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Friday, May 28, 2021

Desestreasando com a Palavra de Deus.

Maria Fonte

Na Palavra de Deus encontramos muitas e lindas promessas às quais podemos recorrer quando sentimos medo, estamos preocupados, ou estressados. Nos momentos atribulados ou de inquietação, apegar-se a elas nos ajudará a “confiar e não temer”. Temos a certeza de que, independentemente do problema, essas promessas e palavras de encorajamento podem acalmar nossas mentes e corações e nos dar paz. Nesta postagem compartilharei algumas reflexões sobre os maravilhosos versículos que têm me ajudado a vencer preocupações e temores.

1. Não andem ansiosos por coisa alguma, mas em tudo, pela oração e súplicas, e com ação de graças, apresentem seus pedidos a Deus. E a paz de Deus, que excede todo o entendimento, guardará os seus corações e as suas mentes em Cristo Jesus.—Filipenses 4:6–7.

Por mais crítico que seja o problema, por mais desafiadoras que sejam as circunstâncias, e mesmo que o resultado seja potencialmente devastador, Deus nos prometeu paz que transcende toda preocupação e temor. Não é preciso temer ou ceder à ansiedade. Na verdade, o Senhor nos exorta a não nos preocuparmos! Em vez disso, devemos conversar com Ele a respeito e entregar nas Suas mãos toda situação, problema, desafio e preocupação, pois temos um Deus grandioso que nos ama e é maior do que qualquer problema que possamos ter.

Temos muito pelo que agradecer a Deus, porque sabemos que, se Lhe entregarmos nosso fardo, Ele cuidará de nós. E veja o que ganhamos! Ele nos concede paz sobrenatural que vai muito além do nosso entendimento, uma paz que não só nos faz sentir bem, mas afasta o temor de nossos corações e mentes.

2. Em qualquer tempo em que eu temer, confiarei em ti.—Salmo 56:3.

Assim que começo a me preocupar, temer ou me estressar, me concentro no fato de que Jesus está aqui ao meu lado, pronto e capaz de retirar o fardo — se eu Lhe permitir. Descobri que ajuda bastante verbalizar minha confiança nEle. Falar em voz alta enfatiza a minha escolha consciente de confiar em Deus.

Digo algo tipo:

“Senhor, estou Lhe entregando estes temores, pois sei que Você pode cuidar de tudo isso. A preocupação só vai prejudicar a mim e a outros. Não vai fazer nada de bom, muito pelo contrário. Mas ao Lhe entregar minhas preocupações, Jesus, estou depositando minha confiança em Você. Estou dizendo que Você é maior do que os meus temores. Você me ama, Se importa comigo, e não permitirá que aconteça nada que, no final, não contribua para o meu bem.

3. Lancem sobre ele toda a sua ansiedade, porque ele tem cuidado de vocês.—1 Pedro 5:7.

Imagine uma criança em perigo ou com medo. Talvez esteja perdida ou sinta-se ameaçada ou tenha um pesadelo. Qual a maneira mais efetiva de ela se livrar dessa ansiedade? Não seria a presença da mãe ou do pai? O fato da criança saber que alguém está cuidando lhe permite abandonar todo medo e ansiedade e se abrigar nos braços da pessoa em quem confia. Se confiarmos em Jesus dessa forma, sabendo que Ele está sempre próximo, não existe razão para temermos ou ficarmos ansiosos.

4. Quando a ansiedade já me dominava no íntimo, o teu consolo trouxe alívio à minha alma.—Salmo 94:19.

Qual a consolação que o Senhor nos oferece aqui? Eu diria que todas as Suas fabulosas promessas de paz e proteção são o consolo que pode vencer o medo e a preocupação e alegrar a nossa alma. Aprendi que é importante incluir essas promessas na minha coletânea de versículos, ou seja, memorizar tais versículos para que possam vir à minha lembrança principalmente quando eu começar a me preocupar.

5. Não tema, pois eu o resgatei; eu o chamei pelo nome; você é meu. Quando atravessar as águas, eu estarei com você; e, quando você atravessar os rios, eles não o encobrirão. Quando você andar através do fogo, não se queimará; as chamas não o deixarão em brasas.—Isaías 43:1–2.

