EZEKIEL

 

and YHWH’s

 

 Judgment

 

 

for the

 

Good News

 

PEOPLE

 

 

 

VOLUME XVII

 

Health and Healing

 

 

EZEKIEL and YHWH’s

 

 

Judgment for the

 

 

 Good News People

 

 

 

 

Volume XVII--Health and Healing

 

 

 

 

 

by

 

an unworthy servant

 

 

 

 

 

 

And you shall know the truth,

 

and the truth will make you free.

 

(John 8:32)

 

 

Common Law Copyright, 2003 & 2005 CE, an unworthy servant, Calder, Idaho.  The author claims his Right of exclusive ownership and control of this publication, the fruit of his labor, as a matter of Intellectual Property protected by the Laws of YHWH and as guaranteed by the US Constitution for the United States.  Permission is granted to quote provided appropriate credit is cited together with the Publisher’s web site name and postal mailing address––WWW.age-end.com PO Box 473, Calder, ID 83808, USA. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

 

 

 

Volume XVII--Health and Healing

 

 

CHAPTER                                                                              PAGE

 

 

      -                  Cover Page                                                                                                         1

 

      -                  Title Page                                                                                                             2

 

      -                  Contents                                                                                                              3

 

      -                  Publisher’s Preface                                                                                           5

 

 

Part YY--Christian Food 

 

      250             Sun Worship and Diet I                                                                                     6

 

      251             Sun Worship and Diet II                                                                                  13

 

      252             Sun Worship and Diet III                                                                                 27

 

      253             Sun Worship and Diet IV                                                                                32

 

      254             Sun Worship and Diet V                                                                                 43

 

 

Part ZZ--Christians and Health 

 

      255             Sun Worship and Health I                                                                             57

 

      256             Sun Worship and Health II                                                                             71

 

      257             The Health Crisis I                                                                                           85

 

      258             The Health Crisis II                                                                                          94

 

      259             Tobacco and Smoking I                                                                                105

 

      260             Tobacco and Smoking II                                                                               115

 

      261             Caffeine                                                                                                           124

 

 

Part AAA--Healing Alternatives

 

      262             Health Alternatives?                                                                                      138

 

      263             Healing in the Scriptures                                                                              150

SHEERIT YISRAEL

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Publisher’s Preface

 

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Chapter 250--Sun Worship and Diet I

 

 

Sun Worshippers Eat Anything 

 

One of the common characteristics of Western, sun worshipping people is their willingness and propensity to eat almost anything (sometimes, within certain limits), and particularly pork, duck, shrimp, lobster, catfish (the bad fish of Matthew 13:48), fat and blood (yes, blood pudding is popular among many Europeans). 

 

Some of the Blacks in Africa have been cannibals--even in modern times.  In the East, Mongolian sun worshippers go far beyond pork when they extend their diets to mice, rats; and of course, dogs (yes, almost all of the historic Mongolians and their fall-out peoples have been dog eaters).  In portions of Asia, the animals are often skinned alive before killing and cooking.  Asians claim that this helps the taste. 

 

For sure, Mongoloid peoples have traditionally eaten cats, dogs, rats, mice, snakes and similarly small forms of life.  The American Indians were dog eaters.  Early historical records indicate that all the Indian tribes ate dogs, except for possibly the Shoshone Indians who may have not ate them. 

 

Years ago, this writer heard the story of how an American boy in an American town used to make a little spending  money.  There was a Chinese restaurant in his town.  Late at night, he could and often did bring a cat by and knock on the door where the Chinese owner lived.  The owner would take the cat and pay the boy a quarter (this was years ago before inflation set in).  One should keep this story in mind when eating out at an Asian restaurant. 

 

My mother told the story of how a man used to sell hot tamales out of a street cart at Sulphur, Oklahoma where there was a local state park.  On the weekends, many people would come to the park.  The man and his hot tamale cart would set up at the park and sell to the tourists.  Eventually, the man left town.  Someone moved into his former house.  Under the house, the new resident found a huge assortment of cat and dog bones. 

 

A news report on Mar 2, 1998, noted that there is now a cat shortage in Vietnam which is causing a rat explosion.  The cat shortage has surfaced because the people there have been eating most of them.  The government is encouraging people to switch from cats and snakes to rats. 

 

An exception to this attitude of widely experimenting with food and diet in Asia might exist with the Chrishna sun worshippers, who even today in the Hindu East tend to be ascetics and vegetarians, like some Christian sects.  With the loss of records and writings of ancient times, it is somewhat difficult to determine any details on diet in early Chrishnaism in the West. 

 

However, it does seem evident that the Chrishna worshippers probably tended to be vegetarians--as was their European leader and founder, Apollonius of Tyana (mentioned earlier).  The question of eating plant foods versus meat will be broached in the following chapters.  But for now, the focus will be on meats. 

 

 

Clean and Unclean 

 

Importantly, the Scriptures repeatedly emphasize the classification of meat products for human food (with a life source such as animals, fish, insects, etc) as being clean or unclean--to include an absolute restriction on blood (animals must be properly bled when killed), among other things, as discussed in a prior chapter examining the Acts 15 religious conference in Jerusalem. 

 

Actually, there are a host of Scriptures which deal with food and what food items can be eaten in the vein of clean meats (Gen 7:2; 9:4; Lev 3:17; 7:23-27; 11:1-47; 17:10-14; 20:25; 22:8; Deut 12:16, 23; 14:3-21; I Sam 14:32-36; Acts 15:29, etc.).  As a minimum, clean animals are those that part the hoof and chew the cud.  Clean fish are those that have both fins and scales. 

 

Clean fowls are more complicated; but can be defined as those that have craws or crops and gizzards, have elongated middle front toes and hind toes which spread so that the three are on one side of the perch while the hind one is on the other side, catch food in the air and bring it to the ground to divide before eating (as opposed to those who eat their food in the air), and must not be birds of prey. 

 

While there seems to be restrictions on insects, there are some allowances to eat certain ones that “creep on all fours” --like certain locusts, destroying locusts, crickets, and grasshoppers (Lev 11:20-23).  The problem here is that the insects cited have six legs and not four legs (Aug-Oct 2002 “Hebrew Roots,” p. 4).  One explanation is that they only use four for walking and all six for jumping.  But this theme remains unclear. 

 

Most of these Scriptures are fairly plain and not subject to confusion.  Some Christians try to make a big deal over the restrictions on using contaminated pots and pans (Lev 11:33).  Likely, this reference focuses on pots and pans that cannot be properly cleaned after use (like pottery, in the days of old).  Stainless steel is “possibly” in another category since it can be cleaned. 

 

The point of these Scriptural references is that The ELOHIM wasn’t just filling up space in His Book when He caused those remarks to be recorded. 

 

If it was sin for Adam, Avraham, Moshe, Shmuel, David, Eliyahu and YESHUA to eat unclean meats, then be assured that it’s sin for others to eat them as well.  YHWH is the same forever and He does not change His definition of right and wrong to appeal to ancient or modern peoples. 

 

 

Christian Thinking 

 

So, 2,000 years ago, Christianity came along and adopted the food precedents already established and followed in the Western, sun worship culture.  Christians declared that YHWH’s Torah was done away with and that they could eat anything that they wanted to eat.  And Christians have generally done that precise thing for the last 2,000 years.  They eat almost anything! 

 

In order to support their rebellious desire to eat anything and everything, Christians typically seize upon a couple of New Testament texts which they almost always misunderstand and misapply to themselves and their acts of contempt and rebellion towards the Torah. 

 

The two primary texts are Mark 7:1-15 (with the words of YESHUA on the matter of washing hands before eating) and Acts 10:9-28 (regarding Kefa’s visit to Cornelius).  Both of these references have been discussed at some length in previous chapters herein--but not in the vein of the food and diet issues. 

 

 

Mark 7:1-15 

 

In the first place, the presentation in Mark 7:1-15 concerns the several ritualistic washings and dippings in water of the hands, fingers, pots, cups etc in connection with the process of eating.  These rituals were pushed by the Haverim and/or Shammai Pharisees in the Talmudic teachings that they were trying to impose on the population on a law or commandment level. 

 

Obviously, people can and do eat with dirty hands (from common, ground dirt, which is usually clean and especially if worms and soil bacteria are present and the soil is exposed to sun light) without defiling their food--as YESHUA correctly notes. 

 

However, let us suppose that a medical individual has been working in a morgue and dissecting a dead person who died from AIDS, EBOLA, TB, or hundreds of other terrifying diseases.  Does The MESSIAH’s words about eating suggest or imply that the medical individual can now, all of a sudden, eat without washing his hands? 

 

The same analogy applies if an individual has been handling toxic wastes or perhaps has some very poisonous antifreeze splashed on his hand.  Should this person proceed to eat without washing his hands?  Would not the handling of diseased body tissues or toxic poisons render the hands unclean and demand that they be washed?  Of course, the answer is yes. 

 

Any person above the idiot level would say that the hands must be washed.  No thinking and intelligent person would thereupon try to argue that what goes into the stomach (from dirty hands defiled with diseased body tissues or toxic poisons) will only pass harmlessly from the body as waste products (in the urine or fecal matter). 

 

Plainly, hand washings for sanitation purposes are categorically essential and are surely communicated (at least in principle) in Leviticus (chapters 11, 15 and 17) on the questions of sanitation and quarantines. 

 

Of  course, YESHUA’s whole focus in Mark 7 was only upon the issue of whether a believer had to submit to ritualistic washings, as prescribed in the traditions of the elders (per the Haverim/Shammai Pharisees).  Here, the answer is no! 

 

 

Not Addressed 

 

Mark 7:1-15 categorically does not address the question of the food mitzwot already established in the Torah.  This condition can furthermore be proven by a little logic and common sense.  Certainly, in Mark 7, none of the disciples of YESHUA took the discussion in Mark 7 to mean a setting aside of the clean and unclean meat mitzwot already established in the Torah. 

 

All of the disciples understood that the OT food laws, per se, were not even at issue in YESHUA’s words in Mark 7.  If the disciples thought that the clean and unclean mitzwot were abolished in Mark 7, then there would be no need for the events (on the question of diet) in Acts 10 or 15 even to take place. 

 

For sure, Acts 10 to 15 (as with Acts 10, Acts 15 has been previously discussed in some detail) happened from ten to twenty years after the death of YESHUA.  Obviously, if YESHUA set the clean and unclean meat laws aside in Mark 7, the disciples would have correctly understood what had happened and thereby rendered Acts 10 unnecessary. 

 

Therefore, ten years later Kefa would not be confused over eating meat in Acts 10, nor would Shaul and the Jerusalem leadership have the discussion they did on the eating of blood and so forth in Acts 15.  The very fact that we have these issues arise in Acts 10 and 15 many years later, clearly proves that YESHUA did not abolish the food laws in Mark 7. 

 

 

Acts 10:7-28 

 

In turning to Acts 10:7-28, the context is clear that Kefa certainly had no preconceived ideas or thinking about the setting aside of the clean and unclean meat mitzwot when he was told to eat unclean species.  As the Book reports, Kefa said “no” that he would not eat because he had never eaten any thing unclean earlier in his life. 

 

Thereafter, Kefa never went against his word that he would not eat unclean species.  But he did get the message or the instructions which The RUACH HA KODESH was putting across in the vision.  The issue was not over the propriety of eating unclean foods; but rather, the subject was the matter of Kefa going to the uncircumcised and supposedly unclean Cornelius. 

 

Thus, Kefa got the point of the vision and complied with it.  He manifestly never tried to mix apples and oranges, as Christians try to do when improperly mixing things up when reading texts like this one. 

 

In the reality that this discussion in Acts 10 did take place long after the death of The MESSIAH, it would be impossible to change His testament that was sealed at His death (Heb 9:15-17, as described in a former chapter).  It becomes assuredly ludicrous to try to talk about changes at this late date in the course of events. 

 

Furthermore, since The ELOHIM is immutable and changes not, it would also be totally and completely impossible for any changes to appear any place in His Word--whether in Mark 7, Acts 10 or Acts 15.  It is pure and simple Christian hogwash, rebellion and contempt for the Torah to believe that any thing in the NT changed the mitzwot in the Torah.  It is out of the question. 

 

 

More Christian Theology 

 

In their decision to do away with The ELOHIM’s mitzwot in general and particularly those affecting food and diet, the willingness of Christians to eat almost anything extends to polluted and poisoned foods (to be discussed in later comments herein) which ultimately bring great harm and hurt on the health of persons consuming such items. 

 

Anyway, some Christians like to argue against YHWH’s commandments on clean and unclean meats.  Some have tried to argue that chickens are as dirty as pigs (in eating anything and everything).  In their warped thinking, it must be wrong to eat chickens if it is wrong to eat hogs.  Alternatively, from their perspective, if it is all right to eat chickens, then it must also be all right to eat swine! 

 

In rebellion and contempt toward The ELOHIM, sinning Christians apply their own reasoning and thinking to the subject, as if they have personal knowledge about right and wrong.  But there is a difference.  The difference is that The CREATOR has declared pork eating wrong while He “seems” to allow the consumption of chickens in His Word, as most students of the Word suggest. 

 

Does The CREATOR have more perception about this issue than a little man (an insignificant part of His creation)?  In other words, why is it that the created order insists on trying to argue with The CREATOR and ends up committing sin? 

 

Even the modern medical profession (as sorry as it is, as will be shown in subsequent chapters) recognizes that pork eating can cause human health problems.  Whenever a person gets sick, his or her doctor will often prescribe that no more pork be eaten.  Pork and tobacco products are especially condemned whenever one has a heart attack. 

 

 

Fat  

 

The problem with fat should be obvious to anyone (Lev 3:17).  Poisons seem to accumulate and are stored in fat tissues.  A person eating animal fat is eating a vast quantity of stored poisons.  Significantly, the restriction in Leviticus 3:17 was not repeated or mentioned in Acts 15 for whatever the reason, which does not seem to be stated. 

 

It’s hard to fathom why fat was left out in Acts 15; but “possibly,” there was some limited allowance for the use of clean animal fats for those Israelites removed from Palestine, who did not have access to olives and other warm climate vegetable oils which could be used to grease skillets to make bread. 

 

Today, almost all Israelites have ready access to vegetable oils in their culture.  There is manifestly no reason to have or use the fats from clean animals.  However, historically, in past ages when Israelites were in land areas where there was no olive trees and where technology was not available to press oils from various vegetable products, people could have had a problem in making bread, as just noted.  

 

It is said that some of the early Seventh Day Baptists in West Virginia used beef tallow to grease their skillets since they were totally opposed to pork, as was commonly used in early America.  Of course, it would have been virtually impossible to find olive oil in most of early Canada or America. 

 

Still the fat prohibition is in the Torah and seems to deserve obedience by the faithful and particularly in the context that vegetable oils are readily available commercially.  There is absolutely no problem in finding and using vegetable oils today.  So the question need not come up for believers today in our time. 

 

Moreover, vegetable oils do not break down and become rancid as fast as animal fats.  Because of this factor alone, most bakers prefer to use vegetable oils.  The faithful should always check labels for ingredients when buying products from sun worship stores.  Such a check only takes seconds, and it is imperative that the believer walk the extra mile in an effort to obey and please The MOST HIGH. 

 

It is no problem to find vegetable oils in products and rarely do producers use animal fats.  Consequently, only products made with vegetable oils should be bought and used.  This practice is not hard to follow. 

 

Since olives and olive oils are Scriptural products, they should always be preferred (extra virgin olive oil is the best since it is more natural and less subject to man’s processing).  Above all else, pork fat or lard is totally out in the Word and should never be consumed by followers of YHWH.   

 

 

Blood 

 

For many obvious reasons, blood is assuredly condemned in both the OT and the NT (Lev 3:17; Acts 15:20, 29).  Blood is bad because life is in the blood and because blood carries waste poisons which will either be disposed of or stored in fat.  Blood streams also carry disease bacteria and viruses to further prohibit blood consumption. 

 

Modern meat packers are interested in one thing and one thing only--profits!  In this context, their products are sold by weight.  So the more pounds that they can put into a side of beef means the more income to them.  Accordingly, meat packers seem to go out of their way to be sure that their meat is oozing with blood, as it is sold to stores and wholesalers. 

 

The Scriptures demand that “clean” animals be properly bled when slaughtered for Adamic consumption.  That’s one of the reasons that strangled animals were out for food in the Acts 15 conference, discussed previously herein. 

 

But as just noted above, modern meat packers could care less about what the Word says--because profit is the name of their game.  So they make little or no effort to properly bleed animals. 

 

The result of this common commercial practice to make money means that even so-called “clean” meats often have an excessive amount of blood still present.  This blood is so diffused throughout the meat (since the animal was not properly bled) that it is extremely difficult to get the blood out. 

 

Sometimes, it takes several washings in clean water and a good soaking over night in more clean water to even begin to get the blood out.  But there is a problem here because too much washing and water will cause the meat to lose much of its taste and nutritional value. 

 

Regardless, this extensive washing costs money and it is something that businesses are just not going to do.  Most canneries, stores and restaurants making chili, soup or stew take few if any steps to wash the blood out before putting the meat into their products.  Again, money is the name of the game and the added weight from the blood helps in this regard. 

 

Since the Christian, sun worship public could care less about the presence of blood in their food, the producers have no incentive to try to clean up their act.  They literally get away with selling blood in their food items and Christian sun worshippers accept it and never bat an eye. 

 

Because canneries and food producers are so careless, indifferent and irresponsible about selling blood, this writer has long ago abandoned any desire to eat their products. 

 

If a believer must eat clean meats, by all means buy “kosher” meats, as certified by Jewish Rabbinic authorities.  But there is still more to this problem of eating (clean) meats in the current sun worship culture, as will be shown in the next chapters. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 251--Sun Worship and Diet II

 

 

Poisoned Meats 

 

While the Word defines certain meats as being clean and proper for human consumption, as opposed to unclean meats not proper for eating (as described in the prior chapter), that is only the beginning of the problem in terms of eating meat in today’s world.  True, one should eat clean meats.  But even the Scripturally clean meats may be “unclean” and thus questionable to eat at present.  Why? 

 

Well, all of a sudden, the people raising of what should be clean livestock for eating (cattle, sheep, goats, chickens, etc) have begun injecting (or feeding) them growth hormones (like DES, to be later discussed), antibiotics (24.6 million pounds per year, per Tom Valentine, in the Feb 26, 2001, “Spotlight,” p. B-1), drugs for various purposes (even as they walk into the packing plants); and in recent years, foods grown with pesticides and poisons, plus changing their diets from historically proper animal foods to unbelievable things to save money. 

 

For example, modern animal producers are feeding animals the remains of other dead animals (like cats, dogs and others found along the roads or wherever they can be obtained--dead remains that used to go to soap factories), manure and waste products from various other animals (like chicken manure to cattle), newspapers (with lead poisoned printing/ink), cardboard, sawdust and on and on (usually mixed with some traditional grains and hay). 

 

Most cities and towns across America have dog pounds which collect stray cats and dogs--many of which are diseased, sick, injured and/or dying.  These pounds generally make every effort to place all picked up animals in a new home.  But that option is not always possible and unwanted dogs and pets have been a problem--that is before the new feeding methods came along. 

 

The last several years have seen dog pounds across Europe and America turn their unwanted animals over to animal food processors to kill, cut up and process into feed for cattle (or for dog and cat food).  The cattle producers don’t seem to have any problem at all over feeding dead dogs and cats (even those that were sick or diseased, to include their blood) to cattle, awaiting butchering for human consumption. 

 

 

NBC News 

 

NBC’s nightly news with Tom Brokaw had a special on this tragedy on August 22, 1997.  As the NBC report suggested, alfalfa for cattle costs a lot of money in the present society.  Conversely, chicken manure (often from the diarrhea of sick birds) and waste products of dead animals and birds can be bought for pennies on the dollar, in comparison with using alfalfa and historic grains to feed animals. 

 

Money is the name of the game and most of these cattlemen don’t eat the cows they raise and sell to the public slaughter houses. 

 

Since most producers could care less what they feed to animals going to the packing plants (providing that they are not killed by the poisons before they reach the packing plants) and since the public willingly buys the finished products (steaks, hamburger or whatever), everybody seems happy with the status quo. 

 

One cattle feedlot operator on the NBC report said that he didn’t see any difference between the cattle raised by the old grain and hay feeding methods, as opposed to the modern approach of feeding them manure and waste products.  He expressed his (unlearned) opinion that the meat was the same in both cases. 

 

The only difference between the two feeding methods that this man could see was the costs of production.  Manure and ground up dead animals are a lot cheaper than alfalfa.  A news report on Feb 1, 1998, said that 14% of the feed for American cattle is now the remains of other dead animals.  On this theme, it has a clear linkage to the Scriptures (which suggest that it is sin to sell and eat such defiled meat). 

 

This whole situation resembles one mentioned in the media years ago.  It seems that a vegetable producer in Southern California was using an excessive amount of deadly pesticide poisons on his crops.  A colleague expressed concern to him over it.  He replied that there was no problem over the produce since it was being shipped to New York. 

 

 

Clean and Unclean Meats, Revisited 

 

The earlier outline in the preceding chapter on clean and unclean animals discussed YHWH’s laws on which meats are suitable for human consumption. 

 

A study of those animals communicates that meat eating animal species are generally unclean, while clean animals are those that can be classified as vegetarians (like cattle, sheep, goats, deer, etc, which by nature naturally eat vegetation), with horses being a clear exception since their hoofs are not divided. 

 

In “God’s Key to Health and Happiness,” Elmer A. Josephson noted that unclean animals were created to be scavengers to clean up anything left dead in the fields.  As a rule, they are meat eaters prepared to eat and clean up the worst of filth--the remains of dead animals which have bloated and broken open, and are filled with maggots and putrefaction.  Scavengers eat this filth to keep the disease germs from spreading. 

 

Meat eating scavengers like hogs, buzzards, hawks, dogs, cats, catfish, etc are always unclean.  Hogs, for example, are so unclean, that as scavengers, they can eat the most dirty, vile, dead remains and poisons that would kill most other forms of life. Allegedly, their system can even consume strychnine without bad side effects.  Ducks are also unclean because they are web-footed walking disease banks. 

 

Chickens are in a questionable status here since the Scriptures are not so clear on them, though most students of the Word believe that they are clean (as noted earlier) because of their gizzards and digestive systems.  While chickens naturally may tend to eat various items (like insects), they have clearly been designed to be fed grains, mash and other vegetarian foods. 

 

Obviously, cattle were designed, created and meant to eat vegetation products and not meat.  The modern aberration of grinding up cannibalistic remains of dead animals and feeding them to vegetarian animals, as a part of their diet (by force, since the animals have no choice in what man feeds them in the penned up feedlots), is totally unscriptural and contrary to nature. 

 

 

Cow Diseases 

 

By the way, cattle producers in Britain started feeding dead animals to their cattle some years ago--including even the dead remains of sick and diseased cows.  In time, Britain came to have an outbreak of Mad Cow decease which many observers said could be traced to the feeding of dead, diseased and sick animals to other animals that were destined for human consumption. 

 

A reader’s letter in the Mar 1998 “Prophecy Flash” (p. 83) outlines the origin of the Mad Cow disease phenomenon now on the world scene.  The letter said the disease first began in Britain because of sheep, some of which had a disease called “Scrapey.”  The Scrapey disease was not transferable to humans. 

 

But when sheep leftover byproducts (feces matter and the remains of dead or slaughtered sheep) were processed into regular cow feed, the malefactor (or malefactress) proteins were sometimes able to mutate into a new form of protein which is malignantly able to cause the “Crazy Cow” disease. 

 

The disease is worse than AIDS.  It cannot be cured or arrested.  It represents a sure death.  Present research indicates that no way has been so far found to kill or obviate the new mutant protein.  As soon as it comes into contact with another protein molecule, it causes the captive protein to mutate also, in a doubling or compounding process.  It is a life quenching process (a curse). 

 

In America, a related or similar disease is apparently called “downer cow syndrome” (per Dr Brander C. Kitchin’s article on the Internet), although the US national leaders try to hide and cover-up from the public the connection of the disease to Britain’s Mad Cow disease (Jun-Jul 1998 “Prophecy Flash,” p. 43).  Reportedly, some 300,000 to one million US cattle die annually from the downer cow syndrome. 

 

While authorities did not believe that Mad Cow disease, per se, had spread to North America, bad news surfaced in early 2003 in Canada when the Mad Cow disease was found in Alberta, Canada (May 21, 2003, Spokane “Spokesman-Review,” p. A1).  So, in the vein of Mad Cow or downer cow syndrome, North America does have the problem. 

 

 

Mad Cow Spreads 

 

In the year 2000, the Mad Cow disease spread into large areas of Europe--especially in France, Spain, Italy and Germany because those nations irresponsibly also allowed cattle producers to turn their animals into meat eating cannibals.  After all, profit is the name of the game in Europe in the same way that it is in Britain and the US. 

 

Some of the countries in Eastern Europe responded by establishing embargoes on meat from Western Europe.  France passed a law to discontinue the practice of feeding animal remains to their cattle in an effort to try to stop the epidemic from spreading.  Soon the European Union proper took a similar action and even went further to order the slaughter of older animals which could have been exposed. 

 

It appears that the massive slaughter of animals seems to be the reaction of the various governments to the threat of the Mad Cow disease.  The Dec 31, 2001, “American Free Press” (p. B1, B9) had a report from the Acres staff on “How Bad is ‘Mad Cow.’”  Per this story, the US government already has plans for the slaughter of livestock as being the solution if the disease breaks out here in force in 2002 or later. 

 

Though not mentioned in the report, there are at least three features of this typical government reaction.  First, of course, the diet being fed the cattle will never receive any attention at all.  Instead, the solution will be one of reaction by the massive slaughtering of cattle at large. 

 

Next, there will be a huge benefit or fall out of this process to the big cattle producers.  This effort will wipe out a lot of production from small producers.  Only the more richer, larger and stronger producers will remain in business (yes, the eliminating of competition serves to benefit the big time producers). 

 

Last, this whole motion could be one more step in the move to world government and the complete control of a dwindling supply of food.  This reality will be discussed in later chapters herein. 

 

Suffice to say, the massive slaughter of cattle will greatly curtail beef supplies.  In turn, this will further enhance the role of government in the overall control of food (as is envisioned in the coming New World Order, to be described in some detail in subsequent chapters). 

 

In early 2001, the Mad Cow disease was reportedly in Brazil (which is a big cattle producing nation).  Many other countries (including the US) followed the precedent set in Europe by declaring that they will no longer buy beef from Brazil.  In March 2001, animals with the disease have allegedly been found in Vermont and in Minnesota.  At least, two Americans died with an illness which could link to the Mad Cow disease. 

 

US health authorities announced in January 2001 that they would not accept blood from donors who had been in Europe in the past several years.  They will surely soon follow suit on people visiting Brazil since the disease is now there.  Thus, what a tragedy it is that man’s whole focus is upon greed, get, gain and profits.  Why can’t men concentrate instead upon truth and righteousness, rather than on making profits? 

 

 

Hoof and Mouth 

 

Beyond the absolute explosion of Mad Cow disease all over Britain and Europe, news reports of Feb 23, 2001, said that Britain is now experiencing a wild outbreak of Hoof and Mouth (or foot and mouth) disease which may finish off the cattle industry in Britain.  Even Britain’s pigs and sheep are suffering a disaster as well. 

 

In March 2001, Hoof and Mouth spread to Argentina, France and Holland and may soon cover much of Europe and South America.  Millions of animals are being slaughtered in an effort to head off the disease, but it was still spreading rapidly in Aviv of 2001.  Soon, it logically should be in America. 

 

Apparently, this 2001 outbreak of Hoof and Mouth disease commenced in Britain from livestock brought there from Asia (when will man learn to quit moving life forms around?)--or alternatively, from an act of internal terrorism (to be later discussed). 

 

This disease is deadly serious and it spreads rapidly through the air.  Although not mentioned in news reports, one has to wonder if the rapid spread of the disease in Britain is some way related to the diet and state of health of British animals. 

 

 

More on the US Situation 

 

Otherwise, the US Department of Agriculture, the US Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration (which would oversee this issue) have maintained that these cattle diseases have not reached the continental United States. 

 

Despite these assurances, some observers feel that Mad Cow disease is already here in March 2001 (like in Minnesota and Vermont, as noted above, and possibly in the presence of downer cow syndrome, as cited in the preceding comments). 

 

Investigative reporter Linda Howe (cited elsewhere herein) was on the “Dreamland” radio program on Feb 4, 2001, with Whitley Strieber.  She had a report on the possible surfacing of something similar to Mad Cow disease with elk and deer in the Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska areas. 

 

This wild animal disease is slightly different from the Mad Cow disease of Europe.  But it seems to have some similarities in definition and in effects.  With these animals, it is called a “chronic wasting disease” which also seems to describe the European Mad Cow version. 

 

No one seems to understand what could be causing deer and elk to come down with this disease.  Although nothing was settled in Linda’s presentation on the subject, she did open the door to the possibility that it could be passed on to wild animals when they feed upon the cannibalistic diets being fed to US cattle. 

 

 

More on the Wildlife Problem 

 

The managers of one Colorado state agricultural farm station said that they were feeding their animals a grain based diet which should not present a problem to deer and elk.  While it might be true that this one agency might have been using decent grains for their animals, there must have been thousands of other ranchers and farmers who were feeding the cannibalistic remains of dead animals to their cattle. 

 

Once this food is placed out in the wilds for cattle to eat (and especially in the winter when snow covers the ground and grass is hard to come by), it is routine and normal that deer and elk will come into areas with cattle and feed upon the hay, etc, as provided to the cattle. 

 

The Jan-Apr 2002 “Hebrew Roots” (p. 36) had a news report on “Mad Deer” which indicated that the deer and elk version of Mad Cow (the “chronic wasting disease” as noted above) had jumped from Colorado to Wisconsin. 

 

Per the story, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources recently conducted a ten county winter deer hunt to kill some deer which could be tested for the disease.  Some ten deer in this recent hunt have been found testing positive.  Three others were discovered earlier--making a total of thirteen. 

 

While officials suggest that the disease is probably spread by the animals in contacts in the wild, the “Hebrew Roots” editor asked if the animals may have picked it up from food being fed dairy cattle?  If so, does this possibility raise questions about the safety of milk and other dairy products? 

 

The Jun 14, 2002, “The Week” (p. 20) had a report indicating that the chronic wasting disease (Mad Cow or Mad Deer) is reaching epidemic proportions in wildlife (deer and elk) in eight states (CO, WY, MT, SD, WI, NE, KS and OK) and two provinces in Canada.  Five people have died with a brain wasting disease called Creutzfeldt-Jacob which could be related. 

 

Neurobiologist Stanley Prusiner of the University of California says that “We don’t understand the transmission, we don’t understand the origin... We don’t understand anything” (ibid, p. 20). 

 

 

The Feed Problem Generally 

 

This writer sees wild animals feeding on hay and grain put out for cattle often here in the Pacific Northwest and especially in the winter when deer and elk really have to scrounge for food with the heavy snows that blanket the ground. 

 

If there is a further outbreak of this disease in the US West, it makes perfect sense that it is being passed to deer and elk when they come to cattle areas and feed upon the food provided by the ranchers/dairy owners for the cows.  If it is being passed to wild life, it won’t be long and US cattle will soon be killing people.  Will anyone stop and ask why this is happening?  Or will the status quo continue? 

 

 

Still More on the US Situation 

 

There seems to be several other aspects about the Mad Cow disease which has only surfaced in early 2001.  Just as a very similar and related disease may be striking deer, elk and wild animals, there is also some possibility of other strange variations and cognates of Mad Cow disease affecting other traditional domestic animals used for food. 

 

On the Coast to Coast AM radio program on Feb 6, 2001, Art Bell mentioned some comments from Dr Laurane Day of San Francisco.  Dr Day is one of the American physicians who has been extremely familiar with the AIDS crisis and the government efforts to bungle it and not address it properly. 

 

She told Bell that the Mad Cow disease is now in the US and that it affects more than just cattle.  Per Dr Day, a similar variation can occur with pigs, chickens, sheep and so forth.  Perhaps the cannibalistic remains of dead animals do not react the same in all animals.  Maybe, the remains of dead sheep being fed cattle kicked the disease off in Britain.  But it seems to have went beyond that state. 

 

Evidently, per the words of Dr Day and the Linda Howe report on deer and elk in the West, the evidence seems to be that the dead remains of different animals may react differently in various animals.  Also, it seems clear that different species of animals themselves have a propensity to produce a slight variation of the disease. 

 

Therefore, maybe the basic problem is called Mad Cow disease in terms of cattle (or “downer cow syndrome,” as mentioned in the above comments).  But with deer, sheep, elk and other animals, the disease pops up in a slightly different form and context. 

 

Dr Day mentioned one other aspect about this disease which could have far reaching repercussions.  She noted that many food supplements have bovine or other animal products in them.  Also, many gelatin products are animal based--to include the gelatin capsules used by drug stores and pharmaceutical houses to provide the containers for small doses of drugs, vitamins, herbs and so forth. 

 

While some of these capsules are vegetarian based, many are derived from animals--especially pigs.  The question comes up--can this Mad Cow or related disease be spread in any of these gelatin products derived from animals?  Clearly, there can be a number of ways for this disease to spread in America, once it gets started. 

 

 

Oprah Winfrey 

 

The American public is absolutely goo goo eyed over television talk show host Oprah Winfrey (as they are over most big shot Black entertainers and sports figures).  In 1997, Oprah made the mistake of mentioning the Mad Cow disease problem in Britain and the allegations of a link between it and the diet that cattle are fed. 

 

Immediately, the US cattle industry sued Oprah for liable.  She was tried in Texas.  Now, Oprah is one of the richest entertainers in America.  She had the best of lawyers.  Being Black, she personally had the most favorable media news coverage and plenty of it for her trial in Amarillo in early 1998.  Yet, the media rarely gave any of the details on what the suit was all about. 

 

In other words, the nightly news showed pictures of Oprah and mentioned her trial, but never bothered to explain that the real issue focused on the cannibalistic diet fed to animals.  For her benefit, she won in court.  But most people watching the controlled media never had the foggiest clue on what the real reason was that prompted the litigation.  

 

 

More Health Fallouts 

 

The fall of 1997 saw all kinds of reports surfacing about contaminated meat products in the US.  In one instance, a packing plant in Nebraska had to recall something like 25 million pounds of beef that had been shipped to stores and restaurants (including Burger King).  Apparently, there was concern that some or all of this beef had E Coli bacteria contamination. 

 

On Apr 29, 1998, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said that they had just issued another recall order for 282,000 pounds of beef because of E Coli bacteria contamination.  The USDA noted that the public should cook beef thoroughly to 160 degrees to be sure that all bacteria is killed. 

 

Another recall of 172,000 pounds of beef was issued on June 30, 1998, because of believed E Coli bacteria contamination.  On Nov 4, 1998, two recall orders were issued on the same day.  Some 550,000 pounds of beef was recalled for an alleged E Coli bacteria presence and around 1.5 million pounds of hot dogs, bologna and other meats were recalled by Winn-Dixie stores for suspected bacteria. 

 

From 1998 and on forward, meat recalls continued to spiral upward across America and real reports or allegations of E Coli contamination continued to surface.  On December 4, 2000, a meat packing plant in St Paul, Minnesota had to recall one million pounds of hamburger because of E Coli contamination which caused a disease outbreak in the Mid West. 

 

On April 23, 2001, a packing plant in Canada (the IBP plant) had to recall some 2.4 million pounds of hamburger because of alleged E Coli bacteria contamination.  On May 6, 2001, Impact Foods of Milwaukee, WI recalled almost one-half million pounds of hamburger for reported E Coli contamination. 

 

The week of July 22, 2002, saw the Con-Agra Foods of Greeley, Colorado recall 18.6 million pounds of hamburger meat because of E Coli bacteria contamination (Aug 2, 2002, “The Week,” p. 5).  This recall was the second largest to date in US history.  The problem is becoming so common place and routine that almost no one in public pays any attention to it. 

 

As late as Oct 9, 2002, Wampler Foods of Philadelphia issued a recall of 295 thousand pounds of cooked deli products possibly contaminated with listeria.  And on Oct 14, 2002, the company followed up with a recall of 27.4 million pounds of the same type of products (Oct 14, 2002, Spokane “Spokesman-Review,” p. A2).  The interesting thing about these recalls was that they concerned so-called “cooked” meats. 

 

Too, while there is some media notoriety on the recalls, it is clear that some significant portion of contaminated meat is not discovered and recalled.  In other words, for every recall order, there are other instances of meat problems which do not face publicity and recall actions. 

 

Thus, it seems that the meat packers are having to face periodic and constant recall orders because of the dangers of contamination--principally, in hamburger products.  Historically, in American culture, such dangers were unheard of.  Now, they are routine and commonplace. 

 

Obviously, something is profoundly wrong with what should be clean meat.  It should not take too many brains to figure out that the once clean meats are typically no longer clean meats in today’s modern world (hence, it is sin to produce, sell and eat them).  Yet, almost no one in power seems able to put two and two together and understand why (the reason is that profits are involved and no one can question the money factor). 

 

 

More Gross Problems 

 

The E Coli bacteria problem has even entered incredibly new dimensions--per a news report in early September 1999 from upstate New York.  Per the story, some 600 people become infected with E Coli bacteria from drinking some water at a county fair in Greenwich, NY.  At least two died and many more were on the critical list.   

 

The water came from an underground well source which had become contaminated with the bacteria, merely from run off from the fair’s cattle barn (Sep 20, 1999, “US News & World Report,” p. 56).  A few days later, on Sep 15, 1999, another E Coli bacteria problem erupted when 313 people became infected in Petersburg, Illinois, while they were attending a cornstalk festival in a cow pasture. 

 

Another concern over E Coli was outlined in the May 4, 2001, “The Week” (p. 19) which noted that people can pick up the infection by simply petting animals at zoos or farms.  Children are notorious for petting animals and then eating food without washing their hands.  Petting animals can lead to a contagion of E Coli.  It now seems dangerous to have any contact with animals. 

 

The latest E Coli outbreak was reported by National Public Radio on July 30, 2002, when several US beaches had to be closed to swimmers that summer because of E Coli bacteria.  This NPR report focused upon the closure of the beaches at Lake Michigan.  Authorities said that they did not know what was causing the contamination. 

 

 

Historically 

 

This writer once lived on a farm and believe me there should be no problem at all of getting sick from the feces of cattle.  But there is today--because something is wrong with the cattle! 

 

In the old days, many American farm families used to use hot cow manure as a poultice to be placed on the chest of a person sick with pneumonia or a bad cold which was in the lungs.  On the American plains, people burned dried buffalo dung for fuel.  Cow manure was also burned for heat in some areas.  Even YHWH allowed Yechezkel to burn cow dung for baking his bread (Ezek 4:15). 

 

For ages, it used to be said that a raw beef steak was good to bring healing to cuts and bruises.  When children (or adults for that matter) had a fist fight in the old days, which resulted in some bruises to the face or a black eye, a raw beef steak was supposed to be the perfect poultice to bring healing.  Today, the public is warned about even handling raw meat and told to wash their hands afterward. 

 

The purpose in mentioning cow dung and raw beef steaks is not to endorse either or both of them as being good for healing, in the context noted.  Instead, it is to show the incredible change that has occurred in cattle over the years.  Historically, there never was seemingly a former time when people had to flee cow dung and raw beef steaks for fear of becoming sick to even be in their presence. 

 

Something is now fundamentally wrong and no one (in authority or in the media) appears to even be aware of it or care about it.  Will the national leaders and people ever put two and two together and understand that profits and money are not the most important things in life? 

 

 

Still More Problems 

 

Beyond all the other problems, some persons believe that modern meat products also contribute to Alzheimer’s disease.  John T. Hale, in the fall 1997 issue of “The Omega Times” (p. 10), alleges that 80% of all of America’s beef and dairy cattle have “bovine leukemia cancer virus and 50% have bovine immunodeficiency AIDS virus and an unknown percentage have Mad Cow disease.” 

 

He suggests that all this stuff is transmissible to humans in infected milk and beef products.  Hale’s insight is so provocative that it is enough to scare the day lights out of people trying to live and subsist in this present contemporary sun worship society. 

 

 

Yes, Dairy Cattle 

 

While the preceding comments have primarily focused upon meat products from cattle, one should not lose sight of the same type of implications that can be found in the dairy industry (as just briefly alluded to above, in observations by John T. Hale and the previous Jan-Apr 2002 “Hebrew Roots” article). 

 

Thus, many dairy cattle are being fed the same cannibalistic diets--plus new kinds of female hormones to make cows give more milk. 

 

Apparently, almost all dairy products now sold in stores (milk, cheese, yogurt, ice cream, butter, etc) can pose potential health problems.  It would appear that butter fat could be especially dangerous since poisons would tend to accumulate in butter fat more quickly than in most other dairy products. 

 

There may not be a solution in this regard.  But if someone must eat dairy foods, perhaps fat free items might be preferred.  However, some better alternative sources are available--like soy milk (although modern soy beans can have problems--as will be addressed later on genetically engineered foods). 

 

Also, goat’s milk is great if a person can find a local source where some confidence can be had in the diet being fed the goats.  Goat’s milk is naturally homogenized and can be fed infants and others who cannot handle cow’s milk. 

 

 

Pigs Too 

 

While this discussion has focused primarily on beef, it goes without saying that if greedy animal factories are feeding cannibalistic products to cows (chickens are also fed similar diets), you can imagine what all they are feeding to hogs. 

 

Hogs were made by The CREATOR to be scavengers with a diet of almost anything to include garbage and dead animals.  Obviously, producers are feeding the same diet or something far worse to pigs.  Perhaps this sickening diet does not adversely affect pigs as much as it does cattle.  After all, pigs were designed and created to handle such filth. 

 

 

More on Poultry Problems 

 

Moreover, Salmonella bacteria is now a growing problem in poultry being currently produced by the new methods.  Constantly, the public is being told about Salmonella which was largely unheard of in historic times. 

 

As late as October 10, 1998, the USDA announced a recall of two million pounds of poultry products that were in the hands of schools, hospitals and other institutions.  The problem was Salmonella bacteria.  And as always, the establishment leaders were at a loss on what could be the cause. 

 

A news report in the June-July 1998 “Search the Scriptures” (p. 10) noted that a new drug-resistant Salmonella bacteria is increasing dramatically.  Researchers said that the continued practice of feeding antibiotics to livestock is exacerbating the problem.  Salmonella poisoning now affects four million Americans annually and 500 die from it each year. 

 

 

Tom Valentine, Revisited 

 

Tom Valentine, previously quoted, addressed the drug problem in animals in a story on “The Drugging of America’s Food” in the Feb 26, 2001, “Spotlight” (p. B-3).  Valentine says that the massive quantities of drugs and antibiotics being fed animals is beginning to have a fall-out on people who later eat those animals. 

