Thursday, April 9, 2020

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE RIDES IN ON CORONAVIRUS BACK




ID2020 Quantum dot-based Mark which will both deliver mandatory vaccines to people as well as provide confirmatory digital certificates. 5G-driven digital certificate will be needed to access social, financial, and commercial services as well as physical facilities; and those without it will automatically be subjected to “electronic lockdowns” equivalent to the prophecy in Rev 13:16-17.  Photo credit: www.biometricupdate.com/201909/id2020-and-partners-launch-program-to-provide-digital-id-with-vaccines
 













Introduction


In a previous article, we discussed how the superficial, farcical response to COVID-19 by otherwise intelligent Nigerian health authorities clearly betrays an underlying global governance agenda. Within a few days, what might have seemed to be mere conjectures on our part, became further affirmed as notable global personalities stepped out and started proffering bizarre global governance solutions to the pandemic; solutions they had previously dismissed as mere conspiracy theories.  In this article, we throw light on the befuddling statistics being used to promote COVID-19 globally, review the tell-tale hyped Hegelian solutions already being proffered, suggest what the near future might hold in store, and finally offer some candid advice for all and sundry. 


While the academicians continue to discuss “systemic” versus “personal“ risk assessments, incorporation of socio-economic costs into the “flattening the curve” strategies, accuracy and reliability in identifying COVID-19 in the laboratory, and such similar cerebral and challenging issues; the folks on the streets are asking more direct and practical questions.  In what was meant to be an enlightenment public-service advert on a local radio station at Ile-Ife, a peasant lady reasoned that COVID-19 at best is only the disease of the elites and high government officials. She consequently challenged her supposedly more enlightened neighbour to show her just three poor people anywhere in Nigeria that are being afflicted by the virus.  The response offered her went like this: “Don’t be silly.  Are more advanced and capable countries not threading the same path as us? Just keep quiet and obey instructions!”  Surely, supposedly more enlightened folks reading this article should be excused if they demanded some more rational response to the question: “exactly what and where is the threat we are almost killing ourselves over?”



Defining the Problem


The science is quite straightforward. Trillions of microorganisms (indeed more numerous than human cells!) including several different types of viruses reside in our bodies at any point in time.  Most are harmless, while many are indeed very useful.  A few troublesome ones exist, like the flu (the influenza virus).  They show up at certain seasons, run their course, and are gone.  They have no known cure and they continue to exact their deadly toll on mankind season to season.  COVID-19 from all indications is just another one of these rascally viruses.  The only novelty here is that it is new and more importantly, it can be innocently transmitted by people who are totally without any symptoms. (See details in our previous article).

Now, the basic issue is not whether it is right or not to seek to rid society of even the littlest irritant of microorganisms. The question is, even if it were the worst plague ever known, at what cost could we reasonably seek a cure? Isn’t there a juncture where, to paraphrase Donald Trump, the “cure begins to prove more deadly than the disease?”


In the six weeks since the virus was first detected in Nigeria, there have been two hundred and thirty-eight confirmed cases and five deaths.  As confirmed by the health Czar at Lagos state, the supposed epicentre of the disease, so far 100% of the people quarantined for carrying the pathogens have all been discharged hale and hearty, with none of them requiring any expensive or high-tech medical interventions such as ventillators as we see from videos sent in from China and Europe. It was precisely the fear that these high-tech facilities could be required in large numbers, and consequently become swamped if there were sharp peaks in hospitalization rate, that led to the various “flattening the curve” measures being devised in those countries. And it is exactly those same measures that are currently uncritically being foisted on us here in Nigeria.  Not only are those measures clearly not designed to affect the COVID-19 situation in Nigeria, they are largely impracticable and unworkable in our peculiar socio-economic setting.  It is very reasonable to ask why we must bear such heavy burden of imposed measures when we clearly are not faced with the same challenges.  By the way, none of those countries have malaria for instance, which remains a top killer here, and which could be eliminated outright, were we to deploy only a fraction of the current anti-COVID-19 efforts to fight it. And even as we write, some 774 people have died this year so far, in the world’s worst Lassa fever epidemic, happening right here in Nigeria, with little press coverage. But we digress!



Obfuscating Statistics


Evidences are mounting that these measures which are totally absurd in our situation, are hardly justifiable even in those developed nations being used to foist them on us.  Vigorous debates on their appropriateness are ongoing virtually in every one of those nations, with the key issues all revolving around statistics.  What exactly do the figures being rolled out mean and what do they imply? 