Deus nos conhece tão intimamente que nos chamou pelo nosso nome e disse que pertencemos a Ele. Então, por que se preocupar ou temer que Ele não cuidará de nós, não nos guardará ou protegerá?

6. Ainda que eu andasse pelo vale da sombra da morte, não temeria mal algum, porque tu estás comigo; a tua vara e o teu cajado me consolam.—Salmo 23:4.

Se tivermos a mesma certeza que Davi tinha, de que não devemos temer, ainda que estejamos no vale da sombra da morte, por que então temer em qualquer outra situação, complicada ou simples?

7. Dizei aos turbados de coração: Sede fortes, não temais; eis que o vosso Deus virá ... e vos salvará.—Isaías 35:4.

Isaías estava transmitindo uma mensagem de Deus, dizendo ao povo de Deus para divulgarem a palavra de que deveriam ficar firmes pois, mesmo que enfrentassem situações terríveis e lutassem contra o medo e o desencorajamento, Deus os livraria dessas aflições.

Devemos nos lembrar de não cedermos diante de circunstâncias aparentemente perdidas e que nos causam medo, quando não conseguimos ver as coisas boas que Deus está realizando através dos problemas. Ele nos deu promessas na Sua Palavra por meio das quais podemos declarar a realidade de que Ele está sempre presente para nos resgatar e proteger. Pode não ser visível no momento, mas Ele nos disse para ficarmos firmes, porque receberemos uma gloriosa libertação na hora que Ele sabe ser melhor.

8. Irá a minha presença contigo para te fazer descansar.—Êxodo 33:14.

Quando Moisés estava diante da sarça ardente, ouvindo os planos de Deus para o seu retorno ao Egito para libertar o Seu povo, ele via apenas suas fraquezas e a impossibilidade da tarefa. Mas Deus tinha uma solução inquestionável para Moisés. Ele lhe disse que o acompanharia na sua jornada de volta para resgatar o Seu povo.

Que visão mais linda! Deus nos conhece e sabe que temor e preocupação são emoções avassaladoras. Mas Ele nunca nos desampara. Não importa o caminho que Ele nos indique ou o que nos peça para fazer, está sempre conosco.

Podemos ser libertados do temor, estresse e da preocupação. Podemos ter paz de espírito na certeza de que Deus está sempre presente e nos protege e guia.

9. Mas logo falou com eles, e disse-lhes: Tende bom ânimo; sou eu, não temais.—Marcos 6:50.

Devemos clamar a Deus se sentirmos medo, e Ele nos acalmará.

10. Pois eu sou o Senhor, o seu Deus, que o segura pela mão direita e lhe diz: Não tema; eu o ajudarei... pois eu mesmo o ajudarei”, declara o Senhor, seu Redentor, o Santo de Israel.—Isaías 41:13–14.

Apesar de essas palavras reconfortantes terem sido dadas para outros, o Senhor diz o mesmo para cada um de nós. Somos Seus filhos queridos estendendo as mãos para o Pai. Fracos e pequenos nós somos, no entanto preciosos para Deus! Veja como o Santo de Israel, o Deus de toda a carne, sabe quando precisamos da Sua ajuda. Ele pega a nossa mão e diz: “Não tema; Eu o ajudarei”.

É quase inimaginável o privilégio que Ele nos concede! Nós podemos confiar totalmente que nos protegerá a cada momento!

11. Ele se levantou, repreendeu o vento e disse ao mar: “Aquiete-se! Acalme-se!” O vento se aquietou, e fez-se completa bonança. Então perguntou aos seus discípulos: “Por que vocês estão com tanto medo? Ainda não têm fé?”—Marcos 4:39–40.

Esse é outro versículo perfeito para mim quando enfrento ventos e tempestades. Sei que Deus pode me ajudar, pois Ele repreendeu o vento e as ondas muitas vezes na minha vida. E esse é um outro bom lembrete de que devo confiar e não temer.

12. Proclamem a grandeza do Senhor comigo; juntos exaltemos o seu nome. Busquei o Senhor, e ele me respondeu; livrou-me de todos os meus temores.—Salmo 34:3–4.

Que promessa maravilhosa de Deus, para quem nada é maravilhoso demais! Ele pode, quer e irá nos livrar dos nossos temores, de todos os nossos temores. Ele nos livrará de todos os temores que temos no momento e quaisquer outros que surgirem. Podemos entregá-los a Deus. Ele promete nos livrar. Parte de escolher esse livramento é glorificar o Senhor, o Seu poder e a Sua glória, e focar na Sua grandeza.

