It’s the same in UK and I suspect world-wide, culminating in the appearing of the prophesied anti ‘Saviour’ of course. It’s all happening so quickly and we can hardly believe it! But our eyes are on the Lord ….
A few years ago I went to pray and cried out to the LORD an exasperated Prayer, “WHY?”. What I was referring to was the moral, spiritual and cultural disintegration of our Nation. It was one of those cries, to which I didn’t even expect an answer, I was just pouring my heart out before the LORD, in prayer and sorrow.
But I did receive an answer, a very clear thought came to me which I am sure was of the Holy Spirit of God.
It come in the form of three passages of Scripture… Psalm 2, Deuteronomy 28, and Romans 1 came to me as the answer to the question of “Why” the disintegration we are experiencing, in America and around the world.
I will begin with Romans 1.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth…
What is it like for those who have broken free from NAR influence?
“Post New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) you can expect a shift (excuse the pun) in your understanding of scripture, and consequently of God and self. In this article I share various stages, or moments of awakening to certain truths that many experience after their exit from the NAR,” writes Rick Becker of Famine in the Land.
Evidently it is very offensive for some who read this blog, when I decry “the Left”, and when I espouse somewhat of a conservative outlook. More than a few of my brothers and sisters in Christ have challenged me that I am being “political”, and not Spiritual.
I appreciate the concern, and the willingness of those concerned to call me out on what they think is a drift away from the Prophecy analysis and Biblical Exposition, which I usually offer. “Faithful are the wounds of a friend”.
I don’t consider myself ‘political’, I think of myself as ‘Spiritual’. As far as I can tell, I write and think from a God centered and Biblical perspective.
I don’t have a ‘party’ which I identify with, (I loathe the Republican Party, almost as much as I loathe the Democrat party). I do not believe there is a political solution to our national…
And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. (Luke 22:31-32)
I have no doubt that the warning Jesus gave to Peter is applicable to us here in America. in light of the recent slaying of George Floyd by members of the Minneapolis Police Department. “Satan desires to have you, that he may sift you as wheat…” .
The traumatic events playing out in America, will definitely have this effect, they will force out into the open, things we have hidden in our heart, for all to see, whether they be good or evil.
First of all Satan is definitely in this.
Of course, Satan didn’t directly kill George Floyd, the Minneapolis Police department did, particularly officer Chauvin, when He…
As many of you know , I have been posting what others have been writing about for some time now, because ‘age’ has diminished the levels of research etc that I’m able to give to things I feel strongly about. Things I feel should have attention directed to them, not that I claim in anyway to speak with any authority. I am just an ordinary believer who acknowledges that God, in His grace, opens our eyes to see His truth, especially in these End Times. I am re-blogging this excellent post by Helen because I agree whole-heartedly with what she says here.
The Lord bless and keep you, Eileen
In England we have been under government orders to mainly stay in our homes unless we have a “reasonable excuse” to leave them, and those “excuses” are whatever the government decides at any point in time! This “house arrest” began around mid to late March 2020 and was sold to the public as a measure to deal with a new “virus” that was supposedly going to kill an horrifically large number of people worldwide.
We were told that if we could lessen the numbers of people catching and spreading this illness until after the winter months, then we would be able to “Save the NHS” from being overwhelmed with sick people. They spoke of “flattening the curve” in the numbers of sick people during those winter months and thus pushing this illness back to the warmer months when such viruses normally die down naturally.
Thank you for trusting us enough to write in with such a question.
First, the virus is not a ‘response’ to respiratory difficulty. It is, in fact, an infectious particle that often causes respiratory difficulty. Many people are getting cause and effect messed up, and I believe this is due to nefarious actors on social media. We know what viruses are. We know how they behave in the body. And we know how they can be passed from person to person. To say otherwise is to reject too much science, and much of the medical science we rely on was first developed by Christians like Joseph Lister and Louis Pasteur.
This is a matter of operational science. We can actually knowwhat is going on and everything is based on scientific knowledge that goes back well over 100 years. Yet, this spiders into claims about 5G signals and other conspiracy theories. It is a question of how to think and how we are supposed to approach difficult subjects with a sober, scientific mindset while multiple town criers are trumpeting nonsense from the parapets.
I am going to answer your second question in small steps, defining terms as I go. Some readers will be unfamiliar with the science terminology, and I don’t want to lose people. This is an important topic.
GHz (gigahertz)
A ‘Hertz’ is a unit of frequency, measured in cycles per second. The name comes from the German physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894). Giga means billion. So, 1 GHz = 1 billion cycles per second.
We hear this term a lot when we are talking about computer processors (and it is kind of amazing when you think about it). We also use it a lot when talking about radio signals. It is impractical to use GHz when talking about visible light because the waves oscillate between 430 trillion Hertz (red) to 750 trillion Hertz (violet). However, radio waves are much longer, and so they oscillate much more slowly. Hence, we use GHz when talking about radio, WiFi, and now 5G.