Consider, for instance that in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), "the flu (also called influenza) has caused an estimated 38 million illnesses, 390,000 hospitalizations and 23,000 deaths this season”.  When compared with the 367,629 “cases” (assumed to be same as “hospitalizations”) and 10,941 deaths attributed to COVID-19 as at April 7, one wonders if all the hullabaloo about COVID-19 is justified.  The standard argument is that unlike the other seasonal infections, COVID-19 is still a wildcard, and it is not yet clear when its season would end.  This uncertainty is then the major trump card, and it is not surprising that certain interest groups should prefer that even if at all the pandemic would be curbed anytime soon, the uncertainties should persist till some irreversible critical decisions have been taken. If possibilities coming from nations such as Israel, France, China and even within the United States itself, concerning upcoming effective treatments (or possibly even a vaccine), are factored in, then all the lockdowns and similar draconian measures in the US would become absolutely absurd.


Another pertinent issue related to the statistics is the question of what really is the mortality figure attributable to COVID-19?  In the language of cancer risk assessment, what is the number of “excess deaths” that are attributable to the disease?  Consider for example, a report just coming out of Israel  (7th April), reporting the 58th COVID-19 death recorded in that country.  According to the news report, “The 74-year-old, a resident of a nursing home, was admitted to the hospital for type of pneumonia which is uncharacteristic of coronavirus, and her first test for COVID-19 came back negative. After three days however, another test was performed, which turned out positive.”  An earlier investigation by an Israeli newspaper had shown that of the 21 deaths attributed to the virus in the country at that time, two had five pre-existing serious health conditions, one had four, two had three, eight had two, and five had only one pre-existing condition. Granted that even people with “pre-existing serious” health conditions should be helped to fulfil their years on earth, the pertinent question is: would these people not have died even in the absence of COVID-19? And, more importantly, are the incredibly enormous resources and efforts being deployed to curtail the transmission of the disease not better spent on strengthening the general healthcare system such that COVID-19 becomes absolutely innocuous?


A report suggesting unethical false classification of a COVID-19 death in the UK is particularly disturbing.  As the impression gained grounds that COVID-19 is only a problem for the elderlies with multiple pre-existing health conditions, people in the UK began to question the rationale for the extensive indiscriminate lockdowns.  It was precisely at this critical juncture that Britain conveniently reported her first young COVID-19 fatality.  It soon turned out however, that attributing the death of 21 year old Chloe Middleton to COVID-19 was only the product of a Coroner’s imagination stretched too far. Indeed Chloe was never even tested for the virus, and no post mortem was carried out, yet the Coroner certified it a coronavirus death.   The original report by the Guardian (UK) which indicated that the decision “raised eyebrows” at the hospital, has since been removed, and later sanitized.  But at least one media house had captured the original report which reads:

Middleton was taken to Wexham Park hospital in Slough last weekend after she had a heart attack. Attempts to resuscitate her failed and she was pronounced dead soon after arriving… A Berkshire coroner said the death was related to Covid-19 after being told Middleton had a cough, the source said. But this surprised medics at the hospital, who have not recorded it as a coronavirus incident.

The case has since been eclipsed by other reports, and now the youngest patient in Britain who had COVID-19 at the time of death was a 5 year old.  The point is, if such bizarre distortion of records could happen in the UK, what might not be happening in other countries with less established medical ethics and systems!  


Back home in Nigeria for instance, apart from the first COVID-19 death which was elaborately announced, details about the other four fatalities have been sparse.  The only constant in the reports was the refrain that the patient had severe underlying illnesses.”  Data from the NCDC website indicate that the second death occurred at the FCT on 30th March,  the third was recorded on 4th April at Lagos, the fourth at Edo on 3rd April, and the fifth again at Lagos on 5th April.   Of course it is a contradiction to have the third case on 4th April and the fourth case a day earlier on 3rd April, but such data processing error, troubling as it is, is not a big concern to us.  The issue here is the attribution of the deaths to COVID-19, which the Nigerian press, unlike their colleagues in the UK as cited above, is so docile about.


This is how the reputable Guardian newspaper reported the 4th April death, quoting Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi:

“Abayomi announced the death through his Twitter handle on Sunday, saying that it was the death of second COVID-19 patient recorded in the state.  We lost a #COVID19 patient; a 36-year-old Nigerian, male, who died in a private facility on April 4, 2020.  The total number of #COVID19 patients who have died are now two,” he said.  

“Abayomi, however, did not disclose further information about the medical history of the patient.”


This second death at Lagos was actually reported in NCDC’s Situation Report  No 37 for 5th April, suggesting the first Lagos death also occurred on the 4th April.  But then the press reported that death as having happened between 2nd and 3rd April.  Again, the date is not the issue, but the content of the report attributed to the News Agency of Nigeria  stating that the patient “was brought unconscious to LUTH Emergency late in the evening of Wednesday, April 2 by his friend”, and “he died a few hours later.” (sic, April 2 was actually a Thursday).