13. Tu és o meu abrigo; tu me preservarás das angústias e me cercarás de canções de livramento. Selá.—Salmo 32:7.

Ele fez isso pelo rei Davi e fará o mesmo por cada um de nós. Deus será o nosso abrigo, nos preservará de problemas e nos cercará com Suas canções de livramento. Pode ter absoluta certeza de que Deus “cantará” alto e de maneira tão aterrorizadora para os malignos que eles darão no pé rapidamente. Não vão querer se meter com Ele!

14. Mas quem me ouvir viverá em segurança e estará tranquilo, sem temer nenhum mal.—Provérbios 1:33.

O Senhor me deu esse versículo diversas vezes quando eu estava muito preocupada com alguma situação. Ele diz que quer que paremos e realmente prestemos atenção ao que Ele, na Sua sabedoria, nos mostrar para fazer ou refletir.

Esse é o segredo para ter a paz de espírito que Ele nos promete. Não significa forçosamente que não estaremos no meio de um caos ou que o mal desaparecerá, mas podemos nos sentir em paz no espírito, sabendo que Ele nos tem em segurança nas Suas mãos.

15. Porque Deus não nos deu o espírito de temor, mas de fortaleza, e de amor, e de moderação.—2 Timóteo 1:7.

Gosto da maneira como alguém explicou esse versículo. Seguem-se alguns trechos da explicação:

“A Palavra de Deus afirma que foi-nos dado um espírito de moderação que nos ajuda nas situações mais malucas e difíceis! …O espírito de ‘moderação’ é representativo de um vocábulo grego que significa uma mente libertada, revigorada, resgatada e protegida. A Palavra de Deus e o Espírito Santo podem revitalizar e guardar a sua mente.

“Quando a Palavra de Deus age na nossa mente, ela inibe nossas emoções e nos permite focar no amor e poder de Deus. Ela defende a nossa mente de ataque espirituais e nos protege dos dardos de temor e dúvida que o inimigo possa lançar contra nós.

“Você tem o direito e o privilégio de mandar o diabo se calar, e então declarar por fé que a sua mente está em pazsegura e protegida!”

16. Eis que nas palmas das minhas mãos eu te gravei; os teus muros estão continuamente diante de mim.—Isaías 49:16.

Deus não apenas nos leva pelas mãos e nos mantêm em segurança nas Suas mãos, mas, o mais importante é que gravou nossos nomes nas Suas mãos. Ele jamais Se esquecerá de nós, nem por um momento. Que imagem impressionante! O compromisso de amor e cuidado de Deus é constante e infindo. Amor surpreendente!

Deus o abençoe e guarde o seu coração e mente firmes na Sua Palavra infalível.

Publicado originalmente em agosto de 2018. Adaptado e republicado em maio de 2021

Thursday, May 27, 2021

The Greatest Thing in the World - part 4


 Love Defended

By Henry Drummond

Now I have a sentence or two to add about Paul’s reason for singling out love as the supreme possession. It is a very remarkable reason. In a single word it is this: it lasts. “Love,” urges Paul, “never faileth.” Then he begins again one of his marvelous lists of the great things of the day, and exposes them one by one. He runs over the things that men thought were going to last, and shows that they are all fleeting, temporary, passing away.

“Whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away.” It was a mother’s ambition for her boy in those days that he should become a prophet. For hundreds of years God had never spoken by means of any prophet, and at that time the prophet was greater than the king. Men waited wistfully for another messenger to come, and hung upon his lips when he appeared, as upon the very voice of God. Paul says, “Whether there be prophecies, they shall fail.” The Bible is full of prophecies. One by one they have “failed”; that is, having been fulfilled, their work is finished; they have nothing more to do now in the world except to feed a devout man’s faith.

Then Paul talks about tongues. That was another thing that was greatly coveted. “Whether there be tongues, they shall cease.” Take it in any sense you like. Take it, for illustration merely, as languages in general. Consider the words in which these chapters were written—Greek. It is gone. Take the Latin—the other great tongue of those days. It ceased long ago. The language of Wales, of Ireland, of the Scottish Highlands is dying before our eyes. The most popular book in the English tongue at the present time, except the Bible, is one of Dickens’ works, his Pickwick Papers. It is largely written in the language of London street-life; and experts assure us that in fifty years it will be unintelligible to the average English reader.

