Revelation 6:7,8 NCV When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!"8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse. Its rider was named death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill people by war, by starvation, by disease, and by the wild animals of the earth.
The Centers for Disease Control has conducted tests on the nine Alabama patients suffering from mysterious illnesses and has found that no single germ seems to be the cause.
The CDC said in an email to Fox News that after testing seven of the nine patients it appears the illnesses seem to be a variety of cold and flu viruses. Two more cases were added to the cluster overnight. Two deaths have be attributed to the mystery illnesses.
The nine suffered with a flu-like illness with fever, cough and shortness of breath. The symptoms are similar to viruses around the world that are causing more concern like the H7N9 bird flu in China and MERS virus in the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
The World Heath Organization said that none of the more lethal viruses have been found in the U.S. but “in a world of daily air travel” it’s not impossible the viruses could travel overseas.
The CDC confirmed they tested the nine Alabama patients for MERS.
Hey guys:
Personally, I just got through something that I was not able to recognize.
I will not call it an illness because I do not get ill via the Blood spilled & the lashes layed upon my Lord. Yes, I did get out from His will (both logos & rhema) & therefore left open “doors & windows” into my soul and physical body. And yes, I did get slammed! So ok, I was ill.
The usual declarations of His Word & various techniques I’ve always had near immediate if not immediate success with no longer worked. Initially, I began to wonder if I was about to go for a walk in some wilderness.
The night of day one, then day two, then day three and I began to get a bit concerned. The symptoms felt to be from a combination of illnesses. Initially I had felt I would drown if I layed down to go to sleep. Honestly, I could not even lay down from the discomfort. I did think that I had pneumonia and would sporatically, uncontrollably and with violence caugh-up from within my upper lungs as if tuberculosis (wthout the blood, just the yuck). Breathing was difficult, breaths were short and shallow.
A strong warmth (fever) on the outside while a cold feeling on the inside, causing me to continuously remain covered in blankets. The muscles about my eyes becoming so sore and painful that just having them open was of great discomfort. As for light, even with eyes closed it’d hurt.
Any deep long breaths were not possible. By day 2, my balance was way off and my hearing was waning from the increase of pressure within my head –I could hear yet the sounds were now muffled, not clear. Energy level was fading, as if the very life was being sucked out of me with each passing hour. Eating was not possible, only slight sips of water here and there so to keep my blood from thickening too much with what ever it was that had invaded this temple.
By day 3, the joints within my body were aching and I’d felt I’d aged 50+ years overnight -seriously. It was at this point that I was able to get it together (adaptation?) and go before the Creator with the repentent heart. I just figured that Jesus decended into Hell for 3 days, so who am I to even think that I should out-do that? (This is how I talk to myself, stir myself up in the Lord.)
Today, day 4, I am eating and catching up on the missed days.
The reason for this lengthy note / post is because this article caught my attention. I had believed that a combination of illnesses (viruses & lesser likely bacterium / bacteria) was what my body had succumbed to. I had been talking with God about this yesterday (day 3), when today I see this article. (Signs following???)
Anyhow, I got to thinking (yesterday) about the plagues and about all the people said plagues are to wipe off the face of this earth. And that perhaps-maybe said plagues (in-part) could be something I had just experienced -I had been out from His will, off that ever so straight N narrow. I do know that if I had not been a believer that I would have been in the hospital on day 2 or 3. And yea, it did feel like I was dying. Yet I told the Lord that I did miss it and asked for Him to take me through it, teaching me so I know that I know –engrafting. What an awesome ride!
Yet what I had been thinking on was / is perhaps-maybe Christians off the straight and narrow will be more succeptable to such infection combinations & without knowing Him or having strong elders (James 5:14+), said Christians could simply pass-on. Seriously, this & last year, it is as if cancer has infiltrated the church where I’m @. These are the end of the end-times and team cuts are about to be made. Call it being merciful because what is just over the horrizon and soon to come is darker still.
So now I’m sitting here thinking on a (healthy) chicken-N-garlic with-all-the-fix’Ns pizza, excited with what I am about to learn by way of the Lord in these coming days.
And yes, I am still a bit tip-sy. And I’m sure I’ve rambled-on here. Yet this shell-shock comes with the turf, the scientific curiosity I do have about life.
Because of Jesus,
JW