Now let’s make our point. One patient died at a “private facility” without any statement on his medical history, or whether he was tested for COVID-19 at all.  For the other patient brought “unconscious” to LUTH and dying “a few hours later,” it obviously would have been difficult carrying out any COVID-19 tests. In fact, in his case, the report says “his symptoms strongly suggested Covid-19” and “further investigations later revealed he had earlier performed a test at Yaba soon after he travelled back to Nigeria from Holland and the test was positive.”  The report however further noted that the patient had “...other health issues such as being a diabetic hypertensive patient. He had also undergone a kidney transplant for chronic kidney disease and was on immunosuppressant drugs.”  We are not suggesting that COVID-19 is not real in Nigeria, or that it does not kill; but clearly our highly respected thorough-bred medical professionals will not be lightly confirming diagnoses in this rather sloppy way, if they didn’t have some external people breathing hard on their neck!  Enough said!


We may not conclude this issue of convoluted coronavirus stats without examining the famous Italian figures.  At 16,523 deaths (as at 7th April), this is the highest mortality figure attributed to COVID-19 anywhere in the world.  A deeper consideration of some basic facts would however bring sound perspectives and clarity to these figures which have served more than anything else, to confound the public and consequently whip reticent governments into towing the path of blatant draconian measures all round the world. To start with, we can continue with the pertinent question:  how many of the deaths attributed to COVID-19 in Italy would have NOT occurred if the disease had not shown up, seeing that 99% of the mortality attributed to it has been conclusively shown to occur in elderly people with pre-existing illnesses? 


But the issues are beyond that. As painstakingly documented by Paul Doyon, Italy is closely linked with China (Wuhan city) in the massive deployment of the 5th Generation technology “5G” for telecommunication, and this probably  significantly affected the course of COVID-19 in Italy and the dismal statistics.  Despite desperate efforts to discredit the 5G - COVID-19 link, the science is settled.  Not only could microwave radiation in general (not just “5G”) make microorganisms more virulent, it could also weaken the immunity of people to their impacts. Some have pointed at the short range nature of 5G, and attempted to suggest that the risk to people would therefore be inconsequential.  However, it is exactly this short range nature that makes it necessary to have such enormous installation densities - one antenna required about every 100 metres for 5G to function effectively.  (For instance, about 10,000 installations were required for Wuhan city).  Another common fallacy is the comparison of man-made electromagnetic radiations with natural ones - from the sun for instance; and claiming that effects that don’t happen with the natural can also not happen with the anthropogenic radiation.  This comparison is not appropriate for several reasons discussed in detail in our technical paper.  So we have the well-cited facts of Italy being comprised of the oldest population in Europe, and these old, immune-deficient folks being exposed to the novel 5G electromagnetic waves at an unprecedented level.  As earlier pointed out, if we remove this consideration alone, the death statistics from Italy would plummet to a mere 1% of the current figures! It is therefore quite inappropriate to use the Italian scenario to prescribe solutions for other places, like Nigeria for instance. 


However, we might still add to the above considerations, the point excellently made by Tracy Beanz that Italy has become largely a vassal state of China. In her write-up, Tracy traced the history of the Italian tragedy from the gradual influx of Chinese pauper migrants in the early 1990s, to Italy’s signing the “One belt, One road” initiative with a now ruthless China in March 2019.  According to Tracy, “whole villages in Italy became Chinese villages, with the Chinese displacing the Italians who lived there, creating their own neighborhoods, and pushing out decades of Italian family owned business”. Quoting an aggrieved politician, she further writes: “The Chinese have their own restaurants and their own banks—even their own police force.  The long and short is that Italian authorities repeatedly accepted unreasonable instructions from China in their response to COVID-19 leading to Tracy’s pungent conclusion that: “It wasn’t chance. It wasn’t age. It wasn’t overall health, and it wasn’t the good-hearted nature of the Italian people that caused the virus to ravage their nation. It was a leadership who are now under the thumb of the Chinese government.”  Perhaps it is a combination of all these!


It is instructive that the perceived culpability of the Chinese in the (mis)management of COVID-19 in Italy was the major premise being cited by medical practitioners in Nigeria, in their current threat to down tools should the government proceed with its ill-advised plan to bring in Chinese “COVID-19 experts” to help us manage our non-existent problem in Nigeria! 



Contrived Hegelian Solutions


Having generated considerable panic response to COVID-19 using suspect statistics as highlighted above, the global elites are already proffering the “solutions” to the crisis. In a nut shell, the required solution can only be Global Governance.  Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister of the UK took the first shot when he called for an ad hoc international team with “executive powers” to lead humanity’s fight against coronavirus.  “This is not something that can be dealt with in one country,” he said. “There has to be a coordinated global response.”  At a virtual meeting of the G-20 a few days later, the leaders agreed  among other measures to “..accelerate the development and delivery of vaccines” using platforms that would be recommended by the WHO. They also “commit to do whatever it takes … to minimize the economic and social damage…,”  while noting that “Global action, solidarity and international cooperation are more than ever necessary to address this pandemic.”  All these are straight from the global governance script, as we have been highlighting in articles over the years.