Then Paul goes farther, and with even greater boldness adds, “Whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away.” The wisdom of the ancients, where is it? It is gone. A schoolboy to-day knows more than Sir Isaac Newton knew; his knowledge has vanished. You put yesterday’s newspaper in the fire: its knowledge has vanished. You buy the old editions of the great encyclopedias for a few cents: their knowledge has vanished. Look how the coach has been superseded by the use of steam. Look how electricity has superseded that, and swept a hundred almost new inventions into oblivion. “Whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.” At every workshop you will see, in the back yard, a heap of old iron, a few wheels, a few levers, a few cranks, broken and eaten with rust. Twenty years ago that was the pride of the city. Men flocked in from the country to see the great invention; now it is superseded, its day is done. And all the boasted science and philosophy of this day will soon be old.

Knowledge does not last. Can you tell me anything that is going to last? Many things Paul did not condescend to name. He did not mention money, fortune, fame; but he picked out the great things of his time, the things the best men thought had something in them, and brushed them peremptorily aside. Paul had no charge against these things in themselves. All he said about them was that they would not last. They were great things, but not supreme things. There were things beyond them. What we are stretches past what we do, beyond what we possess. John says of the world, not that it is wrong, but simply that it “passeth away.” There is a great deal in the world that is delightful and beautiful, great and engrossing; but it will not last.

All that is in the world, the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life, are but for a little while. Love not the world therefore. Nothing that it contains is worth the life and consecration of an immortal soul. The immortal soul must give itself to something that is immortal. And the only immortal things are these: “Now abideth faith, hope, love, but the greatest of these is love.”

Some think the time may come when two of these three things will also pass away—faith into sight, hope into fruition. Paul does not say so. We know but little now about the conditions of the life that is to come. But what is certain is that love must last. God, the eternal God, is love. Covet, therefore, that everlasting gift, that one thing which it is certain is going to stand, that one coinage which will be current in the Universe when all the other coinages of all the nations of the world shall be useless. You will give yourselves to many things, give yourself first to love. Hold things in their proportion. Let at least the first great object of our lives be to achieve the character defended in these words, the character—and it is the character of Christ—which is built round love.

I have said this thing is eternal. Did you ever notice how continually John associates love and faith with eternal life? To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever. Hence, eternal life is inextricably bound with love. We want to live forever for the same reason that we want to live tomorrow. Why do we want to live tomorrow? Is it because there is someone who loves you, and whom you want to see tomorrow, and be with, and love back? There is no other reason why we should live on other than that we love and are beloved.

Eternal life also is to know God, and God is love. This is Christ’s own definition. Ponder it. “This is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.” Love must be eternal. It is God. That is the philosophy of what Paul is showing us; the reason why in the nature of things love should be the supreme thing—because it is going to last; because in the nature of things it is eternal life.

Now I have all but finished. How many of you will join me in reading this chapter once a week for the next three months? A man did that once and it changed his whole life. Will you do it? It is for the greatest thing in the world—love. You might begin by reading it every day, especially the verses which describe the perfect character. “Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself.” Get these ingredients into your life. It is worth giving time to. No man can become a saint in his sleep; and to fulfill the condition required demands a certain amount of prayer and meditation and time, just as improvement in any direction, bodily or mentally, requires preparation and care.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. As memory scans the past, above and beyond all the transitory pleasures of life, there leap forward those supreme hours when you have been enabled to do unnoticed kindnesses to those round about you, things too trifling to speak about, but which you feel have entered into your eternal life.

I have seen almost all the beautiful things God has made; I have enjoyed almost every pleasure that He has planned for man; and yet as I look back, I see standing out above all four or five short experiences, when the love of God reflected itself in some poor imitation, some small act of love of mine, and these seem to be the things which alone of all one’s life abide. Everything else in all our lives is transitory. Every other good is visionary. But the acts of love, they never fail.

Thank God the Christianity of today is coming nearer the world’s need. Live to help that on. Thank God men know better, by a hair’s breadth, what religion is, what God is, who Christ is, where Christ is. Who is Christ? He who fed the hungry, clothed the naked, visited the sick. And where is Christ? Where?—“Whoso shall receive a little child in My name receiveth Me.” And who are Christ’s? “Every one that loveth is born of God.”