 

Specifically, he noted the situation with “Escheria coli,” a common organism in the human gut that is not normally pathogenic to so-called human beings.  The poultry industry uses a drug called Baytril to supposedly control this bacteria in chickens.  Now, per Valentine, this bacteria has mutated to form a resistant strain which can be deadly to humans/humanoids, eating the poultry. 

 

In treating a flock of chickens for E-Coli bacteria, the drugs used may cure the E-Coli, but the fall-out is that they cause another kind of bacteria to surface--campylobacter (which builds up a resistance to the drugs being used).  This means that people eating the chickens later run a risk of contacting fluroquinolone-resistant campylobacter. Campylobacter is the most common bacterial cause of diarrhea in the US today. 

 

The Jan 6 & 13, 2003, “American Free Press” (p. 2) had a report that almost half of the chickens being sold in supermarkets contain bacteria and much of it is drug resistant.  The bacterium Campylobacter was found in 42% of chickens and Salmonella in 12%. 

 

Surely, someone with brains would come along and put two and two together and understand the source of the problem with these drugs, but not so.  After all, Americans (like their old, sun worship ancestors) eat almost anything, including dirty pigs and dirty ducks. 

 

 

More on the Drug Problem in Meat, Milk and Eggs

 

Previous comments mentioned the growing dilemma over both milk and meat products because of the extensive use of antibiotics, various drugs and hormones to make either more meat on animals or make animals produce more milk, eggs and so forth.  Actually, there are a host of drugs and chemicals in use--like the previously mentioned female hormones, DES, pesticides, poisons and on and on. 

 

A story on “Organic foods offer peace of mind--at a price” by Mary Brophy Marcus in the Jan 15, 2001, “US News & World Report” (USNWR, p. 48-50) assessed the problem and outlined some of the present concerns. 

 

Marcus pointed out that there is now some speculation that some of the growth hormones used on cattle, goats, chickens, etc show evidence of some dangerous trends--like the increasingly early onset of puberty by children (especially girls--some of whom are showing signs of breast development and pubic hair as early as age eight). 

 

This writer is aware of this growing trend and also the fact that many young boys seem to be developing breasts that protrude from their bodies.  This process may excite and please the demented faggot population.  But it should be a point of serious concern to parents (it should be, but it does not seem to be of much concern in the real world). 

 

USNWR went on to suggest that the heavy doses of antibiotics given animals appear to represent an even clearer threat to human health because they seem to spawn antibiotic resistant bacteria that may spread from animals to humans. 

 

Ms Marcus quoted a report from the April 2000 “New England Journal of Medicine,” which said that antibiotic-resistant microbes in livestock can be linked to Salmonella in a young farm boy, whose infection resisted 13 powerful drugs (as allowed earlier, in the discussion on drugs used in the poultry industry). 

 

The point of this USNWR story is that man may be stupidly releasing or creating all kinds of new problems with the increasing use of chemicals, drugs and poisons in the production of animals for meat, milk and eggs.  A very dangerous trend or motion can be underway which may offer enormous problems down the road. 

 

 

The Russian Fall-out 

 

The growing US use of antibiotics, drugs and chemicals in the production of animal based foods is now causing concern even in Russia, as a news report in the March 8, 2002, “The Week” (p. 7) outlined. 

 

The problem arises because the Russians love chickens for food.  They are big chicken consumers and particularly chicken legs, which they seem to especially cherish.  Since the United States is a big chicken producing country (which makes massive exports worldwide), it was only natural that Russia would become a big buyer of US chickens. 

 

However, the Russians have not been moved to continue to be utterly stupid and indifferent about what is happening to the US food supply.  Maybe Americans are lost in a daze over the incredible excessive use of chemical poisons, hormones, antibiotics, etc in the production of animals, but the Russians have not been--or at least, they finally have awoken in early 2002 to the threat. 

 

Anyway, the Russians have become so concerned that they have threatened to stop all imports of American chickens unless the US tells it what kind of chemicals are being used on the chickens.  Of course, a revelation of this magnitude would cause a strong reaction from the US chicken industry.  These people are simply in no mood to allow consumers to know the truth about the poisons being used. 

 

Since this chicken business was promoted to Russia by the former President George H. W. Bush, the Russians now call the drumsticks-- “Bush legs.” 

 

 

The Historic Farms 

 

Years ago, this writer lived on a farm (as briefly allowed above) where the chickens were on the ground.  Beyond what the chickens ate on the ground, they were fed a diet of traditional grains and mash. 

 

Eggs from chickens on the ground are a world apart from eggs from the egg factories where the hens are cooped up all of the time, and where they are fed a fixed diet of some of the mentioned poisons--coupled with drugs and antibiotics to keep them from molting (as is naturally required), and alive long enough to make them profitable. 

 

Chickens on the ground produce egg yolks that are firm and really a beautiful, tasty orange.  Eating those eggs is a wonderful experience.  Compare eggs from chickens on the ground with the modern, store-bought, pale ones from egg factories.  Not only do they look different, but the taste difference is quite obvious. 

 

It used to be true that people could eat eggs cooked sunny side up, over easy, etc.  Indeed, some persons could and would even eat raw eggs and particularly so in cocktails.  But this condition has changed dramatically.  Modern Americans have been warned by the public health people to cook eggs thoroughly and hard.  The reason for why is that the eggs today are contaminated and will cause disease and illness. 

 

Even chickens eaten after being on the ground, versus those from poultry houses, taste differently.  The ones off the ground taste really good (like organic vegetables taste, as opposed to those grown on poisoned fields).  There is a distinctive difference! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 252--Sun Worship and Diet III

 

 

The Need for Space 

 

The CREATOR made animals in a way that they need space and sufficient land area to transit about and roam.  In nature, it’s always that way.  Yet, modern man pens these animals up; so that in many cases, they are cramped together, almost side by side, with no opportunity to move about and while wading in their own fecal and urine wastes. 

 

They are forced fed a hostile diet, as noted in preceding chapters, and pumped full of antibiotics and drugs to keep them alive long enough to be slaughtered for meat.  The many of them that die are ground up and fed to the survivors so that nothing is lost to the producers (often large, multi-national corporations which have no conscience or concern for right or wrong). 

 

Greed, get, acquire and profits are the names of the game in the historic sun worship society.  It was that way 3,000 years ago and it’s still that way today in the Christian, sun worship culture.  However, something is fundamentally wrong with this pen up of animals and the diet that they are fed.  This should be obvious to anyone! 

 

Many people who have lived on a farm in the old days (pre WWII--before the new animal factories took over) know and understand that something is now wrong with even the smell which used to be tolerable on American farms.  Farm animals and their waste products have not historically stunk, as they do today in the animal factories. 

 

The stench of modern, penned-up animals is almost unbearable.  Physically pass by any of these animal factories and the stench can make a person sick.  Their fecal matter is totally different from the way it was on the traditional American farms.  Why?  The answer is obviously due to their penned up conditions, coupled with the drugs and cannibalistic food which they are fed. 

 

Healthy animals are like healthy people.  Their fecal matter generally does not stink and it comes out of them in a solid, firm, semi-soft condition.  But animals in animal factories are usually sick (although kept alive by drugs).  Many of them have diarrhea and their fecal waste comes out as a watery squirt.  It stinks beyond description. 

 

Not only are these manure and waste products diseased, stinking and sickening, but under the new feeding methods in use today, the animal factories merely turn this stuff around and process it into feed (usually with sawdust) for other surviving animals that have not yet died or been slaughtered (often, meat packers quickly butcher sick cattle before they have a chance to die.  It is no wonder that the US has problems). 

 

 

Art Bell

 

Art Bell, on the Coast to Coast AM radio program for May 14, 2001, read some recent news reports, some of which are quite alarming.  Bell noted the situation with foot and mouth disease and its spreading around the globe.  He reported that there is now some concern that it is being spread by biological terrorists.  If so, this issue could add a whole new dimension to the problem. 

 

In his news summary, Bell also related another most shocking and potentially terrifying thing now happening in America--or at least, in Kentucky.  Just recently (during the month of Ziw 2001), mare horses in Central Kentucky have aborted fetuses, birthed dead foals or produced sick foals which soon died after birthing. 

 

On May 23, 2001, Art Bell’s Coast to Coast program had a follow-up report by Linda Howe on the situation in Kentucky.  The count of aborted horses or dead or dying foals had reached 532, as of that day.  Linda’s report included interviews with various authorities in Kentucky.  They have suspected diet in some way is causing the problem, but they have been unable to precisely establish what it is. 

 

One horse nutritionist suggested that only a very few of the aborted fetuses have been reported.  He put this reported figure at 10%, which would mean that the total number of deaths have been more in the range of 5300.  Many of these lost colts were expensive race horses which supposedly received the best of care and diet. 

 

The disease is called the “Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome.”  Kentucky veterinarians suggest that one in five mares will lose her foal next year (May 28, 2001, “US News & World Report,” p. 42). 

 

Some agricultural scientists first speculated that there must be some strange fungus in the grass this spring in Kentucky which was killing the horses.  However, this theory proved wrong.  So an explanation behind the crisis remains a question mark.  But the point of the story is that something is wrong--at least, in Kentucky, and in the environment where those horses lived.  What is it?  Who knows? 

 

 

The Health Problem From China

 

Writer Richard Hoskins says that the reason so many killer viruses come out of China is because the Chinese raise and eat so many ducks.  Being scavengers, these ducks are the main reservoirs for human influenza viruses which can be passed on to humans (“Proclaim Liberty Hot Sheet,” undated). 

 

For years now, new flu bugs have been coming out of Asia with regularity (Hong Kong Flu, Asian Flu and so forth).  Hong Kong had a flu breakout in 1997 from poultry which necessitated the slaughter of millions of ducks and chickens.  In May 2001, another flu outbreak occurred in Hong Kong which necessitated the slaughter of 1.2 million chickens, ducks and quail (Jun 1, 2001, “The Week,” p. 7). 

 

On the virus problem, Richard Hoskins suggests that in China, catfish are raised in duck ponds so that baby catfish can be eaten by the ducks.  The catfish are fed pig and duck feces.  Dead ducks and dead catfish are fed to the pigs.  The result is a combination of viruses which can cause periodic epidemics. 

 

More recently, in March 2003, a mysterious respiratory illness (called SARS) surfaced in the Guangdong Province of China, Vietnam and Hong Kong to begin killing and sickening hundreds of people (Mar 15, 2003, Spokane “Spokesman-Review,” p. A6).  It soon spread to the West and within two months had infected thousands of people with hundreds of deaths worldwide. 

 

There have been some reports that the SARS problem surfaced in China when clean chickens were fed with unclean pigs.  As is the chicken practice, they will pick out the undigested grain from the feces of large animals.  Thus, the chickens received some of the DNA of pigs when in contact with them.  The chickens then become carriers of diseases (Nissan/Iyar 5763 “Jerusalem Prayer Mandate,” p. 4). 

 

 

More on Pigs 

 

Filthy pigs also more directly pass along viruses.  A 1999 report out of Southern Malaysia noted that an encephalitis virus had broken out there in one province which was traceable to hogs.  Mosquitoes pick the virus up from dirty pigs and then transmit it to humans. 

 

Some fifty people had died and the government began slaughtering the 300,000 hogs in the province and burying them in holes dug by bulldozers (Mar 21, 1999, “Spokesman-Review,”  p. A8). 

 

The Jul/Aug 2001 “Believer’s Advocate” (p. 23) had a couple of news reports from 1997, which tied various health problems to pigs. 

 

First, the “Monroe (NC) Evening News,” of Mar 22, 1997, had an AP report on the “1918 flu bug finally traced to U.S. pigs,” which focused upon an autopsy made by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology on the remains of a soldier who died in 1918 of the flu.  It was found to be a unique virus, but closely related to the “swine flu.” 

 

The second story concerned “60 Minutes,” from Jul 6, 1997, and a report on the pig factories in NC.  Just as big business has taken over everything, animal factories are now in existence--which turn out animals for American meat.  Pig farms are common where factories are bunched together and can have multiplied thousands of pigs confined in small pens very near each other.  The stink in these areas is unbelievable. 

 

The report said that run-off waters from the farms are so contaminated with pig urine and feces that when it reaches creeks and rivers, fish are killed and the water is algae.  When floods occur, this mess comes upon the land to pollute it and present health problems to the human population.  The story asked--what next? 

 

 

The Alleged Wisdom of the USDA 

 

All of a sudden, in the last few years, the US Department of Agriculture has been running ads about the need to thoroughly wash one’s hands after handling raw meat because of the fear of disease, as pointed out in previous commentary. 

 

Similar ads, as mentioned above, have been repeatedly run stressing the need to cook meat thoroughly.  Rare meat is now out, although it had been perfectly acceptable for many preceding centuries. 

 

As late as April 11, 1998, national news reports said that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was concerned with meat products being sold to American consumers.  The report said that “new strains of bacteria more deadly than in the past” are now appearing in meat products sold in local food markets. 

 

The report went on to emphasize that the FDA did not know what the problem was with the new bacteria, but indicated that the government was proposing new regulations and controls on meat products--all the way from producers to consumers.  What this amounts to is that the US FDA and USDA are beginning to realize that diseased and infected food is being sold to the American public. 

 

 

Don’t Know 

 

But the heads of government bureaucrats are so pathetically buried in the sand that they don’t have the foggiest notion of what could be wrong to cause this upsurge in dangerous food products. 

 

Rather than deal with the problem, the government solution is more dictatorial regulations and controls--even over the few producers who feed their animals properly with hay, grass and grain.  This government oversight will force the small operators out of business, leaving only the large, corporate producers (which is one of the goals of the process). 

 

Greed and the incredible power of the large corporations and producers of most of these products will not allow scientists to even acknowledge the primary source of the problem (the diet and atmosphere of the animals).  Actually, if any scientist did dare to speak out, he would be immediately castigated, criticized, condemned and fired (especially if he was with the government). 

 

 

Monsanto Corporation 

 

Just like the ax of a costly lawsuit fell upon Oprah Winfrey (described previously), the Monsanto Corporation is getting in on the act of suing anybody and everybody who dares to question its efforts to alter and change the historic diets of Americans into something which could be poisonous and certainly contrary to the Scriptures. 

 

The lawsuit prone Monsanto was covered in an article on “Monsanto and it’s public image” in the Jan-Feb 2000 “Jubilee” (p. 1, 7).  Monsanto is the company or at least one of the companies which has developed and is selling the artificial  bovine growth hormone BGH (Posilac) which is designed to increase milk production (as outlined earlier). 

 

However, many farmers don’t want to use the new chemical being pushed to probably poison their cattle and the humans who drink the contaminated milk.  Accordingly, many farmers are selling their milk under a label that says it is BGH free.  Moreover, the state of Vermont has went along with this process and has actually allowed it. 

 

Monsanto got mad and began a campaign of intimidation by launching a number of civil lawsuits against the farmers and even the state of Vermont. 

 

Whereas Oprah Winfrey had the money to fight oppression, many of these farmers simply won’t be able to stand up to the legal coercion (as discussed earlier).  So they will likely have to give up their free speech in order to accommodate a rich chemical company which is out to deceive the gullible public. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 253--Sun Worship and Diet IV

 

 

The Question of Plant Foods, Revisited 

 

The Spring 1998 issue of “Back to the Garden” (p. 5) had some comments by Rhonda J, Malkmus that quotes Genesis 1:29 with a conclusion that man’s diet should be raw fruits and vegetables.  This reference has some support from Gen 3:17-19--when Adam was destined to eat of produce from the soil.  Both of these texts were briefly discussed earlier. 

 

Perhaps these remarks in the Torah have prompted various Christians to become ascetic vegetarians over the years. 

 

However, as noted earlier, truth is established by all Scriptures on a subject and not just one or two.  Thus, beyond Genesis 1:29 and 3:17-19, there are a number of other texts which allow other food items in a diet. 

 

On this line, the issue primarily concerns clean meats (Lev 11:1-47; Deut 14:3-21) which were addressed in the former chapters.  Thus, the question arises about this paradox between Genesis 1:29 and the later texts allowing certain other foods. 

 

The explanation here is fairly simple.  As discussed in a prior chapter on blood types, YHWH made Adam essentially as a herbivore (in Genesis 1:29); but not totally, nor by commandment.  Thus, plant foods (vegetables, fruits, grains, etc--which, of course, includes olive oil and cooked bread and cereal) should be Adam’s primary or basic diet for health and sustenance. 

 

Alternatively, in the Word, The MOST HIGH does allow some variation in a permissible vein with some clean meats, salt, honey, wine (to be discussed shortly), etc. 

 

Repeatedly, the Scriptural rule on diet is moderation and especially on these auxiliary and/or supplemental food items that are permissible.  Thus, these other Scripturally identified and authorized foods (like salt, honey, wine, dairy products, clean meats, etc) are allowable, but in moderation.  Truly, Adam was meant to be basically a herbivore and not a carnivore. 

 

But some meats can be tasty and beneficial in diet.  It’s just that they should not be the primary staple of Adam.  Therefore, plant foods are the general rule for Adam.  However, The CREATOR does allow some exceptions, in moderation (perhaps to offer some variety/enjoyment in eating). 

 

 

Genesis 9:2-3 

 

Next, the situation with Genesis 9:2-3 must be noted.  Many people suppose that in Genesis 1:29, YHWH only allowed plant foods for Adam and then in Genesis 9:2-3, He allowed everything in the creation as food. 

 

Still later, these persons want to believe that in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14, YHWH laid on some restrictions on meats.  But this theory seems to have some serious flaws in it. 

 

Frankly, this writer has doubts that The ELOHIM changed His position at all on Adamite foods in the different time frames.  Hence, the approved diet for Adam probably never changed.  This option has support when one recognizes that the distinction between clean and unclean meats was evidently in effect before the flood (Gen 7:2, 8; 8:20). 

 

On the premise that YHWH is consistent and never changes (as is the correct way to approach the question), a check of Genesis 9:2-3 can be most revealing. 

 

 

Rahmas

 

For example, the issue involved is the Hebrew word “rahmas” which does not refer to all animals, fish and birds in general.  Rahmas and its cognate rehmes (as translated in the KJV as moveth and moving thing) seem to identify certain small species of life. 

 

“The Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament” (TWOT, v. II, p. 850) says it pertains to small creeping things--like possibly mice, reptiles, certain small fish and so forth.  The term appears several times in the creation account (Gen 1:21, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30; 6:7; 7:8, 14, 21, 23; 8:17, 19; 9:2, 3) where it would seem to suggest insects and/or very small creatures in general (in contrast to larger life forms). 

 

Elsewhere, rahmas/rehmes also seem to be differentiated from other forms of non-Adamic life--including the behemah, chaiyah, miqneh, tson, eleph and sharas/sherets (Gen 7:21; Lev 5:2; 11:20-46; Deut 14:19).  It appears that sharas/sherets are used for particular insect forms--in the context of certain allowable clean meats (but these words do not appear in the creation account in Gen 1). 

 

In a review of several different commentaries and lexicons, this writer could not find a precise definition for rahmas, although TWOT did offer the just noted possibilities.  Perhaps one of the clearest Scriptural uses specifically refers to particular life forms in the sea (Ps 104:25).  The word is also used in Leviticus 11:44 and 46 which does lay out a limitation, but not a definition. 

 

This limitation in Leviticus would seem to prohibit all forms of “rahmas.”  And if so, then a definite conflict surfaces with Genesis 9:2-3.  In order to try to reconcile the two references, it might be that Genesis 9:2-3 specifically refers to just certain rahmas in a limited sense (like those of the sea and the allowable insects, as is covered in the context of Lev 11), but not all (as would seem to be implied in Lev 11:44). 

 

Possibly, Leviticus 11:44 is the general negative restriction--while Genesis 9:2-3 and Leviticus 11:21-22 offer a specific positive allowance.  In any case, there is no reason to jump in and intrepid Genesis 9:2-3 in any broad way of allowing all life forms for Adamic food.  As a minimum, Genesis 9:2-3 must correlate with Leviticus 11:44 which appears to restrict such foods. 

 

Thus, one would have to be sure of what is covered in Genesis 9:2-3 and Leviticus 11:21-22 before eating of it.  Importantly, Rabbinical authorities now disallow all forms of locusts because the kinds cited in Leviticus 11 are not currently known (”The Soncino Edition of the Pentateuch and Haftorahs,” p. 451). 

 

 

The Vegetable and Fruit Problem 

 

Moreover, there can be problems with plant foods in modern times.  The modern diet of vegetarians is not all lily-white and perfect. 

 

Later comments will focus in some detail upon the use of poisonous pesticides and their impact upon what should be thought of as clean fruits and vegetables.  The truth is that since modern agriculture has entered the arena, most store-bought fruits, vegetables and grains are reeking with pesticide chemical poisons. 

 

People working with this stuff in the local food markets have to wear rubber gloves because the poisons are so extensive and dangerous.  While this issue will be broached later, there are also some interesting fallouts on-going which seem to relate to the previous discussion on poisoned meats and how the USDA is constantly urging people to thoroughly cook meat. 

 

A news report in Mar 1998 noted that washing fruits and vegetables may not be enough to prevent food-borne illnesses which affect thousands of people in the US every year, according to US scientists and health officials (Mar 1998 “Search the Scriptures,” p. 8). 

 

The story said that rinsing fruits would not completely eliminate harmful microbes which cause infectious diseases.  A study of raspberries tainted with Cyclospora found that some 81% of them, causing a disease outbreak in 1996, had been rinsed. 

 

 

Cooking Now Required 

 

Continuing, the report didn’t explain what the impetus was that was causing the outbreaks, but argued that fruits and vegetables must be washed and cooked to avoid problems. 

 

Does this mean that stupid, rebellious, greedy man is approaching the place where he cannot eat raw fruits and salads?  Does this mean that fruits and vegetables must now be cooked before eaten? 

 

Evidently, the ruling pundits are now recommending the cooking of fruits and vegetables because on May 11, 1998, another news report surfaced again warning about fruits and vegetables (because of possible Salmonella contamination).  Apparently, the US is now importing some 12-34% of its consumption of fruits and vegetables and the USDA only inspects some 2% of it. 

 

Obviously, something is wrong with the modern fruits and vegetables being grown on the presently polluted and nutritionally deficient soil.  Certainly, some of the problems involve poisonous chemical pesticides and herbicides which will be discussed in a later chapter. 

 

But there could be other problems in the context of preservatives and other poisons being added to fresh fruits and vegetables. 

 

For example, fresh cucumbers particularly and fresh tomatoes to a lesser extent are subjected to various preservatives.  Both are often covered with wax or oil based preservatives.  Who knows what all kinds and for what purposes this poisonous stuff is being used on food. 

 

Finally, there is the likelihood that in some areas (particularly certain foreign countries), human fecal matter and waste products are used for fertilizer.  Obviously, some fruits and vegetables can be tainted with this material.  No wonder the USDA now claims that the agency cannot guarantee the safety of food being sold in local food markets. 

 

 

Refined and Processed Foods 

 

A later chapter will focus on the current cancer explosion which frequently can be traced to unscriptural foods and diets.  For example, honey is a Scriptural blessing to man in moderation (Prov 24:13; 25:27). 

 

But certainly, the excessive eating of “refined” sugar (which is unscriptural) causes all kinds of problems (bad teeth, heart disease, diabetes, etc).  It is highly likely that man-made, refined sugar becomes a toxin or poison to the human body, as well as other man-made chemical products which are unscriptural. 

 

An article, on “Spinning off diabetes in Zuni land” in the Jan 1, 2001, “US News & World Report” (p. 60), discussed some of the fall outs of the modern diet among the Zuni Indian peoples of Arizona.  The story essentially focused upon the reality that years ago, diabetes was virtually unheard of among the Zuni.  Today, diabetes plagues over 50% of the people over age 49 (a very high rate). 

 

So, what could be the problem which is causing a health crisis among the Zuni? 

 

Well, the story got to the heart of the matter by pointing out that the disease had been influenced by “processed foods, TV and cars.”  There is little doubt, but that food and a lack of exercise has been a disaster for the Zuni people. 

 

And in the context of food and diet, the tremendous consumption of refined sugars has to be one of the easiest culprits in causing disease.  In today’s modern world, it is extremely difficult to eat and especially in restaurants without getting a dose of refined sugar.  Refined sugar is in almost everything sold in the ready to eat category (from bread to desserts and so forth in diet). 

 

There is so much processing of food products that many of them are today very flat in taste.  This is particularly true with food used in the fast food chains--like McDonalds, Burger King, etc.  NPR, on Mar 12, 2001, had a commentator on to discuss how these chains obtain common “tasty” sales items which have been processed and stored so long that they are actually bland and repulsive in taste. 

 

So, how do the fast food chains obtain a common taste (where McDonald hamburgers and French fries taste the same all over the world) and one that is “tasty and good” to consumers?  The fast food companies use chemical flavor enhancers to put a taste in products which otherwise would be tasteless and flat.  What do these chemicals do to human health?  Who knows--but they help sales and make much in profits. 

 

 

Consumable Poisons 

 

Moreover, it has been known for ages that sugar substitutes, like saccharin, are carcinogens.  Even the popular Nutra-Sweet (containing aspartame, made by the previously mentioned Monsanto Corporation) is questionable since it seems to be poisonous to the body. 

 

An article by Don Harkins on “Clinton may be suffering aspartame poisoning,” appearing in the June 1999 “Idaho Observer” (p. 16), outlined the methanol toxicity of aspartame (to be addressed in later comments). 

 

The article noted that aspartame is not only a poison, but it seems to have an accumulating effect.  In other words, over time, the more aspartame consumed, the more poisoning occurring to the human body.  Slick Clinton is a big drinker of Diet Cokes.  So the question comes up if he could be suffering from methanol poisoning? 

 

Harkins outlined some of the symptoms of aspartame poisoning--to include headaches, mind fog, feel unrest, poor memory, confusion, anxiety, irritability, depression, mania, insomnia, dizziness, slurred speech, sexual problems, body and joint pains, ringing in ears, nausea, seizures, poor vision, hearing, taste, fatigue, weakness, red face, itching, rashes, burning eyes or throat, hair loss, obesity, bloating, poor or excessive hunger or thirst, diarrhea or constipation, breathing problems, asthma, racing heart, high blood pressure, and erratic blood sugar levels. 

 

Even butter substitutes are made with questionable products (like the use of embalming fluids in margarine). 

 

Perhaps man-made white bread, with its processing to remove the wheat bran and germ, fits into the same category and particularly so when man adds a number of other chemicals and poisons as preservatives to it to extend shelf life in stores (because money is the name of the game). 

 

 

Microwave 

 

One of the biggest fads in the past 30 years has been the incredible popularity of microwave (meaning electromagnetic radiation) ovens to allow the quick cooking of foods which normally take time because of being slow cookers (meat, beans, etc).  Many American homes now have microwave ovens and they are extensively used because they are convenient and fast. 

 

But are they safe?  For sure, that question was never on the table for discussion when the microwave ovens were invented and distributed to the gullible public.  As always, no one thought to ask--so microwaves have been and will be used extensively over many years before questions are raised. 

 

Lay scientist Walt Myers (in his video on “Technology and the Mark of the Beast”) addressed that issue.  He categorically declares that this intense heat destroys not only the vitamins and nutritional values in food, but even protein molecules in food.  Consequently, eaters of microwaved food are eating bulk and apparently calories, which have enormous survivability features. 

 

Besides destroying nutritional qualities, which the human body needs to sustain life, there are still other questions that remain unanswered by the proponents of this process.  Is it plausible that the electromagnetic radiation being pumped into the food could otherwise injure or damage the human body in some manner?  

 

 

Some History 

 

Interestingly, a “Spotlight” report of Apr 30, 2001 (p. B-6), by William Knoff, on “Studies Draw Attention to Potentially Harmful, Toxic Effects of Household Microwave Ovens,” seems to tell the tale on microwave ovens. 

 

Microwave ovens were first developed by the Germans in WWII to lessen cooking time for foods on the Eastern front. 

 

In those early years, the Germans and later the Russians both did extensive studies, tests and investigations into the use of this technology.   While much of this research has been available, it has been largely ignored by microwave oven sellers and the FDA in post WWII America.  After all, the ovens do speed up cooking time. 

 

In any case, Knoff brought out some of these studies showing that microwave ovens can cause cancer and many other ailments in the human body (in digestion and in the lymphatic system).  They do present major health problems to users. 

 

 

Irradiated Food 

 

While the whole nuclear energy question will be examined in a later chapter in the context of radioactive pollution, there is a need to now look at something in this industry which affects the food supply. 

 

The last several years has seen the establishment and its leaders come out in unison with a continuous barrage of information on the benefits of irradiation which involves blasting food with high doses of radioactive energy before selling it to the public. 

 

Supposedly, the big push for this need comes from the frequent reports of E-Coli and Salmonella infected meat, fruit and vegetable products, as described earlier herein.  The advocates claim that radiation bombardment kills all the bacteria leaving the foods clean and wholesome to eat. 

 

US Health and Human Services Secretary Otis R. Bowen said on April 15, 1986, that “low-level radiation is a new technology that can produce benefits to consumers.”  He added that the “process causes minor changes in foods...nutritional values are not significantly altered” (“Scriptures for America,” Vol 1, 1998, p. 10). 

 

One rad (roentgen absorbed dose/unit) is more than a chest x-ray and 300 rads will kill half the people exposed to them.  The new FDA limits are 100,000 rads for fruits and vegetables, 3,000,000 rads for herbs and spices, and 3 million to 5 million rads for meats.  Obviously, something big is going on in this industry that needs some explanation. 

 

US Congressman Doug Bosco said on Apr 17, 1986, that “the government has been trying to figure out what to do with our radioactive nuclear waste” and the apparent “solution seems to be to force the American people to eat it” (ibid, p. 10). 

 

Hence, it seems that Big Brother has joined in with the big nuclear industry to promote the use of radiation to supposedly bombard the food supply with radioactive energy in an effort to make it palatable. 

 

But as incredibly dangerous and threatening that radiation is, one has to ponder why in the world modern man would come up with this just described incredibly ridiculous scheme. 

 

Perhaps the problem is that in man’s insoluble greed for more and more profits, he has created a food supply that is reeling with live bacteria, sickness and disease (which is about to bring havoc to the entire, gullible, eating public).  Maybe man’s solution is to use radioactive energy to “sterilize” the present dangerous food supply. 

 

 

The Impact? 

 

The only problem is that no one has the foggiest notion of what the food producers and processors are doing or what the ultimate impact will be on people’s health after eating these irradiated foods. Possibly, some one should ask about those “minor changes” in the food products, as mentioned by Bowen. 

 

What are these minor changes?  Does anyone have the foggiest notion of what the impact will be for people who eat food that has underwent these “minor changes”?  Perhaps down the road and after millions are adversely affected in some manner, science will come out and admit the stupidity of the whole approach. 

 

In an article on “The Real Truth Behind Food Irradiation,” Dr Scott Priebe quoted several studies on irradiation--which found that irradiated foods lost flavor and odor, speeded up the process of decomposition, experienced a vitamin loss, and underwent a texture change (“Scriptures for America,” Vol. 2, 1998, p. 6). 

 

Priebe also noted that flies given irradiated food showed increases in sexually bound recessive mutants and in mortality; animal fertility is decreased when fed irradiated food (maybe, this is a part of plans for population reduction, to be later discussed); highly irradiated foods caused chicks to have problems in growth, vitality and mentality; rats and dogs had changes in organs--kidneys, spleen, heart, lungs, sex organs; and mice faced increases in cancer (ibid, p. 6). 

 

Additionally, Scott indicated that formaldehyde can form in irradiated foods and clostridium botulinum (which produces the botulinus toxin) can grow on irradiated food, since the process destroys the toxins’ natural competitors.  Finally, the doctor said he would pass on irradiated foods, regardless of what the FDA says (ibid, p. 6).  

 

 

Genesis 2:9, Revisited 

 

Incidentally, this issue of clean and unclean foods offers a classic illustration of man eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, discussed in a prior chapter, instead of following YHWH’s instructions to eat from the tree of life (Gen 2:9). 

 

While it would be quite simple and easy to merely obey The MOST HIGH’s laws and have life, men typically choose another approach.  Limited, little, sinning men like to apply their own reasonings, theories, beliefs and speculations often on this matter of diet instead of relying on The CREATOR’s wisdom and thinking, as outlined in His Word. 

 

Stupid, rebellious men can rationalize that eating pork and other unclean or poisoned foods is all right because The ELOHIM’s laws were done away with or some other ridiculous justification. 

 

With this mental reasoning and intelligence, men and women go on and eat whatever they want to eat with a cavalier, could care-less attitude about YHWH’s laws and right and wrong. 

 

So the years pass and so-called human beings eventually began having sickness, disease and affliction--never understanding why.  Of course, there is a cause and effect relationship in process on this thing.  None of us get away with sin, despite our misunderstanding and confusion on the subject. 

 

 

Proper Foods 

 

If there is anything to be said about diet and food, man should eat those foods (in a natural and organic state) described and mentioned as food in the Scriptures (honey, salt, olive oil, grains, clean meats, vegetables, fruits, etc). 

 

Once the sun worshipping culture begins to process food items and add preservatives, chemical poisons, etc (as they have historically done), watch out. 

 

If a modern person is uninformed and ignorant about what is happening to the food supply, then he or she should spend some time in a grocery store and read those can and jar labels on food products before buying them.  Most of them (like wine, to be next assessed) have all kinds of poison additives to serve various purposes (and make more profits for the manufacturers and sellers, since money is the name of the game). 

 

 

Alcoholic Beverages 

 

A former chapter herein discussed the question of wine in the vein of the Passover and especially as the “fruit of the vine” which was used by YESHUA to symbolize His blood.  Without repeating those comments (as they are lengthy), a few remarks will be recalled in order to usher in the overall question of alcoholic beverages. 

 

Manifestly, wine (the Hebrew “yayin” and the Greek “oinos”) was a proper and often used food product in Second Temple Judaism.  As outlined in the previous presentation, YESHUA, Himself, clearly used fermented wine (yayin).  This reality is proven in at least two places in the NT. 

 

First, YESHUA turned water into wine at a marriage in Cana of Galilee (not grape juice).  As noted earlier, this was wine because the ruler of the feast acknowledged that every man serves his good wine first at a feast so that after the people had drunk it (and were beginning to be a little intoxicated), the bad wine then could be served, when they would not know the difference (Jo 2:10). 

 

Second, as also pointed out earlier, it is absolutely a surety that YESHUA, Himself, drank fermented wine on occasion because the Pharisees accused Him of it and He clearly admitted it (Matt 11:18-19). 

 

Moreover, it is important to note that the famous feast which Melchizedek and Avraham enjoyed in Genesis 14:17-20 involved the Hebrew yayin (fermented wine).  Obviously, wine was a proper and good beverage for use as a food item at meals (just as it is today among Israelis and by numbers of Europeans).  It is tasty, enjoyable and very helpful in digesting food. 

 

 

Some Questions 

 

Yet, wine is a mocker (Prov 20:1); and the priests serving YHWH in the Temple were expressly prohibited from drinking yayin while on duty and working at the Temple (Lev 10:9). 

 

The general rule in Judaism is that religious leaders are forbidden from entering the Temple, blessing the congregation, or rendering religo-legal decisions if they have drunk even a minimal amount of wine (Feb 22, 2002, “Jerusalem Post,” p. 39).  However, the “rabbis” do seem to allow an exception to this strictness in terms of celebrating Purim, where there is much drinking (Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 7b). 

 

In any case, the prohibition against yayin for priests on duty at the Temple makes it clear that priests off duty could drink the liquid (otherwise, the prohibition would serve no purpose). 

 

Moreover, on the subject of alcoholic beverages, there are some other Scriptures which raise legitimate questions.  For example, drunkenness is much condemned and cast in a bad light in the Word (Gen 9:21; Deut 21:20; I Sam 1:14; I Kg 16:9; 20:16; Job 12:25; Ps 107:27; Prov 23:21; 26:9; Eccl 10:17; Isa 19:14; 24:20; 28:1-3; 51:21; Jer 25:27; 46:10; 51:57; Ezek 23:33; Joel 1:5; Nah 1:10; 3:11) 

 

Even the NT condemns drunkenness (Lu 21:34; Rom 13:13; I Cor 5:11; 6:10; Gal 5:21; Eph 5:18; Rev 17:6).  Assuredly, there is absolutely no basis in the Scriptures that will allow a person to get drunk and commit sin. 

 

Yet, as just noted, wine is a proper beverage which Scriptural people drank on occasion and certainly at meals and times of joy and happiness (as suggested in Genesis 14:17-20). 

 

 

More Issues 

 

Perhaps one of the good features of wine is that its alcoholic content is not necessarily that high, as compared with some other alcoholic beverages.  Possibly, beer and brandy are in a similar category, although the Word does not seem to address them in this regard.  Certainly, brandy is a fruit product which can be close to wine (but with substantially more alcoholic content). 

 

Thus, one might drink a little wine with a Sabbath meal.  But beer and brandy would remain in a questionable category and would have to be used with some caution, care, concern and prayer. 

 

Other alcoholic drinks (whiskey, gin, vodka, etc) are also in somewhat of a questionable state since they are not precisely identified as such in the Word.  However, they could be included in the Hebrew term “shekar” which means “strong drink,” in the vein of fermentation and alcoholic content. 

 

Strong drink is differentiated from wine and is also sometimes condemned (Lev 10:9; Deut 29:6; I Sam 1:15; Prov 20:1; Isa 28:7).  If “strong drink” can properly include other alcoholic beverages (beyond wine), as is probable, there seems to be some allowance then for some of these products--along with wine (Deut 14:26; Prov 31:6). 

 

Just as wine is sometimes used in food or as a drink, when eating, the same can be said for most any of these alcoholic beverages.  Years ago, this writer had an opportunity to eat at a place called O’Donnel’s in Washington, DC.  They served rum rolls (which were not only alcoholic, but absolutely delicious).  Also, years ago, a business colleague of mine had a party and served ice cream, mixed with champagne. 

 

Howbeit, there is always the prevailing condemnation of getting drunk.  So maybe, some small quantities of these beverages can be used--especially at meals.  But the Word is clear--they must be used sparingly and in moderation (the Book does prescribe moderation in all things!). 

 

 

In Conclusion 

 

Finally, there are a couple of other features about this subject which need further mention. 

 

First, just as modern man is busy poisoning his fields with pesticide poisons and pumping chemicals into all kinds of consumable foods, the same realty happens with grapes, wine, brandy, beer, whisky, etc.  They are produced from pesticide laden fruits and grains and later have huge quantities of chemical additives added. 

 

There is one more issue at stake here--which must be understood by anyone choosing to drink a little at meals or socially in moderation.  One of the things finally understood by modern man is that most of these alcoholic beverages can be a terror or catastrophic for health. 

 

They cause liver problems, mental problems and on and on (and it is a sin for man to injure/hurt his body, to be later addressed).  Most modern medical doctors and practitioners readily agree pregnant women should not drink alcoholic beverages at all for fear of damage to the child being carried.  Perhaps this evidence is sufficient to preclude pregnant women from ever using such alcoholic drinks. 

 

Otherwise, the health issues remain and must be addressed if a person insists on drinking (even in moderation or at an occasional meal).  While this writer does not have the details of all the health problems and the whys for them, one health news item on drinking did seem relevant once to me. 

 

It seems to be a truism that an inadequate diet (alternatively) is often the culprit for many of the health problems arising in drunks and drinkers.  For example, it is known that magnesium protects from the adverse features of alcoholic beverages, if properly available in the diet of a drinker. 

 

In the modern world, where man’s diet is highly inadequate and lacking (because of depleted and poisoned soil), it appears that nutritional problems abound. 

 

Obviously, when a nutritionally deficient person drinks, his health problems multiply.  Surely, the digestion benefits of a little wine (and wine is a help to digestion) might be allowable.  But anything else has to be questionable (certainly in the absence of a proper diet). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 254--Sun Worship and Diet V

 

 

Genetically Engineered (GM) Food 

 

Beyond the previously noted problems of selling chemical poisons as food, in the former chapters, there is a far more disturbing trend on the horizon with the introduction, production and consumption of “genetically engineered” foods.  Scientists are already experimenting with all kinds of new vegetables and fruits and even animal products developed from genetic engineering. 

 

For example, experiments have been underway for years to produce “seedless” grapes, watermelons and tomatoes (if they are totally seedless, how can they reproduce?) and to supposedly make some plants more insect and disease resistant--as well as making material alterations in any number of vegetable and fruit products. 

 

Despite all of the unanswered questions which have persisted over the years, as man has worked tirelessly in his goal of genetically altering growing plants, work has reached a certain plateau of success.  Today, in the early 21st century, genetically engineered plants and vegetation (for food) are now a reality.  It is the real world. 

 

The Apr-Jun 2001 “Hebrew Roots” (p. 36) quoted a recent “NY Times” which said that in 2000, some 100 million acres of genetically engineered crops were planted.  This was a 25 times increase over four years ago. 

 

 

Background on Genetically Engineered Food

 

“US News & World Report” (USNWR) of Jul 26, 1999 (p. 38-41), had an in-depth story by Phillip J. Longman on “The Curse of Frankenfood” which assessed man’s supposed achievements and the controversy (the still remaining unanswered questions) surrounding his work. 

 

The article described the genetically engineering breakthrough as having occurred in the last five years, although man has been crossbreeding plants for much of the last 100 years for various and sundry reasons.  The present efforts involve the process of taking genes from one plant specie and splicing them into another specie--like maybe taking a gene from a dog and putting it into a cat. 

 

For example, scientists have taken an anti-freeze gene from founder fish and introduced it into tomatoes with a view that the gene will help protect tomatoes from cold weather.  While this sounds good, no one knows what the ultimate outcome of these crossings will bear. 

 

The very description of this undertaking spells out at once that it is illegal and contrary to the Torah.  Genesis 1:11-12 and 21-25 establish broad principles that kind are supposed to reproduce after kind.  And this includes all forms of life--vegetation, animals, fish, humans and so forth. 

 

Moreover, as outlined in a former chapter, Leviticus 19:19 and Deuteronomy 22:9-11 categorically declare it illegal and wrong for man to mix or blend kinds in any manner.  This wonderful message recognizes that man would have the capability and therefore could (from a biological point of view) alter life forms by interbreeding, crossing and genetically engineering the different kinds. 

 

Of course, this mixing and blending realization surfaced 3,500 years ago.  So it is not something new in the early 21st century.  As Longman noted, man has been interbreeding diverse kinds for ages.  But what is new is the ability to take genes from one kind and splice them into another kind in the context of laboratory experiments, without any regard whatsoever to the outcome.

 

 

A Principle 

 

One principle in food is that if bugs and varmints (like mice) won’t eat it, then it is not fit for human consumption.  Therefore, one must wonder about refined flour which bugs and varmints won’t eat because of the poisons present.  Is refined flour good for humans?  No, of course not!  Now, how about genetically engineered products which even bugs refuse to eat or die if they do eat them? 

