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Religion See other Religion Articles Title: BIRD FLU FLYING TOWARD U.S. BIRD FLU FLYING TOWARD U.S. By J. Grant Swank, Jr. http://MichNews.com Mar 2, 2006 The pandemic could strike at any time. If it does, the US is not prepared. Nor is any other nation prepared. If the bird flu remains only within lower animals, humans could go unscathed. But if the virus mutates to humans, then billions could die. That would set loose pandemonium: clinics deluged, emergency rooms overwhelmed, doctors and nurses in short supply, scrambles for supposed help-vaccines, industry shut down due to employees sick, educational systems likewise shut down and so forth. Society as we know it could come to an uneasy, unpredictable halt. Biblical scholars research the divine writ for prophetic passages, particularly those containing the words of Jesus Christ. He prophesied that in the End Times there would be "pestilence." Could bird flu pandemic include that? It could. Then there are skeptics who say that epidemics have killed millions before. It goes in cycles. So this could be just another one of those. And that could very well be true from the secular perspective. However, biblical students understand that with the increase of sin, as Jesus predicated would occur in the End Times, God’s wrath could be spilled out on a wayward humanity. That could have been His wrath in the past. His wrath could be spilled out again in the future. Given: There is an increase of sin in all sorts of forms taking place globally. Therefore, those in science and religion are taking a close look at the newsfeeds regarding bird flu. The latest is from US Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt. He has been a voice to the world cautioning the planet about bird flu, traveling far and wide to conduct seminars and conferences. According to Reuters’ Richard Cowan: "In testimony to a congressional panel on his agency's budget for combating a possible avian flu outbreak among humans, Leavitt told senators that no one knows when or if the virus will pose a threat to people. But, he said, ‘it's just a matter of time -- it may be very soon’ when wild birds and possibly poultry flocks contract the disease." One factor that is amazing to me is that today’s preachers by and large have sidelined this topic in their preaching. The pulpit is not dealing with this potential disaster. There is little caution given to congregations let alone explaining the possibility of it being a divine message. There are few warnings related to soul preparation for a pandemic. Why? Because many clergy are not all that aware of the bird flu specifics. They then rely on their usual sermonic themes. Instead, there is a needed a teaching of this subject from the pulpit and teaching lecterns to the congregations which gather every seven days. The clergy have a captive audience; yet they are not taking advantage of presenting to their listeners the biblical predictions as related to End Times, bird flu specifically. There is a dryness within the clergy related to biblical prophecy. Many of the younger pastors did not have studies in this regard in their seminaries. Especially the theologically liberal clergy do not regard biblical prophecy as necessarily accurate historically; therefore, they discount it altogether. Evangelicals are the clergy who believe the Bible to be the Word of God—divine revelation. However, even they are not all that well informed on biblical prophetic detail. That is sad for the laity need to learn how to relate daily news, particularly bird flu, for example, to their daily devotions from the Bible. "The H5N1 disease so far has killed 94 people in seven countries. "’It could be the disaster of our time. Two billion dollars is not enough,’ North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad, the senior Democrat on the committee, told Leavitt. "Conrad was referring the $2.3 billion in additional emergency funds the Bush administration has requested from Congress. Late last year, Congress approved a first injection of more than $3 billion in emergency money. "Recently, the animal disease has been found in western Europe and worries escalated this week when German authorities said avian flu may have jumped species and killed a cat." Every new surge westward should cause increased awareness of what could be. How are the churches prepared for this? How do Christian laypersons understand such a distress in light of God’s wisdom, comfort and End Times fulfillment? How do clergy intend on comforting their parishioners when the pandemic hits and they have not preached on the subject in these preparatory months? "’In the first six months of a pandemic we are dependent on basic public health, social distancing; every business, every school, every church, every county to have a plan,’ Leavitt said, adding, ‘We are overdue (for a pandemic) and under-protected, but we are moving with dispatch.’"
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Call me nuts, but THEY have something up their sleeve. Call it bird flu, bird shit or bull shit, but the SOBs are up to no good.
Pittsburgh won the Superbowl, didn't they?
Got sambucol?
no, should i?
Hell, yes. You don't want to be out in the streets fighting the mobs for the last few bottles of Tamiflu, do you? :-) Seriously...IF, and I emphasize IF, this flu ever becomes a threat to people; I will probably sit at home relaxing for a few weeks while the rest of the sheeple run around like chickens with their heads cut off looking for the cure or vaccine du jour. One thing is for sure...I'm not going anywhere NEAR a hospital...that's where all the damn SICK people are! Rushing to the doctor's office is precisely what would help the 'flu' spread among the populace. (In addition to the spraying, of course.)
i knew all that. ;)
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