

One quote from a statement by a Witness:

“All the described financial transactions were fictitious. And a lot of money was paid in Ukraine so that the state authorities turned a blind eye to it.”

[snip]

In the period from November 2014 to October 2015, the Witnesses noticed strange recurring payments that, at the direction of Oleh Nelin (Zlochevsky’s assistant in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine), were sent from the account of BURISMA HOLDINGS LTD, which was opened for the personal needs of Mykola Zlochevsky, in the Latvian PrivatBank AS to the account of the American company ROSEMONT SENECA BONAI LLC.

The witnesses drew attention to these payments since about 20 times the same uneven amount was recurring – $83,333.33 as payment for consulting services.

[snip]

In the period from November 2014 to October 2015, the money stolen from Ukrainians, located on account of BURISMA HOLDINGS LTD with the Latvian PrivatBank AS, was transferred to the account of ROSEMONT SENECA BONAI LLC in the American bank MORGAN STANLEY in payments in total amounting to $3.4 million for consulting services.

[snip]

This is a payment for the political “cover” that Biden provided to Zlochevsky.

The video offers a graphic image showing the flow of money and favors:

Andrii Derkach picked up the narrative. He focused on Joe Biden’s conversations with Former President Poroshenko when Viktor Shokin, a prosecutor, started looking into Zlochevsky’s graft. As we all know, Biden openly boasted about holding up money from the U.S. unless Poroshenko fired Shokin.

The press conference included audio from a November 16, 2016 conversation between Biden and Poroshenko. Biden was wheeling and dealing for influence and money – and conducting foreign policy behind Trump’s back. The men spoke again in February 2017, at which time Biden smothered Poroshenko with fulsome compliments.

Ukraine’s government is gunning for Joe Biden. The Ukrainians know Biden helped prop up a corrupt government in their country and that he profited mightily from doing so. No wonder this video has gone viral.

— Read on www.zerohedge.com/political/ukraine-press-conference-explicitly-ties-hunter-joe-biden-corruption

Covid Mass-Vaxxing: 1000s of Health Impact Events Reported | Stephen Lendman

by Stephen Lendman

According to the CDC, an “ ‘adverse event’ is any health problem that happens after a shot or other vaccine.”

A “health impact event” is any anything that renders an individual “unable to perform normal daily activities, unable to work, (and) require(s) care from doctor or health care professional.”

On December 14, covid mass-vaxxing began in the US.

On December 19, over 5,000 “health impact events” were reported.

According to the roach principle, when see one, there are many more around unseen.

The principle applies to bad news that authorities want kept under wraps.

When some is known, what’s reported is likely the tip of the iceberg.

If thousands of “health impact events” were reported from covid mass-vaxxing in less than a week, many more likely were unreported.

If what was reported happened in five days, how many more went unreported.

How many tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands of “health impact events” will follow in the weeks and months ahead — in the US and abroad?

Emergency authorization use (EAU) granted Pfizer and Moderna by the Pharma-controlled FDA for their  fast-tracked, inadequately tested, high-risk, experimental covid vaccines is playing fast and loose with human health in the US and abroad.

In hindsight when it’s too late to matter, will it be known that these hazardous to health vaccines caused irreparable harm to countless numbers of people?

Based on vaccine history, it’s highly likely.

The CDC in cahoots with Pharma falsely claimed that Pfizer and Moderna covid vaccines are safe and effective — knowing it’s untrue.

By any definition, the CDC action constitutes a crime against humanity that surely will go unpunished.

Straightaway or soon after vaxxing of trial participants, Pfizer and Moderna caused:

Pain or soreness in area vaxxed

Myalgia — Muscle pain affecting ligaments, tendons and fascia soft tissue

Erythema — reddening of skin from dilation of blood capillaries

Fatigue and malaise

Headaches

Fever

Vaxxed site swelling

Nausea that may include vomiting

Lymphadenopathy — inflammatory enlargement of lymph nodes that may be minor or serious

According to the CDC, alleged effectiveness of Pfizer’s covid vaccine lasts about two months.

So-called Moderna’s effectiveness lasts about 14 days or slightly longer after two doses.

Vaxxing is hazardous for everyone. High-risk/experimental Pfizer and Moderna covid vaccines have unknown hidden dangers to human health.

They’re especially hazardous to the elderly and for individuals on a cocktail of other drugs, as well as everyone with weakened immune systems.

The Jerusalem Post reported that a 75-year-old Jerusalem man died from a heart attack two hours after vaxxed for covid, citing Israel’s Health Ministry.

Last March, noted Milford (CT) Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory expert on DNA sequencing-based diagnostics Dr. Sin Hang Lee filed an Administrative Stay of Action with the FDA, NIH, NIAID, and WHO.

He urged them not to approve experimental covid vaccines because of overwhelming numbers of PCR testing false positives — rendering the tests worthless.

His legitimate concern was ignored.

Many thousands of doctors and scientists worldwide warned against  vaxxing for covid protection that experimental vaccines don’t provide — just potential serious health problems.

Mass-vaxxing in the US is well underway.

It may cause an epidemic of serious health issues that’s likely to be suppressed by public health agencies and complicit media.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Source: Covid Mass-Vaxxing: 1000s of Health Impact Events Reported