Pestilence Bacterial and Viral Mutations are fulfilling Prophecy
June 2, 2011
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In the last century beginning in 1979, in my books and lectures, I indicated the HIV virus would continue to mutate and we would have HIV with us until the 2nd Advent of Jesus Christ. The E-Coli bacteria are also capable of mutation in different ways.
It will also continue spreading, and will still be with us at the 2nd Advent. The latest information on the German E-Coli follows our 2001 Archive Prophecy Update 19.
BEGIN ARCHIVE PROPHECY UPDATE 19
April 20, 2001
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences (loimos), and earthquakes, in divers places. [8] All these are the beginning of sorrows (odin). (Matthew 24:7,8)
In our Prophecy Update Number 18 we conducted a lengthy discussion of why earthquakes, famine, and pestilence were, just before Jesus returns, according to the word “odin,” prophesied to follow the pattern of birth pangs a woman suffers in child bearing. We demonstrated that, for the first time in history, when Israel became a nation, worldwide earthquakes were following such a pattern – But what about prophetic “pestilence?” Is it following the pattern of a woman’s birth travail for the first time since Jesus prophesied it would? Yes! The basic root meaning of the word “loimos,” translated “pestilence,” is “any deadly infectious disorder.”
Many plagues have passed through mankind since the fall, but none have generated a massive epidemic that has continued its hold its effects over a long period of time.
These “loimos” have never been able to follow the pattern of a woman’s birth p ains for very long on
a worldwide basis. Cholera, small pox, typhoid, bubonic plague, and so on, have appeared in short spurts like false labor, but none has ever maintained a persistent, epidemic characteristic with seemingly no end. But now, for the first time, we have a “loimos,” a deadly infectious disorder, that has portrayed these characteristics from its inception.
The HIV virus is the first to perfectly match the pattern of a woman’s birth pangs, and it will continue to do so until the travail of the woman Israel ends, and the Son she rejected arrives. HIV is a virus that has swept across the globe like wildfire. HIV cases worldwide increased from a trace in 1980 to more than 5 million in 1985, to more than 10 million in 1990, to more than 20 million in 1995, and to a whopping 35 million in 2000. AIDS, the dreadful blossom of HIV, was first reported in a British sailor, who died
in England in 1959.
HIV has hardest hit Africa up to this point, but it is poised to spread into Asia and the former Soviet Union as an increasing storm.
And, in truth, medical researchers seem no closer to fining a cure than they were twenty years ago.
Are there other “loimos” infections that have also started to demonstrate the patterns of a woman’s birth pangs? Yes! The World Health Organization (WHO) fears that tuberculosis may kill 30 million worldwide during the next decade. The emergence of drug-resistant strains, and the spread of HIV have both hampered efforts by health agencies to slow the renewed spread of the consumptive illness. Another sort of “loimos” is malaria, which is on the rise around the world, and once curative treatments are losing their effect. It is a pestilence of global dimensions, and new strains are evolving that scientists fear will be untreatable.
But what about all the microbes generating all this pestilence, this “loimos,” these deadly infectious disorders, what are they doing, how are they behaving? Are they doing something that will make the pestilences continue to act like a woman’s birth pangs through the tribulation period
? Yes! A leading national magazine cover, back in the last century, carried the bold print title: “REVENGE OF THE KILLER MICROBES – ARE WE LOSING THE WAR AGAINST INFECTIOUS DISEASES?” Tuft’s Levy answered the question in Newsweek Magazine by stating: “The rise of drug-resistant germs is unparalleled in recorded biologic history.” Because of this contributing factor, pestilence will become more widespread in its persistence until the second advent of Christ.
Begin Excerpt from Bloomberg
German E.coli Strain Not Seen in Prior Outbreaks, WHO Says
By Howard Mustoe and Catherine Larkin
Jun 2, 2011 10:36 AM CT
Tests conducted in Germany and Spain on cucumber samples showed that the Spanish vegetable isn’t responsible for the outbreak,
the European Commission said in an e-mailed statement yesterday.
More than 1,600 people in Europe have been infected with a strain of E. coli bacteria that’s never been seen in an outbreak before, the World Health Organization said, as authorities search for the source of the malady.
The bacteria, which began spreading in Germany, has sickened 1,064 there, an increase of 268, while 470 people have symptoms of a condition that can cause acute kidney failure, up by 97 from yesterday, the WHO said today in a statement on its website. Cases have also been reported in nine other European countries. Seventeen people in Germany and one in Sweden have died, Deutsche Presse Agentur reported, citing local officials.
“One of our partner institutes examined the bacteria,” said Gregory Hartl, a WHO spokesman, by telephone today. “It’s one that’s never been seen before in an outbreak situation.”
European authorities are searching for the source of the bacteria, which appear to be more virulent than previous E. coli outbreaks. Tests conducted on samples showed that cucumbers imported from Spain aren’t responsible for the outbreak, the European Commission said in an e-mailed statement yesterday, leaving investigators looking for fresh clues.
The strain appears to be the offspring of two versions of E.coli, said Paul Hunter, a pr ofessor
of health protection at the University of East Anglia in England. One of the likely parent strains, known as O157, emerged in the U.S. about 40 years ago and has also been found in the U.K., Hunter said today in an interview.
‘Extra Weaponry’
“This is a new strain,” Hunter said of the German outbreak.
“O157 was almost certainly one of its parents.
It’s also got material from another type of E. coli. So you’ve got this germ that’s like O157 but has this extra weaponry, that makes it more nasty.”
Tests suggest a mutant form of two different E.coli bacteria, the Associated Press reported today, citing an interview with Hilde Kruse, a food safety expert at the Geneva- based WHO.
Calls made to the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen weren’t answered today, a public holiday.
All humans and animals carry E.coli in their intestines, and those strains are usually harmless, according to the Stockholm-based European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
Some strains produce toxins and cause illnesses ranging from diarrhea to hemolytic uremic syndrome, or HUS, a potentially fatal type of kidney damage, according to the ECDC.
Colonizers
The virulent strains of E.coli attach to the walls of cells in the gut, forming colonies. They then secrete toxins that damage the body, according to Ian Jones, a professor of virology at the University of Reading in England. About 10 percent of people infected may have a serious outcome and 1 in 100 may die, according to Jones, who also specializes in microbiology.
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