 

The USNWR story (cited above) noted that in 1998, some 25% of corn, 38% of soybeans and 45% of cotton grown in the US has been genetically altered to make them supposedly resistant to plant-killers or to produce their own pesticides.  Longman suggested that it is now virtually impossible to eat American food without eating genetically modified organisms. 

 

In the produce department of today’s (2003) modern supermarket, most of the produce for sale have been genetically engineered.  It is increasingly more difficult to find natural produce the way The MOST HIGH created them.  Moreover, “genetically modified ingredients are already used in everyday items like Coca-Cola, Heinz ketchup and Betty Crocker cake mixes (Aug 17, 2000, “Spokesman Review,” p. B6). 

 

An advertisement in the Apr 30, 2001, “Spotlight” (p. B-5) reported that today over 75% of the foods we eat (in America) come from genetically engineered plants, as altered by giant food corporations.  Obviously, the problem is serious and it is growing daily. 

 

 

Questions 

 

Beyond the very obvious from the standpoint of food production, there are also fantastic questions about what all this genetically engineered food might be doing to the ecology of other growing plants and various animal, bird and bug populations (after all, bees and wasps are friendly insects which sustain plant life). 

 

And what about the effects of this food upon the human body, after its consumption?  Who knows what this food will do to sick, sun worshipping humans/humanoids?  Of course, science will say that it is the same as the food items produced naturally in nature.  But is it?  Science has been wrong about a lot of things over the ages--as outlined in this study at hand. 

 

Perhaps the US insurance industry has the right attitude about the introduction of genetic engineering in America’s food supply.  American insurance companies have made it plain that they will not provide liability coverage for long term catastrophic environmental damage from genetically engineered plants because the industry lacks a risk assessment science (Aug-Sep 1999 “Prophecy Flash,” p. 54). 

 

In other words, these unanswered questions persist.  Tragically, this alteration condition is now a fact of life and one that is growing by leaps and bounds. 

 

 

More Concerns Remain 

 

Moreover, other unanswered questions remain--in the context of human health risks and environmental risks--to include losing a safe, natural pesticide (plants have natural qualities to fight off disease and bugs) and the possibilities of spawning super plants with resistance attributes which can be passed on to other plants in the environment (in other words, the altered factors in one plant can, in nature, be theoretically passed as pollen or something else to the entire plant kingdom to cause who knows what)? 

 

Phillip J. Longman outlined in his USNWR article (cited above) the human health risks as toxicity (by pumping unanticipated poisons into the food supply), allergies (by creating new ones previously unheard of), bad nutrition (not only are some of the new ones nutritionally deficient, but who knows what might otherwise occur to the consumers) and antibiotic resistance (genes can be passed on to humans which might be disease causing or antibiotic resistant). 

 

 

The StarLink Corn Problem 

 

A classic illustration of how dangerous genetically engineered food can be surfaced in the fall of 2000 when it was discovered that a genetically engineered corn product called StarLink had improperly entered the US corn supply used for human consumption.  

 

The background was that this corn was engineered with an inherent pesticide toxin present (Cry9C protein, 50-100 times more toxic than that allowed in GM corn intended for human consumption) and there was concern of what would happen if humans ate it. 

 

The plan was that this corn would be used strictly for animal feed.  It seems that the pundits, planners and schemers were not concerned with cows, pigs and chickens eating the corn and then humans eating the cows, pigs and chickens or using the cow’s dairy products or eggs from the chickens. 

 

The word was that this corn simply had not been tested on humans and the powers that be didn’t know what would happen with human consumption.  Of course, the so-called scientists (who developed this product) didn’t have the foggiest notion of what would happen when the product was fed to animals.  Anyway, ignorance did not keep back the massive use of this corn. 

 

 

It Mixed 

 

By the time that the fall of 2000 rolled around (Sep-Nov), this particular corn product (StarLink) was all over the United States--both in animal feed and in human food.  There were several massive food recalls (to include one recall of tacos by Taco Bell).  In other words, the pesticide engineered corn could not be kept separate and apart from other corn supplies.  The two mixed. 

 

While there was a careless mixing of corn by producers and grain silos, a Feb 9, 2001, news report said the corn pollen mixed in nature naturally, as allowed above.  In one case, a manufacturer of genetically engineered food sued a man for using one of its modified corn products illegally in his fields (news reports heard by this writer did not seem to explain how the farmer got the corn, but presumably he did). 

 

Anyway, in a counter-suit, the farmer charged that the corn involved was used in adjacent agricultural farms and the pollen simply crossed over to his fields to contaminate his corn.  This case seems to have been still in a trial state in 2002-2003 and it is unclear what the final outcome will be.  But the point is that once this stuff is introduced, it can spread unchecked throughout nature. 

 

This StarLink corn started small--10,000 acres were planted in 1998, 250,000 acres in 1999, and 350,000 acres in 2000.  And by 2000, it had co-mingled with other corn in twelve states, according to the Seed Savers Exchange (Mar-Apr 2002 “EAOY Newsletter,” p. 3). 

 

This cross-contamination problem finally woke some people up at the USDA.  In 2001, the US allocated $20 million (originally intended for natural disaster relief for farmers) to help buy back 300,000 to 400,000 bags of contaminated seeds, in an effort to contain (not control) the crisis (ibid, p. 3).  About ten percent of all corn stored in America is now contaminated with StarLink (ibid, p. 3). 

 

 

The Canadian Canola Problem 

 

Percy Schmeiser is a third generation grain farmer in Saskatchewan, Canada.  Percy is in his seventies and has been growing his own canola for forty years (for seed oil).  Every year, he conscientiously saved seed over from year to year for planting the next year.  Though some other farmers in that area of Canada began using genetically modified seed from Monsanto in the late 1990s, Schmeiser did not (ibid, p. 1). 

 

But the wind and bees were at work and soon Monsanto’s Roundup Ready canola pollen had infected Percy’s fields.  Without his consent, his canola grain became contaminated with the Monsanto GM product.  When Monsanto found out that its GM grain was in Percy’s fields, Monsanto sued him for patent infringement.  Monsanto sought $400,000 in damages (ibid, p. 1). 

 

In June 2000, the Monsanto versus Schmeiser trial took place in Canada.  Monsanto argued that whether Schmeiser knew about the contamination of his corn or not, it mattered not at all.  Percy was alleged to be guilty.  Accordingly, the “supposedly intelligent” judge (W. Andrew MacKay) found for Monsanto that Schmeiser was guilty of having the benefit of the GM seed without paying for it. 

 

Not only was poor Percy faced with damages and enormous legal fees, he completely lost his forty years of work of developing his own canola seed supply.  His entire canola seedline was contaminated and seized by government authorities (ibid, p. 2). 

 

Perhaps one of the most startling fall outs of this case was the revelation that enormous cross-contamination of fields is now occurring from the use of the GM products.  Accordingly, Monsanto has filed hundreds of lawsuits claiming patent infringement on their GM seeds.  Obviously, many farmers, and particularly those who are organic farmers, are concerned. 

 

 

More Coming Trouble 

 

Despite all of the questions, “science” has forged ahead with this GM effort.  But there are some bad omens out there which are causing some concern and apprehension. 

 

For example, Cornell University researchers found in May 1999 that monarch butterflies (found mainly in the corn producing states of the US Midwest) fed pollen from certain genetically engineered corn either died or developed abnormally.  This finding, disputed by industry proponents, came five years after its use and when 25% of US corn production is coming from the hybrid strains. 

 

Butterflies are one of the great insect creations of YHWH; because, they, like bees and wasps, carry the pollen from one plant to another to allow the reproduction of kind after kind.  And what about the wonderful worms which irradiate the soil and make for healthy plants?  Obviously, as man stupidly destroys all of the butterflies, worms, wasps, bees and so forth, he will have a crises of unequaled proportions. 

 

Besides destroying many of these wonderful species which The ELOHIM gave to propagate food crops, there is another fall out on the use of genetically engineered plants.  On the June 18, 2000, “Dreamland” program, Whitley Strieber mentioned a news report which could have far reaching consequences in the use of genetic engineering. 

 

He said that in using a different gene in a plant to ward off bugs and predators, there is now evidence that this gene “jumped” to certain bacteria in the stomach of honey bees.  The implications here could be enormous if altered genes or DNA can and should jump from plants into bugs and other forms of life.  Like the situation with the Monarch butterflies, who knows what might happen, as this gross stupidity continues. 

 

 

“The Lancet” 

 

The “Spotlight” paper for Aug 30, 1999 (p. B3-B5), had a whole section on genetically engineered food.  One of the “Spotlight” features was a reprint of an editorial from the prestigious medical journal “The Lancet.” 

 

“The Lancet” said:  “Crops genetically modified to have reduced susceptibility to pests are promoted as a solution to low food yields in developing countries.  The motive for these promoters is profit, not altruism... 

 

“In view of this unbridled commercial approach to genetic modification, it is perhaps not surprising that companies have paid little attention to the potential hazards to health of genetically modified foods.” 

 

Going on, “The Lancet” also noted that the US FDA has not changed its stance since 1992 and the introduction of these products.  The FDA policy has been that genetically modified crops will receive the same consideration for potential health risks as any other new crop plant (in the sense that genetically altered plants are no different than any of the others). 

 

The kicker was raised on this subject when “The Lancet” said that this FDA stance is taken “despite good reasons to believe that specific risks may exist.  For instance, antibiotic-resistant genes are used in some genetically modified plants as a marker of genetic transformation. 

 

“Despite repeated assurance that the resistance genes cannot spread from the plant, many commentators believe this could happen.  Of greater concern is the effect of the genetic modification itself on the food.  Potatoes have been engineered with a gene from the snow-drop to produce an agglutinin (immune antibody) which may reduce susceptibility to insects. 

 

“In April of last year, a scientist, Arpad Pusztai, from the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, UK, unwisely announced on television that experiments had shown intestinal changes in rats caused by eating genetically engineered potatoes.  Pusztai said he wouldn’t eat such food himself and that it was unfair to use his fellow citizens as guinea pigs.” 

 

As “The Lancet” noted, Pusztai’s comments caused a storm of protests.  He was immediately fired from his job.  Despite his complaints, the process continues and now some 75% of processed food in the US has genetically modified ingredients. 

 

There is little doubt about it.  Powerful forces are promoting genetically engineered foods.  On the surface, profits are the name of the game.  However, there could be other motives.  One such possibility might be population control, as will be assessed in a later chapter herein. 

 

 

The Seedless Problem 

 

One of the important features of genetic engineering has been the ability to produce so-called food products which have no seeds to contend with in their consumption.  In terms of some popular fruits and vegetables, this has been a perfect joy for a lot of consumers.  Many people have come to like the previously mentioned seedless watermelons, seedless grapes and so forth. 

 

However, one of the big issues which has been largely neglected by producers (who are only concerned about getting profits) and consumers (who are often more focused upon convenience and taste) is that the seeds in various plants have nutritional values that cannot be found in any other place. 

 

Vitamin E is such a product which is found not only in grains, but also in certain other seeds.  And almost without exception, various seeds are rich in polyunsaturated oils which are not only valuable for cooking, but for nutrition as well. 

 

When The MOST HIGH made watermelons, grapes, various citrus fruits and a host of other plants, He made them to be eaten.  Yes, the seeds and rinds of tangerines and lemons contain bioflavonoids which are not only of nutritional benefit, but they provide enormous help to the body in assimilating vitamin C. 

 

Grape seeds have been found to contain nutritional factors which support the body’s immune system and provide other needed benefits.  While genetic engineering has eliminated grape seeds in the fruits sold in grocery stores, some people with brains realized that a few nutritionally conscious persons would still buy grape seed extracts which are now available in health food stores. 

 

Watermelon seeds may no longer be found in many commercial watermelons, but they once were a very popular snack item.  The revolutionary Red Chinese Army, led by Mao Tse-tung, in their long march from Jiangxi North to the Shaanxi province in 1934-1935, subsisted upon watermelon seeds as one of its main staples. 

 

 

Apricot/Peach Pits 

 

Some years ago, it was found that the real seed cores or pits of apricot and peach seeds contained a product (laetrile) which was useful in fighting cancer.  Many health food stores began to carry these apricot and peach pits for sale. 

 

In 2001, Israeli researchers at the Institute of Technology at Haifa, Israel have discovered beneficial effects of pomegranate seed oil in the battle of breast cancer.  The juice of the fruit is toxic to most breast cancer cells; yet, it seems to have no effect on healthy cells. 

 

Pomegranates seem to replace the estrogen prescribed to protect postmenopausal women against osteoporosis, etc.  Dr Marven Goldman says that this is a safe substance, for use on women at high risk for developing breast cancer (Jan 2002 “Bible Light International JPM News & Prayer Requests, p. 1). 

 

The enormous value of sunflower seeds is well established along with the whole grain seeds of various grains produced for cereal and bread.  It is these whole grains which contain an array of vitamins, minerals, proteins and benefits which The HIGHEST created for consumption. 

 

What a tragedy it has been for men to blanch off or extract the bran and germ of wheat so that consumers can buy white flour (which contains almost nothing, but fattening carbohydrates).  True, a few stores sell wheat germ (which is powerful and nutritionally rich), but the nutritional factors needed are otherwise not typically available in most grain products sold commercially. 

 

 

The Seed Terminator 

 

The Jul-Aug 1998 “Jubilee” paper (p. 1, 17) had a story by Geri Guidetti on “Seed Terminator and Mega-Merger Threaten Food and Freedom” which focused upon one of the recent acts of genetic engineering of American food products.  The gist of the report concerned the work of the USDA and the Delta and Pine Land Company to obtain a patent on a new product. 

 

Per the report, the Company had created a process where “sterile seed” could be produced which would kill its own embryos.  Various seed companies can obtain a license to use this new technology for the agricultural seeds sold to the sun worshipping public. 

 

This technology was developed to prevent farmers from saving non-hybrid, open-pollinated or non-genetically altered seed sold by seed companies.  The idea of this scheme is to sell the farmers seed which are good for one planting and will not reproduce seed that can be saved and carried over for future plantings (as has been the historic position in agriculture). 

 

The essence of this new technology is that seed companies will get to sell new seed each year without fear of farmers carrying over seed from the prior year.  Obviously, everybody makes gobs and globs of new money on the process.  One must always remember that profits are the name of the game in the Christian, sun worship culture.  Everything is geared to greed, get and acquire--more and more! 

 

The article raised the question of the safety of the use of these seeds.  Will they spread to surrounding food crops or create a natural environmental crisis of some sort?  No one knows the answer presently. 

 

But the Scriptures do seem to have some remarks which make the whole issue not only questionable, but also likely sinful.  The Word says that the earth brought forth vegetation, the herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after its kind; and The ELOHIM saw that it was good (Gen 1:12). 

 

Manifestly, the conspiracy ruling this world is marching full time in the direction of eliminating man’s capability to have his own garden and food production means, as has been present historically for 6,000 years (because of man’s ability to carry forward seeds from year to year). 

 

 

The Cross-Pollination Problem, Revisited  

 

Here, on Terminator, a question must surface on whether Terminator could get out of control and spread to other crops.  For an assessment of this question, it would be well to revisit some comments herein. 

 

The previously quoted Mar-Apr 2002 “EAOY Newsletter” (p. 1-4 of the insert) had a Food Supply Update with an article also by Geri Guidetti of the Ark Institute (PO Box 142, Oxford, Ohio 45056).  The focus of this update was the Percy Schmeiser and StarLink cases where the nation’s grain fields are being contaminated by nearby genetically engineered crops (as outlined above). 

 

This cross-contamination is growing by leaps and bounds and soon may affect most all US gains and who knows what else as this stuff spreads rapidly. 

 

The EAOY article by Guidetti also addressed the new Terminator technology, cited above, which will force farmers to routinely and regularly each year have to go the Terminator patent owner in order to buy seeds to plant.  The scheme is simple.  The patent owner, the Delta & Pine Land Company, will make barrels of money. 

 

 

Will Terminator Spread? 

 

Anyway, Guidetti took note of the great ease in which cross-contamination occurs.  So, what will happen once these Terminator seeds begin appearing in America’s agricultural fields?  Is it possible that the Terminator sterile seed pollen will spread from field to field to literally destroy much or all of a particular food product? 

 

If this thing should spread, there will be clearly no reason to even attempt to save planting seed from year to year in order to have a crop.  The Terminator characteristic will destroy all of them.  Thus, the Terminator may terminate all seeding plants (effectively all agricultural corps) beyond those sold by the Terminator patent holder. 

 

This single prospect for the future should scare the daylights out of all Americans.  It simply means that we may reach the point where no one can even own a garden without going to one company, man or source of power in order to obtain garden seed. 

 

The previously quoted Apr-Jun 2001 “Hebrew Roots” (p. 36) article (which cited the “New York Times”) said that already organic food products that are supposed to be GM Free (genetically engineered free) are testing positive for genetically engineered cross contamination. 

 

So cross pollination is occurring and it is affecting not only organic produce but everything else, as well, with the reality of what happened to Percy Schmeiser and the StarLink mess (as cited above). 

 

 

The Labeling Problem 

 

A news report on Dec 21, 2000, mentioned one of the most classic illustrations of the madness in using these genetically engineered products.  It seems that producers and distributors of genetically engineered vegetables and fruits have the gall to advertise and sell this stuff as “natural” products or as “organic” products. 

 

Some states have actually been looking at these labels and have been trying to impose some standards.  The only problem with this is that once governmental jurisdictions start establishing standards, they will take over the complete regulation of these products.  The outcome can be the imposition of licenses and other controls which could ultimately be detrimental to consumers. 

 

The story involved focused specifically upon the advertising and sale of genetically engineered products as “organic,” which commands a higher sales price in stores.  Can the reader see what can happen if an genetically engineered product with a inherent pesticide (like the corn, mentioned above) is sold as organic? 

 

Frankly, this writer does not want to eat or consume any of the scientifically developed genetically engineered products.  The best products to use are those developed by The CREATOR in nature and by organic farming methods.  It disturbs me that this trash called genetically engineered food can be sold as organic and/or as natural.

 

 

The Export Problem 

 

The latest crisis in the US production of genetically engineered food arose in the summer of 2003 when various foreign countries around the world either refused to import any US GM products (without an assurance and proof of the safety of them); or if they do import them, they have chosen to label them as such so that foreign buyers and consumers will know what they are buying and eating. 

 

Europe, in particular, has taken the position that any genetically modified US foods must be labeled as such to be sold in most European countries.  Now, the latest is that some of the Asian and African countries have followed the European lead and started labeling genetically modified foods from the US as such. 

 

Some countries have even went so far as to demand proof that the GM products are safe even before they will allow them to be imported.  Obviously, this is causing a crisis in the giant GM corporations because no such proof exists.  Foreign buyers and consumers are expected to be as gullible and stupid as American food buyers are in accepting the safety claims of the big US corporations--like Monsanto.  

 

And of course, the US government has entered the fight on the side of the big US corporations to “demand” that foreign countries accept the US GM products without question and not label them as such (which might scare off some of the potential buyers).  Since 70% of US food exports involve GM products, this is a problem. 

 

A Jul 5, 2003, NPR news report said that US aid and assistance to various foreign countries will be stopped if those countries attempt to refuse US GM products or label such products.  Much of the dilemma hangs on the fact that there is no proof of safety for these genetically engineered products, beyond the words of the giant US corporations which produce and sell them (like Monsanto). 

 

US government spokesmen have been ferociously attacking any country which asks for proof that the US GM products are safe or attempts to label them as such when they are sold in those countries.  US authorities insist on hiding this information from foreign buyers like it is hid in the US.  The accelerating US threats against various foreign countries suggest that these questions could bring on a trade war. 

 

 

More Problems 

 

There is still one more profound fall-out of this evil and depravity facing man.  This one arises because, increasingly, man’s food production capabilities are being placed into the hands of a few, giant, multi-national corporations.  Today, large multi-national food corporations produce the world’s food supply and not small farmers, as noted herein. 

 

As this new food stuff comes down the pike, it will be concentrated into fewer and fewer hands.  The London “Guardian Weekly” of Dec 21, 1997, noted that six giant agrochemical corporations are poised to dominate the world’s food production, eventually with genetically engineered food (Mar 1998 “New Beginnings,” p. 13). 

 

The Guardian called this a $400 billion gamble with the world’s food.  The result will be that millions of (small and independent) farmers will become unemployed as the six super giant corporations take over all food production.  Clearly, Revelation 13 is on the horizon. 

 

The bottom line on man’s supposed great intelligence and efforts to conquer and control nature is that The ELOHIM is manifestly far more intelligent than scientists working in their laboratories.  The MOST HIGH obviously had a reason when He said certain things in the Torah (Genesis to Deuteronomy).  

 

So-called humanity should be spending time and effort in learning the directions, teachings and instructions contained in the Torah, rather than in lawless rebellion and contempt toward the Torah.  What a tragedy Christianity has been for the creation in the last 2,000 years.  Yes, this genetic engineering evil is being done by Christians in a Christian world using Christian money and resources. 

 

Even dumb, Christian, sun worshippers are the people who sit back and allow this sickness to happen and then eat the food as it comes down the pike.  If Christian preachers, teachers and pastors would spend a portion of their time to teach the Torah (rather than support the politically correct, Christian status quo of profits at all cost and greed, get and acquire), the world would be a better place. 

 

 

Another Twist on the Food Problem 

 

One of the fallouts of the plutocratic rule of the super rich in America has been their continuous push for more and more profits at the expense of both the nation and its people.  Quickly, the Amalek-Edomite bankers found themselves in close league (on racial and ethnic grounds) with organized crime which has been essentially in Edomite hands for the last 100 years, as discussed previously herein. 

 

During the days of prohibition, the gangs found out that if a product (like say whiskey) was outlawed, it placed all aspects of the production, marketing and sale of that product in the hands of organized crime.  By controlling all factors associated with the sale and consumption of a product, enormous profits can be made. 

 

With the outlaw of the product (like whiskey), the government entered into an alliance with the mobsters to take all measures necessary to drive all competition out of the picture from anyone in America who would dare try to make or sell whisky to compete with the Mob. 

 

The idea was that if government (as directed by prostitute politicians, who were paid off by the Mob) would use her full resources and capabilities to crack down on all the small, little people in America who would dare try to produce and sell whisky, it would leave the entire whisky business in the hands of the professional criminals (usually under Amalekite control and direction). 

 

In this sense, the US Government aggressively took after small time whiskey operators with a vengeance during prohibition (which has continued on until today).  Since some farmer in the mountains could not distill liquor and sell it (without being pursued vigorously and caught and prosecuted to the full limit of the law), it meant that most of the whisky production was done overseas, under control of the Mob. 

 

Booze was illegally transported into the US by the Mob.  And it was sold in America illegally by the Mob.  In time, the whiskey business belonged lock, stock and barrel to organized crime.  Even petty crooks who tried to move in and get some of the action would be murdered by the Mob whenever possible.  The Mafia was in no mood to share its profits with anyone (beyond payoffs to prostitute politicians and police). 

 

Since the Mob involves big money (and especially in the context of the ruling Amalekites, who controlled both politicians and the media), the real people in charge of the liquor trade would never be pursued, caught and prosecuted, as would small time distillers or local bootleg distributors.  The whisky business made millionaires out of many people (like JFK’s father Joe Kennedy). 

 

The crooks in charge were never in any threat from government agencies because of their money and ability to pay off government officials and use the controlled media to assist them in their nefarious activities.  Contrariwise, everyone else at the low levels who tried to make some money from bootleg whisky ran a risk of being caught and jailed. 

 

When the American people voted whisky back in legally in the US in the early 1930s, the Mob turned to various drugs--marihuana, cocaine, heroin, etc to continue its illegal money making schemes.  But in order to implement this motion, it was necessary that government take action to make all of these products illegal.  The federal and most state governments complied at once. 

 

And as is the normal methodology, the US government has continuously had a vigorous campaign to stomp out the production and sale of drugs by all people, except the big boys at the top who make payoffs for protection. 

 

 

Marijuana 

 

Marijuana has been an important US crop for years.  It has prompted a number of people to raise their own supply (to avoid the high costs of buying marijuana from organized crime with its exorbitant prices). 

 

Obviously, the Amalekite plutocrats ruling American politicians and the media have been in no mood to sit back and allow small time farmers to raise marijuana to compete with organized crimes’ importation and distribution of the weed. 

 

Since Clinton and a number of other high ranking government leaders have been receiving drug money for years (as established in other comments herein), government has pulled out all of the stops to go after little producers.  The little people must be put out of business at all costs. 

 

Regularly, federal black helicopters are patrolling the skies and looking for marijuana wherever it is grown.  Small time raisers and sellers of this stuff have been hotly pursued from day one.  Yet, the big boys, who really are calling the shots (and making the profits), never seem to face problems over their roles. 

 

In any case, political leaders like Slick Clinton, the Bush presidents and their evil colleagues have been busy trying to accommodate the gangs (which are making the profits and payoffs). 

 

 

The Planned Fungus 

 

The latest innovation to help the Mob make money has been the development of a genetically engineered fungus which is designed to attack and destroy marijuana plants. 

 

July 1999 news reports said that the US government would introduce this fungus in Florida (where there are a lot of small time marijuana producers) to supposedly wipe out the US production of marijuana (and thus eliminate a lot of the petty, small time competitors of organized criminals, who bring marijuana in here from Latin America and other parts of the world in mass quantities). 

 

There was a brief discussion of this scheme on the Art Bell Coast to Coast AM program on Jul 29, 1999.  This fungus was supposedly introduced into the Florida environment on July 31, 1999.  So it has concerned a number of people.  One biologist at Florida State University has expressed his opposition to the practice. 

 

He says that science does not know what will happen to other plants when this fungus is released.  Is it possible that an apocalyptic nightmare might develop to spread rapidly out of control to destroy not only marijuana, but any number of other plants and forms of vegetation? 

 

Once released, will it spread North from Florida into the rest of the United States?  These questions have not been answered.  But profits are the name of the game.  So the US government will proceed with the scheme (to help and benefit organized crime).  Experience is a dear school and fools will learn from no other. 

 

 

Animals and Other Life Forms? 

 

Scientists have proceeded beyond food into other areas--just as questionable.  Linda Howe was on the “Dreamland” program on Jan 14, 2001, with a report that the University of Oregon had now genetically engineered a monkey by altering its DNA in some manner (with the DNA of a jellyfish). 

 

A preceding chapter quoted a fascinating and tragic story from the June 3, 2002, “U.S. News & World Report” (p. 61) by Nell Boyce on “Engineered to run wild.”  The essence of Boyce’s report was the plans of scientists to now develop, produce and turn loose genetically engineered animals and life forms to ostensibly fight pests and disease. 

 

One of the species of life on the drawing board are mosquitoes (which will be further addressed in a later chapter on pollution).  While there is much thinking about producing altered life forms in seven to ten years, some people with some perception are raising questions about this present insanity (as discussed in the previous remarks on this theme). 

 

For sure, man is tampering with things which can bring on an absolute crisis in nature of unequaled proportion.  Man had better back off and leave nature alone.  Manifestly, science has now or will soon be graduating from food, monkeys and mosquitoes to so-called human beings and who knows what else! 

 

 

The Bottom Line on Diet 

 

The Nov 22, 2002, “The Week” (p. 11) put the diet problem in perspective with a report that each year 76 million Americans get sick from something they eat (per the US Centers for Disease Control).  More than 300,000 of them are hospitalized and 5,000 die annually--just from food and diet.  Therefore, is the question of diet important? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 255--Sun Worship and Health I

 

 

Modern Medicine, Drugs and Surgery 

 

Furthermore, on this just developed theme of health in the prior chapters, it should be noted that the Greek words pharmakon, pharmakia, pharmakos and pharmakus (commonly translated as Witchcraft, sorcery, etc in the KJV) are all cast in an unfavorable light as sin in the Scriptures (Gal 5:19-20; Rev 9:21; 18:23; 21:7-8; 22:14-15). 

 

It is from the meaning of these Greek words that the modern world has developed pharmacies, drug stores, drugs and medicine.  It also seems quite manifest that these words and their conceptual uses would include the so-called hard drugs on earth--such as opium, cocaine, crack, heroin, marijuana, etc, as well as prescription type medicines found in local pharmacies. 

 

Revelation 18:23 is interesting in prophesying that by the sorceries (pharmakia) of Mystery Babylon, all nations were deceived (per the KJV).  In a book on “Drugs in Prophecy” (p. 2), Sheldon Emry wrote that that text literally reads “by thy drugs were all nations drugged.” 

 

Per a 2001 survey, it has to be significant that some 80% of American adults take at least one type of medication (prescription drug, over-the-counter drug or herbal remedy), evidently daily (Jan 25, 2002, “The Week,” p. 19).  Over half of the people in the survey take prescription drugs while another 14% take over-the-counter drugs.

 

The most commonly used drugs were pain relievers such as ibuprofen, aspirin, and acetaminophen.  Women over 65 were more likely to be on drugs; and men, ages 18 to 44, were less likely. It would be very safe to say that modern Americans are truly “drugged.”

 

 

Drug Trade is Big Business 

 

Of course, in most of Adam’s history, such possibilities of drugging all of the nations (or peoples) would seem far fetched and out of the question.  But then, in the 19th century, Britain set up the Hong Kong colony for the purposes of trade with mainland China. 

 

The method of carrying this trade and commercial objective out was that the ruling British (actually Amalek-Edomites, discussed earlier in this work) got the Chinese hooked on opium which they could trade for silk and tea to export to Britain (to be addressed in some detail in a later chapter).  Even the Royal family got a slice of the action (profits, quite naturally). 

 

Well, that situation in China has proved to be only the tip of the iceberg because all kinds of similar drugs have been outlawed in the West, only to be placed into the hands of the Mafia (also largely controlled by Amalek-Edomites, rather than Sicilians, as one might suppose at first), gangsters and drug runners. 

 

Often, these drug warlords have developed connections (payoffs) with important politicians (like Christian Bill Clinton in the Mena, AR airport operations, per “The Mena Cover-up” video, discussed earlier), key government agencies (like the CIA, per “Air America” and “Double Crossed” videos and other sources), as well as the situation with the British Royal family just outlined. 

 

Truly, Mystery Babylon (managed by the international, super rich, money power, operating from behind the scenes) has made these drugs illegal (by prostitute politicians), only to be placed into the hands of international crooks (operating under the money power and controlled by them) for sale and profit. 

 

 

Other Items 

 

Caffeine, nicotine and possibly hard liquors are all similar drugs of some type.  They all are addictive and defile the temple of the body, as will be established in subsequent chapters.  The Scriptures are quite precise in condemning the hurt of the body (Deut 4:15-16; Matt 5:16; Jo 8:34-35; Rom 8:13; 12:1; I Cor 3:16-17; 6:19-20; 10:31; II Cor 7:1; Eph 2:10; II Pet 2:18-20). 

 

Truly, the world would be a better place if these things were not commercially available or at least not used by humans/humanoids.  But that’s not the way the human mind works.  As long as they are available and as long as people want them, they will be sold.  No one can stop this inevitable process. 

 

Back in the 1920s, the US tried prohibition (because of the push by prostitute politicians and ascetic Christian Churches) only to be placed into the hands of mobsters like Joseph Kennedy (father of Jack), Al Capone, Meyer Lansky and others, as noted elsewhere in other discussions herein. 

 

The big boys made bundles of bucks from prohibition. 

 

 

Drugs 

 

And for a number of years, the fat cats have been raking in the dollars in basketfulls from illegal drugs and the so-called war on drugs.  The alleged war on drugs has been specifically designed by the Amalekites, making the money, to pacify the ignorant public and make them “think” that something is being done to stop drugs; when, in fact, nothing is being done. 

 

The May 24, 2002, “The “Week” (p. 4) had a news item that the United States had spent some $929 million in its five-year war on drugs.  Now, US Drug Czar John Walters admits that this so-called war on drugs has been a failure.  The campaign has simply not reduced drug use in America.  Some $180 million annually is being spent on advertisements which teenagers simply ignore. 

 

The world drug trade (and it is a world problem, although the United States is the biggest offender) is astronomical in size.  Big money is involved.  William F. Dankenbring reports that “some put the volume of drug trafficking at the $500 billion to $1 trillion dollar range annually” (Mar-Apr 1997 “Prophecy Flash,” p. 48). 

 

In recent years, “Slick” Clinton and the forces of government started a move on tobacco products so that the Mob can take them over for distribution as well (naturally, with Bill and his friends getting a slice of the action/payoffs from the profits). 

 

Be assured that the fat cats will make far more profits out of illegal tobacco than they ever made from tobacco while it was legal (with their ownership and control of the tobacco companies).  Money is always the name of the game in the Western, sun worship culture. 

 

 

Can Doctors Be Wrong? 

 

Can the organized medical profession be wrong?  Well, they have been wrong on many occasions.  Back in 1847, a Hungarian doctor, named Ignaz Phillipp Semmelweis (1818-1865), working in an Austrian hospital, was concerned over the huge number of deaths of people whenever they were admitted to the hospital for care. 

 

Phillipp became convinced that sanitation had something to do with it.  After all, in those days, doctors never washed their hands between patients.  Consequently, a doctor might do an autopsy on the dead body of a sick person in the dissecting room and then turn to deliver a baby from a healthy woman in the maternity ward and never bother to wash his hands between the two. 

 

Well, Semmelweis questioned the practice and was denounced and ridiculed by the “approved” medical authorities and kicked off of the hospital staff.  Then, a few years later, a man named Louis Pasteur came along and proved the germ theory of disease.  So doctors began washing their hands after handling the sick. 

 

For centuries, “approved” medical science and practitioners advocated bleeding for illness.  Thus, if a sick person went to his friendly doctor, the doctor would cut him and let him bleed awhile to supposedly get well.  The elderly George Washington was sick with a bad cold. 

 

He went to his doctor and was bled.  He died, not from the cold, but from being bled to death.  Poor George should have read his Scriptures instead of relying upon the approved medical doctors of his day.  George could have lived a few more years if he would have just refused the medical cuttings of his flesh (prohibited in Lev 19:28; 21:5; Deut 14:1).  This point will be further discussed in later comments. 

 

In modern times, the “approved” medical science people began a war on salt which lasted for years.  These people, on the know it all “god” level, told the American people that salt was not good for them and that they should be on a low sodium diet for health reasons.  Then, in 1998, some studies were made public indicating that reasonable uses of salt did have health benefits. 

 

In other words, the body needs a little salt--not only for taste purposes in some instances, but also for health purposes.  The CREATOR of limited, little humans has seen forth to postulate the value of salt as a seasoning--particularly on meat, eggs, etc (Lev 2:13; Ezra 6:9; 7:22; Job 6:6; Ezek 43:24; Matt 5:13; Mk 9:49-50; Col 4:6). 

 

 

Bad Drugs 

 

About the year 1940, “smart and well meaning” doctors began prescribing a drug called diethylstilbestrol or DES (mentioned earlier) for pregnant women in the belief that it would prevent miscarriage.  But for the three million or so women who would take the drug, the stage had been set for vaginal and cervical cancer years later in the women’s daughters. 

 

By 1970, doctors in Boston began discovering the problem, then surfacing in young women whose mothers took the medicine.  In 1971, the US FDA took action to ban the drug for direct use for so-called humans (of course, the 260 or so chemical companies producing the poison merely started selling it to cattle ranchers and feedlots for consumption or injection into animals as a growth hormone, as cited earlier). 

 

Since 1971, scientists have discovered structural abnormalities in the reproductive organs of women--and some men--whose mothers took DES.  Besides the many cases of cancer, DES daughters also have high rates of menstrual problems, tubal pregnancy, miscarriage and premature delivery.  As many as half have some reproductive problem, research suggests. 

 

Another case surfaced around the years 1957 to 1961 when doctors began using a sleep inducing drug called “thalidomide” for various patients, including pregnant women.  Soon, some 8,000 babies were born physically deformed (often with flappers for arms and legs, etc) because their mothers had taken thalidomide. 

 

Starting in the 1850s, a whole host of drugs have been developed to supposedly deal with the disease problems.  As the July 1999 “Taking Aim” (p. 8) noted, the result has been epidemics of cancers and more diseases and a very rich and powerful pharmaceutical industry.  Nothing has really changed for the good. 

 

 

Modern Drugs as Well

 

An April 15, 1998, news report mentioned the danger associated with the use of modern prescription drugs.  The report outlined the serious side effects of drugs and said that 100,000 people are killed annually from modern prescription drugs (per a news report on the G. Gordon Liddy Radio Talk Show). 

 

A follow-up report in the June-July 1998 “Search the Scriptures” (p. 10) went on to note that adverse drug reactions appear to be a major cause of deaths among US hospital patients.  This report put the 1994 death rate at 106,000 annually from fatal drug reactions. 

 

While most people have a difficult time in getting it through their heads, but many of the common drugstore drugs are processed, chemical poisons and are actually harmful to one’s health--beyond the illegal ones just discussed.  For example, aspirin makes the stomach convulse and bleed internally.  Thus, there are real questions about the propriety of most all types of drugs. 

 

 

“Spotlight” on the Dilemma 

 

One of the common ailments in today’s modern society is hypertension or high blood pressure.  It is so common and routine that today in America, it affects one in every four persons. 

 

The interesting thing about hypertension is that there are slugs of drugs on the market, ostensibly used to control high blood pressure.  Some of these drugs are extremely costly and make much money for the doctors and the pharmaceutical industry. 

 

The “Spotlight” paper of Apr 30, 2001 (p. B-5), had an article by William Carmichael on “Doctors Admit They Know Little About Hypertension.”  This story title pretty well tells the tale of Carmichael’s research and findings.  William correctly noted that establishment medicrats are at odds over what to do about the problem (despite their confusion, they do continue to try to treat it). 

 

Carmichael cited several recent “scientific” studies which illustrate the confusion and lack of consensus among medical researchers.  Many of these studies and research efforts have proven to be actually contrary and conflicting--to add to the confusion and dilemma of dealing with the disease. 

 

One of the popular approaches in treating the disease is the use of calcium channel blockers (which apparently comes in several different drug forms and potencies).  Years ago, some researchers concluded that the shorter acting calcium channel blockers posed significant health risks.  Yet, some few doctors continued to prescribe them to patients. 

 

In one of the most recent studies (cited by Carmichael), Dr Marco Pahor of Wake Forest University combined some nine smaller previous studies into one new effort which involved investigators at Albert Einstein College in New York and the University of Washington in Seattle. 

 

Pahor’s work indicated that the broad use of calcium channel blockers (evidently, of all types) offered a 27% increase in the likelihood of a heart attack and a 26% increase in the risk of having a stroke.  Still, some 28 million people worldwide use the calcium channel blockers.  Per the story, some 85,000 such users will suffer unnecessary heart problems because of the drugs. 

 

Of course, the controlled medical establishment is telling patients to not get concerned (excited) over these new studies; but rather, patients should continue the treatments being prescribed by their doctors. 

 

The point of this report by William Carmichael is that so-called medical science is not on the “god-level.”  Doctors don’t know it all (though they may think and act like they know it all).  People who insist on going to their friendly AMA approved MDs need to pull their heads out of the sand and understand that MDs have made many gross, serious blunders in history.  They can be wrong! 

 

 

250,000 Deaths 

 

Through mistakes and incompetence, modern doctors now kill more people annually than auto accidents and guns combined (Jul 1999 “Taking Aim,” p. 8). 

 

The Dr Bob Martin’s radio talk show program on Dec 5, 1999, put the number of deaths annually, which are caused by mistakes by medical doctors (incompetence) or improper drugs, at 250,000 people.  On Dec 7, 1999, the US president (Slick Clinton) tried to get on board to talk about the problem (he put the annual deaths at 100,000--which means that he is either lying or just ignorant). 

 

By 2001, the Jul 2001 “American Sentinel” (p. 9) put the accidental death rate caused by physicians at 120,000 per year (which is 0.171 deaths per physician, as compared with 0.0000188 accidental deaths yearly per gun owner).  Probably, this 120,000 figure reflects only the deaths directly caused by doctors.  Perhaps the 250,000 figure by Martin consists of those caused by both doctors and bad medicine. 

 

The Dec 15, 2002, Spokane “Spokesman-Review” (p. A12) had the results of a recent survey of Americans which said that four in ten have themselves or relatives been a victim of doctor errors.  Even one in three doctors said the same thing (30% of doctors have seen errors in the past year).  Nearly 10% of these victims have died from the mistakes.  Despite the problem, all agreed that doctor mistakes are not a top priority. 

 

The interesting thing about these numbers is that they are accelerating up each year.  Things are getting worse and not better, despite all the hype and lies told to the public by the nation’s leaders. 

 

For example, a man in England went into a local hospital to have a bad kidney removed.  Instead of taking out the supposedly bad kidney, the surgeon removed the man’s good kidney.  A news report on Jan 28, 2000, said that the man was in critical condition from the “adverse clinical action.”  This writer heard no more about the incident.  So the man must have died. 

 

Medical malpractice is a common occurrence these days--either involving the administration of bad drugs or some stupid blunder by a surgeon.  It is not uncommon at all that surgeons become confused and take out good organs, while leaving bad ones in a person.  Medical blunders are so prevalent that malpractice insurance premiums for doctors have went out of the sky (which also drives medical costs up). 

 

A Jan 19, 2003, report in the “Idaho Spokesman-Review” (p. A3) noted that a study found that surgeons accidentally leave medal clamps, electrodes, sponges and other tools inside about 1,500 US surgery patients a year.  These mistakes often cause tears, obstructions, infections, another operation and/or death. 

 

Another factor entered the equation from a news report on July 20, 2002, which said that the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta had released a statement saying that in the year 2000, some 100,000 people died from infections and problems surfacing from their hospitalizations.  Apparently, this 100,000 must be added to the above stated 250,000 deaths. 

 

The point being is that when a sick person goes to the approved medical profession to consult its doctors, take its drugs or go into its hospitals, there is a significant probability of dying--either from catching a disease or problem at the hospital, experiencing a bad reaction to the prescribed drugs or dying from the malpractice or incompetence of the AMA approved doctor. 

 

 

Andrea Yates 

 

Besides the direct deaths of huge numbers of people annually from doctor administered drugs, there is another fall-out to this problem--in the context of indirectly related deaths and tragedies.  For example, a woman named Andrea Yates in Houston, TX went to her friendly drug oriented MD for depression.  He gave her some potent drugs to supposedly relax and help her. 

 

According to the July 2, 2001, “Newsweek” (p. 24), she took a powerful anti-psychotic drug called Haldol.  In time, her “supposedly informed” doctor took her off of Haldol and put her on some other medication.  “Newsweek” said, per the existing hindsight, that this was “an unfortunate step.” 

 

Unbeknown to the poor woman, the new drugs (or the doctor directed switching of the drugs) were inclined to make people emotionally and mentally destabilized (literally, to go crazy or almost crazy).  So the woman took the drugs.  On June 20, 2001, she flipped and proceeded to murder her five kids by drowning them in the bathtub while she was drugged up. 