Public domain. Condensed and slightly adapted from the original, published in 1891:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16739/16739-h/16739-h.htm.

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Wuhan Lab Caught Deleting Files Proving Fauci Funding

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola Fact Checked May 26, 2021

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) — a division of the National Institute of Health (NIH) headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci since 1984 — has, for years, provided grants to the EcoHealth Alliance and others to conduct gain-of-function (GoF) research on coronaviruses
  • In a May 11, 2021, Senate hearing, Fauci denied ever having funded GoF research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). This despite clear documentation proving otherwise
  • In March 2021 the WIV deleted mentions of its collaboration with the NIAID/NIH and other American research partners from its website. It also deleted descriptions of GoF on the SARS virus
  • The NIH/NIAID has funded GoF research to the tune of at least $41.7 million. Up until 2014, this research was conducted by Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina (UNC). After 2014, when federal funding of GoF was banned, such research was funneled to the WIV via the EcoHealth Alliance
  • In August 2020, the NIAID announced a five-year, $82-million investment in a new global network of Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases that will conduct GoF experiments to "determine what genetic or other changes make [animal] pathogens capable of infecting humans"

As reported in several previous articles, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) — a division of the National Institute of Health (NIH) headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci since 1984 — has, for years, provided grants to the EcoHealth Alliance and others to conduct gain-of-function (GoF) research on coronaviruses.

EcoHealth Alliance, in turn, farmed out some of this research to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), from whence SARS-CoV-2 appears to have emerged. In a May 11, 2021, Senate hearing, Sen. Rand Paul questioned Fauci on the NIAID’s funding of GoF research on bat coronaviruses, some of which was conducted at the WIV.

Fauci denied the charge, saying “The NIH has not ever, and does not now, fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute.”1 It’s a curious denial, considering the NIH’s funding of such research has been thoroughly documented and can be easily double-checked.

Fauci is clearly and provably lying … to Congress, which is a crime … and he’s lying to the American public. ~ Ben Swann

When Paul asks Fauci if the NIAID funded Dr. Ralph Baric’s GoF research, Fauci claims Baric “does not do gain-of-function research, and if it is, it is according to the guidelines and is being conducted in North Carolina.” Paul shoots back, saying:

“You don’t think him turning a bat virus spike protein, that he got from the Wuhan Institute into the SARS virus, is gain-of-function? You’d be in a minority, because at least 200 scientists have signed a statement from the Cambridge Working Group that it is gain-of-function.”

In the video above, Jimmy Dore reviews the apparent lies dished out by Fauci during the Senate hearing. In the Truth in Media report below, investigative journalist Ben Swann lays out some of the proof, showing Fauci’s dishonesty.

“What’s insane about this exchange is that Fauci is clearly and provably lying … to Congress, which is a crime … and he’s lying to the American public,” Swann says.

NIH/NIAID Has Funded Gain-of-Function Research

As reported by Swann, the NIH/NIAID has funded GoF research to the tune of at least $41.7 million. Up until 2014, this research was conducted by Baric at the University of North Carolina (UNC). In 2014, the U.S. government issued a moratorium on federal gain-of-function research funding due to safety, ethical and moral concerns raised within the scientific community.

It was at this point, in 2014, that funding for GoF research started being funneled through the EcoHealth Alliance to the WIV. Swann reviews documents proving Fauci lied to Congress, including a paper2 titled “SARS-Like WIV1-CoV Poised for Human Emergence,” submitted to PNAS in 2015 and subsequently published in 2016. In this paper, the authors state that:

“Overall, the results from these studies highlight the utility of a platform that leverages metagenomics findings and reverse genetics to identify prepandemic threats.

For SARS-like WIV1-CoV, the data can inform surveillance programs, improve diagnostic reagents, and facilitate effective treatments to mitigate future emergence events. However, building new and chimeric reagents must be carefully weighed against potential gain-of-function (GoF) concerns.”

At the end of that paper, the authors thank “Dr. Zhengli-Li Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology for access to bat CoV sequences and plasmid of WIV1-CoV spike protein.” They also specify that the research was supported by the NIAID under the grant awards U19AI109761 and U19AI107810, which together total $41.7 million.