5G
The ‘G’ in 5G has nothing to do with GHz. In fact, 5G just means “5th generation”. The telecommunications community has rolled out several sets of standards over the years and this is the 5th major step. We could not have had 5G devices earlier because we had to wait for technological improvements in many areas. In the 1980s, 1G allowed for simple analogue voice communications. Cell phones worked like a radio and had all the limitations of pre-digital radio broadcasts. 2G brought in digital voice. Then came 3G, which allowed mobile data, and 4G, which was a significant improvement in speed. There is nothing all that different with 5G. It is just faster and more reliable. Part of this is because our devices have faster processors, and so can handle faster data transmission rates. Part of this is because it uses a better part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
The electromagnetic spectrum
Our eyes can only see a narrow slice of the electromagnetic spectrum, from red to blue. Red light has a long wavelength and does not have much power per photon. Blue light has a much shorter wavelength and carries a lot more energy. 5G uses frequencies beyond the red end of the visible light spectrum and so it is biologically safe.1
Beyond red is infrared, which we perceive as heat. Beyond that are radio waves, which we cannot even feel unless you are standing next to an extremely strong transmitter. This can give you an “RF burn”, which just means you absorbed enough energy to dangerously heat up your skin. But since the power of a signal is inversely proportional to the square of the distance, even being a few feet away from a strong signal is generally safe (but the general public are not allowed near transmission stations anyway). Either way, 5G uses a very weak signal.
On the other side of the spectrum, beyond visible blue light, is ultraviolet (UV). UVA is safe. This is the light that is closest to the blue end of the visible spectrum. It is what comes out of a blacklight. UVB is not too bad in small doses. Too much can give you a sunburn. But UVC can much more easily give you cancer. There is so much power in each photon that it can rip apart biological molecules and damage DNA. On the far side of ultraviolet are X-rays, which have the ability to penetrate many substances deeply (partly because the wave is so small) and cause extensive damage at high doses.
Wavelength vs frequency
Light travels at a constant speed (3 x 108 m/s). But it also oscillates at specific frequencies. A high-frequency signal has a shorter wavelength than a low-frequency signal. Thus, there is an inverse relationship between wavelength and frequency. The signals we use for communications have fairly long wavelengths.
Figure 2: The relationship between wavelength and frequency. If a long-wavelength radio wave (far right) were passing through your body, there would be many fewer oscillations per second than if you were being hit with short-wavelength gamma rays (far left). Thus, high frequency = short wavelength, and vice versa.
Absorption vs wavelength and frequency
The frequencies used for 5G vary from country to country but 3.4, 25, and 60 GHz are common. These line up with the 8.8 cm, 1.2 cm, and 0.5 cm transmission bands, respectively (Figure 3). Note that the X-axis on figure 3 is on a log scale and the wavelengths range from nanometres (billions of a metre) to kilometres (thousands of metres). A microwave oven operates at 2.45 GHz (with a wavelength around 12.2 cm). This wavelength is strongly absorbed by water. It is also easy to block. That screen you see on the front window of a microwave has small holes in it. Those holes are large enough for visible light to easily pass through, but they block 100% of microwaves. Some people are afraid of microwave ovens, but their effect is only to heat up water molecules. Water easily absorbs light of that wavelength, so this is a very efficient way of heating things that contain water. In fact, when you put something in a standard oven, the exact same thing happens. The molecules absorb infrared light and heat up, from the outside only. Do molecules get destroyed or scrambled in a microwave oven? Yes. Does DNA get damaged? Sure enough. But this happens any time you cook food. In fact, you want the proteins to denature and the cells to burst open a little. This is a major reason why cooking your food also kills the bacteria in it.
But higher frequencies also penetrate poorly into the human body. CMI speaker and physicist Dr. John Hartnett says, “Millimetre waves (30 GHz and higher) do not penetrate the skin. Measurements have shown an increase in skin temperature of 1 degree when 3G style phones were used.”2But he also points out that the 0.9 GHz (33 cm) 3G signal will penetrate less than the 60 GHz (0.5 cm) signal that some 5G systems will use. Is that dangerous? Actually, no, for the total power is incredibly low.
He emphasizes that the power level of 5G transmission at the receivers [the thing you put up against your head] is extremely low. “Wi-Fi and telephony signals at the receivers have power levels of a billionth of a Watt or less. It is the advanced algorithms, modulation techniques, learned from satellite communication technology, and improved hardware that gives much higher data fidelity…higher frequency does not mean higher power in the beam necessarily. It means the individual photons carry more energy, but the total power is extremely small at the receiver.”
Figure 3: The visible portion of the spectrum just happens to lie in a frequency band that is poorly absorbed by the atmosphere. But large portions of the electromagnetic spectrum (brown areas) are strongly absorbed. Thus, we are limited in what frequencies we can use for radio and internet communications.
Interestingly, satellites can measure atmospheric temperature by looking at how much 60 GHz radiation is being produced. The warmer oxygen molecules are, the more they vibrate at this frequency. Thus, part of the controversy surrounding 5G is that atmospheric scientists are worried that they might lose this frequency band for an important aspect of science. On the other hand, you are naturally bathed in 60 GHz ‘radiation’ all the time.
Hartnett says that a 60 GHz (5 mm) radio signal cannot rip apart water molecules. “Oxygen molecules have a natural vibrational mode at 60 GHz, but radiation at that frequency does not break up the molecules. To do that you need ionising radiation like x-rays or higher frequency gamma rays. So, it is patent nonsense to say this is happening to oxygen.” Not only that, but there is no evidence that a 5G signal (of any frequency) will interact with oxygen uptake in the lungs, and there are many places that have no 60-GHz 5G signal towers, and others with no 5G towers at all, and yet have high rates of infection.
In the end, some people simply like to be afraid and other people know how to feed off those fears. Thus, crazy or incorrect factoids tend to float to the top of the social media stew. When you apply a general ignorance about how science works and what scientists know, things only get worse. I understand how difficult it is to work with certain people. All I can say is that you need the patience of Job and the wisdom of Solomon. Love them. Educate them as you are able. And may God bless you with the means to convey truth while not getting distracted from your main ministry focus.
overwhelmed with sick people. They spoke of “flattening the curve” in the numbers of sick people during those winter months and thus pushing this illness back to the warmer months when such viruses normally die down naturally.