 

There is another fall-out of this tragic Andrea Yates story.  She was tried in March 2002 for capital murder and found guilty (and given life imprisonment).  Surely, this whole thing turned out to be a terrible nightmare for her--however innocent or guilty she truly could have been. 

 

In listening to the public’s reactions, many persons were upset that Andrea’s husband was not also tried and found guilty.  After all, he was the head of her person and her household.  Instead of caring for her and expressing some concern over her plight, it seems that he merely continued to keep her pregnant. 

 

However, there is still one more disturbing feature of this whole theme.  This writer leans more in the direction that the doctor involved was the primary culprit.  This is not to take away any of the responsibility for the murder of those children from the father and mother.  Surely, they were both guilty. 

 

But in all fairness, the most guilty person of all was the doctor who prescribed the bad medication for the poor woman, and apparently gave her no help whatsoever (but like other doctors, this one was assuredly on the “god” level).  Howbeit, in our modern, enlightened society, it’s hard to pin anything on worthless doctors who may be incompetent or simply just ignorant on the use of the drugs that they prescribe. 

 

 

Drugging Up Children 

 

One of the incredible phenomenons of the post American culture, following WWII, has been the increasing use of drugs by doctors to drug up children on the pretext that something is wrong with modern kids (actually, commentary below and in later chapters will suggest that there are forces at work to cause problems for all persons, including children, as will be sufficiently established). 

 

The now present alleged problems with children are typically classified as “attention deficit disorders.”  Several powerful drugs are used by the professional medical society to treat kids--like Ritalin, Concerta, Metadate, Dexedrine, and/or Adderall. 

 

But substantially more problems are coming down the pike on this subject, as was illustrated in remarks in the April 2002 “American Sentinel” (p. 1-3).  The Sentinel focused upon current plans and schemes emanating in the US Department of Education and the Social Security Administration by Washington bureaucrats. 

 

What is happening is that these agencies are busy pushing highly addictive psychotropic narcotics to millions of American children on the pretext of solving their problems instead of focusing upon the failed American public education system (which is much of the problem). 

 

Some 40% of the drugs being used go to children, aged three to nine, and many for children even younger.  There is an obsession in the American society that a pill (or the American dollar) can cure anything.  But that belief is not the truth! 

 

The latest scheme is that Big Brother in Washington will reimburse local school districts that classify children as “problem kids” or “learning impaired kids,” and then prescribe some of these powerful behavior altering drugs to supposedly help the children.  Today, some five million American children are being treated by these drugs, in the sense that the so-called attention deficit disorder is a medical disability. 

 

The Sentinel asks if the cited drugs might be the cause of the shootings by children during the Clinton era?  This source then outlined the case of a boy named Eric Harris, who made fame when he became one of the gunmen to shoot people in Littleton, Colorado at Columbine High (to be discussed in later chapters). 

 

Eric had been drugged up with the psychotropic drug “Luvot” before his killing spree.  He and his partner killed fifteen persons.  This tragedy is much like the situation with Andrea Yates, as described in the above comments herein.  Poor Andrea was likewise drugged up when she murdered her five small children in a bathtub. 

 

 

Dr Peter Breggin 

 

Dr Peter Breggin, Director of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology, testified before Congress and noted the addictive nature of these drugs being given small kids today on the premise of treating Attention Deficit Disorders.  Breggin placed some of these drugs in the same category as cocaine. 

 

His statement was borne out earlier (in May 2000) in a report from the US Drug Enforcement Agency which said that Ritalin produces “behavioral, psychological, subjective and reinforcing effects similar to cocaine.” 

 

The National Institute of Health’s Consensus Development Conference and the American Academy of Pediatrics said that there is no biological basis for Attention Deficit Disorders and that “Any brain abnormalities in these children are almost certainly caused by prior exposure to psychiatric medication.” 

 

Dr Breggin added that “Stimulants often become gateway drugs to additional psychiatric medications.  Stimulant-induced over-medication, for example, is often treated with addictive or dangerous sedatives, while stimulant-induced depression is often treated with dangerous, unapproved antidepressants. 

 

“As the child’s emotional control breaks down due to the medication’s effects, mood stabilizers may be added.  Eventually, these children end up on four or five psychiatric drugs at once and a diagnosis of bipolar disorder by the age of eight or ten.” 

 

The Sentinel offered three conclusions from this new federal program of financing these drugs for children. 

 

They are (1)  Shifting the blame or responsibility for the problems away from parents and institutional deficiencies in both raising and educating children.  (2)  By drugging kids, it allows bureaucrats and parents to avoid the critical issues of education reform.  And (3)  Forcing kids into conformity with the bureaucratic system. 

 

 

More on the Mental Problems 

 

Incidentally, there could be and probably are several reasons why that young children (as cited above) are coming on the scene with mental problems.  In fact, the growing presence of mental problems in the generic population has been commented upon by the US Surgeon General (his words and conclusions will be broached in a subsequent chapter herein). 

 

Suffice to say, people in the modern Christian West (and particularly, in the United States in that context) are showing enormous evidence of something being wrong that is affecting the general population.  The problem seems to be endemic for our time and age. 

 

For a start place here, Dr Len Horowitz (in his Prophecy Club video on “Anthrax, Small Pox, Vaccinations & the Mark”) makes the case that much of the dilemma is due to the increasing practice of vaccinations.  Dr Horowitz and his work, exposing the problems of vaccines, will be described in some detail in the following chapter.  Suffice to say, it is the real world out there. 

 

As just noted above, the determination of what is wrong with the increasing mental problems of small children is undoubtedly a complex and complicated question.  For sure, one of the most horrible features of today’s world is television. 

 

The Jan-Apr 2002 “Hebrew Roots” (p. 36) had a short report on “Television’s Bad influence” which said that an 18-year study of 707 families in upstate New York had found that adolescents watching more than an hour of TV a day had a greater tendency to be violent in later years.  Probably, this reality is one of the reasons that teenagers can be so violent and aggressive today. 

 

In mentioning some obvious problems with television, in terms of growing and developing children, it might not be just problems with the tube, per se.  But rather, it might be the programming (most of which is quite pathetic, evil and sick).  This theme will be further explored in later comments. 

 

 

Some Incompetence 

 

Otherwise, the ABC “World News Tonight” program with Peter Jennings on May 11, 1998, focused on mistakes and acts of incompetence by supposedly licensed and trained pharmacists to prepare and sell harmful prescription drugs to innocent people (as briefly allowed in the above comments). 

 

The story mentioned recent cases of pharmaceutical mistakes of incorrectly filling prescriptions with wrong drugs which actually killed or permanently injured people who went on to take them.  Children are particularly vulnerable to improper and adverse drugs that they may mistakenly take.  Of course, the drug industry tried to explain that pharmacists are overworked; and being human, they make mistakes. 

 

US drug sales are now pegged at $182 billion annually.  In treating the adverse reactions to drugs, another $183 billion is spent annually on more drugs. 

 

 

Some Corruption 

 

April 2002 saw the American news sources ablaze with a story out of the heartland about a pharmacist who had been caught watering down the drugs he prepared for tens of thousands of patients over some years. 

 

Apparently, the motive by this pharmacist was profits and gain.  By cutting the actual quantity of expensive drugs used and substituting some inert fillers, the man was able to increase his profit and gain considerably.  However, if the actual quantities prescribed by doctors were truly needed, then the argument can be made that their recoveries and/or restorations to health were adversely affected. 

 

Alternatively, the case can be made that this crook actually helped some of the people he served by cutting the quantities of poisonous drugs prescribed for them by their evil doctors.  So the situation with this pharmacist may not have been all bad as the controlled national media painted the picture. 

 

The April 26, 2002, “The Week” (p. 19) had a story on “Bogus drugs rampant” which said that ten percent of all drugs sold worldwide are fakes (per the World Health Organization).  Reportedly, unscrupulous vendors sell counterfeit drugs (and even vaccines that turned out to be tap water) to unsuspecting people (particularly, in the Third Word) in order to maximize profits. 

 

The World Health Organization claims that the sale of these fake drugs caused untold numbers of preventable deaths.  Supposedly, regulatory agencies in many countries simply lack the means and expertise to check the quality of the drugs being sold in their countries. 

 

 

A National Health Scandal 

 

The May 3, 2002, “The Week” (p. 37) had a news report on “Healthcare;  A Scandal worse than Enron” which laid out some more of the enormous problems now surfacing in the US health care system. 

 

This article quoted Sebastian Mallaby in the “Washington Post,” who said that doctors are now doubling for Arthur Anderson (the auditing firm accused of corruption in the Enron scandal that whacked the nation in early 2002). 

 

In 2001, drug companies spend $7 billion to send gift-laden salesmen to woo US doctors and another $2 billion to schedule events for them.  Some doctors peddle discounted drugs to their patients for full price (this process is costing the US Medicare system several extra hundred millions of dollars annually).  Hospitals (and surely pharmacists) also join in on the scam of jacking up drug prices. 

 

Because medical insurance premiums have been going through the ceilings (from all of the dishonesty present), a coalition of businesses, state governments and the American Association of Retired Persons have launched an effort to require the drug and pharmaceutical industry to adopt a voluntary code of standards to “temper the worst of its marketing abuses.” 

 

Will anything come of this new effort?  Well assuredly, the answer is no.  And the reason is simply because of the status quo in Washington where the drug industry and the AMA approved medical profession are quite happy with the present arrangement.  No one in Washington wants any changes to the present system. 

 

 

New Bugs From Modern Hospitals 

 

A news report in the Apr-May 1998 “Prophecy Flash” (p. 17-18) said that doctors and hospital administrators are trying to keep it quiet; but deadly new strains of drug-resistant bacteria, parasites and fungi are rapidly spreading throughout American hospitals. 

 

Hospitals are becoming the breeding grounds for horrifying drug resistant bacteria which could precipitate a plague.  In 1997, some 2 million people caught hospital infections and 77,000 died.  Health officials are keeping this material secret, lest they cause a panic and unwanted law suits. 

 

A news report in the June-July 1998, “Search the Scriptures” (p. 10) also focused on this problem and noted that these new “super-bug” bacteria defy all known antibiotics.  The dilemma was laid at the doorsteps of the careless use of antibiotics and slipshod hygiene, apparently by the medical profession. 

 

A friend of this writer once remarked that these modern unscriptural hospitals (and they are totally unscriptural) are the homes and hideouts of a vast array of demonic forces (or at least, they are the focal point of the mental telepathy of a huge assortment of wicked demons).  This charge could have some real merit. 

 

Not only is there an explosion in new bacteria, both in and out of hospitals, but there is a growing problem in trying to treat all infectious problems because some 50% of the American population is now immune to antibiotics (discussed on the Doctor Bob Martin’s radio talk show program on Aug 29, 1999).  A shot of penicillin is no longer the answer. 

 

 

Maggots? 

 

The April 8, 2002, “American Free Press” (p. 2) had a news report from the Kansas City, Missouri Veteran’s Administration Medical Center.  In two separate instances, maggots were found in the mouths of comatose men in the intensive care unit.  Upon discovery of the problem, the hospital administrators hung insect light traps to try and catch the breeding flies. 

 

In addition to the fly and maggot problems, a report at the hospital said that the facility was completely infested by mice, with droppings and dead carcasses found on food shelves, in the cafeteria, and in patient’s rooms.  If this pathetic condition is present at the Kansas City VA hospital, one can be sure that it exists in other US hospitals as well. 

 

Normally, the VA hospitals have more money than others to deal with sanitation problems.  Apparently, the unlimited federal bucks that the VA usually seems to have did not stop these gross problems from developing. 

 

 

More Stupid Mistakes 

 

In terms of grossly stupid mistakes which have had far reaching implications, some hospitals have mistakenly switched babies at birth with different parents.  The most notable case of this was the one involving Kimberly Mayes, a few years ago in Florida.  

 

A Black nurse mistakenly switched Kimberly and another baby girl, giving them to the wrong parents.  In time, the other little girl died, but Kimberly survived.  Many years passed before the event became public knowledge.  A court conflict developed between the parents for possession of Kimberly.  Her life was assuredly messed up over this incompetence. 

 

In early August 1998, news reports surfaced showing that a hospital in Charlottesville, VA mistakenly switched two little girls three years earlier, giving them to the wrong parents.  Again, another tragedy occurred of incredible proportions.  With these two known cases, the question must be asked about how many more have happened which never become public knowledge? 

 

Another classic illustration of how bad and wrong the organized medical profession has been and can be surfaced in a news report from the “Guardian Weekly” (of 4-6-97), as cited in the July 1997 “New Beginnings” (p. 13). 

 

This report indicated that British doctors had revised their code of ethics to recognize abortions and the fact that the prolonging of life is not paramount.  In other words, they have no professional ethics, except to conform to the whims of society at large.  Give the people whatever they want. 

 

The point is that hospitals, medical doctors and pharmacists are not on the “god” level, as many of them think and act and as the gullible, ignorant public insists on believing.  Many people in the public domain are so stupid and ignorant about things that matter that they hide their eyes from history and reality (which dogmatically proves that the medical profession has had and indeed still has some major problems). 

 

 

Dentists, Too? 

 

It goes without saying that dentists are also in on the incompetence and stupidity act followed by much or most of the approved medical profession.  This writer went to a dentist to check for a cavity in February 2000.  He didn’t find any cavities.  But he took after me, trying to see if he could get some more money from me. 

 

First, he pushed a mouthwash called Perio Gard (Chlorhexidine Gluconate) on me which cost $17 for a small bottle.  This stuff is sold by prescription only and has a warning sign to keep it out of the reach of children.  It appears to be a deadly poison designed to kill mouth bacteria which might affect teeth. 

 

But since we ingest and assimilate things in the mouth and through the skin, what will this poison do to one’s health otherwise? 

 

In the second instance, he tried to sell me on the benefits of having a new type of teeth cleaning where the gums are pulled back and the teeth roots are “cleaned” (obviously, requiring a drug to numb the nerves for this exercise).  This may sound well and good, but what will happen in the future once the gums have been pulled loose from their foundation?  Of course, this whole process seems extremely unnatural and stupid. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 256--Sun Worship and Health II

 

 

Vaccinations and Surgery 

 

Beyond the obvious for all forms of drugs (as described in the previous chapter), there is concern over vaccinations, surgery and blood transfusions, as advocated and practiced by the modern medical profession (which have received some emphases from sun worshipping Jehovah’s Witnesses over the years).  Blood transfusions have caused some focus since “life” is in the blood--along with diseases, poisons, etc. 

 

Additionally, as pointed out in prior comments, the Scriptures raise some very valid questions on allowing the cutting, puncturing or mutilations of the human flesh in any situation (Lev 19:28; 21:5; Deut 14:1; Jer 16:6; 48:37; I Cor 6:15; I Thes 5:23).  Yes, poor George Washington, mentioned before, goofed when he let the society’s approved medical doctors work on him. 

 

Male circumcision would be an obvious exception to these cutting, puncturing and mutilation restrictions.  Male circumcision is required by a positive command of YHWH (which usually takes precedence over negative commands, as discussed earlier).  It is still for followers of Truth today, though Christendom ignorantly supposes that it was done away with in their repudiation of YAH’s Torah. 

 

Though male circumcision would be clearly required, per the existing mitzwah, one must wonder about the situation that arises when an already circumcised male decides to convert to Judaism and must undergo a further cutting and drawing of blood as Orthodox and Conservative Jews require for proselytes?  Would any further cuttings be in conflict with the negative mitzwah that prohibits cuttings, etc? 

 

Also, one must wonder about what to do when a boil, blister, pimple or other infection arises which often needs to be lanced or punctured to drain the puss and infectious substance.  How should a believer react here?  As a minimum, prayer is called for before acting. 

 

Or how about the situation that arises when a person is injured and needs restorative surgery (which seems to be Scriptural, as will be covered later)?  In compound fractures or other tears and lacerations of the flesh, some restorative surgery may be crucially important.  Obviously,  there has to be some question about this mitzwah.  For sure, prayer is required in such complex situations. 

 

In another matter, the May 24, 2002, “The Week” (p. 19) had a news item which said that girls who allow their ears to be pierced are more than twice as likely as other girls to be involved in smoking, having sex and skipping school. 

 

These girls are more than three times as likely to be involved in shoplifting and scrawling graffiti or having friends who use drugs and alcohol.  As a minimum, girls who pierce their ears are more rebellious than other girls. 

 

Of course, uncalled for or unnecessary cuttings, puncturings and mutilations would clearly be prohibted in the Scriptures cited above.  Otherwise,  the case can be made that the restriction in the cutting, puncturing or mutilation of so-called human flesh may apply in the main in the vein of religious ritual cuttings, etc and not necessarily in all cuttings and puncturings in general. 

 

Too, the prohibition may be a general negative restriction or limitation with a reality that there could be legitimate positive mitzwot which would allow certain cuttings or puncturings of the flesh (like in the case of preserving life, if that need can be supported as a positive mitzwah as Jews maintain). 

 

Anyway, the mitzwah is plain enough that a person has to go slow when facing the prospect of a cutting or puncturing of the flesh for whatever reason.  As a minimum, the believer must pray about the matter. 

 

 

More on Vaccinations 

 

Moreover, “The Prophecy Club Newsletter” of May/June 1997 (p. 4) had some comments by Neil Miller on “Vaccines:  Are They Safe & Effective” which reported that the live-virus polio vaccine is the major cause of polio in the US today. 

 

Miller also indicated that the diphtheria and tetanus vaccines are stabilized with formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, and that the measles and pertussis vaccines may cause seizures, brain damage and death. 

 

Vaccinations raise still further questions about their propriety for believers in YHWH YESHUA.  Often they are made from the blood and diseased tissues of unclean animals, as well as clean ones--obviously, in potential conflict with YHWH’s Torah (Lev 17:10-15; 19:26; 22:8, 19-25; I Cor 3:16-17). 

 

The latest complaint over vaccinations was broached in an article on “Autism, Linked to Vaccines, Fillings” in the April 29, 2002, “American Free Press” (p. B-1).  This report suggested that certain vaccines contain the mercury-based preservative thimerosal which puts vaccinated people at a higher risk for mercury poisoning. 

 

 

Dr Len Horowitz, Revisited 

 

The linkage of mental disorders in children to vaccinations was broached in the former chapter.  Brief mention was made of Dr Len Horowitz and his conclusions connecting mental problems to the increasing use of vaccinations (as discussed in his Prophecy Club video on “Anthrax, Small Pox, Vaccinations & the Mark”). 

 

Horowitz says that besides starting epidemics and actually inducing some diseases (as will be explained in detail in comments to follow), some vaccines have significant quantities of poisonous mercury, as just cited above.  Len suggests that the mercury ingredient in some vaccines literally poisons the brains of young children.  Horowitz particularly focused upon autism (per the above story in the “American Free Press”). 

 

For years now, many concerned health oriented persons have expressed apprehension over tooth fillings with amalgam which contain about fifty percent mercury.  There has been much speculation that these tooth fillings also transmit mercury poisoning to the effected people (too, there can be problems with mercury based thermometers, as well as poisonous aluminum cookware). 

 

Anyway, these possible sources of mercury poisoning have prompted a group of parents to sue the drug companies and dental associations responsible for this work of evil pushed upon the American public.  The “American Free Press” article contained the details of this lawsuit which is focused upon allegations of autism in children being linked to this mercury poisoning. 

 

Earlier, in the year 2002, the US Congress (Representative Dan Burton’s committee) held public hearings on the attention deficit disorder problems in small children. 

 

Dr Horowitz testified before this session.  He indicates that he laid out the problem to the US Congress.  While this sounds well and good, the truth is that nothing will be done by the government because there seems to be some extraordinary and powerful reasons pushing vaccinations (as will be described in comments to follow). 

 

 

More on Dr Len Horowitz 

 

In July 1989, the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia released information that a Florida dentist had transmitted the AIDS virus to some of his patients (at least four, as it later developed).  The dentist died on September 3rd of that year.  The significance of this report was that initially Big Brother tried to hide and cover up this story before finally letting it become public. 

 

The reason for the eventual release was because of the work of Dr Len Horowitz (quoted above and in the preceding chapter), then of the Boston area (but living in Sagle, Idaho, near Sandpoint, after 2000). 

 

Dr Horowitz did an independent investigation that uncovered the links between the Florida dentist and his patients who came down with the AIDS.  Horowitz was a dentist himself.  He had had extensive training in public health, and was on the staff of a national dental association. 

 

This event encouraged the Massachusetts dentist to begin an extensive investigation of the whole AIDS question for the next several years (per the “AIDS, EBOLA and Vaccinations” video).  In time, he found that the US military was and had been for many years extensively involved in biological research--primarily at Fort Detrick, Maryland. 

 

One of the types of research going on there was with the implanting of viruses in various animals (monkeys, chickens, etc) and combining and transplanting them into other animals to see what all could be done with them.

 

Several recent investigators suggest that this work was being done deliberately in an effort to develop methods to reduce world population, as seems to be one of the goals of the fat cat world rulers (to be discussed in a later chapter). 

 

Some of these diseased animals and transplanted viruses allegedly provided the source for a number of vaccines, including a hepatitis B vaccine--which was used (either deliberately by design or accidentally, as one key researcher told Horowitz) in New York City and Central Africa in 1974. 

 

Allegedly, it was some of these “contaminated” vaccines (with the first AIDS virus) which caused the mysterious surfacing of AIDS. 

 

These findings by Horowitz prompted him to begin a lengthy investigation of EBOLA and the whole vaccine question.  He believes that EBOLA is another recent disease that owes its origin to US research on biological weapons which was produced and used either deliberately or by accident. 

 

 

The West Nile Virus 

 

Horowitz appeared on the Coast to Coast radio program on Sep 10, 2000, with Ian Punnett.  During this interview, Horowitz also made the case that the West Nile virus (the dangers of which will be discussed in later comments below) also was made in a US laboratory.  Specifically, he charges that a subsidiary of Litton Industries first made the virus in one of its labs some 30 years ago and called it “Dawson’s Encephalitis.” 

 

Litton has been heavily involved in work for the US defense establishment (the military-industrial complex, first mentioned by President Eisenhower).  Apparently, the West Nile virus was made for the US Defense Department (per Horowitz).  The years passed and it wasn’t used until some of the scientists involved on the project found that they could produce an immunization against the disease. 

 

Thereupon, Horowitz says that Litton released it in New York City with a goal of making money from the effort by later producing the vaccine and selling it to the public.  Since the disease has been found in the Upper Nile region of Africa in recent years, one must allow that Litton has also released the virus in Africa--perhaps earlier or in conjunction with the New York release. 

 

Regardless of where and how this program was kicked off, it has proceeded as planned.  Even the vaccine has made its appearance and is now being used in limited ways to vaccinate some people who could be especially vulnerable to the disease (like small children and the aged). 

 

In the meantime, the US government authorities (perhaps working with and/or in consultation with people at Litton Industries) saw an opportunity to also enter the picture.  One of the goals of people in power (as will be assessed in a later chapter) is population reduction.  This scheme is not publicly discussed, as it would cause an uproar.  But it is the real world, as will later be addressed. 

 

 

The Plutocratic Rockefellers 

 

The Rockefeller family (with their control over much of the petroleum, petro-chemical and pharmaceutical industries) has been one of the leaders in forcing drugs upon the American people for healing purposes (as elsewhere described herein). 

 

But in recent years, the Rockefellers have assumed some role in the global population control schemes and projects (primarily through the work of their henchman, Dr Henry Kissinger, an alleged Amalekite worker of evil). 

 

This new West Nile virus outbreak in New York opened the door for the Rockefellers and the US government to come in and start massive spraying campaigns to kill mosquitoes carrying the disease (by using some of the Rockefellers’ most deadly pesticide poisons).  The effects of this spraying campaign in New York are described in other chapters herein and need no particular focus in this present discussion. 

 

However, Horowitz claims that not only have the Rockefellers been making money every time these poisons are sprayed, but there is a still bigger fallout in that the poisons cause cancer and ultimately death to the people exposed to them.  The reality of the use of these poisonous chemicals will be discussed in later chapters.  Suffice to say, there is a real fall-out from using them (in that they cause cancer and death). 

 

The bottom line here, on the West Nile virus, per Horowitz, is that several benefits arose in the whole exercise.  First, Litton has made and will make some money as its vaccine is used.  The Rockefellers have made and will make money as their poisonous chemical sprays are used. 

 

Finally, the planners and schemers in the government and private sectors (like Kissinger and the Rockefellers) will be pleased as numbers of people are murdered in order to facilitate the global population control process.  In other words, everybody at the top stands to benefit in this undertaking. 

 

Though not mentioned by Horowitz, there is another interesting phenomenon about the West Nile virus.  Besides the US, it is also in Israel and Saudi Arabia.  The Dec 2000 “Internet Vortex” (p. 3) asked-- “Coincidence that all these countries are enemies of Iraq?”  Thus, a question must arise if this virus could have come from Iraq or some other militant Muslim state in some manner? 

 

 

Still More on the Work of Horowitz 

 

But one of the interesting things about Horowitz’s work is that it has revealed important questions about the propriety of making and using vaccines in the first place.  Of course, most of them come from the tissues of unclean animals (as noted above), and sometimes, become contaminated for whatever reason. 

 

Contaminated batches can cause not only the disease (for the vaccine), but all kinds of other problems as well.  In other words, every time Big Brother begins a vaccination program for a certain disease, there is an upsurge of vaccinated people coming down with that disease for various and sundry reasons. 

 

Another problem comes from bad reactions to vaccines.  The flu vaccine used in early 2000 caused a number of deaths from bad reactions (per a news report on Jan 13, 2000). 

 

Horowitz noted that sometimes when the disease has run its course in society and was on the way out, the vaccine is introduced and used to cause a re-emergence of the disease (as happened with polio, when the Salk and Sabine vaccines were introduced). 

 

 

The 2001 Anthrax Letters 

 

Concurrently, with the September 11, 2001, terrorists attacks in New York and Washington (which will be addressed in some detail in subsequent chapters), another strange thing happened. 

 

All of a sudden there were several post office mailings of the anthrax bacteria to various parties--primarily, in Florida, New Jersey, New York and Washington, DC (as elsewhere noted herein).  As a result of opening this mail, some few people were killed and several others were hospitalized. 

 

The FBI spent the following months investigating these mailings, supposedly in an effort to establish who made the mailings and why.  At first, there was much concern that these anthrax mailings were directly related to the Muslim terrorist attacks.  But this belief later changed (beyond the reality of the timing which was an interesting coincidence). 

 

In early 2002, the whole issue on the anthrax mailings remained a giant mystery.  However, the January 4, 2002, “Idaho Observer” (p. 12) had a story on the work of the above quoted Dr Len Horowitz, now of Sagle, Idaho. 

 

The “Idaho Observer’s” report was in a story on “Report links military-industrial suspects and contractors to anthrax mailing mystery.”  The essence of this story was that Horowitz did a very detailed study of the anthrax mailings and found an intricate web of pharmaceutical companies and government agencies which offered the most logical explanation on what happened. 

 

As will be established in later chapters on the conniving and plotting of the Rockefellers in pushing drugs upon the American public, the Rockefellers and other fat cats are closely linked to the huge pharmaceutical companies.  Obviously, every time a health crisis surfaces, the Rockefellers and other plutocratic drug bosses all stand to make a bundle of bucks. 

 

Horowitz believes that this combine was responsible for the anthrax mailings.  The motive was simply to hype up the politicians, media and public with the hypothetical need for the manufacture of massive doses of anthrax vaccine to be given to people if this form of terrorism resurfaces.  The pharmaceutical companies stand to make a barrel of money over these incidents ($1 billion, per Horowitz). 

 

A final word must be said about Horowitz.  The man is a Messianic Jew and appears to be both extremely intelligent and sincere.  He has a huge assortment of credentials with graduate degrees from Tufts and Harvard.  Moreover, his work has involved material from the US government and public sources, which by and large cannot be disputed.  So his words must be taken seriously. 

 

 

Captain Joyce Riley 

 

Captain Joyce Riley was a US Air Force Flight Nurse during Bush’s Gulf War in 1991--conducted on behalf of the large international banks which had loaned money to Kuwait that could not be repaid (with Iraq’s seizure of the Kuwait oil fields), and because of the wishes of international oil companies (which also stood to lose money with those oil field seizures). 

 

Though Riley did not go to Saudi Arabia, she was actively involved in the evacuation and treatment of sick, Gulf War veterans--many with the so-called Gulf War Syndrome.  It wasn’t too long that she too came down with the same sickness.  This prompted her to begin an investigation into the disease and the political cover-up associated with it. 

 

She has followed up this initial inquiry with a nationwide lecture campaign to alert as many people as possible to the disease and its apparent source.  In one of these lectures presented in Houston, Texas on January 15, 1996, she asserted that various United States manufacturers made a number of biological and chemical agents, some of which were sold to Saddam Hussein in 1989. 

 

During the Gulf War, Saddam merely turned the agents on US Forces (principally, by the SCUD missiles fired by Iraq into American forces); and also, possibly some came from contaminated vaccines administered by US authorities, as will be next discussed (per her lecture on “Gulf War Syndrome, Biological Warfare Conducted on U.S. Military Members, and Corporate Bio-Genocide Levied on the Planetary Population,” as transcribed by the Leading Edge Research Group and available over the Internet on May 8, 1997). 

 

Beyond the Iraq spread of biological agents, apparently causing the disease, Riley notes that the Department of Defense has been actively involved in a massive vaccination campaign for all kinds of things largely unheard of in the medical profession (as just allowed above).  She suggests that a newer, similar virus is being transmitted to military members presently (in 1997), worldwide through these vaccines. 

 

She puts the death rate from this Gulf War Syndrome at some 10,000 to 12,000 veterans by 1996.  Evidently, the disease is contagious and is now spreading to veterans’ wives and children.  Riley notes that America has likewise developed a deadly Anthrax toxin that also was shared with Saddam.  Some said that Hussein was ready to use this agent, as well as Botulism on the American people. 

 

Like Horowitz, Joyce went back and did some research into US experiments in the 1970s with various germ and biological agents.  She also concluded and presented evidence suggesting laboratory work with supposed vaccines as being the source for both the AIDS and EBOLA viruses. 

 

She believes that the fat cats and ruling plutocrats have a goal of worldwide population reductions primarily using vaccines (to be discussed in a later chapter). 

 

 

Dr William Douglas 

 

The November 1999 “Internet Vortex” (p. 4) had a news report on the work of Dr William Douglas in his newsletter “Second Opinion” (for Oct 1999).  Dr Douglas has a different slant on the Gulf War Syndrome (GWS).  Douglas thinks that it is due to aspartame poisoning from diet soft drinks.  Aspartame, as a poison, has been mentioned in a previous chapter herein. 

 

During the Gulf War, several thousand pallets of diet drinks were shipped to the desert war zone.  They sat out in the 120 degree hot Arabian sun for weeks at a time.  Per Douglas, heat can liberate methanol from aspartame at 86 degrees Fahrenheit.  When the US military drank them, they were poisoned. 

 

Dr Douglas says that in at least 60 GWS cases, the sick people experienced burning tongues and other problems associated with aspartame poisoning.  The conclusion is that if a person is going to drink this stuff, it must be kept cool at all times.  That brings up another point since aspartame is sold in hot drinks--like cocoa, tea, etc.  As it is heated before drinking, is it safe to drink? 

 

Perhaps the better approach on food and drink is the one already outlined in a former chapter herein.  Man should eat those foods mentioned in the Scriptures.  And he should eat those foods in their natural states as much as possible without processing or alteration by man. 

 

 

More on the Disease 

 

Actually, most health experts say that the Gulf War disease is a combination of vaccines, exposure to toxins and depleted uranium rounds.  The American use of depleted uranium in shells and bombs will be addressed in a later chapter herein. 

 

Furthermore, on this course, it is interesting that a November 2000 news report said that the Pentagon finally admitted that some 30,000 Persian Gulf War veterans could have come into contact with sarin nerve gas (Dec 4, 2000, “Spotlight,” p. 2). 

 

Finally, the latest twist on this sickness came in January 2002 when the Pentagon and the Veterans Administration again reiterated the reality of the disease and said that survivors would be eligible for disability and survivor benefits.  This time, the position has been taken that the problem can lead to Lou Gehrig’s disease (Jan 21, 2002, “American Free Press,” p. 2). 

 

 

The Christian Focus 

 

There is an old adage that has been around for a long time and which reportedly was first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin.  It is that “an ounce of prevention is worth as much or more than a pound of cure.” 

 

And while the Christian approach to health has never operated on that premise, it is abundantly clear that the health focus for people should be on prevention (as is the Scriptural approach) and not so much on cure (as is true in Christendom).  Manifestly, Christianity has missed the point on health in its 2,000 years of rule over the Adamic nations. 

 

 

Using Swine

 

Besides the vaccine link, discussed above, it should be noted that modern “medical science” has turned to the use of organs from unclean animals as treatments or transplants.  A news report on Dec 12, 1998, said that a woman awaiting a human transplant in Portland, OR had received a pig-liver treatment where her blood was filtered through a pig liver in a biological dialysis procedure. 

 

The January 1, 2000, “Newsweek” (p. 87-88) had a story by Geoffrey Cowley on “A Pig May Someday Save Your Life” which outlined more on the bio-tech plans of man.  Cowley’s report also had a story of a boy whose blood was also filtered by a pig liver in Dallas, TX. 

 

The next step up in this move to use dirty hogs in the medical care of humans has already occurred.  Cowley says that physicians are presently using various pig components in transplant operations (heart valves, clotting factors, islet cells, brain cells, etc).  Plans are underway to next use whole organs as transplants for humans.  

 

One of the problems that these so-called medical scientists face is that humans tend to reject the pig organs in an “hyperacute reaction.”  To get around this problem, anti-rejection drugs are given to the human victim. 

 

 

Modern “Progress” 

 

Alternatively, bio-tech scientists are experimenting by feeding or injecting certain protein factors into pigs which are similar to the ones used by humans.  With this method, it is not necessary to dose the human victim with anti-rejection drugs, since the pig has been grown with certain qualities present which make the swine organs more compatible with the human body. 

 

Therefore, researchers in both Europe and America are breeding pigs which can be soon used for organ transplants.  This pig transplant business is expected to reach $6 billion annually by 2010. 

 

In the realm of progress on using pigs for human organ transplants, “Newsweek” of August 28, 2000 (p. 49), had a follow up article by Erika Check on “Cloning Pigs for Parts.”  Check noted that a team of “scientists” in Scotland had successfully cloned five little pigs in one litter from one mother.  There is hope that gene research can enhance the probability of using pig organs in human transplants. 

 

A news report of Mar 24, 2001, noted that cloned animals develop genetic problems as they age.  A news report in early January 2002 said that the ewe cloned a few years ago in Britain (Dolly) has had arthritis in her joints (she soon died from her deteriorating heath condition).  There is now concern that cloned animals may quickly develop health problems.  After all, they are aberrations--contrary to nature. 

 

Thus, a question must arise over using these defective organs which will have later genetic problems.  Actually, the whole cloning operation is too stupid to be pursued by intelligent men.  But work continues on it--and now, with pigs. 

 

As just noted above, there is a problem with humans rejecting pig organs in an “hyperacute reaction.”  Specifically, pig organs carry sugar molecules which act as red flags in the human immune system.  The goal in cloning swine is in hopes of producing pigs which do not carry these red flags.  Per Check, “the humanized animals could ‘donate’ hearts, livers and kidneys to people.” 

 

The Jan 11, 2002, “Week” (p. 18) had a follow-up story on the progress of cloning pigs in order to use their organs for human transplant.  The article noted that critics have raised the possibility that pig tissue could pass dangerous new viruses to humans.  As “The Week” reported, further genetic tinkering will be needed--like introducing human genes to pigs. 

 

In terms of the alteration of genes in pigs, the Nov 8, 2002, “The Week” (p. 20) had a news report that researchers at the University of Milan (in Italy) had succeeded in manipulating swine sperm to create pigs which carry human genes in their organs (by mixing human DNA into the sperm and using it to fertilize pig eggs that were implanted into sows).  Thus, half of the resulting piglets had human genes. 

 

This whole operation seems absolutely impossible that scientists would be working full time to produce pigs which can be used successfully (or rather unsuccessfully) in organ transplants to humans/humanoids.  But this is the real world of the year 2003. 

 

 

More Modern So-Called “Progress” 

 

In another bold move into the so-called future under man’s insanity and madness, plans are also now underway to use pig blood to replace human blood in future transfusions (May 1999 “Prophecy Flash,” p. 50). 

 

There is one more aspect of this incredibly ridiculous practice.  Cowley’s “Newsweek” report of January 1, 2000, said that there are huge risks in this new “science.”  Specifically, there are fears that using pig organs, parts and blood could unleash new plagues upon man by transferring obscure swine pathogens into the human population. 

 

But despite this drawback, bio-tech science is proceeding with its current plans because it says that the benefits outweigh the possible disadvantages.  Truly, modern man is totally insane, corrupt, sick and depraved.  We all need to pray fervently that YHWH’s kingdom will come soon and end this madness. 

 

 

Blacks and Pigs 

 

However sick and pathetic these reports are and can be on using pig organs, there is another factor worth noting on this discussion about swine.  Many of the Negroid, aborigine women of the Solomon Islands breast feed some of their baby piglets to make them grow better.  If the pig is not getting enough milk from its sow mother, then the Black humanoid will nurse the pig. 

 

The pigs become so attached to their Black mothers that they follow them around during the day.  This writer has seen photographs from the Solomon Islands of little pigs following their aborigine mothers.  Of course, such a picture appeals to Christian sun worshippers, who look upon these Negroes as good candidates for conversion and assimilation (yes, to integrate, mix and miscegenate with). 

 

When grown, the hog will be slaughtered for the aborigines to eat.  At this point, surely some questions must arise on the propriety of these Negro humanoids eating swine flesh which has been grown on the milk of a Negro woman.  Is it possible that the swine flesh is even more contaminated?  Is it possible for swine flesh to be even more contaminated?  These questions have not been answered at this time. 

 

 

Dr C. Ray Greek 

 

The Coast to Coast radio talk show program of Aug 21, 2000, had Dr C. Ray Greek on to discuss the use of animals in laboratory experiments across the US in support of the modern scientific approach to find alleged cures for disease.  Dr Greek is an MD and on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Medical School. 

 

Greek’s wife Jean is a veterinarian.  One day, in a discussion, the couple discovered that there are profound differences between animals (used in laboratory experiments) and so-called human beings.  For instance, common diseases in animals (which seem to have a counterpart in humans) are not really alike at all. 

 

Medical doctors treating humans treat them in an entirely different way than how veterinarians would treat animals with supposedly similar diseases.  The Greeks went on to discover that animals are totally different from humans in all respects--physically, psychologically, physiologically, emotionally and so forth. 

 

This background prompted the two doctors to begin an extensive examination of the use of laboratory animals (like guinea pigs, etc) to test medications, drugs, equipment, etc before such are put on the market for humans.  Their findings were astonishing.  They then wrote a book on the subject. 

 

Of course, the case can be made that animals are abused and hurt enormously in the so-called laboratories and in health experiments.  As outlined in a former chapter, it is sin for man to abuse and hurt animals that he dominates.  One might make the case that the animal laboratory experiments are conducted in sin, though the argument is made that the ultimate purpose is supposedly for good. 

 

However, the Greeks didn’t approach their problem from the standpoint of animal rights or the abuse, mistreatment and cruelty to animals or over sin.  Their concern was on the results of these experiments and what was accomplished in the process.  Their findings and their book were a shock. 

 

Instead of determining that laboratory experiments on animals were good and beneficial to so-called medical science, they found that they largely were a waste of time, money and effort and more often, ended up in pointing man and knowledge in a wrong direction, rather than in a right path on health. 

 

 

Animals and Humans/Humanoids Are Different 

 

Thus, Dr Greek noted that any number of things that affect so-called humans don’t affect animals.  For example, experiments were conducted on animals for decades in trying to measure the effect of cigarette smoke on their lungs.  Experimenters would force smoke down the lungs of various animals and it always produced the same results.  There was no apparent affect of cigarette smoke on experimental animals. 

 

The same findings occurred in respect to asbestos.  Animals were not adversely affected by asbestos (at least in the short run).  Yet, both asbestos and tobacco smoke are cancer causes for humans (as elsewhere addressed herein).  There has been a whole host of things which hurt humans, yet did not hurt animals. 

 

Of course, this reality surfaces because some things require long years to eventually cause cancer (like asbestos, which can cause cancer 40 years after exposure).  Animal lives and experiments on animals are far too limited in time to appreciate adverse effects on humans 40 years down the road. 

 

Ray Greek noted the situation with medications.  In recent years, the US death rate from bad drugs alone has now reached 100,000 people annually (as discussed earlier herein).  Any number of drugs are tested on animals with no evident adverse reactions.  Yet, when given to humans, they cause death. 

 

In one recent block of time, 102 animal tested and FDA approved drugs out of a total of 200 were found to be killers in humans.  All 200 of these animal tests proved negative.  The FDA approved the drugs based upon the animal tests.  Actually, some 102 of them were bad for people. 

 

Dr Greek mentioned the situation with the recent heart-lung machine.  At first, they were tested with animals and found to have no problems.  Yet, the early machines either killed or injured humans (before they were later modified and changed).  Greek says the reason was because the circulation system of humans is very different from that of animals. 

 

The point made by the Coast to Coast guest was that while less than one percent of animal experiments are actually beneficial and do demonstrate some resemblance of reality with drugs and treatment methods, the other 99% plus mislead and deter from truth.  The discovery of bacteria as a source for disease was an example of something good coming from animal experiments.  But this is rare in the real world. 

 

 

Why They Persist 

 

The doctor offered several reasons why this present insanity over animal experiments persists, despite the fact that little good comes from them.  He notes that the first issue is money.  The federal government and other institutions make vast sums of money available for laboratory experiments and work with animals to supposedly address the cure of diseases (not the prevention of disease). 

 

Universities and university professors and scientists go after these big bucks with a passion.  They collectively make gobs of money from these efforts.  Next, there is a certain inertia present because science has been locked in this approach for most of the last 100 years.  In other words, man has focused on a cure to be discovered from laboratory experiments involving animals and not on prevention or something else. 

 

Finally, there is a certain element of pride and vanity involved on the part of the scientists and educators involved in laboratory research (which inevitably involves animals).  Most all of these persons want to be the individual who makes a big discovery and breakthrough.  Almost all of them want to be a modern Jonas Salk (who developed the first polio vaccine). 

 

The essence of this issue is that little is accomplished by the universities and scientists who are receiving vast sums of money from the taxpayers and others to conduct experiments on dumb, helpless animals to hopefully make an important discovery which theoretically would help people in treating illness and disease. 

 

But tragically, this approach is on a cure and not on prevention. 

 

And importantly, there is the reality that the sin question must inevitably surface when man can pen up and abuse, hurt, mistreat and torture dumb animals in experiments which largely will accomplish nothing of real benefit to man--except to possibly mislead scientific minds in wrong directions. 