As noted by Swann, this paper clearly spells out that the NIAID spent $41.7 million on GoF research, with the aim of determining how bat coronaviruses can be made more pathogenic to humans, and that this research continued after the 2014 moratorium on such funding was implemented.

NIAID Viewed Baric’s Research as GoF

What’s more, a letter3,4 from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to the director of proposals at UNC Chapel Hill, discussing grant U19AI107810, also spells this out in black and white. The October 21, 2014, letter states, in part:

“NIAID has determined that the above referenced grant may include Gain of Function (GoF) research that is subject to the recently-announced U.S. Government funding pause … The following specific aims appear to involve research covered under the pause: Project 1: Role of Uncharacterized Genes in High Pathogenic Human Coronavirus Infect — Ralph S. Baric, PhD — Project Leader.

Specific Aim 1. Novel Functions in virus replication in vitro. Specific Aim 3. Novel functions in virus pathogenesis in vivo … As your grant is currently funded, this pause is voluntary.”

In other words, the NIAID authorized the continuation of what it admitted was gain-of-function research — simply because the grant had already been funded — and it did so after the ban on such funding was put into place.

NIAID Authorized GoF Research, Bypassing Review Board

But that’s not all. After the moratorium was lifted in 2017, a special review board, the Potential Pandemic Pathogens Control and Oversight (the P3CO Review Framework), was created within the DHHS to evaluate whether grants involving dangerous pathogens are worth the risks. The review board is also responsible for ensuring proper safeguards are in place for approved research.5

According to Rutgers University professor Richard Ebright, an NIH grant for research involving the modification of bat coronaviruses at the WIV was sneaked through because the NIAID didn’t flag it for review.6 In other words, the WIV received federal funding from the NIAID without the research first receiving a green-light from the HHS review board.

The NIAID apparently used a convenient loophole in the review framework. As it turns out, it’s the funding agency’s responsibility to flag potential gain-of-function research for review. If it doesn’t, the review board has no knowledge of it.

According to Ebright, the NIAID and NIH have “systemically thwarted — indeed systematically nullified — the HHS P3CO Framework by declining to flag and forward proposals for review.”7

NIAID Is Also Committed to Continued GoF Research

Lastly, Fauci is also clearly committed to continuing GoF research, seeing how the NIAID, back in August 2020, announced a five-year, $82-million investment in a new global network of Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases.8

Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance will receive $7.5 million9 from this grant, and planned research will include GoF-type experiments that the NIAID says10 will "determine what genetic or other changes make [animal] pathogens capable of infecting humans."

Wuhan Lab Deleted Documents Showing Fauci’s NIAID Funding

All of that basically serves as backstory to the latest development. It’s now been discovered that the WIV quietly deleted all mentions of its collaboration with Fauci’s NIAID, the NIH and other American research partners from its website shortly after Fauci testified in a Senate hearing in March 2021,11 when he went head to head with Sen. Rand Paul on mask-wearing. As reported May 15, 2021, by The National Pulse:12

“March 21st, 2021, the lab’s website listed six U.S.-based research partners: University of Alabama, University of North Texas, EcoHealth Alliance, Harvard University, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the United States, and the National Wildlife Federation.13

One day later, the page was revised to contain just two research partners — EcoHealth Alliance and the University of Alabama.14 By March 23rd, EcoHealth Alliance was the sole partner remaining.15

EcoHealth Alliance is run by long-standing Chinese Communist Party-partner Dr. Peter Daszak, who National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam has repeatedly claimed will be the first ‘fall guy’ of the Wuhan lab debacle …

Beyond establishing a working relationship between the NIH and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, now-deleted posts16 from the site also detail studies bearing the hallmarks of gain-of-function research conducted with the Wuhan-based lab.”

Altered WIV Page Admits GoF Research With American Partners

Indeed, a now-deleted WIV web page titled “Will SARS Come Back?” stated that:17

“Prof. Zhengli Shi and Xingyi Ge from WIV, in cooperation with researchers from University of North Carolina, Harvard Medical School, Bellinzona Institute of Microbiology … examine the disease potential of a SARS-like virus, SHC014-CoV, which is currently circulating in Chinese horseshoe bat populations.

Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system, the scientists generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone.

The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titers equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV.

Evaluation of available SARS-based immune-therapeutic and prophylactic modalities revealed poor efficacy; both monoclonal antibody and vaccine approaches failed to neutralize and protect from infection with CoVs using the novel spike protein.

On the basis of these findings, they synthetically re-derived an infectious full-length SHC014 recombinant virus and demonstrate robust viral replication both in vitro and in vivo …”

Again, while Fauci insists Baric is “not doing any kind of GoF research,” and “if he is,” then he’s doing it at UNC and not in China, the WIV’s web page clearly refutes this. GoF research was done at the WIV, in partnership with UNC researchers, of which Baric is a leading one.

The WIV’s deletions of American research partners from its website (with the exception of EcoHealth Alliance), and its deletion of the article discussing genetic research on the SARS virus raise a host of questions and appears to be yet another attempt at a cover-up. The surprising thing is that they’re now covering up American involvement and not just their own.

Chinese-American GoF Research Example

The WIV and the Wuhan University School of Public Health are both listed as subcontractors for EcoHealth Alliance under a $3.7-million NIH grant titled, "Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence."18

The two institutions also worked as collaborators under another $2.6-million grant to research the "Risk of Viral Emergence from Bats,"19 and under EcoHealth Alliance's largest single source of funding, a $44.2 million sub-grant from the University of California at Davis for the PREDICT project (2015-2020).20

Part of the PREDICT grant went to funding GoF experiments by WIV scientist Zhengli and Baric with the UNC.21,22,23 In this experiment, Zhengli and Baric used genetic engineering and synthetic biology to create a "new bat SARS-like virus … that can jump directly from its bat hosts to humans." A request by Zhengli and Baric to continue their research during the moratorium on GoF was approved by the NIH. Daszak described Zhengli and Baric’s work in a 2019 interview:24

"You can manipulate them [coronaviruses] in the lab pretty easily. Spike protein drives a lot of what happens with the coronavirus, zoonotic risk. So, you can get the sequence, you can build the protein, and we work with Ralph Baric at UNC to do this. Insert it into a backbone of another virus, and do some work in the lab."

The research was published in the journal Nature in 2015.25,26 As a condition of publication, Nature, like most scientific journals, requires27 authors to submit novel DNA and RNA sequences to GenBank, the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information Database. Curiously, the new SARS-like virus Zhengli and Baric published in 2015 wasn't deposited in GenBank until May 2020.28

Fauci Has Accomplished Great Deal of Harm

It remains to be seen whether Daszak is in fact being groomed as the fall guy in this saga. Clearly, he’s innocent in the lab origin cover-up. He somehow ended up on two separate commissions charged with investigating the origin of SARS-CoV-2 — one by the WHO29 and one by The Lancet30 — having already played a central role in the plot to obscure the lab origin of SARS-CoV-2 by crafting a scientific statement condemning such inquiries as “conspiracy theory.”31,32

Letting Fauci off the hook is not an option, however. Like Daszak, Fauci has spent the last year denouncing the possibility that COVID-19 could be the result of a lab leak,33 all while knowing the kinds of research his agency funded there.34

He’s been a longtime defender and promoter of GoF research on animal viruses in general, saying while he was working on GoF with bird-flu viruses such research is worth the risk because it allows scientists to prepare for pandemics.35 However, this kind of research clearly has not improved governments’ pandemic responses one whit.

Fauci has also flip-flopped endlessly when it comes to mask recommendations, and helped suppress one of the most effective, safest and least expensive COVID-19 remedies, hydroxychloroquine, despite his knowledge of a 2005 study showing it’s an effective remedy against SARS coronavirus.36,37

The study was published in Virology Journal, which is the official publication of the NIH, so it’s hard to believe he was unaware of it. But rather than protect public health and save lives using hydroxychloroquine, Fauci promoted the ineffective, dangerous and expensive drug remdesivir and COVID-19 gene therapies instead.

Fauci also knew (and has admitted) that using a PCR test with a cycle threshold (CT) above 35 renders it useless because at that point, you’re just detecting dead nucleotides. No live virus can be detected at CTs that high.38 As early as March 2020, he knew up to 90% of positive PCR tests were false positives and that these people really weren’t sick,39 yet he said and did nothing.

Now, as COVID-19 vaccines are taking their toll, with vaccine injury reports that show they are possibly disabling and killing tens of thousands around the world, Fauci is defending the universal use of the shots and downplaying their lethality.