 

 

One More FDA Problem 

 

Having mentioned Dr Greek’s concern over actions of the FDA to approve new drugs based on some limited animal tests, there is another issue here which must be broached. 

 

The May 13, 2002, “U.S. News & World Report” (p. 16) had a news item on “Older=Better” which addressed a recent report in the “Journal of the American Medical Association” on work of the FDA. 

 

The story said that up to 20 percent of newly approved drugs have life-threatening side effects that are generally discovered in the first seven years that the new drugs are put on the market.  Thus, it would seem that the FDA, incompetently or too quickly, approve a host of drugs which will eventually pan out to be killers or injurers of people in some manner. 

 

A researcher at the Harvard Medical School said that “Clinicians should avoid using new drugs when older, similarly efficacious agents are available” (ibid, p. 16).  Conversely, the FDA downplayed the report and said that doctors can spot common problems like liver toxicity, and other dangers that are rare. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 257--The Health Crisis I

 

 

The Problem 

 

Major health problems are beginning to surface all over the Western, Christian areas because men have ignored YHWH’s Word repeatedly.  Regularly, the public is bombarded with information about disease outbreaks--sometimes of new diseases, and sometimes outbreaks of former diseases (which once were thought to be conquered). 

 

The Apr 16, 2001, “Spotlight” (p. 6-7) had a couple of stories which addressed the question of a resurfacing of tuberculosis (TB) that was once thought to be almost stamped out in the United States. 

 

One “Spotlight” report by Christopher Petherick noted a modern TB outbreak in America which is becoming drug resistant.  This article blames much of the problem on the immigration of third world peoples (from countries where TB abounds).  Petherick also mentioned that nearly four million Americans have hepatitis C which is on a sharp increase here. 

 

The second “Spotlight” story was by Project USA which gave some statistics on how bad the TB outbreak is becoming.  By quoting a Mar 23, 2001, editorial in “The Minneapolis Star Tribune,” this report said that one in three people around the world are infected with the bacteria that causes tuberculosis and at least 100 million have active cases. 

 

In Minnesota (as in the overall US), the cases are occurring because of immigrants.  Four out of five Minnesota TB patients are foreign born.  “The Minneapolis Star Tribune” did not seem to deal with the problem of immigration.  Instead, as liberal newspapers do, the paper suggested that the US is a “land of immigrants” and nothing constructive could be done. 

 

As “Spotlight” surveyed the so-called dilemma, it noted that the US is not a land of immigrants (that immigrants only account for 10% of the present population) and that the massive immigration (much of it illegal) comes from the desire of American businesses to hire cheap foreign labor. 

 

 

Quarantines and Sanitation 

 

For an example of how man has deviated from YHWH’s Word, one can turn to the great Scriptural teachings which address the need for sanitation (i.e. Lev 11:27-40; 17:13-14; Num 31:21-24; Deut 23:13-15; Eccl 9:8), and quarantining of persons with certain communicable diseases (i.e. Lev 15:1-15, 32-33;  Num 5:1-4). 

 

Of course, YAH’s laws reflect His thinking and great principles which His followers must apply in their lives.  However, some interpretation is essential in order to implement these principles.  The Talmud does this with an abundance of instructions, focusing on measures of sanitation and quarantining practices for the Jewish community. 

 

Despite what the Word clearly says and can be determined as principles, the old sun worship cults seem to have utterly ignored these questions.  Consequently, disease epidemics frequently broke out and killed massive numbers of people over the centuries.  Since the sun worship faith was unable to properly deal with the problems, little was done to solve the dilemma. 

 

In the Dark Ages, when the Roman Catholic Church ruled the world with an iron fist, the Black Death (transmitted by fleas from infected rats and mice) broke out in the 14th century to kill millions all over Europe and parts of Asia (as will be discussed below).  Also, the Spanish Flu killed 20 million in 1918 before it was contained.  Too, there was a terrible flu outbreak in 1989 which infected millions. 

 

The winter of 1999-2000 saw a worldwide epidemic of the flu (a virus from unclean chickens in China) which made millions sick (33% of the people in Britain alone) and killed many.  And now, in 2003, the latest from Asia is something called SARS which will kill multitudes before it is over (as cited earlier).  Manifestly, the proper adherence to YAH’s sanitation and quarantine laws would have limited all of these tragedies. 

 

 

AIDS 

 

Moreover, the late 20th and early 21st centuries have seen an explosion in the AIDS virus, discussed in the prior chapters.  The latest trend on the AIDS problem is that researchers are discovering new strains of HIV (which causes AIDS) that are highly or totally resistant to the newest drugs available (Oct 18, 1999, “Spotlight,” p. 2).  Apparently, the virus is mutating as fast as doctors can come up with new treatments. 

 

Rather than deal with this virus problem, from a Scriptural perspective, the current health care system has followed the ridiculous practice of thinking that the disease can be contained without quarantining (because the vocal, homosexual community opposes the quarantine option, and it has powerful political support). 

 

Many infected people deliberately go out into society and infect as many others as possible. 

 

The collective, Christian, sun worship society seems totally ignorant or rebellious toward YHWH’s laws which outline the need for quarantines and separation.  Actually, in the case of the spread of AIDS by queers, this problem would be reduced substantially if society executed faggots, as the Word demands (Lev 20:13).

 

 

The 2001 Flea Crisis 

 

A news report, mentioned by Ian Punnett on the Coast to Coast AM radio program on February 2, 2001, said that there will be an absolute explosion in the flea population in America in 2001.  Scientists said that the 2000-2001 winter was very humid--which is a condition that will cause a proliferation in fleas.  The story indicated the possibility of a disease epidemic/crisis for both pet animals and humans/humanoids. 

 

In the 14th century, the above mentioned Black Death started in Asia and quickly spread across Europe by fleas and infected rats to decimate the European population in less than 20 years (it killed three quarters of the European people-- “The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia,” p. 671). 

 

The Black Death plague was the infectious bubonic plague which sometimes still surfaces, even in today’s modern world.  For example, a June 23, 2001, news item on the Coast to Coast AM program noted that there is now a bubonic plague outbreak in Colorado, near Denver.  It is being spread by fleas among prairie dogs.  One man has possibly died from the problem. 

 

Reportedly, certain anti-biotics can be used to fight it.  But the problem is that the extensive and flagrant uses of anti-biotics over the years has rendered them to be far less effective than they once were. 

 

 

More on the Problem 

 

Since infected rats were the problem in the 14th century, it should be noted that many large US cities have enormous rat populations.  Many of the Black inner cities are very dirty with a careless disregard for sanitation and cleanliness.  Garbage, feces matter and other human wastes are very commonly scattered in the halls and yards of many of the federal housing projects (which mainly house Negroes). 

 

This disregard for sanitation and health could easily precipitate a crisis because the rats and mice are thick in some of these inner cities, and the African populations make little or no effort to kill the rodents and exercise any measure of sanitation. 

 

A news report on December 1, 2000, said that there was then a rat explosion in New York City where the rodents live in old buildings and feed upon the profuse supply of garbage which seems to dominate much of the Big Apple.  Actually, mongrelized New York has had a rat problem for years and the 2000 crisis was not anything new. 

 

There is another factor at play on this theme, which could have some importance in assessing what can happen.  Today’s sun worship culture and civilization are obsessed with pets--particularly cats and dogs.   Typically, these pets live inside the homes and housing facilities of their human/humanoid owners. 

 

If there is a coming flea problem in America, it means that not only will it affect pets, but it will present a gross health problem to people (because of the close relationship and contact that modern sun worshippers have with their pets). 

 

The point of this is that things have come together that would allow some form of a repeat of the Black Death of the 14th century.   It would not take much of a provocation for such an epidemic to surface and spread rapidly across America. 

 

 

An Age End Crisis 

 

The Scriptures are replete with prophecies describing age ending disease epidemics and plagues (Lev 26:25; Deut 28:59-61; Matt 24:7; Rev 6:8).  There is no question, but that these crises are coming.  Perhaps the only issue is when. 

 

As outlined above and in former comments herein, history has already seen any number of plagues and disease epidemics--and especially, with the just mentioned Black Plague.  Just after WWI, there was an extraordinary flu epidemic (the Spanish flu, discussed above) which struck in the US--killing multitudes. 

 

But with the increase in sanitation and other factors at work, it seemed that many of the potentially serious diseases that could cause epidemics were contained or largely nullified in the Christian West.  Certainly, in America, tuberculosis, leprosy, smallpox, measles and any number of other diseases have been largely wiped out or at least no longer present. 

 

However, things are changing here in the age end.  Already, a number of these diseases (like TB, as noted above) are beginning to experience a comeback and even in the United States with all of its so-called advantages.  Will the diseases of Egypt come upon Christian Israelites in the age end?  Right now, it looks like it. 

 

 

More on AIDS 

 

As outlined above, one of the most fantastic diseases in modern times has been AIDS.  While many have failed to pick up on the danger of AIDS (because it has primarily focused upon Blacks, queers and drug users), it is a growing threat as it is spreading among White heterosexuals. 

 

The Aug 1999 “Philadelphia Trumpet” (p. 15) had some appropriate comments on the AIDS crises.  For example, this source charges that the AIDS pandemic is still nowhere near its peak.  Nevertheless, the crisis produced 2.3 million deaths in 1998 (and 2.6 million deaths in 1999).  It has capitulated into first place as the primary death causing disease in the world. 

 

In Black Africa, where the disease is raging full storm, many African countries are now facing zero population growth, despite the Black promiscuity and breeding habits (much like fast breeding rabbits). 

 

In fact, the case can be made that the AIDS explosion in Black Africa is perhaps due to Black sexual promiscuity and breeding habits, although there has been some charges floating around that Whites invented the virus to specifically kill off Negroes.  This option will be addressed in a later chapter. 

 

The prevailing view of the approved medical profession is that AIDS started in Black Africa among monkeys and was transferred in some way from the monkeys to the Black humanoids.  There has been continuing questions about how this monkey virus could be or was transferred to African humanoids.  Some persons have posited that a monkey bit a Negro or that a Negro copulated with an ape. 

 

The March 29, 2002, “The Week” (p. 19) offered a new theory from German bio-chemists that the HIV virus was transferred from apes to Blacks by bloodsucking flies.  Apparently, most flies cannot transmit infections.  But reportedly, some of the African flies (the so-called stable fly) might allow the transfer because of the way they suck blood from humans/humanoids. 

 

 

The Plague Years 

 

A Jan 17, 2000, “Newsweek” story (p. 34) by Jeffrey Bartholet, on “The Plague Years,” noted that by 2010 the Black African life expectancy will have plunged from 59 years to 45 years.  Already, there are ten million Black orphans in the continent from AIDS.  Some 85% of AIDS deaths now occur in Africa. 

 

While 1999 saw 2.6 million deaths from AIDS (noted above), 1999 also saw 5.6 million new cases, with most of them in Africa (per Jeffrey Bartholet in his “Newsweek” article).  The “Philadelphia Trumpet” argued that the AIDS epidemic is already approaching the terror of the Black Plague of centuries ago.  For sure, millions more will die before the final chapter is written on this disease

 

On these exotic, new diseases that are coming from supposedly out of nowhere (although a future chapter on population reduction will make one think that these diseases have been created specifically to reduce the global population), another one which seems to be more terrifying than AIDS is the earlier mentioned EBOLA. 

 

Like AIDS, EBOLA seems to have had its start in Black Africa and presently seems to be focusing on Blacks.  While it has not spread much to the Christian West, there were reports in August 1999 that persons with EBOLA have shown up in Europe--evidently, in Germany. 

 

As late as Feb 5, 2001, a woman from the African Congo came down with a EBOLA-like disease in Winnipeg, Canada (per a news report that day).  Apparently, the woman brought the disease with her from Africa.  So whatever it is, it is now in North America.  For sure, if EBOLA gets started globally, it will kill millions or billions before it ends. 

 

 

Other New Bugs 

 

But AIDS and EBOLA are only the tip of the iceberg of new diseases showing up and particularly coming from Black Africa for some strange reason.  There was an outbreak of several different encephalitis viruses around the world in 1999 with origins in Africa, Asia and Australia.  Many were thought to be spread by mosquitoes and ticks (Oct 11, 1999, “Newsweek,” p. 77-78). 

 

Perhaps the worst outbreak in the summer of 1999 occurred in New York City where the virus was identified as the exotic West Nile virus (previously discussed, in the vein of findings by Dr Len Horowitz) which has allegedly come out of Africa for the first time, per the words of public health authorities (Oct 11, 1999, “US News & World Report,” p. 15). 

 

Several people died and hundreds more were infected in New York City which induced the Big Apple to begin a massive poisonous spraying effort (previously noted) to try to kill off the mosquitoes (surely, the spraying killed both some bugs and people, which is the usual fall-out with poisonous sprays).  Apparently, encephalitis was supposed to be non-existent or rare in America and Europe.  Now, it is a fact of life. 

 

 

William Thomas 

 

The Art Bell Coast to Coast AM radio talk show program on November 4, 1999, had a researcher and author on named William Thomas as a guest to discuss several things on going.  One of the topics covered was the West Nile virus which has hit NY City.  Thomas had been in contact with persons familiar with the background on this plague. 

 

There was some information which surfaced suggesting that samples of the West Nile germs were brought to a laboratory in the Atlantic Ocean at a place called Plum Island (one mile from Long Island, NY).  This lab is supposed to be a category V (top security) lab able to do bacteria research on exotic diseases from around the world (apparently, in hopes of finding out more information on the disease and/or a vaccine). 

 

A category IV lab at Fort Detrick, MD was illustrated in the recent movie “Outbreak” which showed the need for enormous caution because of the tremendous potential for infection to persons working with these exotic diseases.  Scientists and researchers must wear sterile, protective gowns, gloves and special helmets covering their heads and faces when going into contaminated rooms to do research on the bacteria. 

 

Supposedly, a category V lab is another step up with a rule which limits its presence to areas outside the US.  Apparently, the Plum Island facility is offshore.  Thus, with the prevailing winds, any release of bacteria would hopefully go off shore toward the Atlantic Ocean. 

 

Anyway, according to comments from Bell, Thomas and another guest, samples of this West Nile bacteria were brought to the lab for research.  Whether some of this stuff came from Africa or from Litton Industries (as previously allowed) is open to debate.  It is even possible that Litton did, in fact, release it in Africa first, before bringing it to the US for later release. 

 

 

The Mosquitoes 

 

In any case, it appears, per Thomas, that at some point in time, the bacteria did arrive at Plum Island for analysis and study.  And allegedly, some of this stuff escaped to infect some birds or something else happened to allow it to reach the mainland at New York City, where mosquitoes picked it up from the infected birds and began transmitting it to people. 

 

Since mosquitoes become dormant with cold weather, the coming winter in late 1999 meant that the virus was temporarily contained (although it reappeared in the summers of 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003).  But there are greater problems now that man has stupidly allowed it into America.  Question, what will happen in later years as the infected mosquitoes continue to be active and as the virus is spread? 

 

The summer of 2000 saw the virus spread into NJ where it killed one man and made others ill.  By the fall of 2000, it had spread South to NC and West to MI (Dec 2000 “Internet Vortex,” p. 3). 

 

The summer of 2001 saw several people die from the virus in NY and NJ.  An infected bird was found in late July 2001 in Orlando, FL and a woman died from the virus in Atlanta, GA in August 2001 (reported on the Coast to Coast program). 

 

With the arrival of the summer of 2002, the virus had spread as far South and West as Louisiana where at least one and possibly two other persons were dead from it (mentioned as a news item on July 31, 2002, on the Coast to Coast AM radio program). 

 

By Aug 3, 2002, 58 people had the disease in Louisiana; four were dead from it there; the LA Governor had declared an emergency; and massive spraying had commenced.  By Sep 2002, the virus had reached Washington state (at Newport, Washington) and had covered most or all of the continental US with its 48 contiguous states. 

 

 

How Far? 

 

With its presence in Louisiana (evidently, at the epidemic level), and eventually in Washington state, it seems highly likely that the virus now covers the continental United States and even much of Mexico and Canada--for sure, the US, East of the Mississippi River, and even East of the Rocky Mountains, seemed to be saturated with it by the coming of winter in 2002-2003. 

 

Hence, there remains the question of how far birds may carry this virus.  Will it eventually cover all of North America and begin moving South into South America?  If it continues to spread, surely it will become a global epidemic in time. 

 

A huge assortment of the bird population in the Eastern US are believed to be carriers of the virus in 2003.  In coming years, they can spread out to possibly carry the virus across the whole nation (where mosquitoes can bite them and then bite humans/humanoids to transmit the disease).  This thing could be a major crisis by 2004-2008. 

 

Then, to add to the problem, an Oct 2002 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) raised more concerns--as reported in a story carried in the Oct 29, 2002, Spokane “Spokesman-Review” (p. A2) on “CDC warns of West Nile blood threat.” 

 

This story said that the CDC now confirms that the disease can be transmitted by blood transfusions (which must raise questions about dirty needles in general--like from drug users, etc).  This report also said that there could be as many as 300,000 people in the US who have contracted the disease.  Some 3,300 confirmed cases arose in 2002 with 188 deaths. 

 

 

Genetic Engineering of Diseases? 

 

The May 2003 “Radio Liberty” newsletter (p. 2-3), edited by Dr Stan Monteith, addressed some of the points offered by Dr Len Horowitz (quoted earlier) on the evidence supporting the belief that many of these new emerging diseases have been created in biological laboratories (mainly in the US). 

 

As Dr Monteith pointed out-- “Prior to the era of genetic engineering, human diseases didn’t infect animals, animal diseases didn’t infect human beings.  That is no longer true.  SARS has been found in at least three different species of animals.  Why has the spices barrier broken down?  Where did the new diseases come from?” 

 

To answer his question, Dr Monteith quoted Dr Mae-Wan Ho, a Fellow of the US National Genetics Foundation and a lecturer at Open University in Britain. 

 

Dr Ho noted:  “According to the report of the World Health Organization for 1996, at least thirty new diseases, including AIDS, Ebola, and hepatitis C, have emerged over the past twenty years, while old infectious diseases... are coming back throughout the world.  Almost every month... in Britain there are fresh outbreaks:... all the pathogens are resistant to antibiotics, many to multiple antibiotics.” 

 

In another quote from Dr Ho, she said:  “Genetic engineering is a technology designed for transferring genes horizontally between species that do not interbreed... It is designed to break down... defense mechanisms which normally degrade or inactivate foreign genes... genetic engineers make use of artificial vectors, which are made from viruses and other infectious agents that also cause diseases including cancers, and spread genes for virulence and antibiotic resistance.” 

 

Finally, Dr Ho reported:  “Genetic engineering makes novel combinations of genetic material in the laboratory between species that do not interbreed in nature... Gene multiplications and a high proportion of gene transfers are mediated by artificial vectors derived from viruses, plasmids, and mobil genetic elements--all of them genetic parasites that have the ability to invade cells and insert themselves into the cell’s genome, causing genetic damage...

 

“The artificial vectors are designed to break down species barriers so that they can shuttle genes between a wide range of species.  Their wide range means they can infect many animals and plants, and in the process pick up genes from viruses of all these species to create new pathogens.  The artificial vectors routinely carry marker genes for antibiotic-resistance... (They) are increasingly constructed to overcome the recipient species’ defense mechanisms that break down or activate foreign DNA... The insertion of foreign genes into the recipient organism’s genome is random, giving rise to correspondingly random genetic effects, including cancer in mammalian cells.” 

 

With this background, Dr Monteith’s commentary proceeds to build a case for why laboratories have been creating these exotic new diseases which are so dangerous to man.  The heart of Monteith’s effort delves in on the issue of population control, which will be addressed in a later chapter herein. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 258--The Health Crisis II

 

 

The Latest Threat 

 

A subsequent chapter will focus on air pollution and particularly from the fumes, gases and pollutants being spewed from the many airplanes (especially jets) covering the skies.  Obviously, it is a problem and one which can be grim from a health point of view.  Now that air pollution has taken on an apparent new direction, with the big jets and their con-trails, it is even more serious than heretofore. 

 

Though these airplane exhaust systems can be in the process of destroying life on this planet, no one has been much interested in curtailing or limiting the use of planes and especially the high flying jets which dispense most of the con-trail fallout. 

 

In any case, the surge in airplane flights since WWII has produced a huge volume of this stuff as pollutants which have seemed to historically dissipate and vanish (at least visibly, within several seconds), beyond doing some apparent damage to the ozone layer.  But in the last year or so, there is a new twist to this problem which could be far more dangerous and provocative. 

 

 

Kurt Billings 

 

The Art Bell Coast to Coast AM radio talk show program of August 2, 1999, had a guest on named Kurt Billings from Florida.  Billings has been looking at these trails of pollutants for some time and he and a large number of other observers have noticed some incredible changes in some of them. 

 

These so-called con-trails of certain jet aircraft (not all airplanes in the generic sense, but just some of them) are beginning to produce strange trailing designs and more dense long trails of pollutants which do not quickly dissipate and vanish into the atmosphere.  Often, they form misty clouds which slowly drift away and/or toward the ground where eventually they do lose their form. 

 

Billings and a number of observers have raised a question about the possibility that the US and other governments are deliberately spraying certain chemicals from specific aircraft on occasion to produce certain desired results.  This process produces what can be called “chem-trails.”  Sometimes, the apparent chemicals harden sufficiently to come to the ground in a jellied condition. 

 

One must understand that there is a difference from the more common con-trails of high flying jets (which seem to be like smoke that quickly dissipates) and these chem-trails which are more rare (they come out in a mist and sometimes harden like jelly or jello in coming to the ground). 

 

The chem-trails seem to make their appearance often in criss-crossed “x” forms which are very dense (although in 2003, it would seem that this same material is coming out of some possible regular jets in a continuous, straight pattern). 

 

The way the criss-cross patterns seem to develop is that a plane or planes fly several parallel rows dispensing the trail.  Then, one or two patterns are flown perpendicular across the parallel rows (to form the strange criss-cross patterns).  These chem-trail patterns clearly are more dangerous than the familiar con-trails. 

 

 

My Experience in NE Washington 

 

This writer has seen some strange manifestations in the skies over Northeast Washington (which appeared to be some of the chem-trails mentioned by Billings). 

 

They were seen in a whole series during daylight hours as recently as Dec 11, 2000 (obviously, sometime after being dispersed--as there was no visible evidence of planes in the area which could have been involved in dispersing them).  They appeared just East of Northport, Washington and the Columbia River (North of Spokane, Washington, near the Canadian border). 

 

The trails seen by me were in dense, thick, parallel rows, spaced some distance apart and high in the sky--as far as my eyes could see (in both directions and laterally in the several rows).  There could have been as many as a dozen or so rows that were visible laterally to me.  They were in straight lines--running South-Southwest to the North-Northeast. 

 

This sighting was strange for a lot of reasons.  Certainly, they were not con-trails because the area North-Northeast of Northport, Washington is largely undeveloped with no cities or airports suggesting regular flying jets.  There is simply no logically appearing reason for commercial jets to be flying in such unique patterns. 

 

As they were sighted around 9 AM, it would seem that they must have been put down early that morning around daybreak.  Since daylight doesn’t occur until almost 8 AM in the winter this far North, it is possible that they were put down while it was still dark or very early in the morning.  With the many, parallel rows, the whole thing made no sense at all. 

 

And since the phenomenon was seen crossing the US-Canadian border, the event involved some type of activity in both Canada and the United States.  The manifestations were not something limited to just America. 

 

Frankly, this writer has never consciously seen any thing like this sighting ever before.  It was a most strange sight to behold. 

 

 

Some Possibilities

 

A later chapter will mention the anthrax bacteria and other biological agents which can be dispensed by a simple crop duster airplane.  For years, the Russians, Americans and Britons have been extensively involved in chemical and biological research. 

 

For sure, there are all kinds of agents that can be introduced into a population by air, water, food or almost any other means to alter or change that population in some manner. 

 

A few years ago, the Russians had a spraying accident which killed a large number of citizens.  Reports have also been coming in from Britain on their spraying efforts (as will be addressed in comments to follow). 

 

Certainly, man has reached the point that he can theoretically release a vaccine from airplanes which would inoculate a given population.  In this sense, the chem-trails might be considered good or for alleged good purposes.  But all of this is only hypothetical.  Billings sees a greater likelihood of far more dangerous motives. 

 

Right now, the effect reports of these pollutants seem to be that they are primarily causing respiratory problems and seeing and breathing difficulties.  But suppose that the agency dispensing this stuff (whoever and whichever it is--presumably in the government at some level) wants to alter a population in some manner. 

 

With all of the present experiments in DNA, it would seem possible to introduce a chemical or biological agent which would attack certain genetic formations.  For example, comments elsewhere herein have or will focus upon the genetic work of Israeli scientists (including their work in developing an agent which will attack and kill certain people with certain genes). 

 

Assuredly, as pointed out by Billings, any number of diseases, bacteria and illnesses can be inflicted upon a given population--either collectively or by targeting certain persons with certain DNA characteristics.  For example, cancer can be introduced this way, along with the just mentioned anthrax and on and on. 

 

Without being dogmatic and leaving a lot of question marks, Billings did suggest that, as a minimum, there seems to be some experimentation with the public by a US government agency in the release of these chem-trails in America. 

 

 

More Possibilities 

 

Therefore, it might be that a US government agency (like say the CIA or Defense Dept. or something else) has been dispensing chemicals or biological agents.  Perhaps, they have been primarily focusing upon experimentations now and making preparations for actual deployment of more widespread agents later.  

 

As pointed out previously, even government people, like former Surgeon General Satcher, believe that there are major mental problems in the US population (as a minimum, there is an enormous problem with television, as now being viewed by most youngsters for excessive periods of time.  It turns people into TV zombies). 

 

Besides the evils of modern television, there are also other developments in progress which are adversely affecting the entire US population (these problems will be addressed more fully in comments to follow and in succeeding chapters herein). 

 

But the thing that they will not publicly acknowledge is that many or some of the problems seem to be caused by the government.  This conclusion certainly dovetails with the work of Kurt Billings and others on the chem-trails. 

 

A subsequent chapter herein will describe the present population control schemes and the desires of the planners and shakers to dramatically reduce world population.  Of course, they have been trying this for the last several years in the promotion of homosexuality, abortions and the distribution of condoms. 

 

But suppose the focus is directed to deliberately killing a population by the release of agents by air or water dispersal methods?   This possibility is not far fetched at all.  Later chapters herein will elaborate upon practices of various governments to take very dictatorial and destructive practices against not only their enemy nations, but their own peoples and especially those who are classified as politically incorrect.   

 

 

William Thomas, Revisited 

 

On November 4, 1999, Art Bell had William Thomas on (from BC, Canada), quoted in the previous chapter, as a guest to discuss research he is doing.  Like Billings, Thomas has also been following these chem-trails which are now being seen in numbers of places across the US since 1998.  He had some relevant information on chem-trail effects from people living in some of the affected areas. 

 

Per Thomas, it appears that the chemical or biological agents being dispensed (actually from the tails of aircraft, like C-130s, instead of from the engines or fuel tank dumpings from the wings, as is normally the case) can cause emotional, psychological or physical reactions (especially respiratory problems) in people affected. 

 

Sometimes, the suspected nerve agents produce symptoms in people of depression, anxiety, disorientation, confusion, apathy and indifference (now very common in the US), dullness, anti-social thoughts and behavior and often, bad, run down feelings in general--feelings which could make some persons go crazy and shoot up others, like the cases in 1999 in Atlanta, Honolulu and Seattle (to be later described) and/or attention deficit disorders in children (as discussed earlier). 

 

This line of thought even has some support from the former Clinton Administration’s Surgeon General, David Satcher (who was quoted above and in previous commentary).  In early 2000, Satcher issued a report which concluded that 22% of the American population has a diagnosable mental disorder--to include depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (Feb 2000 “National Liberty Journal,” p. 4). 

 

An acquaintance of William Thomas, living in the Aspen, Colorado area, had some contact with a pilot who apparently has been dispensing this stuff.  The pilot works for the US government (evidently, the CIA, as he suggested once) and flies from different bases without a flight plan into areas cleared of other aircraft by FAA air controllers.  

 

Some of the aircraft are former Defense Department planes or C-130s from the US Forest Service where they were used in dispensing chemicals to fight fires.  The actual persons working in the rear of the planes and handling the dispensing are quiet, professional-appearing individuals who are not identified or known to the pilot.  They differ sharply from Forest Service people accustomed to fighting fires. 

 

In any case, the pilot involved has chosen to remain anonymous.  He says that if he is known and identified, he could come up missing.  For his own safety and future, he doesn’t wish to go public with his work (although he has apparently privately discussed some of it with the colleague of William Thomas, who was also on the Art Bell program). 

 

 

More From Thomas 

 

Thomas was a guest once more on the Art Bell Coast to Coast AM program again on March 15, 2001, for a follow-up report on chem-trails.  On this recent program, his remarks were almost like a bombshell going off because he did cover some most fascinating things. 

 

Thomas had been in recent contact with another researcher in Victoria, BC, Canada, who also had been studying the possibilities on chem-trails.  This man called the local airport authority in Victoria and actually talked to a responsible and apparently honest person who genuinely wanted to help. 

 

This airport official said that he would look into the question and get back with his caller.  He did so a few hours later.  The essence of what he said was that the trails were being made as a part of a “joint exercise” involving US Air Force and Canadian Air Force people over Western British Columbia. 

 

In another Canadian effort, some officials in a small town in Eastern Canada actually were able to get a good sample of the jellied mist that falls to earth as a result of the chem-trails.  This event occurred when a rain shower followed--just after a series of these chem-trails were emitted.  Apparently, the rain washed some of the chemicals to the earth (where some were recovered).  

 

 

Aluminum Oxide 

 

Anyway, some persons in this Canadian town actually were able to get a sample of the material and send it off to a laboratory for an analysis.  The report which came back from the lab said that the material was aluminum--apparently an aluminum oxide or mist.  This finding made Thomas do some more research. 

 

He found out that a few years ago, the famous nuclear physicist Edward Teller made the news when he told about work at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories in California where the Lab had done some theoretical work on the use of aluminum oxide (much like talcum powder) to dispense high in the atmosphere to serve as a shield to deflect some of the incoming sunlight (thus, reducing heat coming to earth). 

 

Teller was so impressed that he publicly urged the government to commence a program of dispensing this stuff into the atmosphere at once as a deterrent for global warming. 

 

In another matter, Thomas found that a commercial company has been issued a patent which allows aluminum oxide to be introduced into the fuel of jet aircraft so that as the fuel is burned the aluminum is expelled in the con-trail (thus making a chem-trail). 

 

Therefore, the conclusion of William Thomas’ report was that the US and Canadian military are involved in dispensing this stuff into the atmosphere--along with the use of more of it in commercial aircraft.  The object is to spray it into the heavens in an effort to deflect incoming solar heat; and thus, reduce the so-called greenhouse effect on earth. 

 

One important feature of this effort which was seemingly never discussed was what the fall out would be on human health for people on earth who absorb these chemicals (after all, aluminum is a poison).  Thomas said that the patent he checked said nothing about this question at all.  Obviously, too, there must be some concern about what further damage this stuff will do the troposphere and stratosphere and the ozone layer. 

 

Who knows what other damage will occur?  Evidently, no one knows the answer to any of these questions.  As seems to be the normal, usual, human reaction, dangerous poisons will be dispensed and then man will wake up one morning with not only a lot of sick and dying people, but perhaps an environmental collapse. 

 

 

Another Option on the Chem-Trails 

 

Besides Billings and Thomas, Art Bell on January 6, 2000, had another guest on his Coast to Coast AM program to discuss chem-trails.  This guest was Mike Castle, who is a well known consultant in the environmental clean up business, having testified before Congress on environmental issues. 

 

Castle, too, has been looking at and studying these chem-trails for some time.  He has come up with some unique ideas which are relevant to address for several reasons, though somewhat different from both Billings and Thomas. 

 

First, Mike acknowledges that the problem is real.  These chem-trails do exist and they must be differentiated from the more common con-trails which routinely emit from high flying jet aircraft.  Like other observers, Castle does believe that these chem-trails are a product of government in some manner and for some purpose--obviously, in a black project which is kept secret from the general public. 

 

Next, he suggests that these chem-trails have arisen over environmental concerns caused by the con-trails of high flying jet aircraft. 

 

The usual commercial jets fly at the 31,000 feet level (while the chem-trail aircraft originally flew at the 20,000 feet level), high in the troposphere (that covers the earth’s surface up to about 8 to 10 miles), just below the stratosphere which runs from about 8-10 miles to around 30 miles up.  Other atmosphere zones are above the stratosphere. 

 

 

The Ozone Layer 

 

One of the high altitude zones is the magnetosphere which ranges from around 400 miles up to about 40,000 miles.  The Van Allen radiation belt is located in the magnetosphere (“The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia,” p. 885).  This belt may possibly collect radiation emitted from the sun by solar flares. 

 

Ozone is produced in the stratosphere to protect earth from deadly ultraviolet radiation from outer space (“Concise Columbia Encyclopedia,” p. 634).  Thus, the ozone layer prevents the incoming radiation from entering earth to case skin cancer and other problems to life forms on earth. 

 

 

Ozone Holes 

 

Obviously, as designed by The Great CREATOR, the ozone layer is a magnificent construction which serves a vital role for life here.  However, it is now a well documented fact that large gaps and holes are surfacing in the earth’s ozone belt.

 

The available evidence is that these holes are being made over Antarctica and the North Pole by man-made pollution on earth (to be discussed in later chapters). 

 

The Coast to Coast AM radio program on April 3, 2001, had a news report which said that the ozone hole over Antarctica has increased to cover 27 million square kilometers. 

 

The Antarctica hole has surged forward into much of the Southern hemisphere.  It now reaches into Chile, Argentina and Australia where it is causing many serious problems with skin cancers and lesions on humans and animals.  There is a growing concern over the problems. 

 

Some countries, like Australia, are aware of the ozone holes and the crisis that is erupting.  Thus, Australia has had an active program trying to induce and encourage her citizens to use coverings over their heads and other bodily parts when out of doors.  The alternative is a much higher probability of melanoma skin cancer. 

 

The March 8, 2002, “The Week” (p. 19) had a news item which said that the Antarctica ozone hole that now covers part of Southern Chile is causing the first cases of skin problems due to the thinning ozone layer (per a story in the “Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology”). 

 

Because weather is normally pretty chilly or cold over Southern Chile, the people there rarely go out in the sun shine without hats or scarves.  Apparently, there is a period of about eight or nine days in the spring when weather is delightful and warm.  The people may then go outdoors without a covering.  Now, numbers of people are coming down with sun burns (which is uncommon, historically). 

 

Manifestly, chlorofluorcarbons (CFCs) are the main problem on earth.  Of course, the high flying jet aircraft emit vast sums of poisons (which are much like the chlorofluorcarbons made on the ground).  Thus, these con-trails of jet aircraft contain certain very polluting and damaging gases which either go on up into the stratosphere or come down to earth to cause health problems in humans. 

 

Mike Castle says that these poisonous gases from aircraft enter the stratosphere to destroy ozone.  He charges that there are now huge rips, tears, holes and so forth in the ozone layer around the world.  Things are getting worse.  And no one is prepared to talk about grounding large airplanes. 

 

 

The So-Called Scientific Solution 

 

Obviously, “some” scientists are concerned and have possibly cooked up a scheme to try to placate or nullify the developing crises in the ozone layer.  Mike believes that scientific minds have introduced a black project involving chem-trails to try to deal with the simultaneous con-trail problem of damage and hurt to the ozone layer (as also might be allowed by Kurt Billings and William Thomas, as noted above). 

 

One of the things now being used in environmental clean up projects is certain forms of bacteria (man-made in the laboratories) which thrive upon and consume certain forms of petroleum pollutants.  Hence, in most oil spills, this bacteria can be released to the spill, and it will literally eat up the pollution (but no one seems to have the foggiest idea of what the after effects are with the use of this bacteria--ed). 

 

Castle suggests that some governmental project is probably underway using some such bacteria and other chemicals (like possibly aluminum, as indicated by William Thomas) which are expected to nullify and destroy the poisonous gases being emitted into the atmosphere from the con-trails of high flying aircraft. 

 

In other words, science possibly is using certain forms of chemicals and bacteria to offset the deleterious effects of other chemicals and poisons--in an obvious effort to supposedly “save the ozone layer.”  In other words, use various poisons to fight the bad effects of other poisons (just as man does with the modern poisonous drug prescriptions being given to humans for sickness and disease). 

 

While it may be theorized that the desired chemicals and bacteria do enter the stratosphere to do their job, there is the real world of reality in that much of this stuff also returns to earth to cause health problems among unsuspecting people who are exposed to them. 

 

In the sense of this discussion, there are a couple of other problems.  While science is supposedly intelligent, bright and brilliant, maybe they are not so high on the totem pole after all.  Maybe they have some major miscalculations in this whole enterprise. 

 

Therefore, is it possible that this bacteria and other chemicals being spewed out of aircraft (with a goal of some of it floating into the stratosphere) may do other forms of damage to the stratosphere?  Whether the ozone will be helped or not is still subject to debate.  But even if it is helped, there is the question of what these agents will do to the stratosphere in the generic sense.  Will they cause other major problems? 

 

Last, there remains the question of what happens to these chemicals and bacteria which fall to the earth?  Already, they are causing health problems among people.  Will these problems intensify?  Will people die from this exercise?  Maybe people have already been dying and the public is being lied to about the deaths.  Beyond “human” health, what other fallouts can come from this exercise in terms of nature?   

 

 

A “Spotlight” Reader 

 

The Apr 16, 2001, “Spotlight” (p. 19) had two readers’ letters which seem to offer some further insight on the chem-trail dilemma. 

 

The first one was from John McLeod, a former Air Force pilot of Jacksonville, FL.  McLeod saw some chem-trails, dispensed by twelve airplanes in January 2001, over an area he was watching.  Six planes were flying South to North while six more were flying East to West--spewing forth chem-trails which criss-crossed each other in a checkerboard pattern. 

 

Being a former pilot, McLeod said that he could tell at once that the trails were not the typical condensation trails emitted by high-flying jets (whose trails quickly dissipate).  The twelve planes he saw were at about 17,000 to 20,000 feet, in contrast to the 30,000 feet patterns flown by most high flying jets emitting con-trails (as noted above). 

 

These seen chem-trials did not dissipate.  But instead, they spread out laterally to cover the entire sky.  A month later, John McLeod saw the same event repeat itself again.  The way McLeod described this operation--it would appear that indeed chemicals are being dispensed for some insidious reason.  It could be that aluminum is involved to try to deflect sun light or chemicals to repair the ozone layer. 

 

Besides the earlier mention of the parallel chem trails seen in NE Washington, this writer has also seen the criss-cross pattern mentioned by McLeod over the Lake Coeur d’Alene area of North Idaho,.  One morning a number of parallel rows were seen in one direction with another lateral pattern criss-crossing in a different direction. 

 

This display was seen on a winter morning and in the afternoon, a whole new series with the same pattern appeared.  This same pattern was seen many other times in North Idaho in 2003 (with some regularity and frequency).  So this area is getting some attention from someone. 

 

It appears that the perpetrators of these acts flew the pattern and dispensed their chemicals on a morning flight and came back again in the afternoon and completely repeated the effort in the approximate same area. 

 

 

The EPA 

 

A second reader’s letter in the April 16, 2002, “Spotlight” (p. 19) was from Robert Seaman of Concord, New Hampshire.  He wrote to offer a couple of quotes from the US EPA.  The EPA’s Office of Clean Air said that there is little hope of clearer skies in the future.  Another EPA comment noted that con-trail cover is expected to increase between now and the year 2050.  Seaman then asked-- “Why?” 

 

Based upon the above, is it possible that indeed high flying jets dispensing con-trails are simultaneously destroying the ozone layer or adding to the global warming on earth?  If so, does anyone believe that man will undertake an effort to start grounding airplanes?  No way, Hose!   We’ll all be dead first! 

 

 

More Options 

 

Another possibility on the chem-trails surfaced in a story by Mike Blair on “Secret Anti-Germ Warfare Produces ‘Chemtrails,’” in the Jan 17, 2000, “Spotlight” (p. 3).  Blair has been in contact with an anonymous researcher working for the government who says the chem-trails are a project testing some anti-germ warfare bacteria and chemicals. 

 

There is much concern at the federal level over coming chemical and biological terrorist attacks in the US (to be later assessed herein).  In an attempt to nullify or reduce this threat, a Dr James Baker Jr, of the Medical School at the University of Michigan, has been working on chemical substances to act as agents to eliminate or block this threat. 

 

Supposedly, per Blair, the US top secret Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been funding and conducting experiments with various chemicals to use in anticipated chemical or biological attacks.  Per Blair’s informant, the purpose of the experiments is good.  But the people should be told the truth, and not lied to about it. 

 

Anyway, if this option has merit, it is true that the experiments are causing health problems among people exposed to the present chem-trail operations.  It might be that some of the anti-chemicals are as dangerous as the chemicals which they supposedly will act against.  There is also the broader issue of what the government will do with this technology once it is developed.  Will it be used later for mind alteration purposes? 

 

 

Several Purposes? 

 

Art Bell had lay scientist Richard Hoagland on to discuss several things on Feb 28, 2000.  The topic of chem-trails came up.  As a point of discussion, the idea that there could be two, three or more purposes surfaced as causes behind the chem-trails.  And this seems to be the best guess.  Probably, there are several reasons for them (to possibly include any or all of the options discussed above). 

 

The Jun 11, 2001, “Spotlight” had a front page story which also assessed chem-trails  from the perspective that they seem to involve several black efforts.  This “Spotlight said that both military and civilian aircraft are used.  Some of the projects include work from the Brookhaven National Laboratory of Long Island, NY, an Air Force radar experiment and the use of aluminum oxide to block global warming (as noted above). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 259--Tobacco and Smoking I

 

 

The Issue 

 

As some people begin to take the subject of religion seriously, one of the questions which inevitably arises concerns the issue of tobacco and smoking.  Such people have often asked--is it really a sin to use tobacco? 

 

Over the years, so many writers, both secular and religious, have written so many articles, tracts, books and pamphlets on the subjects of tobacco, smoking, cigarettes, etc that it seems little more can be said.  Nevertheless, because the topic is of such particular concern to so many people here in our time, a few comments are called for herein. 

 

In terms of the technical aspects of tobacco and smoking, the "Religious Liberty and Temperance Association" published some years ago a small tract on the "Horrors of Tobacco Smoking" that seems to best sum up the reality of using tobacco.  From this tract, this writer will quote some important statistics and conclusions about tobacco.  For example, one may be interested in the following chemical analysis on tobacco: 

 

                                                                    Percentage 

                Constituent                                  In Tobacco

                          Water                                                              23.40

                          Ash                                                                 15.27 

                          Nicotine                                                            1.79 

                          Nitric Acid                                                        1.97 

                          Ammonia                                                         0.71 

                          Other Nitrogenous Matters                         13.31  

                          Fibre                                                                 8.78

                          Starch                                                               3.36 

                          Nitrogen Free Extract                                   27.99  

                          Ether Extract                                                    3.42

                                          Total                                             100.00 

 

Of course, as can readily be seen from these constituents in tobacco, they inevitably become ingested into the physical body of the smoker.  For example, the inhaled smoke of one cigarette contains some 11.8 milligrams of tar and .8 milligrams of nicotine.  Idling smoke produces 22.1 milligrams of tar and 1.4 milligrams of nicotine. 

 

If the reader is a smoker and wants to see the reality of tar and nicotine problems, then a simple experiment can be conducted.  Take a puff of smoke, hold it in your mouth and don't inhale.  Now, blow the smoke out through a white handkerchief placed directly in front of your mouth and flush with your lips. 

 

Afterwards, check the handkerchief and look at the tar and nicotine stains.  Naturally, this is what goes into the smoker's lungs upon inhaling smoke. 

 

 

Some Facts 

 

The same "Religious Liberty and Temperance Association" article followed up with a presentation of facts on the eleven main poisons found in tobacco.  In terms of physiological reactions to these poisons, the study said: 

 

                        Name of Poison                                    Physiological Attributes 

                        Nicotine                                                  Narcotic, Cardiac Depressant,

                                                                                          Emetic, Anaphrodisiac

                        Pyridine                                                  Respiratory Sedative  

                        Furfural                                                  Motor Depressant, Spasmodic,

                                                                                          Convulsant

                        Sulphuretted Hydrogen                      Malodorous, Fetid                                                                     

                        Collidine                                                Toxic, Ptomainin, Cadaveric 

                        Picoline                                                  Tarry, Acrid, Bitter 

                        Sulphurous Acid                                  Asphyxiant 

                        Sulphuric Acid                                      Caustic, Motor Depressant,

                                                                                           Nervous Depressant  

                        Carbon Dioxide                                    Respiratory Inhibitor, Narcotic 

                        Carbon Monozide                                Respiratory Paralyzer, Motor  

                                                                                            Depressant, Sensory Inhibitor 

                        Prussic Acid                                          Anesthetic, Cardiac Paralyzer,

                                                                                            Medullary Inhibitor 

 

A "Gannett News Service" report of Aug 11, 1992 on "Chemical Emissions" adds that cigarettes emit these chemicals, among others:  Benzene: A cancer causing chemical used in making other chemicals and rubber; Carbon Monoxide: A poisonous gas that prevents the blood from carrying oxygen; Formaldehyde: A disinfectant and preservative that can cause allergic reactions; Ammonia: A poisonous gas used in making fertilizers and explosives; and Hydrogen Cyanide:  A poisonous gas. 

 

In addition to the above list of poisons, drugs and killers that are commonly found in tobacco, even years ago, one needs to recognize a still further tragedy in our time since World War II.  Here, the point is made of the presence of chemical poisons used in the agricultural production and marketing of tobacco products. 

 

Obviously, when pesticide poisons are sprayed on tobacco, they partially remain to be smoked and inhaled.  If one adds these poisons to the above findings, the terror of tobacco intensifies substantially. 

 

There is still one more aspect of cigarette poisoning which must be acknowledged.  In more modern times, cigarette manufacturers have been able to increase the nicotine in cigarettes to make them even more additive.  There are also allegations that the producers have been adding other chemicals to cigarette tobacco to further addict or hook users. 

 

Who knows what all is now being put into tobacco and what it will do to people who inhale the fumes and smoke.  In other words, tobacco was bad enough 200 years ago.  But its evil and sickness have now been increased substantially here in the age end. 

 

 

A Serious Assessment 

 

The May 1993 "Alternatives" brought the modern times into perspective like this-- “While tobacco use has decreased almost 20% in males, our incidence of lung cancer has continued to climb.  In the mid-1980's it was noted that while most lung cancers were of the squamous cell type, adenocarcinoma was increasing in frequency. 

 

“That's when a Dr Jerome Marmorstein revealed that modern cigarettes contain increased amount of radioactive lead and polonium, and lesser amount of benzopyrene when compared to the older varieties.  (Polonium levels in tobacco tripled between 1938 and 1960). 

 

“And not too surprisingly, since the 1950's, researchers have found increasing concentrations of radioactive polonium in the lungs of cigarette smokers.  It was during this same period that high phosphate fertilizers were introduced into modern tobacco farming.  Sadly, much of the fertilizer was created by the grinding of local polonium containing apatite rock (South Med J 86;79[2]:145-50). 

 

“The stories you hear about some old codger who's been smoking a daily pack of cigarettes for the last hundred years will probably be a thing of the past.  Smokers since the 1950's have been dealing with a lot more than just tobacco toxins.  It is the radioactive particles that will probably lead to their early demise.” 

 

 

More Problems

 

The "Religious Liberty and Temperance Association" tract, quoted earlier, summed up the effects of tobacco smoking with this incredible list of effects by saying that smoking-- “tinges the fingers, makes the breath stink, damages the taste buds in the tongue, dries the mucous membrane in the mouth, disfigures the oral expression by puckering of lips,

 

“encourages the development of cancer of the lips, tongue, lungs and contiguous parts, damages the throat and vocal cords, by the continuous dry heat, eventually ruining the singing voice, carbonizes the lungs, decreasing the breathing capacity, giving rise to pulmonary disorders, damages the heart valves, adversely affects the rhythm of the cardiac action, adversely affects the kidneys, through the circulatory process,

 

“adversely affects the stomach and correlated digestive processes, in a mother, during pregnancy, adversely affects the entire organism of the embryo, producing liability to birth defects, in a father, adversely affects his virility and sexuality, directly affects the pituitary gland, the governor of the bodily functions, is a terrible economic waste; the smoking bill of the United States of America runs into many billion dollars a year.” 

 

Orlando J Smith, of Milan, Tennessee, in his paper on "Are You a Holy Temple," quoted one Tobias Venner, who in 1620, wrote: “Tobacco drieth the brain, dimmeth the sight, vitiateth the smell, hurteth the stomach, destroyeth the concoction, disturbeth the humors and spirits, corrupteth the breath, induceth a trembling of the limbs, exsiccateth the windpipe, lungs and liver, annoith the milt, scorcheth the heart, and causeth the blood to be adjusted.” 

 

 

Money Factors 

 

Then, there is a tremendous financial consideration about smoking.  "Spotlight," of October 13, 1982, had this far reaching report:  According to "Boardroom Reports,”  Smoking “costs employers $4,600 more per year to keep a smoker on the average payroll than a non-smoker. 

 

“The costs break down like this: In lost productivity, $1,820.  This represents 30 minutes a day for smoking breaks.  Damage from cigarette burns and extra cleaning maintenance for smoke pollution, $1,000.  Lost time, due to the average smoker's increased chances of illness and early death, $765.  Medical care, $230.  Heavy smokers use health care at least 50 percent more than non-smokers. 

 

“Absenteeism, $220.  Smokers are absent 50 percent more than non-smokers (or 2.2 days per year).  Effects of smoking on the health of non-smokers working nearby, $86.  Increased fire insurance premiums, $45.  Accidents due to loss of attention, eye irritation, coughing, etc, $45.”  (When added up, it comes to $4,211.  Maybe they didn't count the pipe and cigar smokers, the snuff dippers, the tobacco chewers and the "joint" in the restroom). 

 

The last thirty years in America have seen an enormous interest in the health effects of smoking.  Although the United States Government has continued to subsidize tobacco farmers in their production efforts, it has also been spending large sums of money to try to educate people on the adverse qualities of tobacco. 

 

While this simultaneous aiding and hurting of the tobacco industry continues to be a paradox, some positive results have been achieved in educating much of the general public on the hazards of smoking. 

 

Today, in our time, we now see cigarette advertising branded with a warning about the fact that cigarette smoking can be dangerous to human health.  This has been a step up in the right direction and especially as the warning requirements have intensified. 

 

 

The Surgeon General 

 

For a good assessment of what all is coming to be known about smoking in our time, "Awake" magazine of May 22, 1982, had this perceptive report on Smiting Smoking: “The United States Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, has now proclaimed smoking to be the most important health issue of our time. 

 

“At a press conference called to release a new report on smoking, he also stressed: Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief preventable cause of death in our society.  Almost a third of all cancer deaths were said to be the result of smoking. Though the Tobacco Institute countered that the question is still open as to whether smoking causes cancer, Dr. Koop insisted that the evidence is strong and scientific and we stand by it..” 

 

The Surgeon General's report cited the longest list yet of cancers related to smoking and mentioned stomach cancer for the first time.

 

Some other major items in the report were: (l) smoking is responsible for 85 percent of all lung-cancer deaths, (2) three times as many pack-or-more-a-day smokers die of cancer as do nonsmokers, (3) 95 percent of people who quit smoking did so unaided by special programs, and (4) the cold turkey method (sudden complete abstention) was found to be more effective than gradual withdrawal.

 

In reference to the above same report by the U.S. Surgeon General, “Evangelical Newsletter” of March 19, 1982, indicated that the problem from tobacco not only involves causing cancer of the lung, larynx and esophagus, but also concerns cancer of the bladder, kidney and pancreas. This report set the number of tobacco induced cancers at 130,000 or 30% of all known cancer deaths anticipated in 1982. 

 

 

Cancer Questions 

 

A good assessment of the overall cancer problem from smoking appeared in an article on "Cancer Risk" in the Jan 8, 1992 "USA Today" --viz:  “About 30% of all cancers and 85% of lung cancer cases in the USA would have been avoided if current smokers had never smoked, a major new study shows. 

 

“The findings, in the January American Journal of Public Health, out Tuesday, are based on a 20-year study of 8,000 Japanese-American men, who averaged one pack a day.  Smoking is undoubtedly the major cause of lung cancer and probably many other cancers, too, says researcher PoHuang Chyou, of the Japan-Hawaii Cancer Study, Kuakini Medical Center, Honolulu. 

 

“The American Cancer Society expects more than 1 million new cases diagnosed this year and more than 500,000 with cancer will die.  Chyou says the study confirms smoking and lung cancer are most strongly linked, but quitting dramatically cuts risk:  Smokers had 12 times the lung cancer risk of non-smokers, but after quitting, they had only three times the risk. 

 

“The research also found that the incidence of cancers of the mouth, larynx, esophagus, pancreas, kidney, ureter and bladder would drop 46% if current smokers had never smoked.  And if all smokers quit, the incidence would drop 26%, Chyou says.  Chyou says the findings can be generally applied to other ethnic groups and to women.” 

 

 

Strokes 

 

As late as Jan 14, 1993, the "USA Today" paper had the following report on "Stroke Risk of Female Ex-Smokers:"  “Women smokers are 2 1/2 times likelier to have a stroke than non-smoking women, but the added risk disappears two to four years after they quit, a new study says.  Until now, researchers thought it took up to 15 years to reduce the risk. 

 

"Women who now are smoking should take this to mean, regardless of how many cigarettes they smoke, or at what age they started, it's never too late to stop and the benefits are fairly rapid, says Dr Ichiro Kawachi, the study's author.  Each year, there are 500,000 strokes in the USA, resulting in an estimated 150,000 deaths.  Smoking is often a factor. 

 

“Women's smoking-related strokes are caused by reversible effects of cigarettes, such as blood clotting and artery spasms, says Kawachi, of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital.  Kawachi's report, in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, is based on a 12-year study of 117,006 middle-aged white female nurses.” 

 

 

Filters 

 

And if all of this wasn't enough, an issue can also surface in using cigarette filters in an effort to try to keep the tar and nicotine out.  For an assessment of this theme, the Guam PDN of Oct 29, 1991, had this story on "Man Blames Cancer on Asbestos Filters" --viz:  “In the l950s, Lorillard Inc. hailed an asbestos filter on its new Kent cigarettes as the greatest health protection  in the industry. 

 

“Now the company is battling a man who blames his cancer on the filters.  Lorillard, the nation's fourth largest cigarette maker, called the Micronite filter a pure, dust-free, completely harmless material.  It even promoted Kents in medical journals to encourage doctors to suggest the cigarettes to patients, court papers said. 

 

“Stockbroker Peter Ierardi, 56, said he believed the claims and switched to Kents.  Lorillard and Hollingsworth & Vose, which made the filter, knew or should have known they were inherently defective, ultrahazardous, dangerous, deleterious, poisonous and otherwise harmful, said a lawsuit filed by Ierardi that goes to trial Monday. 

 

“The lawsuit is unusual in a cigarette liability case because it deals with asbestos, not the hazards of smoking.  It's the first over the Kent filters to go to trial, Ierardi's lawyer said.  Ierardi's lawsuit seeks at least $200,000 in damages from Lorillard, based in New York, and Hollingsworth & Vose, based in East Walpole, Mass. 

 

“Lorillard said Ierardi can't prove he smoked Kents during the four-year period it used asbestos filters.  The company also said that even if Ierardi smoked Kents, he can't prove asbestos caused his mesothelioma, a fatal cancer of the lining of the abdomen, chest cavity, heart and lungs.  We just don't think we're responsible for it, Lorillard attorney Walter L. Cofer said. 

 

“Attorney Daniel Childs, who specializes in asbestos cases and represents Ierardi, said Lorillard is liable for damages because consultants told the company in 1954 that Kent smokers were inhaling asbestos and the filter's composition was unchanged for two years.” 

 

 

Depression 

 

A May 8, 1992, Associated Press story on "Study Looks at Depression, Smoking" pointed out:  “A study of depression and nicotine dependence suggests that both conditions may follow from a single vulnerability, a researcher said Wednesday.  The study found that people with current or past dependence on smoking ran a higher risk of getting a first episode of depression during the 14 months of the research. 

 

“It also found that smokers with a history of major depression at the start of the study were more likely than other smokers to become more dependent on nicotine during the following 14 months.  The most plausible explanation appears to be some kind of vulnerability that can encourage both depression and nicotine dependence, said study co-author Naomi Breslau. The vulnerability may be biological, she said. 

 

“Although prior studies show depression can contribute to persistence of smoking, it is not clear how nicotine dependence could promote major depression, especially since the study found that ex-smokers ran the same risk of a depressive episode that active smokers did, Breslau said. 

 

“There might be some long-term effect (of nicotine dependence) that we don't know about, said Breslau, director of research in the psychiatry department at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.  She presented the study Wednesday at a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. She did the work with M. Marlyne Kilbey of Wayne State University in Detroit. 

 

"I was actually amazed that with her small follow-up time (of 14 months) that Dr. Breslau could find evidence that there could be some mutual vulnerability, commented smoking researcher Dr. Alexander Glassman of Columbia University in New York.  But I think she's correct. I think there probably are shared genes that carry an increased risk for vulnerability for major depression and vulnerability to smoking.” 

 

 

Bone Problems 

 

Another remarkably bad feature of smoking surfaced in a "Gannett News Service" report of Feb 25, 1992, on "Smokers' Bones Heal More Slowly" which said:  “Smokers' bones heal more slowly than non-smokers,' new research shows.  Smokers' bones do heal.  It just takes longer, says Dr. George Cierny III of Emory University, Atlanta.” 

 

The article said that “He reported findings of a three-year study to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons in Washington over the weekend.  Cierny's team followed 29 adults with osteomyelitis, an infection that destroys bone. Eleven were smokers, nine non-smokers, nine ex-smokers. 

 

“All had surgery to repair and lengthen the tibia (the large bone below the knee) but rates of bone regeneration differed. On average:  Non-smokers' bones took 10 months to grow two inches.  Ex-smokers took 12.5 months.  Smokers took 15 months.  Smoking has a lasting effect on the bone, Cierny says. If you quit, you do better. If you never smoke, you do the best.” 

 

A follow up item of April 2, 1993, in the Guam PDN, on "Study Finds Smoking Hinders Bone Healing" added:  “Cigarette smoking is bad for your health but a recent study done at St. Joseph's hospital in Atlanta has found that smoking slows healing of broken bones. 

 

“When a bone fractures, cells near the break produce collagen, which patches the break.  But the nicotine and carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke limits the amount of oxygen that reaches those cells, limiting their collagen producing ability.  Some researchers have found that just one cigarette can reduce collagen production for 30 to 40 minutes.” 

 

 

Wrinkles 

 

An Associated Press story of May 16, 1991, on "Smoking Triples Premature Wrinkles" continued on to say:  “The latest fear for smokers already at risk for lung cancer and heart disease:  You're going to be old and ugly before your time. 

 

“Smoking more than triples the likelihood of premature facial wrinkling, University of Utah scientists reported in Wednesday's Annals of Internal Medicine.  And smoking combined with exposure to the sun increased the risk twelvefold, they said.  Smokers impervious to warnings of cancer and other health problems may take notice of the latest findings, Dr Thomas Kottke of the Mayo Clinic said in an accompanying editorial. 

 

“You're going to be old and ugly before your time if you smoke" may be "just the message that leads them to throw away their cigarettes for good, he wrote.  Dr Albert Kligman of the University of Pennsylvania, the dermatologist who invented the anti-wrinkle treatment Retin-A, said the study supports his belief that there is a "smoker's portrait" of discolored loose and wrinkled skin. 

 

“He agreed that the study could deter smoking. I think more people are worried about their appearance than cancer, he said.  The latest US surgeon general's report says about 50 million Americans smoke and 390,000 will die this year of smoking-related diseases such as cancer, emphysema and heart disease.  Dr. Donald Kadunce, the lead author, said the study was the first to link premature wrinkling and smoking.” 

 

 

Genetic Problems 

 

However, beyond health problems for the smoker, there is far more in terms of the smoking risk.  For example, a Jan 19, 1991, article in the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma "Daily Oklahoman" offered these penetrating remarks:  “Fathers who smoke have an increased risk of having children with brain cancer and leukemia, suggesting that smoking might have damaged the father's sperm, researchers said Wednesday. 

 

“ln a separate study, doctors found that children whose parents smoke are three to four times as likely as other children to develop serious infectious diseases requiring hospitalization.  (Doctors) don't think anyone before has demonstrated that the association is not just for mild illnesses, but for really serious infections as well. 

 

“The study that raised questions about the effects of smoking on men's sperm also found that mother's smoking could lead to an increased risk of cancer in children.  A distinguishing feature of our study is that we found father's smoking to be an independent risk factor... If the association with father's smoking is confirmed in future studies, it may suggest a genetic effect upon the sperm by the father's smoking.”  

 

Furthermore, a Gannett News Service report of Apr 23, 1992, on "Research Links Low Birth Weight, Smoking" went on to say:  “Pregnant women who smoke are nearly twice as likely to deliver low birth weight babies, according to new research from the Department of Health and Human Services. 

 

“The message to all women who are pregnant or planning a family is quite clear: Don't smoke, said HHS Secretary Louis Sullivan. The findings come from new birth certificates that ask detailed questions about pregnancy and delivery.  Low birth weight is the best predictor of infant mortality, and also the best predictor of which children will suffer medical and learning problems as they grow up. 

 

“Sullivan said he was concerned more women are not getting the message about the dangers of smoking.  One thing that concerns us is the advertising from the tobacco companies which suggests to young people that to be successful and attractive to the opposite sex...one must smoke. 

 

“In 1989, 20 percent of mothers smoked, said Sullivan. The highest risk was found among teenage mothers 18 and 19 years old, of whom one-fourth smoked.  Smoking varies greatly by education, said Sullivan.  With more education, smoking declines. One third of women with less than a high school education smoked, whereas only 5 percent of women who are college graduates smoke. 

 

“White pregnant women are more likely to smoke than black or Hispanic mothers, and white women at the lowest educational levels are twice as likely as black women to smoke. Citing cultural differences, researchers said black women take up smoking later in life and smoke less. The high cost of smoking, about $1.75 a pack (now $4 a pack, ed), is another factor behind the racial differences, said researchers.” 

 

And still more recently, a USA Today story of Dec 8, 1992, on "Mom's Smoking Linked to Sudden Infant Death" said:  “Babies whose mothers smoked during pregnancy or after giving birth are much more likely to die of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome than infants whose moms never smoked, a new study finds. 

 

“Scientists already had established a link between prenatal smoking and SIDS, but this is the first study to find that an infant's exposure to smoke after birth is independently tied to death from SIDS.  If you do give up cigarettes during pregnancy, make sure to stay off them after the baby is born, says Kenneth C Schoendorf, an epidemiologist at the National Center for Health Statistics. 

 

“The study, in Pediatrics, compared smoking rates for the mothers of 435 babies who died of SIDS with smoking habits of 6,000 mothers whose babies were not killed by SIDS.  They took account of moms' education, age and marital status--because younger, single and less educated women are known to have more SIDS babies.

 

“Findings:  Babies exposed to smoking only in-utero were twice as likely to die of SIDS as the infants of non-smoking women.  And babies exposed both in the womb and after birth were three times as likely to become SIDS victims. 

 

“The results don't prove that cigarette smoking causes SIDS, says Schoendorf, only that there's an independent link between the two.  It's unknown how smoke could cause the syndrome, which kills about 14 babies of every 1,000 born.” 

 

 

The Latest 

 

“The Week” of Aug 3, 2001 (p. 19), had a news report on the latest problems arising from tobacco.  Per the story, researchers at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital say that cigarette smoking can cause early menopause in women because of a slow destruction of the ovaries by the tobacco poisons.  Menopause normally occurs around ages 45-50.  But with smoking, it can come in the 30s. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 260--Tobacco and Smoking II

 

 

Second Hand Smoke 

 

Besides all of the direct harm and hurt that a smoker puts on his own body and life, as described in the preceding chapter, there is another horrible fall-out associated with smoking the weed in the presence of others. 

 

On this line of thought, health researchers finally got around to looking into the question of what happens to innocent people or bystanders who have the tragedy of being in the presence of smoke pouring forth from other people.  Obviously, if smoke is harmful to the smoker, then anyone breathing the stuff can be hurt. 

 

 

“Newsweek” 

 

“Newsweek” magazine of January 26, 1981, had this story on "Secondhand Smoke And Lung Cancer" which said:  “For nonsmokers, being forced to inhale someone else's cigarette smoke is an increasingly bitter social and medical issue.  Not only is passive smoking esthetically annoying, they argue, but also hazardous to health. 

 

“Last week, the anti-smoking forces won the strongest backing yet in their battle to protect themselves:  A massive study in Japan strongly suggested that secondhand smoke produces a lethal firsthand risk of lung cancer. 

 

“Signs that indirect exposure to smoke might be harmful have been accumulating for several years.   Babies of women who smoke during pregnancy tend to weigh less and develop more slowly than those of nonsmoking mothers.  The children of parents who smoke have been found to be more prone to bronchial ailments. 

 

“And last spring researchers showed that men and women who spend significant time in a smoky environment show some impairment in respiratory capacity, indicating damage to the small bronchial tubes and air sacs of the lungs.  The new study, conducted by Dr Takeshi Hirayama of Tokyo's National Cancer Center Research Institute, is the first to tie ambient smoke to a disease as serious as lung cancer. 

 

“Since 1966 Hirayama has kept track of more than 265,000 adults to measure the effects of such life-style factors as drinking, smoking, occupation and marital status on his countrymen's health.  As part of the study, he observed more than 91,000 nonsmoking women and correlated the deaths that occurred among them with the smoking habits of their husbands. 

 

“Wives of smokers, Hirayama found, had an increased chance of dying from lung cancer, and the risk went up in direct proportion to the amount of smoking in the home.  For women whose husbands had either quit smoking or smoked less than a pack a day, the risk was one and one-half times what it was for wives of nonsmokers.  But for women whose husbands consumed a pack or more, the risk of lung cancer doubled.  

 

“Also last week, the U S Surgeon General issued a disquieting word to smokers who have switched to low-tar-and-nicotine brands in the hope of protecting their health.  In his annual report on smoking, Dr Julius B. Richmond noted that a small amount of preliminary evidence suggests that such cigarettes reduce lung-cancer rates, but only minimally. 

 

“They don't seem to provide any protection against other smoke-related ailments, including heart disease The single most effective way to reduce hazards of smoking, said Richmond, continues to be that of quitting entirely." 

 

 

The EPA Report 

 

An Associated Press story of May 31, 1991, on "Annual 2nd Hand Smoke Toll 53,000” said that “A draft report sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies concludes that second-hand cigarette smoke kills 53,000 nonsmokers a year, including 37,000 from heart disease. 

 

“The EPA emphasized that the estimates do not represent official EPA determinations. Rather, the estimates are the views of scientific authorities the agencies commissioned to write the report, the EPA said.  A final draft of the report was completed in April, according to letters the EPA sent to the report's authors, but it has not been released.  A copy was obtained by The Associated Press. 

 

“Public release of the document has been delayed indefinitely, said Robert Axelrad, director of the EPA's indoor air division.  The report was intended to be an informational document for use by professionals in the field of indoor air pollution and passive smoking, Axelrad said. 

 

“Donald Shopland, coordinator of the smoking and tobacco control program at the National Cancer Institute and a contributor to the report, said that if Axelrad refused to release the report he would propose that the cancer institute release it.  A doctor with a watchdog group accused the agency of caving in to pressure from the tobacco industry.” 

 

 

Another Second Hand Issue   

 

For another good perspective on this issue of second-hand smoke, the “USA Today” paper of June 12, 1991, had this editorial:  “Warning Secondhand cigarette smoke can be hazardous to your health.”  That label might catch on... 

 

“Who is at risk?  We all are, according to a growing body of evidence.  A 1990 study headed by Yale's Dr Dwight Janerich found children with two parents who smoked are twice as likely as other non-smokers to develop lung cancer.  Two 1986 studies by the National Research Council and the Surgeon General concluded there was a link between involuntary smoke and lung cancer.” 

 

 

UPI 

 

A UPI story of June 11, 1992, on "Toxin Label Supported for Smoke" added:  “Secondhand tobacco smoke should be treated as an environmental toxin because it boosts the risk for heart disease, cancer and other medical woes, a coalition of health groups said Wednesday. 

 

“The Smoking or Health Coalition, made up of the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association and the American Cancer Society, issued a position paper saying it supports a nationwide effort to protect non-smokers from any exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke. 

 

“The action came just a few days before an Environmental Protection Agency study examining the health risks of exposure to secondhand smoke is slated to be delivered to the EPA's scientific advisory board.  That report is expected to classify such smoke as a human carcinogen and a factor in respiratory problems in children, lung association officials said.   

 

“About half of U.S. children live in families with one or more smokers and about 50 million non-smoking adults over age 35 are regularly exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke, the health group's paper said. 

 

"We now know that non-smokers are at an increased risk for heart disease because of exposure to other people's smoke.  This includes people who have no say in the matter, such as children whose parents smoke," said Aubrey Taylor of the University of South Alabama in Mobile, co-author of the position paper.” 

 

 

“USA Today” 

 

The “USA Today” paper of June 12, 1992, added these remarks on "Passive Smoke Seen as 'Toxin'" --viz:  “The American Heart Association, declaring passive tobacco smoke a major risk factor for heart disease, now says it should be classified an environmental toxin. 

 

“The AHA review of studies on the effects of secondhand smoke suggests exposure raises the risk of dying from heart disease 30% and causes up to 40,000 deaths a year.  The AHA, American Cancer Society and American Lung Association want a ban on smoking in public places.  It is much more likely you will die from having a cigarette pulled on you than a gun, says AHA president Virgil Brown.” 

 

 

More From the EPA 

 

A July 22, 1992, “USA Today” story on "Passive Smoke Gets More Study" said:  “Passive smoke's under fire again.  The Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday reopens hearings on the dangers of cigarette fumes, focusing on recent findings about the effects on children. 

 

“The agency begins more work on a report, three years in the making, that says passive, or secondhand, cigarette smoke is a class A carcinogen like asbestos and mustard gas.  By year's end, EPA administrator William Reilly is expected to decide whether to approve the report. 

 

“Some findings the report attributes to passive smoke: 150,000 to 300,000 respiratory infections, mostly bronchitis and pneumonia, in babies, and 7,500 to 15,000 subsequent hospitalizations; 8,000 to 26,000 new cases of asthma in children and worsened asthma symptoms in 400,000 to 1 million children; and 2,500 to 3,300 lung cancer deaths in never-smokers or former smokers.” 

 

Additional news on this EPA issue surfaced July 24, 1992, in a "Gannett News Service" story on "Panel:  Passive Smoke a Hazard" --viz:  “Passive smoke--the kind non-smokers get a whiff of when smokers are around is a toxic health hazard, especially for children, a federal panel concluded Wednesday... 

 

“The report places much of its justification for making passive smoke a Group A carcinogen on studies that show increased lung cancer in non smoking spouses of smokers and respiratory problems in children of smoking parents.  This draft of the report blames passive smoke for an estimated 3,300 lung cancer deaths in never-smokers and former smokers and 8,000 to 26,000 new asthma cases in children.”

 

 

Another Report 

 

As late as March 19, 1993, a "Gannett News Service" article on "New Research:  Carcinogen Caused by Passive Smoke" added:  “Inhaling secondhand tobacco smoke causes the build-up of a cancer-causing substance in the blood of non-smokers and their newborns, new research suggests. 

 

“The increase may not be dramatic, but the health effects are unclear, said a new study in Wednesday's Journal of the National Cancer Institute.  I think that (pregnant women) should avoid passive smoke.  There's no question in my mind, said one of the authors, Dr Jacalyn Coglin-Storm, University of Massachusetts (Worchester) Medical Center. 

 

“The carcinogen, 4 amenobiphenyl (4-ABP), was found in the blood of 40 percent of that found in 15 smoking women.  All kept smoke-exposure logs and wore air monitors to record levels of secondhand smoke.” 

 

 

The Approved EPA Report  

 

In time, the draft EPA report of May 1991, mentioned above, was approved.  As a follow-up, the Jan 8, 1993, “USA Today,” in an article on "Smoke Report May Change Public Habits," said:  “This is not a happy day for the USA's 50 million smokers. 

 

“An Environmental Protection Agency report released Thursday calls secondhand smoke a cancer-causing agent that will kill about 3,000 non-smokers every year.  The EPA's conclusions have the tobacco industry fuming about bad science and flawed methodology.”  

 

A similar Jan 9, 1993, “USA Today” story on "Anti-smoke Litigation gets Boost from EPA" added:  “A government report linking secondhand tobacco smoke to cancer gives an immediate boost to anti-smoking lawsuits throughout the USA--reaching all the way to the Supreme Court. 

 

“The Environmental Protection Agency report will have an economically crushing impact on tobacco companies defending lawsuits by cancer and lung disease victims, says Washington lawyer Jack Olender.  About 20% of all lung cancers due to factors other than smoking are caused by secondhand smoke, the report says.” 

 

Still later, the Associated Press of Jan 23, 1993, had a story on "All Participants in Study Show Traces of Nicotine Byproduct" which noted:  “Scientists conducting a large federal study of exposure to tobacco smoke were surprised to find signs of nicotine in all 800 of the first people tested, whether they smoked or not. 

 

“We really weren't expecting that, Dr James Pirkle of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.  The CDC is testing 23,000 Americans over age 4 for cotinine, a byproduct of nicotine found in the blood.  The first 800 tested all showed some cotinine. 

 

“The preliminary results came two weeks after the Environmental Protection Agency labeled secondhand smoke a carcinogen and said it kills about 3,000 nonsmokers a year from lung cancer alone.  Critics have said the EPA failed to document how many people are exposed to secondhand smoke and at what levels.” 

 

 

Another Problem 

 

For another bad feature of smoking which affects both the smoker and other innocent victims of secondhand smoke, the June 1992 "Alternatives" had this revealing news item:  “Memphis, Tennessee--Evidence at the American Heart Association Cardiovascular Disease conference revealed that as little as one hour a week, of exposure to tobacco smoke, can cause significant changes. 

 

“Researchers from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina evaluated over 12,863 men and women from four U.S. communities.  Using ultrasound techniques they discovered that increased thickness of the carotid artery wall was directly linked to tobacco smoke exposure. 

 

“Those who smoked exhibited the thickest arterial walls.  They were followed by past smokers who had quit, then those who were routinely exposed to passive or secondhand smoke and last, nonsmokers who had no exposure to secondhand smoke. 

 

“The carotid artery was evaluated in this study since it is large and easily accessible.  (It is the large vessel which runs along either side of the neck and supplies blood to the brain.)  Tobacco smoke damages blood vessels throughout the body, including the smaller ones supplying the heart and other vital areas.  As the inner walls thicken, blood flow decreases resulting in tissue destruction and eventually death. 

 

“Kicking the smoking habit or never smoking may not be enough.  To help avoid cardiovascular disease, whenever possible, you need to distance yourself from secondhand smoke.”

 

 

The Latest 

 

The May 24, 2002, “The Week” (p. 19) had a news report of a study from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center which charged that secondhand smoke was not only bad for the lungs of exposed children; but also, for their brains.  On average, children exposed to secondhand smoke scored below other children.  Smoking kids, in particular, scored two points below other children in IQ tests. 

 

 

Some Final Issues 

 

And while this writer presently tries to avoid breathing poisoned air from whatever source, i always was not so much of an innocent victim.  Because, in fact, when i was young, foolish and more stupid than i am now, i was a heavy cigarette smoker--up to three packs a day.  And for a while, i smoked “Kent” cigarettes with their asbestos filters which has to be about as stupid as is humanly possible. 

 

Possibly, the cigarettes in general and the Kents in particular have combined to cause me to have some lung problems in my old age--which could be cancer, emphysema or something else. 

 

As a young man, i should have known and understood about the coming suffering and hurt i would face later in life (plus the hurt i put on my wife and son because of my smoking in their presence to cause them to have to breathe secondhand smoke).  But i didn’t get the picture back then.  So i sinned against my body and now i am paying a price for it. 

 

In my smoking days, i tried to quit a couple of times by trying to turn to pipes and cigars.  i could never make it.  Finally, i did quit and chewed tobacco for awhile.  The chewing was bad, but nothing like the smoking.  i remember when i was finally off of cigarettes for a while.  Food began to taste much better and breathing clean air was wonderful. 

 

After i had quit smoking for a time, i started to cough up some lumpy spittle from my lungs.  i don't know what it was, but i'm convinced that it was good for my body to be able to clear my chest and expel that stuff.  Consequently, this writer can readily testify of the tremendous value to the human body when a smoker finally does quit.  He becomes a brand new person. 

 

Besides the physical effects to the body, there are also the money considerations.  Today, here in America, cigarettes are running over $4.00 a package or $40 a carton in retail stores.  Can one imagine the enormous financial drain, penalty and hurt put on a family if one or more persons in it smoke.  If the smoker quits, much money can be automatically saved each year and used for more prudent purposes in the family. 

 

 

The Scriptures 

 

So there are all kinds of good reasons for a smoker to quit.  And at this point in time, we haven’t even addressed the most important issue of all.  For the believer, the paramount concern is what the Word says about smoking--directly or by inference.  Here, one must initially go to the Ten Commandments which say-- “Thou shalt not murder” (Ex 20:13). 

 

There seems to be no way that we can legally, by YHWH's law, commit suicide.  And smoking is a form of suicide.  It is ultimately a killer as has been conclusively proven by many means.  None of us have a right to kill ourselves--even slowly, little by little, over many years.  Every puff of a cigarette shortens our life span by some measure.  There is just no way that we can get away with sin.  

 

In addition, there are some other key verses that also seems to focus directly on the subject of smoking.  Shaul the apostle wrote:  “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy:  for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are” (KJV, I Cor 3:16-17). 

 

Shaul adds:  “What?  know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?  For ye are bought with a price:  therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's” (KJV, I Cor 6:19-20). 

 

The crux of what Shaul seems to be saying is that we are not to bring hurt upon our human bodies. There is just no way that the smoker can be in obedience to those texts.  Too, there are still some other Scriptures which tie directly into the above quotations from Corinthians.   

 

 

More 

 

Moshe wrote:  “Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves: for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Ho'reb out of the midst of the fire:  Lest ye corrupt yourselves” (KJV, Deut 4:15-16). 

 

YESHUA said:  “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven” (KJV, Matt 5:16) and “Verily, verily, I say unto you.  Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin” (KJV, Jo 8:34). 

 

Shaul wrote to the Romans:  “For ye live after the flesh, ye shall die:  but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live” (KJV, Rom 8:13) and “I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service” (KJV, Rom 12:1). 

 

To the Corinthians, he added:  “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God” (KJV, I Cor 10:31) and “Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God” (KJV, II Cor 7:1). 

 

Shaul also wrote “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour (the rea) as thyself” (KJV, Gal 5:14) and “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them” (KJV, Eph 2:10). 

 

In Galatians 5:14, as just cited, please note that there is no way that we can show love to our neighbours (racial kinsmen, per the Hebrew rea) by smoking in their presence while they have to breathe the secondhand smoke.  A question now comes up on this same text.  How about driving an automobile in order to pollute and poison the air; so that our neighbours (racial kinsmen) have to breathe it.  Is that showing love? 

 

 

Still More From the Word 

 

Kefa wrote-- “For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.  While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 

 

“For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning” (KJV, II Pet 2:18-20) 

 

 

And More 

 

And if one really wants to get specific on smoking from the Word, please consider these admonitions:  “Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered:  let them also that hate him flee before him.  As smoke is driven before the fire,... so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.  But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God:  yea, let them exceedingly rejoice” (KJV, Ps 68:1-3). 

 

“For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth” (KJV, Ps 102:3).  “Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?  and your labour for that which satisfieth not?  hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness” (KJV, Isa 55:2). 

 

“BEHOLD, the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:  But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 

 

“For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.  None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth:  they trust in vanity, and speak lies:  they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity” (KJV, Isa 59:1-4).  

 

In Isaiah 59:3, as just cited, there is a condemnation of people with their fingers defiled with iniquity.  Please take a look at the fingers of a cigarette smoker.  Are they not precisely defiled with iniquity and/or poison? 

 

The bottom line that we come to is that smoking seems to be a sin and contrary to the Word of YHWH.  Therefore, if a smoker wants to follow YHWH, then he/she must surely quit.  There appears to be no other way on this.

 

 

Stopping 

 

And how does one quit?  Well, this writer could go to great length and tell readers about the many aids and devices on the market today to help the smoker quit.  But anyone interested can get this information at almost any doctor's office or health food store. 

 

Instead, this writer will share an absolute and sure method of stopping.  Orlando Smith's article, quoted earlier, said:  “There is only one way to stop smoking--and that is to stop." 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 261--Caffeine

 

 

A Problem?

 

An Associated Press news report on Oct 27, 1998, noted that a community college student in Morehead City, NC died from an overdose of caffeine pills (coffee substitutes for stay-a-wake use).  The local police chief said that no one suspected caffeine to be so deadly.  Is caffeine deadly? 

 

 

The Issue 

 

To set the stage for this chapter, the reader will find interesting the following remarks from a story on Caffeine Withdrawal, A Real Grind for Coffee Lovers from the June 20, 1991, “USA Today” --viz:  “Abruptly stopping caffeine intake--even if you drink just two or three cups of coffee a day--can cause significant withdrawal symptoms within 48 hours, new research shows. 

 

“That means people who want to eliminate caffeine from their diets should taper off instead of quitting cold turkey, says Dr. Roland Griffiths, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore.  Skipping the usual caffeine fix appears to significantly affect daily activities, most often through the sudden onset of headaches and lethargy, says Griffiths, who reported his findings Tuesday at a National Academy of Sciences Committee on Problems of Drug Dependence. 

 

“About 51% of people in the USA over age 10 drink coffee regularly; many complain of jumpiness or trouble sleeping and some worry about conflicting reports of other health effects. While Griffiths says there is no compelling evidence to suggest everybody should stop, they should be aware caffeine is a potent drug.”

 

 

Another Report 

 

For a follow-up report on Griffiths’ research, “Gannett News Service” of Oct. 16, 1992, had this story on Even Light Caffeine Use Found to Affect Mood--viz:

 

 “Don't run out of coffee unless you're prepared to suffer.  A study in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine shows that even those who drink moderate amounts of coffee, tea or caffeinated soft drinks can have withdrawal symptoms severe enough to affect mood, physical performance and cause headaches. 

 

"People should recognize that caffeine is a drug and they may be at risk of a severe withdrawal syndrome if they abruptly stop, says Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.  Drinking two 6-ounce cups of normal strength coffee a day--235 mg. caffeine--is low to moderate.  Tea and soft drinks have 30-60 mg.

 

“In the study, 62 people were given psychological tests while using their usual amount of caffeine, again after quitting cold turkey, and after being put on either a caffeine pill or placebo.  After withdrawing: 11 percent had symptoms of depression, 8 percent anxiety, 11 percent were less vigorous, 8 percent were more fatigued. 

 

“Griffiths says the findings may explain why some people feel out of sorts on weekends.  They get used to the office coffee pot during the week then suddenly, no caffeine.  Withdrawal takes a week; symptoms peak at 48 hours.” 

 

 

Dr Alice Chase 

 

Since caffeine is a "potent drug" and since it can cause "significant withdrawal symptoms," a question over propriety of using such should come to mind.  Dr. Alice Chase, in an article on Poisonous Beverages, said: 

 

“When a mother feeds her child cocoa, she is under the impression that cocoa (or cocoa-flavored products, malted milk, etc.) is a health-building food. She does not know that in every ounce of cocoa, there is an effective dose of poison that may irritate the vital organs, the heart, the liver, the kidneys, the nervous systems, and in fact, every cell of the child's body. 

 

“The poor mother is often acting on the advice of a physician in feeding her child cocoa mixed with milk, in order to increase the nourishing value of the milk.  Even coffee is, at times, used by the over-anxious parent to doctor up the child's milk, when, because of lack of hunger, the child refuses to take it plain.” 

 

 

The Scriptures 

 

Based on the above cited “USA Today” findings and the just noted observations of Dr. Chase, a question may then arise as to the Scriptural propriety of consuming caffeine based drinks or foods, as is so commonly done by so many people here in the modern 20th century.  In terms of the broad spectrum of whether eating or drinking certain items is or is not sin, there seems to be one guiding principal in the Scriptures.

 

The Apostle Shaul wrote instructions about not defiling the temple of the body, as discussed in the former chapter on smoking and tobacco (I Cor 3:16-17; 6:19-20). 

 

Thus, if one can conclusively establish that something does, in fact, hurt, harm or injure the temple of the human body, then he is in a very delicate position if he insists on ignoring such intellect and proceeds to eat, drink or smoke whatever he wants to irrespective of the outcome.

 

This is just about the same thing as eating (or drinking) from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  Ultimately, the reward for such an attitude will one day be death. 

 

Therefore, the question of whether eating or drinking is or is not sin seems to boil down to whether it hurts the human body or not.  And here, we're not talking about those things that are in vague areas or in things expressly covered by definite statements in YHWH's law such as clean and unclean foods, as was broached in a former chapter. 

 

 

Caffeine Prevalence

 

The subject at hand is concerned about caffeine as one commonly finds present in coffee, tea, cocoa, and many soft cola drinks. Thus, is it all right or is it wrong to drink a cup of coffee? That's the issue. And it's a tough one--because coffee, tea, cocoa and soft drinks are so incredibly popular in the 21st century society. 