According to Fauci, deaths from the vaccines have to be “put into context with the population they occurred in.”40 What he’s referring to are cases where old people died shortly after receiving their COVID shots. Old people die, so therefore you shouldn’t blame it on the vaccine.

This is hypocrisy at its finest. When seniors die before vaccination, it’s due to COVID-19 and something must be done to prevent it, but when they die after vaccination, they die of natural causes and no preventive action is necessary. Fauci’s dismissal of vaccine deaths also overlooks the fact that many young, healthy people have reported serious adverse reactions or even died within hours or days of their vaccinations.41

Gain-of-Function Research Is the Real Threat

I believe GoF research cooperation and sharing between nations is such that blame will ultimately be shared by multiple parties. The key issue, really, if SARS-CoV-2 did in fact come from a lab, is how do we prevent another lab escape? And, if it turns out to have been a genetically manipulated virus, do we allow gain-of-function research to continue?

I believe the answer is to ban research that involves making pathogens more lethal to humans. As it stands, the same establishment that is drumming up panic by warning of the emergence of new, more infectious and dangerous variants is also busy creating them. They just never tell you about that part.

Already, scientists have figured out a way to mutate SARS-CoV-2 such that it evades human antibodies. Were this mutated virus to ever get out, we’d be in serious trouble. While mankind has created several outbreaks, nature seems to have a way of NOT mutating animal viruses into global killers. So, the hypocrisy needs to end.

World leaders need to realize that funding and defending gain-of-function research is the real threat here. I believe Fauci’s lies are a pathetic attempt to hide his agency’s involvement with GoF research that may have resulted in a global crisis.

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Dennis Edwards: Yes, Jesus needed to die the death of a sinner separated from God to feel and understand our pain and suffering. However, what's amazing about Jesus' cry from the cross, "My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?" is that the psalmist David some 1,000 years early recorded His cry and the imagery of the cross. The book of Revelation tells us that the spirit of Jesus Christ is the spirit of prophecy. What exactly does that mean? I don't know. But I do find it extraordinary that Christ cried out, "My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?" which is the first verse in David's Psalm 22. The rest of the psalm depicts grafically some of the events of the cross and no doubt the feelings of Christ as He suffered and died for our sins. Was Jesus consciously trning His followers to the words of David for comfort? Was Jesus consciously trying to get a message to the learned Sandhidren that He was in fact the message of Psalm 22? Did some of them turn to one another and say, "Look, he's quoting from Psalm 22. How does the rest of that psalm go?" When they go back to the temple later and get a hold of the scroll of Psalm 22, they are shocked to see the similarity of David's psalm to the events they have just witnessed. Truly the spirit of Christ is the spirit of prophecy. Maybe that is why Apostle Peter says that greater than his personal experience with Christ is God's word, the more sure word of prophecy. Peter exhorts us to read and study the word until the day star, Christ Himself, dawns in our hearts!

Psalm 22 NIV
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Psalm 22 For the director of music. To [the tune of] "The Doe of the Morning." A psalm of David.
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My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning?
2
O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, and am not silent.
3
Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the praise of Israel. [1]
4
In you our fathers put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them.
5
They cried to you and were saved; in you they trusted and were not disappointed.
6
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
7
All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads:
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"He trusts in the LORD; let the LORD rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him."
9
Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you even at my mother's breast.
10
From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother's womb you have been my God.
11
Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.
12
Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
13
Roaring lions tearing their prey open their mouths wide against me.
14
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me.
15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me [2] in the dust of death.
16
Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced [3] my hands and my feet.
17
I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me.
18
They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.
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But you, O LORD, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me.
20
Deliver my life from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dogs.
21
Rescue me from the mouth of the lions; save [4] me from the horns of the wild oxen.
22
I will declare your name to my brothers; in the congregation I will praise you.
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You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, honor him! Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!
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For he has not despised or disdained the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.
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From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly; before those who fear you [5] will I fulfill my vows.
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The poor will eat and be satisfied; they who seek the LORD will praise him-- may your hearts live forever!
27
All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations will bow down before him,
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for dominion belongs to the LORD and he rules over the nations.
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All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before him-- those who cannot keep themselves alive.
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Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord.
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They will proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn-- for he has done it.

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

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