 

In fact, caffeine based products are so popular that it may sometimes require a little effort to avoid them.  “The Soil and Health News” for May 1980 had this report on the presence of caffeine in some common products--viz:

 

                          Foods and beverages                                   caffeine per serving

 

                          Brewed coffee (6 oz)                                        100-150 mg.

                          Instant coffee (6 oz)                                         89-99 mg.

                          Decaffeinated coffee (6 oz)                            2-4 mg.

                          Tea ( oz)                                                             60-75 mg.

                          Cocoa (6 oz)                                                      50 mg.

                          Cola or Dr Pepper (12 oz)                               40-72 mg.

                          Milk Chocolate (1 oz)                                       3 mg.

                          Bittersweet Chocolate (1 oz)                          25 mg.

 

                          Prescription Drugs                                         caffeine per tablet

 

                          Cafergot                                                             100 mg.

                          Darvon compound                                           32 mg.

                          Fioninal                                                              40 mg.

                          Migral                                                                  50 mg.

 

                          Over-the counter drugs                                caffeine per tablet

 

                          APC's, Anacin, Bromo Seltzer, Vanquish,

                          Empirin compound, Midol, Easy-Mens        32 mg.

                          Excedrin                                                             60 mg.

                          Pre-Mens                                                           66 mg.

                          Average cold prescription                               30 mg.

                          Typical stimulant, like NoDoz                         100 mg.

 

To access this topic, this study will present some facts and information on these food items for the reader to consider.  One can then begin to compare these qualities and effects with the criteria which was presented earlier from I Corinthians.  Such an analysis should help in deciding whether or not it's all-right to consume such food.

 

Back in 1746, an Italian writer named Simon Pauli wrote a paper on “Tobacco, Tea and Coffee” in which he said:  “It (coffee) is esteemed a great cooler (thirst quencher) for which reason it is drank by most, but if it is used to excess, it extinguishes the inclination to venery and induces sterility.” 

 

Here one would just note that the qualities Pauli observed in coffee in 1746 are still here in 2003--plus a few other man-made chemical poisons that are now being added during coffee production, processing and marketing. 

 

 

Caffeine is Bad 

 

In the “Complete Book of Food and Nutrition,” J. I. Rodale and the “Prevention” staff wrote of the work in 1844 of Dr William Alexander Alcott, a cousin of Louisa May Alcott, author of the famous “Little Women.”  Rodale noted that later in the US, Dr William Alcott, a writer on health, wrote that coffee is essentially and properly a medicine--a narcotic. 

 

Alcott quoted authorities of that day (his book was published in 1844) as saying that coffee possesses nervine and astringent qualities, is suspected of producing palsies, has  a powerful effect on the nervous system, a pernicious effect on the stomach and bowels, exhausts the sensibilities of the part on which it acts, induces weakness, produces debility, alters the gastric juice, disorders digestion and often produces convulsions and vertigo, feverish heat, anxiety, palpitations, tremblings, weakness of sight and predispositions to apoplexy. 

 

William Alcott also quoted D. Hahnemann, founder of homeopathic medicine, as saying that coffee is strictly a medicinal substance.  All medicines in strong doses have a disagreeable effect on the feelings of a healthy person. 

 

He also quoted Hahnemann as saying that coffee drinking produces the following diseases:  Nervous or sick headaches, toothache, darting pains in the body, spasms in the chest, stomach and abdomen, costiveness (constipation), erysipelas, disease of the liver, uterus and bones, inflammation of the eyes, difficulty in breathing and bowel affections. 

 

“The Religious Liberty and Temperance Association,” in their article on Are You a Coffee and Tea Drunkard , a more contemporary writing, observed:  “The New York Life Extension Institute reports that out of more than sixteen thousand men examined, the excessive use of alcohol was responsible for 7% of the physical defects found, while coffee and tea were assigned as the cause of 40% of the difficulties found.” 

 

 

Caffeine is a Drug 

 

The concern, in these various comments by savants who studied the effects of coffee, is over the contents of coffee which make it so potentially dangerous.  And in terms of harmful substances in coffee, there seems to be one primary thing-- “caffeine." 

 

This writer would also suggest that there are other adverse qualities about coffee besides caffeine.  But caffeine is the main issue in addressing coffee, tea, cocoa, certain cola drinks, etc. 

 

For a recent assessment of the drug caffeine and what it does for the user, a “Gannett News Service” article, of Jun 26, 1991, on Caffeine is Most Abused Drug, said:  “Put down that coffee cup and listen to this:  The flavoring beverage you are drinking is the principal source of what is arguably the most abused drug in the world:  caffeine, a known stimulant and vasoconstrictor. 

 

“Like most drugs, caffeine has some positive effects.  Drinking it (in coffee, tea, cocoa) or eating it (in chocolate) can relieve drowsiness and temporarily sharpen perception.  But caffeine has a downside, too. 

 

“Medical literature has implicated caffeine in migraine headaches, insomnia, heart palpitations, increased aggression, elevated serum cholesterol, an increased risk of heart attack, birth defects, increased blood pressure, nausea, diarrhea, panic attacks, infertility, spontaneous abortion, neonatal toxicity, increased anxiety, frequent urination, bed-wetting, fibrocystic disease (the painful enlargement of breast tissue in women, accompanied by benign lumps), an increased risk of bladder and colon cancer, irritability, tremors and depression. 

 

“If you still think caffeine is innocent stuff, try giving it up. Try going for a day or two without your coffee, tea or soft drinks.  Withdrawal symptoms may start at 12-14 hours, will peak at 20-48 hours, and, if you can stand it, might last up to a week. 

 

“Withdrawal symptoms include craving, headaches, nausea, anxiety and impaired psycho-motor performance.  In short, withdrawal will make you exactly what you thought coffee, tea and soda would protect you from being:  dull, shivering, pale, weak and spastic. 

 

“As it happens, I know whereof I speak.  Six weeks ago, I determined to give up caffeine in all its forms.  I went through every symptom on that sad list and then some--right on schedule. 

 

“Do you think you're safe, clean, unaddicted?  Think you're superior to that underclass that reels from crack and heroin addictions?  Think you're so much better than your smoking friends who still continue to ingest gaseous stimulants by means of what James Joyce so aptly called cylinders of rank weed? 

 

“Well, you're not.  Not if you're still drinking tea, coffee or caffeinated sodas.  Not if you're still eating chocolate.  Not if, that is, you're still a caffeine addict.  Caffeine is the world's best kept (and best hidden) dirty little secret.  It's so well hidden that it's plain to see. 

 

“Take coffee, for example.  People in the United States drink about 380 million cups every day.  That adds up to 2.6 billion pounds a year—one third of all the coffee grown in the world.  Or, that 12 pounds of coffee a year are consumed by each person in the nation. 

 

“With all that coffee, U.S. citizens drink up a lot of risks, including the increased risk of heart attack.  A 1988 study by the Boston University School of Public Health estimated that one to two cups of coffee a day increased the risk of coronary infarction by 40 percent; three to four cups, 60 percent—and so on.  For many children, caffeine is their first addictive drug.” 

 

 

More on Caffeine 

 

But there are still more bad things to come on this topic.  For example, the “Religious Liberty and Temperance Society’s” tract, quoted above, tells us:  “A cup of coffee contains from two to four grains of caffeine; each cup of tea one and one half to two grains; each cup of cocoa one and a half to two grains. 

 

“If we were to take a cross-section of our population and add together the doses found in tea, coffee, soft drinks and meat, we would find that the average daily consumption of caffeine to be about fifteen grains per capita.  When you stop to consider that the medical dose of caffeine ranges from one-fifth to one-half of this amount, the seriousness of such self-drugging begins to dawn upon you. 

 

“The drug, caffeine, is an excitant, affecting the heart, the digestive system, the blood pressure, the nervous system, and the kidneys.  It has many  peculiar effects upon the body, for it makes the bowels loosen or tighten at will.  It can create hunger pains or quell a normal desire for food. 

 

“The heart is speeded up by caffeine, but at the expense of a much needed rest period.  A real heart tonic never interferes with the sorely needed fraction of time allowed this busy organ between beats.  Caffeine increases the work of the heart and shortens its rest period.  Very often, we find that caffeine produces a nervous heartbeat, very rapid and irregular.” 

 

 

More Bad Effects 

 

Dr Hahnemann, who was mentioned above, compared the actions of caffeine to that of "arsenic, lead or prussic acid." 

 

Author J. I. Rodale said that caffeine, apparently responsible for its effects on the human body, is a powerful poison.  A drop of caffeine injected into the skin of an animal will produce death within a few minutes.  An infinitely small amount injected into the brain will bring convulsions. 

 

The amount of caffeine in a cup of coffee is quite small.  Yet, people drink coffee because of the effect of that caffeine, just as people smoke because of the effect of the nicotine.  Both are habit forming drugs.  Rodale uncovered some interesting accounts of headaches produced as withdrawal symptoms when coffee drinking was abruptly stopped. 

 

Modern man also knows that efficiency of work performance decreases when a confirmed coffee drinker stops taking his daily dose of coffee.  These are symptoms typical of addiction.  When any drug is taken away from a drug addict, he suffers withdrawal symptoms. 

 

 

More From Rodale 

 

Rodale added that the US Department of Agriculture published a booklet in 1917 entitled “The Toxicity of  Caffeine.”  Their experiments involved animals.  They reported that the reaction of humans/humanoids and animals to caffeine may be quite different. 

 

Yet, most modern scientific research (on chemicals, insecticides, cosmetics and so forth) is done with animals.  It is taken for granted that any substance that shows up as poisonous to animals is quite likely to be not good for man.  

 

The USDA authors reported that the effect of caffeine on individual animals is different in its intensity and the effect varies with the dose.  On the same basis, undoubtedly various humans/humanoids are more or less resistant to poisons than others.  William Salant and J. B. Rieger, authors of the booklet, said that only one rabbit in ten survived injected doses of caffeine. 

 

Those animals that survived generally succumbed to a second or third dose.  The effect of caffeine on guinea pigs was even more drastic, although dogs and cats reacted differently.  All animals showed symptoms of poisoning, which resembled poisoning from strychnine. 

 

The Department of Agriculture noted further that in relation to its harmful action on tissues (chiefly brain and nerve tissue), caffeine is far more destructive than morphine.  They concluded that the continued use of caffeine containing beverages over a long period of time seems bound to be harmful. 

 

Rodale concluded--would you consider giving your family, children and old folks included, ever so small a dose of morphine every morning as part of breakfast, no matter how much they might like the taste?  Keep in mind that caffeine showed up as being far more destructive than morphine. 

 

 

Dr Alice Chase, Revisited 

 

The above quoted Dr Alice Chase, in her article on Poisonous Beverages, also remarked:  “Coffee, tea and cocoa all contain drug poisons, which lead to disease, to degeneration of every vital structure of the body that is necessary to health and life. 

 

“A well known scientific authority, Dr Edward Smith, demonstrated that work is done more easily under the influence of caffeine, but that an increased sense of fatigue follows.  The cells of the body may do more work temporarily than they would do naturally.  The after effect is exhaustion of the cells, with a decreased store of their energy. 

 

“Another authority, Dr H. H. Rugby, said: Caffeine is a genuine drug poison.  It tends to form the drug habit.  It causes permanent disorder or disease of the heart in its structure and function, and also of the nervous system. 

 

“Caffeine or coffee tends to increase the blood pressure.  Dr Kellogg, of the Battle Creek Sanitarium observed that the disuse of coffee, for a short period of time, will bring abnormally high blood pressure down twenty to forty points. 

 

“Another authority, Tibbles, found that Coffee cripples the liver.  It destroys the glycogenic function of the liver; therefore coffee may be a cause of diabetes. 

 

“Glycogenic function of the liver, means the natural function of the liver to change the digested starches and sugars of carbohydrate foods into glycogen, or liver sugar, for storage until it is needed by the economy of the body.  When the liver cannot convert digested carbohydrate (glucose) into glycogen, glucose enters the blood in abnormally excessive amounts and diabetic symptoms may appear.” 

 

 

Other Bad Features 

 

But besides the plentiful presence of the drug caffeine, there are other hostile qualities in coffee which also create questions about its use as a part of man's diet.  Dr Chase tells us: 

 

“A noted authority on drugs, Dr Hamilton Heal (of the biological laboratories of Parke, Davis and Company) verified that roasting coffee develops the following: carbonic acid, creosote, pyridine and a long series of other poisons.  Other authorities for the above statements are, Potter, Burmann and Sayre. 

 

“Of uric acid and coffee, Professor Mendel of Yale University said:  There is more uric acid in a cup of coffee, than in an equal quantity of urine.  Dr H. W. Wiley, Dr Thompson and other students of the subject, found, on analysis, that coffee contains from two to five grains of caffeine per ordinary cup.  Inferior brands of coffee, that are served in some restaurants, contain less caffeine than the better grades. 

 

“A well known chemist, Lehman, found that two to ten grains of caffeine caused violent excitement of the vascular (blood circulatory) and nervous systems.  Palpitation of the heart increased. 

 

“Also, there occurred increased frequency and irregularity of heart rhythm and pulse, oppression of the chest, pains in the head, confusion of the senses, ringing in the ears, scintillations before the eyes, insomnia, delirium.  These findings are based on an experiment by Professor Lehman on himself and five students. 

 

“The reason why people who drink large amounts of coffee do not suffer from all of the above described symptoms in a pronounced way, is that the body cells are so exhausted by narcosis and over stimulation, that they are slow in reacting.  Such poisonous effects of coffee may appear sooner in an individual who is not a habitual coffee drinker.” 

 

 

Tannan 

 

In addition to the presence of caffeine in coffee and tea, these items also contain quantities of tannan.  The just cited Dr Chase points out the following facts about tannic acid in tea:

 

“Tea is equally guilty in its ill-effects on health.  People who drink strongly brewed tea, suffer from headache when they omit it occasionally.  Tea drinking was mentioned by one of the Irish Commissioners for Lunacy as a cause for the increasing insanity among the people of Ireland. 

 

“The tannic acid of tea may cause indigestion, because it precipitates the pepsin, which is one of the activating digestive enzymes of the stomach.  Dr Roberts found that tea destroys the action of the saliva and prevents the digestion of carbohydrate foods in the stomach. 

 

“The National Standard Dispensatory makes the following statement on tea: Tea tends to produce inflammation of the stomach, biliousness, palpitation of the heart, tremors of the muscles and nerves.   Tibbles, an eminent research student on nutrition, states that tea causes gastric atony, catarrh of the stomach and insomnia. 

 

“Kronecker, an eminent physiologist of Berne, Switzerland, denounces tea and coffee as poisons blighting the human race.  The temporary good feeling from tea and coffee is dangerous for it stimulates, peps up, the fatigue centers of the nervous system.  The ultimate results of drinking tea and coffee are debility of the nervous system (Neurasthenia) and a lowered state of health of the entire body.” 

 

 

Heart Disease? 

 

Besides caffeine and tannan, there is a possibility of some further qualities in coffee which make it a very unsuitable product for human consumption.  In this regard, a “Gannett News Service” report of Mar 16, 1991, on Study:  Coffee a Killer, said: 

 

“More bad news for coffee drinkers:  A study released Thursday shows people who drink an average of five or more cups of coffee a day run more than twice the risk of heart disease than people who don't drink coffee. 

 

“Even small amounts of coffee increased the risk, said study director Dr. Michael Klag, of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.  But overall I would say it would be prudent to limit your intake to less than five cups a day. 

 

“Klag said the study, reported at an American Heart Association meeting in Orlando, does not reveal the culprit in coffee that raises the heart disease risk. Nor did it differentiate between caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee. 

 

"Other studies suggest it may be something other than caffeine—maybe a constituent in coffee that affects lipids (fats in the blood).  But we don't have any data from our study to prove that, Klag said.” 

 

 

Hurt on Children 

 

The reader may recall the second commandment in the Word which states that the effect of the sins of parents are visited upon their children until the third and fourth generations (Ex 20:5).  “Time” magazine of Sep 15, 1980, had this incisive comment on Caffeine Nerves--viz: 

 

“When next a pregnant woman reaches for a cup of that old pick-me-up, she should be urged to put it down.  So advised the Food and Drug Administration last week.  For coffee--like tea, cola drinks, chocolate and cocoa, and some drugs--contains caffeine, and, says the FDA, that substance may be linked to birth defects. 

 

“Caffeine is a stimulant known to penetrate the placenta and reach the fetus.  A new FDA study has shown harmful effects on the offspring of 305 pregnant rats force-fed caffeine through a tube into the stomach. 

 

“Those that consumed caffeine in amounts equivalent to a human drinking between twelve and 24 cups of coffee a day gave birth to offspring with missing toes.  After birth, rats whose mothers had received caffeine in amounts comparable to only two cups of coffee a day in humans did not grow as fast as normal.” 

 

 

The Wake Up 

 

Notwithstanding the overwhelming critical and derogatory information about coffee, tea and other caffeine based foods and drinks, man seems to continue to lust after and seemingly enjoy such products.  At least, many people are under the impression that a hot cup of coffee on a cold morning seems to make a person feel better.  The writer of  “Are You a Coffee and Tea Drunkard” noted: 

 

“We often hear that coffee relieves fatigue but this relief from fatigue is created by mobilizing more sugar from storage depots and increasing the sugar concentration of the blood, thus offering much immediately available food for fuel and action.

 

“This wakening up of the mind is sometimes noted even to the point of serious insomnia and hallucinations.  You may have found it necessary yourself to stop using coffee at night, because of the sleepless hours you have spent tossing in your bed. 

 

“Many commercial producers of coffee argue that the continual use of caffeine in such doses as are common in tea and coffee does not produce definite laboratory evidence of injury to cells of kidney, heart, brain and spinal cord, but this theory does not face the fact upon which all investigators agree--that caffeine is a stimulant. 

 

“In other words, we find that caffeine whips up our lagging forces and creates a false sense of well-being.  We find that many people are able to put out more work with the lash of this stimulating drug.  Recently, an eastern university positively proved that the endurance of the coffee user is materially less than that of the non-user. 

 

“In other words, the research work showed that coffee does not increase efficiency; that the well being and increased vigor felt after drinking coffee is not real, but is entirely the result of the mobilization of reserve energy, which is essentially a borrowed power, and a handicap to the immediate future. 

 

“I could go through this article giving you statement after statement made by acceptable authorities indicating that caffeine is a habit-forming drug.  Yes habit-forming--if you question that statement, you who use tea or coffee regularly, quit it for a day or two and see how quickly you reach for a headache pill or powder.”  

 

 

Trouble 

 

The “Soil and Health News” of May 1980 had a comprehensive report on When You Drink Caffeine, You're Drinking Trouble by Mark G. Schwartz which told the story of caffeine like this: 

 

“Caffeine is a powerful stimulant that acts on the central nervous system.  It peps you up, gives you a lift, and makes you feel more energetic.  Many people say they cannot get moving in the morning until they have a cup of coffee or tea.  Then all during the day they reinforce this stimulation by drinking more coffee, tea, or cola drinks. 

 

“When your central nervous system is excited by caffeine you feel fine.  But as the effects wear off, you get a let-down feeling; drowsiness, tiredness, lethargy, and fatigue followed by depression.  So a little more coffee, tea or cola drink is necessary to restore your energy.  This constant cycle of stimulation can be disastrous to your health. 

 

“Caffeine is also habit-forming.  People who drink coffee or tea usually say they drink it because they like the taste.  However, when these same people are given decaffeinated coffee or tea, they do not like it.  

 

“Actually, what they are saying is that it does not give them the stimulation they are seeking.  They have become dependent on caffeine without realizing it.  Often these caffeine containing beverages also contain sugar or artificial sweeteners which further disturb normal body chemistry. 

 

“The average cup of coffee contains 100 to 150 mg. of caffeine; a cup of tea contains 60 to 75 mg.  In large enough amounts, caffeine is lethal to animals; and a fatal human dose would probably be 10 grams, roughly the amount found in 100 cups of coffee. 

 

“It's unlikely that anyone would drink that much at one time, but there have been many cases in which caffeine has been implicated in causing or contributing to serious diseases. 

 

“Caffeinism results from drinking too much coffee or tea.  The symptoms according to Dr. John F. Greden of the University of Michigan Medical Center, are nervousness, irritability, occasional muscle twitching, insomnia, irregular heart beat, and increased secretion of urine. 

 

“He says the syndrome is infrequently recognized by physicians and therefore its incidence is not well measured... If a person consumes from 500-600 mg. per day and shows other symptoms of Caffeinism, it's a good bet that the user has become physiologically dependent.... Greden suggests that many people who think they get ‘tension headaches’ may be suffering from caffeine withdrawal. 

 

“He notes that such symptoms often occur on weekends.  People who take caffeine in the form of coffee to help them work often stop taking it on Saturday and Sunday.  Other symptoms of caffeine withdrawal include drowsiness or lethargy, nosebleeds, irritability, nervousness, nausea, and mild depression. 

 

“Some studies show a correlation between coffee consumption and later development of coronary heart disease.  Two doctors at the Boston University Medical Center compared the histories of more than 700 heart attack patients with the histories of more than 13,000 F. patients with other diseases. 

 

“Patients who had consumed up to five cups of coffee per day had a 50 percent greater risk of coronary heart attack than those who had not drunk any coffee.  When the consumption was six cups or more, the risk was 100 percent greater. 

 

“A study carried out by Dr. R. S. Paffenberger of the University of California at Berkeley linked coffee drinking to ulcers.  Of the 25,000 men studied, coffee drinkers had a 72 percent higher chance of developing ulcers than those who never drank coffee.  

 

“If you think decaffeinated coffee is the answer, think again.  In the United States, caffeine is removed from coffee beans before roasting by soaking them in methylene chloride, a solvent suspected of being carcinogenic.  So even though you don't get the caffeine, you may get something worse.” 

 

 

Yes, Coffee is a Drug 

 

The January-June 1981 “Elijah Messenger” summed up the question of caffeine addiction--viz:  “Dr. W.  A. Evans, for 25 years Health Commissioner of the city of Chicago wrote:  Coffee is a drug. Those who are addicted to the use of tea and coffee are drug addicts. It is much the most wide spread form of drug addiction.  

 

“Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, for years chief of the Bureau of Food and Chemistry of the United States Government, wrote:  This country is full of tea and coffee drunkards. The most common drug in this country is caffeine.  Your children, ignorant of its deleterious effects, consume it freely. They do this to their great physical and mental detriment. Coffee drunkenness is a commoner failing than the whiskey habit. 

 

“Should anyone object to these rugged terms, ‘Caffeine addiction,’ and ‘Coffee drunkenness,’ permit me to suggest:  just omit your morning cups of coffee and observe your symptoms. You will get a headache, feel weak and perhaps dizzy. You think these symptoms indicate your need for coffee. 

 

“Instead, THEY ARE DRUG WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS such as you would experience in giving up morphine.  If you omitted your cereal, your poached egg, your toast or milk, you would not get a headache, so let me urge for your great personal benefit, break that ‘coffee break’ drug habit, before it breaks you. Of course you can lick it. Substitute a hot cereal drink, or a refreshing fruit juice.” 

 

 

A Personal Testimony 

 

To the above, this writer would like to add a personal observation.  In my earlier life, when i was more foolish, dumb and backward, i was a heavy coffee drinker and particularly so in the mornings.  However, in time, i began to try to be more serious on the Word and YHWH's laws. 

 

Then i commenced keeping the weekly and annual Sabbath days of YHWH, including the Day of Atonement.  As you may know, the observance of Yom Kippur requires that the participant undergo a complete fast on the tenth day of Ethanim, per the Scriptural calendar.  Now, if you're a coffee or tea drinker and all of a sudden you start a fast, it seems that you are due for trouble. 

 

In my case, i would develop an enormous and harsh headache by mid morning after starting the fast, just as the above article from the “Elijah Messenger” suggests.  The first few times that i kept the Day of Atonement, i inevitably came down with this headache. 

 

Then one day, a friend told me what the problem was.  It was coffee.  i then learned that if i completely eliminated coffee from my diet about two or three days before Yom Kippur, i could make it through the one day complete fast without any serious problems--for sure no headaches.  This told me something about caffeine and coffee. 

 

The question this writer asked earlier about the Scriptural propriety of consuming caffeine based products now becomes more easily answerable.  The evidence is substantial in advocating avoidance of caffeine, and the real followers of YESHUA can readily see that reality from the facts, data and information presented so far. 

 

 

Alternatives 

 

By the way, if the reader does make a decision to rid his life of these poisons, he can find all kinds of acceptable substitutes for both hot and cold beverages in most any health food store. 

 

Because of the number of chemicals and poisons used to treat and process so called "decaffeinated" coffee, there is some reluctance to recommend it as a satisfactory substitute for regular coffee.  However, there are some wonderful herb teas and barley drinks that seem to be perfectly legal to drink per YHWH's laws.  In place of cocoa, one can feed the children an outstanding food called carob.

 

Carob is a perfect substitute for chocolate.  It is found extensively in the Middle East. Many people can't distinguish any appreciable difference between carob and chocolate.  Health food stores carry carob in both liquid and dry forms. You can also find carob cookies, candies and other products.  By the way, carob is also called St John's Bread. 

 

Many students of the Book believe that Yohanan the Baptist lived on it, possibly along with other foods--viz:  “And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loins;  and his meat was locusts and wild honey”  (Matt 3:4). 

 

Many people suppose that the above described locusts were in fact carob pods.  So it is very possible that the wonderful food of carob is also a food with some Scriptural authority for consumption. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 262--Health Alternatives?

 

 

A Sun Worship Link 

 

Could modern medicine, drugs, surgery, doctors and attitudes link in some fashion to ancient sun worship?  Assuredly yes!  Physicians were common practitioners in all of the old sun worship cultures from Egypt to Babylon. 

 

While mentioned in the Book, they were not necessarily people of favor (II Chron 16:12) because YHWH was always The HEALER of His people (Ex 15:26; II Chron 16:12; Ps 103:3; 147:3; Isa 30:26; Jer 17:14; 30:17).  For certain, this is the desirable path for real believers and followers of YHWH YESHUA. 

 

Interestingly, the practice of modern medicine is laid at the footsteps of one Hippocrates (c460 BCE to c370 BCE), who lived in ancient, sun worshipping Greece.  Of course, the doctor’s symbol (of a phallic pole with an eagle on top and two serpents intertwined, discussed in a prior chapter) must have connected to doctors in this early sun worship setting. 

 

Moreover, as discussed in the former comments on this symbol, both it and the doctors who use it have become idols and gods in the modern sun worship culture.  People stand in awe of this sign, and especially of doctors (as if doctors are the greatest thing that ever happened to man). 

 

 

A Problem 

 

Though it is true that the modern medical profession has made progress in the diagnosis of sickness (not all, but “some”), they have been tragically short in trying to handle degenerative diseases (such as cancer, diabetes, heart problems, etc).  It seems that the “approved” medical schools and colleges teach their questionable approaches to health care students. 

 

Their graduates know largely nothing beyond those methods, although a few of them eventually learn that there is a whole world out there which they never heard of while in college.  But giving credit where credit is due, the approved medical profession has made some progress in diagnosis, as just noted. 

 

Moreover, they have also done much useful work in treating injuries, sometimes even by restorative surgery (this is good, per Proverbs 17:22). 

 

It is marvelous that an injured person losing a hand, foot or some other part of the body can go to a medical doctor and have the severed portion re-attached, sometimes with remarkable results.  Obviously, doctors can often treat injuries properly--which seems to have Scriptural merit, as just cited. 

 

 

As You Believe 

 

Just as certain Satanists, witches and Pentecostal Holy Roller preachers get “some” results (as elsewhere described herein), some AMA approved doctors and nurses get healing results with various unscriptural methods.  In all cases with these unscriptural approaches, people can be healed because the human mind has great power over the body. 

 

As the Word outlines--as you believe, so be it (Matt 8:13; 17:20; Mk 9:23).  If one has faith and belief in a particular doctor, system or the Devil, then certain results can be achieved.  That’s why many doctors can successfully prescribe a placebo and their patients are healed, as noted earlier. 

 

The May 3, 2002, “The Week” (p. 19) had a report on a study done at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.  Researchers found that the benefits of a placebo far exceeded either Zoloft or St John’s wort for treatment of severe depression.  In a study of 340 patients, some 32% of those taking a placebo improved while only 24% improved with St John’s wort and 25% improved with Zoloft. 

 

Obviously, a placebo can be very effective because the patients believe in the doctor.  However, for the believer in YHWH YESHUA, the Word offers the better approach. 

 

A later chapter will discuss some correspondence this writer had with a mamzer Holy Roller preacher who actually thought that he could impress me by telling me that he had been healed instantly and also raised from the dead on one occasion as a three months old baby (from the power of The MOST HIGH). 

 

Well, the truth is that his own mind could have healed him.  As far as the fairy tale about being raised from the dead, this alleged miracle surely never took place.  In any case, the evidence seems to be that if the man was raised from the dead, he was raised by Satan (as he was grossly rolling in sin and by the Word, YHWH does not even listen to or hear the prayers of petition from sinners, as proven earlier herein). 

 

 

New Age Alternatives 

 

Beyond the traditional unscriptural methods of treating disease, some elements of the modern medical establishment have been turning to New Age, holistic health practices, as previously mentioned. 

 

Much or most of these New Age health approaches also seem questionable because of the possibility of linking into the demonic world.  For example, vigorous exercises, coupled with a good attitude and proper rest, is wonderful for the human body.  But demonic occultic practices (like yoga) are something to flee from as fast as possible. 

 

Certainly, the modern medical profession has been sadly lacking in general with its insanity over drugs and surgery.  Now, the approved healers are making things worse by turning to modern demonic New Age methods, in contrast to what the Scriptures advocate. 

 

In terms of shifting to alternate health approaches, a person must be prudent and careful to not get entrapped into these New Age health concepts which are slowly being integrated into the traditional AMA health care system with the complete approval of the state. 

 

These New Age occultic methods include such things as healing touches, laying on of hands, counseling, yoga, acupuncture, meditation, concentration, trances, mind therapy, kinesiology, holistic health methods and a host of Oriental and Eastern methods (like Feng Shui, Qi Gong, Reiki, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Shiatsu, etc). 

 

 

More from the East 

 

The latest health fad out of the East is the practice of drinking your own urine.  Per a news report in the Aug 2001 “Internet Vortex” (p. 15), some three million Chinese now drink their own urine for health purposes (per a report from Beijing’s official Xinhua news agency).  Undoubtedly, the New Age people will soon latch onto this practice. 

 

Another recent report came forward from the May 10, 2002, “The Week” (p. 7), which said that there is a new popular fad in China of purposely breaking the legs of short Chinese (evidently children) so that by manipulating the healing process (of slowly pulling the broken bones apart as they heal), the legs will grow longer. 

 

In China, where numbers of people are quite short or small, there is a sense of popularity in being tall.  Accordingly, this treatment (first developed in Russia years ago to treat dwarfism and limb deformed persons) is being used by many Chinese. 

 

 

Dangerous 

 

Most of this New Age and Eastern stuff is demonic and is as dangerous as playing with rattlesnakes.  Laying on of hands by a registered nurse is just as dangerous as those efforts by a Holy Roller preacher.  A transference of demons (or at least, in the mental telepathic focus of demons) is possible in both instances. 

 

As described above and elsewhere herein, it is true that the human mind has great power over the human body.  The MESSIAH correctly noted--as one believes, so be it (Matt 8:13; 17:20; Mk 9:23).  The point is that many of these unscriptural methods do get results and particularly when a person believes in them.  Yes, it is possible to be healed by Satan and demonic, New Age methods. 

 

 

The Latest Ecumenical Approach 

 

Now, to complicate things, another new innovation has surfaced in the context of healings by prayers.  This new thinking is apparently unprecedented in human history (for the last 6,000 years).  But it is fast gaining acceptance.  It was discussed on the Art Bell Coast to Coast AM radio talk show on Oct 3, 1999. 

 

Barbara Simpson was substituting for Bell, and she had a medical doctor on as a guest (apparently named Gossy, Glossi or something close in sound) to discuss holistic health and new age healing methods now gaining acceptance in the “approved” medical profession. 

 

The doctor involved had written several books on the subject.  Of course, he covered some of the things mentioned above in the context of laying on of nurses’ hands, concentration, biofeedback and so forth.  But he went one step further with some revolutionary and unprecedented information. 

 

It seems that the approved medical profession has entered into league with a prayer circle of ecumenical religious people of different faiths and beliefs from around the world.  The way this happens is that if a person is admitted to a participating hospital for a very serious operation (like open heart surgery), the prayer circle will be called into action to pray to their respective deities for the person undergoing surgery. 

 

Duke University Medical Center and certain hospitals in California are now participating in the practice.  There is an ecumenical woman who coordinates the exercise and gives the prayer circle the information it needs to commence the ecumenical prayers. 

 

The prayer circle is not just a denominational Christian effort.  It involves all kinds of Christians and people of other faiths and beliefs as well.  There is no discrimination on participants.  All people of all faiths are welcomed to participate. 

 

Thus, when the circle is kicked off, religious people commence their prayers.  This includes Buddhist monks in Asia, the faithful of other Eastern faiths (evidently Hindus and gurus of India), Catholic nuns in France, Fundamentalist Protestants in North Carolina, New Agers around the world, Jews in Jerusalem (surely Reform Jews since its hard to imagine Orthodox participation) and so forth. 

 

The speaker did not name all of the religions in the world.  But the implication of his words is that there are many more than just those he named.  Moreover, this motion is growing.  So more faiths will be added in the coming days. 

 

 

The Results 

 

While the benefit of these ecumenical prayers is subject to debate, the doctor contended that there is some measurable impact and especially in the sense of after effects or side effects from the surgery.  Thus, people receiving the prayers supposedly do better on the administered drugs and recover more rapidly than other persons who undergo the same operations, but without the prayers. 

 

This whole process seems incredible.  But it appears to be the real world in 2003.  Above all else, it is not the methodology for true believers in YHWH YESHUA.  Perhaps the true believer in YESHUA would never be turning to human doctors for healing anyway.  And certainly, they would want no part in ecumenical prayers of sun worshippers from around the world. 

 

A final note--doesn’t the word circle seem to relate in some way to the sun god?  A former chapter discussed this linkage--which is very real. 

 

 

Electric and Magnetic Healings? 

 

For many, many years now, various persons have come forward with data and information on using electro-magnetic energy in some form to reportedly heal.  Often, cited electric/magnetic healing methods are associated with some type of a machine which supposedly will do certain things to or for the body. 

 

The Art Bell Coast to Coast AM talk show programs on Jan 8 and 17 of 2000 had a guest on named Dr Robert Beck, a physicist, to talk about a blood purifier or electrifier which supposedly would clean up a person’s blood stream or nullify bacteria and disease.   Dr Beck is a 76 year-old, retired, college professor who has no financial interest in the matter, but was only trying to inform others as a humanitarian effort. 

 

This particular machine is sold by the SOTA Instruments Company in Vancouver, BC, Canada.  But according to Beck, a person can go to a Radio Shack and buy the parts and build one for about $30.  Beck says that informed people have known about such machines for over a hundred years.  The present development stems from work by a Dr Lyman and others at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York in 1991. 

 

According to C. Edward Griffin (who was on Art Bell on Jan 17, 2000), old John D. Rockefeller commissioned a study (by Dr Simon Flexner, a possible Amalekite) years ago (apparently, in 1908) to try to attack and demean these alternative healing efforts because Rockefeller had substantial financial investments in various pharmaceutical companies which were making gobs of dollars from the sick public. 

 

Thereafter, the Rockefeller scheme was to use his foundation to make huge grants of money to the important medical schools with the stipulation that they put Rockefeller people on their boards of directors.  Thus, Rockefeller people (like Simon Flexner) were put into positions of power over medical schools because of the Rockefeller funding. 

 

By providing large grants to the medical schools and by having Rockefeller people (mainly Amalekites) in charge, medical school curriculum took the direction of teaching students the benefits of drugs, as prepared by the pharmaceutical industry.

 

Anyway, Rockefeller’s study, the grants and other efforts succeeded in obscuring and covering up the benefits of alternative types of healing.  The essential focus of medical school instruction was directed to drugs (made and sold by Rockefeller’s companies) and surgery to some extent. 

 

Manifestly, the American Medical Association (AMA) likewise has had a motive for hiding and covering up any research which would enable people to be healed quickly and easily without costly doctors, surgery and drugs.  After all, the AMA has had a purpose of supporting doctors in their efforts to make a lot of money from the gullible goyim. 

 

 

Some of the Issues 

 

One caller to the program tried to claim that medical doctors were so ethical that they would never oppose any method of healing, and irrespective of whether they stood to make money from it or not.  Obviously, this caller was extremely naive and gullible.  Of course, many doctors will oppose anything which would interfere in them making gobs of money.  You can bank on it that ethics do not impact upon Amalekite doctors. 

 

There is also the just noted reality that the medical schools themselves hide alternative treatments and teach the traditional drug and surgery methods of healing because of Rockefeller money (although this is changing somewhat in recent years with the introduction of holistic healing, laying on of hands and occult healing arts into the medical schools). 

 

The new methods have not yet replaced drugs and surgery.  But they are growing in influence and acceptance, as noted above. 

 

In any case, young doctors graduate, never understanding that their knowledge about healing is extremely limited (yet, many of them think that they are on the “god” level). 

 

One of the issues surfacing in the discussion was the fact that not only have medical schools been locked into drugs and surgery for healing, but this same mentality has affected the government (though not mentioned, it is clear that the Rockefellers and other plutocrats who own the pharmaceutical companies also elect, own and control the politicians who run the governments). 

 

 

Money Talks 

 

The effect of this Rockefeller money and control (which will be addressed in future chapters herein) is that the sources with money (the government, the medical schools and the foundations) have locked alternative health care out and have made all research work point only in the direction of drugs and surgery. 

 

Hence, if someone does come along with an electric or magnetic healing machine, the medical establishment will block it out and fight against it tooth and nail.  The people in power (because of Rockefeller money) will not spend money or effort to investigate or research any alternatives.  In other words, even potentially good healing methods will not receive the time of day from the establishment. 

 

The controlled AMA (being lackeys that they are) will join in with government agencies to put people in jail (who dare take a stand by maintaining that healing can come from alternative methods of health care).  The AMA and the medical establishment have an essentially government granted monopoly in the form of MDs, drugs and surgery, as being the “only” authorized and suitable method of dealing with disease and sickness. 

 

There is one more fallout on this subject.  It is the fact that not only does the AMA, Rockefellers and other owners of the pharmaceutical companies control the medical and health fields in the US in terms of the government, medical schools, etc, but this same combine also controls the insurance companies and government health care services (like Medicare, Medicaid and so forth). 

 

As noted elsewhere herein, this control is so tragic that a person buying sickness and hospitalization insurance will find that it doesn’t pay if the person tries to go against the establishment’s MDs, drugs and surgery.  Insurance policies generally will not pay for alternative healing methods.  In other words, the whole system is controlled by the power of the AMA and the owners of the  pharmaceutical companies. 

 

Hilly Rose was hosting the involved Art Bell program.  He noted the situation with the free energy technology produced by Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) some 100 years ago.  All homes could have had free electricity.  But then, no one would be able to collect revenue from installed meters.  So the idea of free energy was killed by Thomas Edison and international banker J. P. Morgan (to be described in a later chapter). 

 

 

More on Alternatives   

 

Of course, one of the primary alternatives that the follower of YESHUA must always consider is the Scriptural approach.  This theme will be covered in the succeeding chapter.  Suffice to say, it is the best alternative to the evils of the approved medical profession. 

 

As will be addressed in the next chapter, the Scriptures do reflect much material on the maintenance and restoration of health--normally using natural methods to include a clean diet (obviously “clean” meats and organic fruits and vegetables), clean air (much oxygen is essential), clean water, rest, exercise, fasting, attitude (Prov 17:22) and herbs (Ezek 47:12; Rev 22:2). 

 

While there is a potential for help from alternative healing methods (especially those with a Scriptural basis), as opposed to medical doctors and their drugs, poisons and surgeries, the medical profession has promoted government laws which give them a virtual monopoly on the healing arts (as just discussed). 

 

Anyone else or anything else that can challenge them is not only ridiculed by the controlled media, but is immediately crushed by the powers of the government.  Nevertheless, some chiropractors, naturopaths and others do survive and are able to render some help without being jailed and thrown into prison for practicing medicine without a license. 

 

It is also true that some MDs (not many for sure) have turned to diet and alternative health care approaches that are Scriptural. 

 

The SOTA company in Canada sells the just mentioned electrifier machine, but they sell it as a “plant growth simulator” and never speak of healing or curing people (which is forbidden by law in the US since only MDs, drugs and surgery can heal in the US and most other nations). 

 

Generally, a person with a degenerative disease or health problem must be cautious about going to the normal doctor and accepting his largely unscriptural methods.  As a minimum, the religious individual will want to pray about it before rushing into something that might be wrong.  Certainly, alternative methods should be considered. 

 

 

Health Food Supplements 

 

Believing that the vitamins, minerals and other factors present in natural foods are beneficial for health and/or for the restoration of health in some instances, informed nutritionists began turning to supplements years ago.  Actually, as The MOST HIGH designed proper Scriptural food products, supplements would not be necessary since natural foods contain items needed in the right balances and quantities. 

 

It’s too bad for modern man, but irresponsible farming practices (coupled with the poisoning of the soil from chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, etc) have spelled absolute disaster for the soil.  Consequently, food items being grown on such depleted and destroyed soil lack the needed vitamins, minerals and other factors.  Thus, thinking people began turning to supplements. 

 

One of the common problems among much of the population is candida which is aggravated by the modern push of antibiotics by the approved medical profession.  While the typical MD knows nothing about candida, it is the real world out there and can be devastating for good heath.  Health food stores and some companies on the internet sell products which can address the candida problem.  Enzymes are thought to be effective. 

 

Supplements are typically available in health food stores and drug stores across the nation.  Such supplements can be of two classifications.  Some of the supplements are natural and derived from natural products.  Others are from synthetic sources which may or may not be proper for the human body.  Probably, the synthetics are not good since they are contrary to the natural order. 

 

In any case, the possibility that a human being might be able to go into a health food store and buy a vitamin or mineral supplement or a healing herb seems limited in the future (although herbs are allowed Scripturally).  The Big Brother government and medical establishment have been opposed to the simplicity of this system for ages.  So they are about to change things. 

 

 

The FDA’s Latest Plans 

 

On Nov 24, 1997, a government panel working with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its plans to take action against dietary supplements.  Evidently, the panel prepared a report which was before Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services, proposing that the FDA regulate all vitamins, minerals and herbs making them controlled substances (Mar 1998 “Prophecy Flash,” p. 23). 

 

The government plan is to classify vitamins, minerals and herbs as drugs which can only be sold to the public as prescription drugs.  Thence, pharmaceutical companies will take them over for distribution and only doctors will be able to authorize their purchase in drug stores and pharmacies. 

 

This plan also involves government oversight in the form of the FDA to take over the control and regulation of all vitamin, mineral and herb sales in the US.  Not only will such a takeover whet the appetite of the bureaucrats involved, but it will certainly play into the hands of the AMA and the large pharmaceutical companies which are owned and/or controlled by fat cat bankers on Wall Street. 

 

As of late December 2000, the Clinton administration did not implement this plan.  But it is still on the drawing board (facing the Bush team) and will be coming down the pike at the first opportunity. 

 

 

More Push on the Scheme 

 

The Dec 25, 2000, “Spotlight” (p. B-7) had an article on “Drug Makers Want Vitamin Regulations” which assessed the enormous push by the fat cats and drug makers to take over the entire vitamin, herb and supplement market. 

 

There is a formal group organized to push this concept on the American public.  It is the “Council for Responsible Nutrition” (CRN) which is working with the “Transatlantic Business Dialogue” (TABD) to “illegally force the harmonization of our dietary supplement laws to grossly restrictive, totally unscientific international standards” (as “Spotlight” characterized it). 

 

A number of large, powerful corporations involved in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries are members of CRN.  This list includes:  American Home Products, American Laboratories, Archer Daniels Midland, BASF, Bayer, Beotin Laboratories, Cargill, Hoffman-La Roche, Monsanto, Nestle, Smith Kline Beecham and Warner Lambert. 

 

Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill are two of the three largest companies trying to take over the distribution of the world’s food supply.  As pointed out earlier, Monsanto is involved in genetically engineered foods, the production of the bovine growth hormone and other questionable activities which could be bringing hurt upon the public’s health. 

 

 

The 2001 Drug Use Survey, Revisited 

 

A big push on this new scheme arose in the 2001 survey on the use of drugs by the American people, cited in a previous chapter.  As noted in the former comments, some 80% of Americans take some kind of drugs, evidently daily.  The survey noted that most of this consumption is in the form of prescription drugs or over-the-counter drugs.  Only some 16% of people take herbs. 

 

As the January 25, 2001, “The Week” (p. 19) noted, there is an interesting observation on this huge intake of medication and/or health supplements.  The article and survey called everything drugs--including even the herbal remedies.  Evidently, the powers that be are now in the process of defining and labeling herbal supplements (and likely vitamins as well) as drugs, along with prescription and over-the-counter drugs. 

 

Another facet of this survey (by the Slone Epidemiology Unit of Boston University) was that the findings suggested that “many people are mixing drugs with unregulated herbs and supplements, which can result in serious bodily harm.”  Please note that no concern was expressed over mixing prescription drugs with over-the-counter drugs.  Presumably, these type of mixes are perfectly legal and proper.   

 

The whole issue was one of mixing prescription drugs with “unregulated” herbs” and supplements (apparently vitamin supplements).  The report went on to say that doctors must ask patients about what types of herbs they are taking to avoid disastrous drug interactions. 

 

This whole effort at Boston University is pointed in one direction and one direction only.  The groundwork is being laid to justify and make it mandatory that herbs and other supplements be placed under the control of the medical profession and the pharmaceutical companies. 

 

The pharmaceutical companies already control the sale of over-the-counter drugs.  So these types of poisons were no issue. 

 

The whole purpose of the study and findings was pointed in one direction only--the so-called problem with the unregulated sale of herbs and food supplements.  Surely, in the coming days, this study and similar ones like it will be used to justify a move against herbs and food supplements. 

 

 

The February 2001 Initiative 

 

As late as Feb 12, 2001, “US News & World Report” (p. 43) had a lead story on “Natural Hazards” which disclosed the current efforts of the pharmaceutical houses and government bureaucrats to commence hysteria among the American people over the alleged “dangers” of vitamins, herbs and other natural food supplements not currently regulated by the FDA. 

 

One of the favorite approaches used by these profit and money oriented peoples is to charge that if a person takes a bottle of vitamins A, D or E in one motion, the result could be very serious.  Yes, there is a thing called moderation.  And if someone consumes too many of particularly oil based vitamins, there could be problems.  Actually, the same thing applies in multitudes of other things as well. 

 

Any idiot who takes a bottle of aspirin is inviting a health crisis.  The person who tries to drink too much alcohol invites trouble.  Some fools have even tried to consume rubbing alcohol, derivities of anti-freeze and embalming fluids, and beef from cannibalistic cattle.  Obviously, there are millions of things which will cause health problems if consumed internally or consumed in an irresponsible and massive dose. 

 

 

The Kava Uproar 

 

In a further move to take over the vitamin and herb business, the FDA in March 2002 issued a kava alert to charge that kava “may be linked to severe, even fatal, liver problems” (Apr 8, 2002, “Time,” p. 58). 

 

Kava is a herb grown in Polynesia.  It has historically been used by the natives for the calm, dreamy state of mind it induces.  Kava supporters say that the herb can ease anything from anxiety and insomnia to menopause.  In America, consumers have spent more than $50 million for its benefits.  

 

But then, all of a sudden, some allegations surfaced claiming liver damage.  Once the allegations were on the table, the FDA rushed in to issue its alert. 

 

Obviously, too, this uproar over kava will give the FDA more ammunition to use in its deceitful and evil effort to take over and regulate all herbs and vitamins.  It will make the Rockefellers and other drug producers very happy when they only can take over the sale of these products. 

 

The “Time” article went on to quote a few authorities on the possibilities of a problem with kava.  A four-week study made by the Duke University Medical Center in the fall of 2001 concluded that kava, used responsibly, poses no significant health hazard.  Dr Kathryn Connor, one of the authors of the study, said that the study found no abnormalities in liver function or any other significant health hazard. 

 

She added that the problem cases in Europe arose because of extraneous factors:  some of the patients had been taking extremely high does of the herb over long periods of time, or in using it with alcohol, or taking it on top of a pre-existing liver condition. 

 

Accordingly, the American Botanical Council now recommends that people who have liver trouble, or who drink a lot of alcohol stay away from the herb.  Otherwise, people can take it, but should not take it more than four straight weeks or exceed the stipulated doses. 

 

The essence of this report is that kava is like a lot of other products.  Too much of it can hurt (the same as with aspirin and thousands of other prescription drugs and over the counter medicines).  Like in anything else, moderation is the key (yes, even with honey because the Book teaches moderation in the consumption of honey). 

 

Yet, this uproar will give the FDA just one more excuse to regulate and control the vitamin and herb fields.  This will really whet the appetites of the giant pharmaceutical companies when vitamins and herbs can only be administered by doctors and sold as prescription drugs.  After all, money is always the name of the game in the Western Christian culture. 

 

 

More on the FDA 

 

While it is theoretically true that the FDA was created to safeguard the nation’s health, events in the last several years have seen it transformed into a political action or scare agency to be used by prostitute politicians, answering to the Wall Street money power.  The US plan to take over vitamins, minerals and herbs is a classic illustration of this madness. 

 

More recently, the “Spotlight” paper of Sep 6, 1999 (p. 2), had a news report from the “Long Island Newsday” that the FDA (under Bill Clinton) entered into efforts to help Slick raise money from different sources.  Per the report, the makers of a controversial diet drug called Redux attended two White House coffees and contributed $50,000 to Slick. 

 

Shortly after making the contributions, the FDA approved Redux for sale in America.  Normally, it is a long, drawn out process to get a new drug approved by the FDA.  As this story was labeled, “Coincidence or Conspiracy,” one has to wonder how much the FDA was influenced by Clinton and his receipt of the money.  Manifestly, it takes payoffs to someone in power to get FDA approval on many new drugs. 

 

Since the President George W. Bush family has historically had ties to the Rockefeller owned/controlled petro-chemical and pharmaceutical businesses, it seems plausible that the pharmaceutical houses will commence new pressure to take over the vitamins, herbs and food supplements under the George W. Bush presidency. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 263--Healing in the Scriptures

 

 

The Scriptural Approach 

 

As was noted in the prior chapters, the Scriptures do offer an abundance of good teachings on the maintenance and restoration of health--including using natural methods to include a clean diet (obviously “clean” meats and organic fruits and vegetables), clean air (much oxygen is essential), clean water (as will shortly be addressed), rest, exercise, fasting, attitude (Prov 17:22) and herbs (Ezek 47:12; Rev 22:2). 

 

This chapter will assess some of these ideas. 

 

 

Herbs 

 

As just noted, one of the primary Scriptural approaches to healing involves the use of herbs.  The classic message is at Ezekiel 47:12 where the idea is that herbs can be used for healing.  The same message is present in Revelation 22:2.  Manifestly, YHWH gave Adam herbs as being good for consumption and healing (Gen 1:11-30; 2:5; 3:18; 9:3)

 

There are two primary drawbacks with the use of herbs for healing.  The first big problem is the need for much knowledge and understanding.  The herb business requires some experience and knowledge (after all, some herbs are known to be poisons and can kill or injure). 

 

While most famous herbalists gained their knowledge and understanding through years of experience, many of us today are blessed with good books written by these experts.  We can share their knowledge without the years of learning that they had to undertake. 

 

So it is possible to acquire a working knowledge of herbs and their uses simply on the basis of a limited amount of study with some of these good books.  Here, mention might be made to “Back to Eden,” by the famous herbalist Jethro Kloss.  There are others, of course. 

 

The second potentially bad feature of herbs is that some people have been caught up into the use of herbs in the vein of Witchcraft, Satanism, Voodoo and the occult.  Of course--just as herbs can be used for good, they can also be used for bad.  This same reality applies to a lot of things besides just herbs. 

 

While one might choose to use a herb for a health or healing benefit, the user must always be cautious that he or she does not turn to any so-called occult or magical power aspects of herbs.  Assuredly, this option could open the door to far more dangers than one may find in playing with rattle snakes.  There simply is no reason to become obsessed over herbs or their alleged magical powers. 

 

 

Exercise, Perspiration, Water and Salt 

 

Just after the first sin recorded for Adam, The ELOHIM pronounced punishment upon him and his sinning wife and the serpent Nachash (Gen 3:14-19).  This announced series of punishments reflected a fantastic revelation of truth, respecting man’s process of maintaining good health. 

 

The MOST HIGH proclaimed that Adam was sentenced or destined to work the land and generate the sweat of his brow in order to have food for consumption.  And this indictment has essentially faced Adam for the last 6,000 years, although it admittedly seems to have fallen by the wayside here in modern times with the production of giant corporations and exceptional means of technology (to produce food). 

 

If there has been one great handicap in the matter of maintaining human health, it is the tragedy of this age with the availability of technology and the departure from Adam’s historic judgment in Genesis.  Both the modern food production methods and the giant food producing corporations are grossly bad, as was proven in preceding chapters. 

 

Likewise, Adam’s motion to move away from his pronounced destiny has also proven to be a classic failure; at least, in terms of human health. 

 

Manifestly, man needs exercise and perspiration.  Ideally, the healthy person needs these things daily, along with the replenishment of the expired perspiration in the form of clean water and some salt.  This process of exercise, perspiration, water and salt is good for human health. 

 

The Wise CREATOR pronounced this need, primarily in Genesis 3:19--though the attendant need for clean water and salt is elsewhere covered in the Book.  For a fact, exercise with perspiration is fantastically good for health (usually not for the healing of diseases, but just for the maintenance of good health).  The person who cannot get this exercise out of doors can benefit greatly from a periodic sauna or steam bath. 

 

Not only has man himself become a very sedimentary specie, but he has insisted that his children follow the same depraved path.  Modern Americans have done this with the insanity of school buses and the process of bussing children all over the country daily in order to achieve some social objective--like with racial integration and amalgamation (as will be addressed in later comments herein). 

 

 

More on Water 

 

And as extraordinary as it seems, some people are beginning to discover the need for clean water daily.  A number of nutritionists have come out with recommendations for six to eight glasses of drinking water daily.  Certainly, the human body needs a quart or so of water daily, as cannot be disputed. 

 

But the first big problem in satisfying that need is the fact that most of modern man’s drinking water is simply not clean and proper for human consumption (even spring water is often polluted, either from the ground or by acid rain).  Most of the public’s drinking water is profusely poisoned and/or polluted beyond comprehension (as will be pointed out in later chapters herein on pollution). 

 

This reality forces a thinking person to now go out of his way to drink distilled or purified water.  Distilled and purified water sources are not always the best answer, nor do they really supply basic human needs (because they lack some of the proper ground minerals found in well and spring water--thus, needed minerals then must be provided in supplements, as was addressed in the prior chapter). 

 

But normally, distilled and/or purified water is the only method to obtain clean water in most situations.  In other words, this becomes the only choice available. 

 

The point is that Adam needs a daily process of exercise to produce perspiration and a replacement of the perspiration by drinking large amounts of clean water and using a little salt.  That’s the right path for Adam. 

 

Water is so essential for man that the human body is composed mainly of water, and it is now recognized that water itself is very healing for diseases and injuries. 

 

In commenting upon the need for water, one should not be so foolish to believe that a daily consumption of tea, coffee, colas, juices and other drinks satisfy the body’s need for water.  While some juices and herb teas might be good on occasion, the body needs simple water drank singularly and apart from meals and digestion.  Clean water cleans the system and particularly helps the kidneys and elimination. 

 

 

Fasting 

 

Having mentioned fasting earlier as a Scriptural method for healthful living, it would be well to now look at that discipline in some detail, both from the perspective of the old sun worship cults as well as a look at the Scriptures.  In the first place, it appears that true fasting (of any appreciable length) appears to be largely absent from many of the old sun worship cults. 

 

Numbers of early sun worshippers were so dedicated to pleasure and self indulgence that the suffering outlined in fasting would have been totally out of place. 

 

“What the Great Religions Teach” (p. 106) asserts that the early Greek sun worshipping Epicureans (5th century, BCE) held that the perfect life was one without pain.  Later, they changed this stance to say that the perfect life was the “pursuit of pleasure.” 

 

With such a sun worship attitude of pleasure and the self satisfaction aspects of pride, vanity, lust, greed, selfishness, get and acquire, many of the things which are such obvious problems for health and true religious worship have always found ready acceptance in much of the traditional sun worship culture (like eating pork, smoking, ingesting poisons, etc). 

 

But apparently, there was some limited fasting on occasion.  “What the Great Religions Teach” (p. 108) makes mention of the Greek “Dioysian Rites,” held at different times and seasons in the early Greek civilization.  Reportedly, these rites included fasting, midnight processions, and wild dancing and singing--which, in time, turned into orgiastic gatherings. 

 

Otherwise, the most notable ascetic people willing to extensively fast as a part of their religion would have to be the Hindus of the East, to include the Chrishna worshippers (probably in the East and in Europe as well).  Even to modern times, the Hindus seem to be big fasters (like Gandhi). 

 

 

Christians Pursue Pleasure 

 

The approved medical profession and most of modern Christendom have followed the precedents established by the old sun worship cults.  Generally, their focus has been on the pursuit of pleasure with very, very, few exceptions.  One exception to this is a Pentecostal preacher down in Arizona, named Franklin Hall, who has advocated fasting both for religious and health purposes over the years. 

 

It is inconceivable that any “approved” medical doctor would dare suggest fasting for any patient, irrespective of what the illness might be.  It seems that even for the most serious health problems, doctors either prescribe a soup or broth or perhaps intravenous feedings.  But they essentially will not allow fasting. 

 

Turning to nature, one finds a most interesting phenomenon on this theme.  Whenever an animal gets sick or injured, they typically fast.  The writer of this study is unaware of any exceptions to this reality.  If a snake bites a dog or if he is injured, he will immediately stop eating and won’t eat again until he starts recovering.  In short, he either gets well or he dies. 

 

 

Fasting in the Scriptures 

 

Importantly, the Word has some advice for followers of YHWH YESHUA.  It seems that the Pharisees and even the disciples of Yohanan fasted often while the disciples of YESHUA did not do so.  Some came to The MESSIAH asking Him about this possible disparity. 

 

SALVATION told them that as long as He (The Bridegroom) was with them, His disciples would not mourn or be in the sorrow of fasting.  But when He would leave them in the future, they would then fast (Matt 9:14-15).  Of course, Christendom has completely missed the point on this message.  They use it as authority to not ever fast, even today when The MESSIAH is not with them. 

 

Obviously, there would be a coming time when the believers in YHWH YESHUA would and will fast.  He alluded to this time in another instance in Matthew 6:16-18 which will be discussed in the following presentation.  

 

 

A Caution on Fasting 

 

The Word also brings out one more extraordinary teaching on fasting.  As was commented upon in prior chapters, man has a tendency to want to achieve a state of righteousness (for obvious pride and vanity purposes) by trying to do acts of righteousness in public and before other people (in order to obtain the acclamation, praise and glorification of others). 

 

Tragically, fasting is in this precise category.  So-called religious people sometimes will fast if they later can go about and brag and boast over their fastings in front of other persons, especially among their supposed religious brethren. 

 

However, YESHUA’s teaching on this theme of fasting is very clear and should not be subject to confusion.  He taught his followers to fast (obviously, at the right time, when they should be fasting after His departure). 

 

But in His instructions, He specifically added that “when” they fast, they should not be hypocritical by showing off or bragging about their fasts before others.  Instead, they should fast in secret--so that Ha AV would see them in secret and reward them publicly (Matt 6:16-18). 

 

Yes, His Word was for believers to not only fast, but to bathe and clean up during fasting, instead of trying to look dismal and physically distressed (in a way that would suggest the difficulties of fasting). 

 

It is true that fasting makes one weak and physically depressed with a bad breath.  This is the reality of fasting.  It is also true that a person can clean up and take some actions to obscure some of these physical problems of the fast. 

 

The point is that it is hypocrites who go about fasting and showing off their religion and supposed state of righteousness in front of other people. 

 

The reason these hypocrites pursue this option should be clear to any person who has read the former chapters on pride and vanity.  Yes, pride is the name of the game of the braggart, who brags and shows off his fastings. 

 

 

Some Fasting Examples 

 

So, after YESHUA left His disciples, they did fast as He commanded (Acts 9:9; 10:30; 13:2-3; 14:23; II Cor 11:27).  Of course, they fasted because fasting was well established as a religious act for the Hebrew people of YHWH.  Moshe fasted 40 days and nights (Ex 34:28).  Eliyahu had a similar fast of 40 days and nights (I Kg 19:8). 

 

Esther and her friends fasted three days and nights (Est 4:16).  David fasted on more than one occasion (II Sam 1:12; 12:16-22).  Nechemyah (Neh 1:4), Daniel (Dan 9:3) and Anna (Lu 2:37) were all fasters.  Too, YHWH’s law prescribes an annual fast on Yom Kippur, falling on the 10th day of the 7th month (Lev 16:29-31; 23:26-32; Acts 27:9). 

 

Most important of all, The MESSIAH, Himself, fasted for 40 days and 40 nights on at least one occasion (Matt 4:1-2).  In this example of righteousness, it should be noted that His fast was one of (clean) water only with no food intake--because when He ended it, He hungered and was not thirsty. 

 

And this fasting with water (without any food) seems to be the correct method of fasting, though some people have had short fasts without food or water.  Moshe and Eliyahu, of course, did fast without food or water in their extraordinary fasts, but they were in close communion with The HIGHEST.  Otherwise, a person would die within a few days without water. 

 

There is some confusion among many people on fasting.  Christians, particularly, try to go on a diet and then call that fasting.  Many will eat certain foods and some will drink certain juices and call this fasting.  It is not.  It is a diet much like the one Daniel went on for three full weeks (Dan 10:2-3).  Many will miss a meal or two and call that a fast.  But hardly would a missed meal constitute a fast. 

 

 

Some Bad Examples of Fasting 

 

Just as The MESSIAH condemned and taught against the pride and vanity aspects of fasters who try to tell other people about their fastings, there are a couple of interesting examples of this tragedy.  First, in the vein of Matthew 6:16, just noted, YESHUA said that it is hypocrites who try to show off and gain pride and vanity from their fastings. 

 

Over in Luke 18:10-12, there is an excellent example of this very thing when The SON OF ADAM told the parable of the two men (a Pharisee and a tax collector) who went into the Temple to pray and obtain forgiveness.  The Pharisee (who must have been a Haverim or Shammai Pharisee from the context) claimed his state of righteousness by saying that he fasted twice in the week. 

 

In introducing this parable, YESHUA noted that some people trust and have confidence in themselves and their own state of supposed righteousness for justification and a right standing with The EL (Lu 18:9).  Of course, this is precisely what self righteousness is all about. 

 

In mentioning this situation of men bragging and boasting over their fastings, this writer has actually known two men in life who did this very thing in my presence.  One was a man who thought he was a “second Moses,” discussed earlier herein.  He has bragged to me more than one time about his fasts (which turned out to correctly be diets since he drank juice during them). 

 

Another well liked man in Western Oregon liked to brag and boast about his fastings to others, particularly to pagan Christians who never fast.  This person was obsessed with a kooky calendar he claims that he obtained from inspiration during his fastings.  His calendar had a rotating Sabbath because each new year started with the first day of the week as being on the Aviv new moon. 

 

The man was an extrovert and liked to talk and brag about his righteousness.  His rotating Sabbath belief did set him apart from others (but this kooky belief was not original with him because this writer has known and read writings from other persons with the same crazy thinking, which has to be demonic as to its source). 

 

How much this man has fasted is unclear--maybe only occasionally or some few days or perhaps just at his observed Yom Kippurs. The man was an ex-Worldwide Church of God person.  So he probably fasted with them on Yom Kippur.  Because of his bragging and boasting, it seems almost a certainty that he was not a big faster or at least he never read Matthew 6:16-18. 

 

In any case, he regularly went about and bragged to others that his kooky calendar was revealed to him during his fasts.  Presumably, if other persons fasted as he did (however much that it was), they too would be able to understand the complexities of the Scriptures (like with the Scriptural calendar, as discussed in former chapters). 

 

 

40 Days and 40 Nights 

 

The typical fast of example seems to be the just mentioned fast of 40 days and 40 nights underwent by The MESSIAH (as a guide for His followers).  Evidently, persons of good health can have their bodies cleaned up and properly rested and restored with a forty days fast. 

 

Otherwise, for sick people, it might be that their fasts must exceed that if they hope to be healed and restored to health.  Of course, some people may be so sick or in such bad health that they cannot even accomplish a 40-day fast--thus, meaning that the 40-day fast is an optimum.  Some people have fasted for very long periods, well beyond 40 days. 

 

However, on these long fasts, there is a point which the faster reaches (when hunger returns) where the fast must be broken and food must be eaten.  Otherwise, death sets in and the person will die.  For long fasts, one must break them very slowly, with limited juices diluted with water.  In a few days of juice drinking, soups and heavier foods can be slowly introduced. 

 

There are a host of benefits to the faster.  The most apparent one is that fasting is one of the greatest healers of most sickness and disease in existence, according to the former Dr Herbert M Shelton of San Antonio, who ran a fasting clinic for years in San Antonio, Texas (in his book “The Hygienic System--Orthotrophy”), and a number of other persons who practice hygiene methods of healing. 

 

Moreover, fasting allows religious individuals to draw closer to The ELOHIM when they are humbled and brought low in the fast (Ps 35:13; 69:10).  Also, fasting allows one to confess sin (I Sam 7:6), to repent (Neh 1:4) and to seek deliverance (Matt 17:14-21).  But always, a proper attitude is essential to receive these benefits (Isa 58:1-6). 

 

Since there can be dangers in extended fasting (yes, even death or other problems), any person contemplating such an undertaking should (indeed must) become knowledgeable and informed on fasting--the danger it presents, how it works, when to break it and how to break it. 

 

There are some alternative health care specialists which teach fasting and can advise and assist anyone contemplating a lengthy fast.  But above all, the person planning a fast should do so cautiously.  Without knowledge, fasting can be fatal. 

 

Probably, this is a good place to mention the fasting question in respect to children (in terms of either health reasons or for religious occasions--like Yom Kippur).  For sure, parents would want to pray and go slow on imposing a fasting requirement on small children.  Perhaps the best option is to try to allow them to voluntarily undertake a limited fast.  Some children will do this when they observe their parents fasting. 

 

Surely, fasting is out of the question for infants and really young children.  As they grow older, they might be introduced to the subject and allowed to voluntarily miss a meal or so.  On religious occasions, older children (perhaps ages ten to twelve and above), should willingly imitate parents with a full day fast on at least religious occasions. 

 

 

Dr George H. Malkmus 

 

The Hallelujah Acres is an alternative health care center located in Shelby, NC.  It is run by Dr George H. Malkmus who claims that he was healed of colon cancer in 1976 by changing to a natural diet and lifestyle.  This prompted him to turn to a study and teaching of natural healing methods. 

 

In early 1994, the Slick and Hillary Clinton team was pushing their concept of a grand new health program for all Americans; and of course, in the context of the approved medical profession and practices.  To respond to the Clinton initiative, Malkmus wrote the following open letter--viz: 

 

“...Our present health care system is geared to provide what is most profitable for physicians, drug companies and hospitals, not to what is best for the people of our great land.  This, Mrs. Clinton, is what must be changed if you and your husband wish to implement true health care reform. 

 

“If the health of the American people is to be improved and if the staggering cost of health care is to be curbed, we must look outside the current and established systems.  And I am not advocating the use of synthetic vitamins, herbs, or homeopathic remedies as the solution.  These substances, along with all drugs, only deal with symptoms caused by improper diet and lifestyle. 

 

“What I am saying is that almost all physical problems are caused by putting into our bodies substances that they were never biologically designed to handle...substances that are actually toxic to the body.  Almost all physical problems can be eliminated and perfect health can be maintained by proper diet and lifestyle” (Summer/Fall 1998 “Back to the Garden,” p. 5-7). 

 

Among some of the things which Malkmus questions is cooking foods (which destroys enzymes) and eating animal products (loaded with animal fat), cow milk (with its many problems), sugar, table salt, white flour, caffeine, growth hormones and estrogen (as found in animal products or as prescribed by doctors). 

 

 

Diet, Revisited 

 

In terms of diet, this writer has already stated the obvious for a follower of YHWH YESHUA in other chapters.  The election must learn to study the Scriptures and eat those items as mentioned and approved by The MOST HIGH in their natural, organic states without man-made processing or alterations or unnecessary changes. 

 

Certainly, per the Scriptures, it is proper and right to grind flour and make bread.  However, other food processing applications may be questionable.  For example, refining sugar, processing white flour and adding various chemicals and poisons don’t qualify, per the Book. 

 

The white flour situation is incredibly stupid.  Man takes a wonderful product (whole wheat) which represents a complete food in its natural state and proceeds to blanch off the vitamins and minerals in the bran and feed it and the rich wheat germ to pigs and livestock.  Man takes the resulting carbohydrates and bleaches it into white flower and adds further chemicals and poisons to extend the store shelf life. 

 

Logic alone should tell someone that all of this processing and refining and adding of chemical poisons cost money.  So, who pays for it?  Why consumers pay the bill, of course.  And the gullible public loves it because people like to buy and eat white bread, as opposed to darker bread.  Psychologically, they think white is best. 

 

By the way, this insanity of processing out the wheat germ to make white flour has another interesting fact of reality.  Wheat germ is very rich in vitamin E.  Hence, people eating white flour miss this needed nutritional factor.  The lack of vitamin E in one’s diet causes health problems--particularly with the heart. 

 

Many studies have been produced over the years showing that the addition of vitamin E in the diet of persons with heart problems brings remarkable health improvements to many of them. 

 

Tragically, much of the MD/AMA establishment is either ignorant of the value of vitamin E or they purposely want that fact hidden.  So little is said about it.  But health food stores often sell books which describe the value of vitamin E (particularly the mixed tocopheryls in their more natural state). 

 

 

More on Diet 

 

This writer likes rye bread and uses all kinds of it (Russian Rye, Jewish Rye, Dark Rye. Dill Rye, Sour Rye and so forth).  It is absolutely amazing that producers like Oroweat choose to add food coloring to their Dark Rye brand.  Why?  Well, some people eating rye bread think that the dark color is more natural and nutritional.  Normally it is, but nutrition is not added to food with chemical food colors (many of which are poisons). 

 

It is also clear that a person with certain degenerative diseases may have to alter his or her diet somewhat to properly deal with the disease. 

 

Any number of alternative health care specialists suggest some health benefits to be derived from raw, organic vegetable and fruit juices. 

 

Many students of health claim great benefits, especially from raw vegetable juices (and they taste good as well); and of course, from raw, organic fruits and vegetables generally (but be forewarned, raw fruits/vegetables or raw fruit/vegetable juice can loosen up your bowels for a few days until one can get used to the diet, then the feces will firm up). 

 

Garlic is a marvelous healer (for bad colds, many viruses, etc), and especially when eaten raw.  It, too, can cause a little diarrhea and a getting used to before the excrement/feces firm up. 

 

Perhaps in some cases of certain diseases, it might be proper to temporarily abandon (hard to digest) clean meat and grain products (though these items are perfectly Scriptural).  Obviously, a person on a raw vegetable juice diet for a few days would not attempt to alter that diet with otherwise allowable steaks. 

 

 

The Value of the Lemon 

 

Back in the 1980s, a Dr Carey Reams (now deceased) gained some notoriety in his work on health at his Blue Ridge, Georgia Health Center.  Reams, a Seventh day Adventist in religious persuasion, was a biophysicist and naturopathic physician.  He successfully treated a number of people with cancer and other degenerative diseases. 

 

The primary thrust of his treatment focused upon something called the “anionic lemon juice diet” which many of his patients and students apparently undertook for a personal rejuvenation and restoration of health.  This basic diet consists of fresh lemon juice (it must be freshly pressed) and distilled water (it has to be distilled water as other water forms are unsatisfactory). 

 

At the start, a mix is to be prepared of four ounces of fresh lemon juice and 36 ounces of distilled water.  This mixture is to be consumed in quantities of four ounces every hour for the next ten hours.  On the half hours, for the same ten-hour period, the process involves simply drinking four ounces of just plain distilled water. 

 

While theoretically regular meals can be consumed, the diet is seemingly more effective if no other foods are eaten during the ten-hour period (although following the ten hours, a person can then eat solid foods).  Sometimes, this diet allows a person to cut back to one or two meals a day; in which case, it is very easy to lose some weight. 

 

Per Dr Reams, the diet releases many built up toxins into the blood stream very rapidly.  Therefore, it can be dangerous.  People with inflamed stomachs or ulcers and certain neurological conditions should not drink it at all.  Otherwise, any one undertaking the diet should do so under supervision (or possibly with extreme caution--starting with small, infrequent uses and graduating to the full diet over some time). 

 

 

Another Option 

 

Beyond everything discussed so for, there remains one more option.  It is faith healing.  It is true that the Word teaches healing on the basis of faith (II Chron 16:12).  One of the key methods was outlined by Yakov when he said for sick believers to call upon the elders of the Assembly and let them pray over the sick persons and anoint them with oil (Jas 5:14-16). 

 

This is a fantastic promise and there are a lot of good reasons to believe it and accept it.  But there are a couple of related problems.  First, there is apparently a question of whether a person is in a covenanted relationship with YHWH or not. 

 

Of course, people in the right relationship (in/under the covenant?) should always turn to The ELOHIM for healing, instead of humans/humanoids (II Chron 16:12).  More will be said on this need for a covenant relationship in remarks to follow. 

 

The second major problem is also quite profound.  For this one--Christianity is not the religion of the Scriptures; Christians are not under any Scriptural covenant with The HIGHEST; and Yakov’s remarks do not focus on false religious systems, organizations, preachers or teachers. 

 

In other words, it will serve no Scriptural (good) purpose for a sick person to go to a false preacher and/or group in hopes of being healed.  Instead, what might happen is that the innocent or dumb sucker (seeking healing) will probably get a demon from the preacher or elders when hands are laid on him or her. 

 

Evidently, James 5:14-16 can only have real legitimacy in one instance in our time.  It can singularly apply to the Philadelphia Assembly of true believers when it is eventually organized.  Always, a sick person must be very, very careful about going to a contemporary entity or person for laying on of hands and/or faith healing. 

 

 

One More Over-Riding Issue 

 

There is another factor which must be considered whenever the question of faith healing surfaces.  This one arises because of the Christian propensity to believe that Christians can live in perpetual sin and that The ELOHIM continually forgives their sins (in the context that YESHUA bled and died to give Christians a license to sin at will with no thought at all to the consequences of those sins). 

 

This brings up a point previously outlined.  Shall we continue in sin so that The MESSIAH may continually be placed upon the stake to bleed and die for us over and over?  It is one thing to call upon Him and His shed blood to pay for all our back sins.  But it is another thing to believe that we are in His will if we continue to wallow in sin and perpetually expect Him to continuously bleed and die for us. 

 

This same analogy transfers to the question of faith healing.  The Book prescribes that because of the stripes and beating YESHUA took (just before His impalement), His followers can be healed (Isa 53:5; I Pet 2:24).  In other words, the English versions give it as “By His stripes, we are healed.” 

 

This is not only well and good, but it is fantastic, marvelous and wonderful.  Yes, it is a tremendous blessing upon believers to be able to believe that because of and through the beating He took, they can be healed.  And that’s the plain message of the Scriptures.  But there is another aspect of this theme--just as there is when one chooses to place Him on the stake to bleed and die for sins. 

 

Since He took a beating (stripes) for our healing, can we be careless and indifferent about our health and practice unhealthful living on the premise that we can continually come back to Him and expect Him to be continuously beaten so that we might regularly be healed from many, frequent and regular acts of foolishness on our part (in respect to our health)? 

 

Thus, can we presume to smoke cigarettes, knowing full well that they are hurting us and will bring on sickness and disease?  Can we do any number of other careless things which likewise can bring on hurt and sickness to us later?  Can we eat unclean foods--not only unclean meats, but meats which man has made unclean through his evil practices of turning cattle into cannibals? 

 

Can we be careless and indifferent over pesticides and chemical poisons?  Can we be irresponsible about sanitation and expect that if something bad befalls us, we then can turn to YESHUA and be healed from His beating?  In fact, is it not evident (based upon prior discussions on the fact that there are Scriptures prohibiting the defilement of our bodies) that the hurt we put on our bodies is sin? 

 

 

Yes, We Can Be Healed 

 

The point of all this is that by His stripes, we are healed.  But just like we cannot continue to wallow in sin (with the expectation that He will continually bleed and die for us), we cannot continue to be irresponsible, careless and indifferent about our health on the premise that we can go to Him whenever we wish and be healed by His stripes. 

 

Assuredly, the message here is that the Scriptures are teaching and demanding that followers of YESHUA must concentrate upon “prevention,” instead of healing--in terms of health.  As discussed heretofore, this is exactly what the modern, approved, medical profession does not do.  Their whole focus is on curing or healing and not prevention.  This concentration is wrong by the Book. 

 

Consequently, the believer is enjoined to not only walk the extra mile and do everything humanly possible to avoid sin, but he must also walk the extra mile and do everything possible to maintain good health and avoid disease, illness and injury. 

 

We must practice sanitation, eat a good diet, exercise, get rest and take precautions about the enormous presence of poisons (particularly chemical poisons) which surround us daily in our man-controlled environment of sin and corruption.  Of course, under man’s misgovernment, this is a problem daily.  Man has polluted, defiled and ruined about everything possible under His control. 

 

It is no wonder that the model prayer which YESHUA prayed and taught His followers to pray, concludes with a petition that His kingdom will come soon (to end man’s mis-rule of this globe). 

 

The conclusion here is that by YESHUA’s stripes, His followers can be healed.  However, the believer must not close his eyes and say to himself that he has been granted a license to go out in society and carelessly and irresponsibly do things which can bring sickness and injury on himself later. 

 

This whole subject is very much like the sin question.  It is true that we can sin and be forgiven later (upon proper repentance, restoration, repair and so forth).  It is also true that we foolishly and stupidly might do something wrong to damage our health (while in a state of ignorance, like in a chet sin, and not in a situation of rebellion in the vein of pesha, maal and awon transgressions).  

 

Later, we seemingly can repent of these damaging wrongs and turn to YESHUA for Him to heal us from the beating He took.  But this option is clearly not something to be taken for granted (as a license or carte blanche permit for us to do wrong).  For sure, the first word and instruction for believers is one of prevention and walking the extra mile to preclude later health problems. 

 

 

The Relationship 

 

Also, there can always be a question about the position or relationship that a so-called believer actually has with The HIGHEST.  There are many promises of cursings, blessings, healings, etc in the Book.  But these promises are often couched in the vein of a covenanted relationship between YHWH and the so-called believer (as pointed out in the above comments). 

 

It can be a tragic mistake for someone to presume, assume and suppose that he or she has the right relationship with The ELOHIM; when, in fact, there is no Scriptural relationship (either because of the failure of the person to correctly repent and be converted or some other consideration which might not be so readily ascertainable). 

 

In many, many cases, the evidence is massive that there has to be a covenanted relationship before one can properly pray to The MOST HIGH and expect to be healed by Him.  Manifestly, this relationship does not exist between YHWH and Christians. 

 

 

More on Caution  

 

One more note is needed on the several issues raised in these chapters on health, drugs, surgery, immunizations, fasting, etc.  This writer has outlined what appears to be the Scriptural truth.  But one must remember that some of these subjects are extremely complex and there is the question of a person’s contact with YHWH to allow a Scriptural approach. 

 

The point is that any person with a health problem must be careful about immediately jumping to a particular solution, without praying about the matter, studying the Word to be sure of what approach is called for and even consulting the “approved” or alternative health care specialists for their inputs and proposed solutions (on a consultation basis, without necessarily adopting their treatments). 

 

This writer is much opposed to the whole concept of immunizations, although there are clear situations where a person will be forced by the state to go against the apparent Scriptural teachings. 

 

Parents with children in the public schools sometimes are obligated by law to have certain immunizations (although later chapters will demonstrate the need for thinking parents to get their children out of the public schools, which are disastrously sick, pathetic and evil). 

 

A former chapter discussed the developing situation with the election, where many or all of them are going to be motivated and/or forced, if necessary, to go to Jerusalem for the age end and to escape the fall of their own nations.  Often, certain shots are required for international travel and for immigration to various countries.  Should a believer consent in this instance to have some shots?  Possibly yes. 

 

 

Care is Also Needed in Choosing Health Practitioners 

 

Any discussion about health must include an acknowledgment that there are a lot of frauds out in the world who enter the health profession to try to make money from sick and hurting people.  Perhaps one of the most glaring realities of this condition is the American Medical Association and its approved methods of promoting health and healing for generic Americans. 

 

Manifestly, the typical medical doctor and AMA approved health practitioner is a dishonest fraud out to make money (again, II Chron 16:12 outlines the best source of healing for true believers).  But these AMA and government approved frauds and crooks are not the only ones in the health business. 

 

There are vast numbers of other frauds also getting in on the act of taking money from hurting people in the alternative health fields as well.  A previous chapter herein quoted the situation with the Israeli healer Zion Cohen, who was indicted in Tel Aviv for raping and committing indecent acts on six of his clients.  In one case, he conned a sick woman into sodomizing him. 

 

So there are all kinds of frauds around.  If there is a difference between the two types of deceivers, it probably is that the MD and AMA approved crooks are in the driver’s seat, as far as having public support and government authority for the evil they dispense. 

 

Conversely, most of the alternative health care practitioners are opposed by the government and the public.  In fact, many of these alternative health care people are forced to operate illegally, if they expect to be in business at all.  The AMA has sewed up the health and healing business and they are not about to allow anyone else an opportunity to cash in on the pain and suffering of sick and hurting individuals. 

 

But in either case, with the AMA and government approved practitioners, as opposed to the alternative practitioners, the person needing help must be very careful in going to and following the advice and proposed solutions by persons operating (legally or illegally) in the health care business.  It is easy to receive wrong, damaging and even killing treatment from any of the practitioners in the healing business (as noted earlier). 

 

 

An Illustration 

 

Many years ago, in the early 1970s, this writer lived in Western North Carolina and was acquainted with an elderly Seventh day Adventist, retired nurse--who provided a little alternative treatment for minor things, out of her home in Western Carolina. 

 

This woman gave foot reflexology treatments.  So i paid her a visit for a treatment in the vein that it might help me with an ear problem.  She gave me the treatment.  She then suggested that i lay down and stretch out on her examination table.  She looked at my legs and told me that one was longer than the other.  She asked me if i was aware of this problem. 

 

Well no--it was news to me.  i was a grown man in my late thirties and had spent some 13 years in the Army, with having had a large number of physical examinations.  Never once was there any suggestion that anything was wrong with my legs.  i have walked and run long distances over the years without any evidence of any problem. 

 

She said to me that she could do a simple adjustment to correct the problem.  i stupidly said yes and go ahead.  So she took my left leg and twisted it back to my shoulder and snapped my left hip somehow.  i paid her for the treatment and left.  No further thought was given to the question at that time. 

 

Over the years, i have liked to walk and walk long distances.  When a child, i had to walk from two to about six miles a day to get to school (and back the same distances after school).  With adulthood, i have always enjoyed a long walk, whenever possible. 

 

So, sometime after this treatment by this SDA woman, i had some occasions to resume taking long walks.  i am not sure when, whether it was with my first walk or later, but in time, i began to realize that one of my legs or hips would be awful sore and even painful after a good, long walk and especially if it was not on level ground. 

 

Either of my legs might be sore and even the one which she didn’t adjust.  It was as if the hurting leg (and hip) was too long or too short, as compared with the other one--when i walked over rocks and irregular ground (in the vein that i would somehow throw the leg she worked on out of the socket someway, making it either too long or too short).  i soon left Carolina and never saw the woman again. 

 

Through the years, i gave the situation no particular thought, as it is a rare problem and only lasts a day or two (primarily, when i go to bed and try to stretch out).  Now, in recent years, i have recalled that strange treatment from that woman.  In my present thinking, there is a good chance that there was no problem with my leg at all. 

 

 

Could It Be? 

 

Though the involved woman was sincere and manifestly meant well, there is the possibility that she really didn’t know what she was doing.  Maybe she someway twisted my leg in a wrong way to cause it to easily go in or out of the socket when i am walking over irregular ground that is not level (like up a mountain side). 

 

i have wondered if this factor accounts for the reason that one of my legs can receive undue pressure when i am walking.  Regardless, this thing has now bothered me on occasion for the past 30 years (infrequently and usually not very seriously). 

 

As i don’t care for the approved medical profession and since i haven’t had the money or the inclination for a visit to a chiropractor, i have not attempted to find out what the problem is (chiropractors have a habit of inducing many visits for minor things, in order to keep getting money.  So i am not always happy with them). 

 

However, the point must be made that a person should be awful careful and cautious in allowing some one to provide treatment for anything, without giving the question some thought and prayer. 

 

Again, this SDA woman probably was a sincere person and well meaning.  Perhaps she did know some things about health (but certainly, not all things). 

 

Clearly, there was no reason to let her mess with something that was not a problem for me.  If i had the problem before i went to her, maybe it would have been well for her to treat me.  But before i saw her, my legs were all right.  Afterwards, they gave me problems.