Simultaneously with these developments at governmental levels was the announcement by Mr Bill Gates that he is already sponsoring the development of 7 candidate vaccines for COVID-19 . Although the first clinical trials have now started, Bill Gates said the entire exercise might last about 18 months. The interesting point with the Bill Gate’s vaccine solution is that it would be integrated with a digital certificate option (via implanted nanochips), so that those who are vaccinated could be verified and possibly excluded from the coming massive electronic lockdowns that would by default, be imposed on non-compliant refuseniks.  In the language of Rev 13:16-17, the lockdown would prevent people (no matter who they are  – great or small, rich or poor) from buying or selling unless they had the mark. Details of the technology based on fluorescent quantum dots embedded in the skin can be found here.


A few words on mandatory mass vaccination.  Vaccines are not made for the sick, they are valued medical solutions which, though carrying well-recognized risks on their own, are nevertheless applied to healthy people based on those people being perceived to be at higher risks to certain diseases.  Now while there is little argument about some situations which put people at risks easily adjudged higher than the risks associated with vaccines (e.g. medical practitioners, travellers, prostitutes, homosexuals, etc), it is a different ball-game assessing risks to the general populace in a generic way that discounts their individual peculiarities. The problems arise basically because vaccines themselves are still “works in progress,” with the effectiveness of some plummeting to as low as merely 19%, while still carrying considerable health risks.  Indeed, in several documented studies, the health indices could be much better in unvaccinated populations than vaccinated ones! The issue therefore comes to a head when an individual self-evaluates that his risk to a certain disease does not justify his taking a vaccine;  while some authorities still insist that the risk of his infecting other citizens by his continuous interaction with society without a vaccine is unacceptable to the State!  That’s the whole basis justifying lockdowns!


Many Nigerians are unaware of the ongoing hot contentions on mandatory vaccination largely in Europe; and that the same is a major issue in the coming US Presidential elections, which globalists see as a do or die affair!  It has however been reasonably suggested that our current troubles in Nigeria with Boko Haram and killer herdsmen might actually have been facilitated by people who would soften our “stubborn resistance” to key elements of global governance such as GMOs in food, gay marriage, and vaccines!  Please see here for a discussion of issues that have bred a general distrust of mass vaccination exercises in Nigeria.  Suffice to emphasize here, that globalists are absolutely ready to go to any extent to push this agenda through.  In 2011 in Malawi, an NGO acting for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, actually trailed people into their hideouts and compelled them to receive their measles vaccines at gun point!


However, in the overall global governance agenda, the mandatory vaccine is only a means to the real big goal – implanting a chip in all humans on earth.  That is why the current proposal of Bill Gates combining the proposed coronavirus vaccine with a chip-based digital certificate is noteworthy.   The reader may check Chapter Four of our book Behold I  Come Quickly, for an extensive compilation of various ploys (both carrots and sticks) already put together to gradually get the bio-chip implanted into every human being on the planet.  


As we have previously explained, once chipped, not only the implantee’s actions but his emotions, and desires can be monitored and easily controlled.  For instance, implantees can be made to feel depressed or excited according to the whims of the controller of the technology.  They will “love” to cheerfully do whatever they are asked to do – no matter how outrageous it would have been to them previously, ranging from the immoral to the outright criminal – as conceptualized in the popular novel,  the Manchurian candidate.


The link holding all these global governance elements together would be Artificial Intelligence (AI), which brings us back to the 5G issue.   Extraordinarily fast network is required to provide the hub and basic infrastructure needed for the new world order based on “internet-of-things,” including the fusion of man and machine on which the likes of Prof Kevin Warwick have been collaborating with the US DARPA.  AI and 5G would also play key role in space control, advance weaponry, autonomous self-driving vehicles, and other futuristic developments. 


However, while the masses of the world would embrace 5G for the superficial tickling benefits described above, the globalists have a much deeper need for it.  It is needed for the new spirituality and religion.  For instance, the ultimate goal of the implanted chip will not just be to control people’s ability to buy and sell (Rev 13:17).  Restrictions of buying and selling and other lockdowns are mainly to serve in forcing the chip on people!  Once the chip is implanted, the deed is done. The end goal of being able to influence peoples’ actions, thoughts, and emotions is ultimately to engineer them for worship. The devil desperately needs sons and daughters of Adam who would bow and worship him (Isa. 14:13-14, Mat. 4:9)   That is why as we explained previously, the Bible indicates that those who get the mark of the beast are irretrievably lost to the devil (Rev 14:9-11, 16:2).


Prior to the implanted chip, Satan has extricated worship from people using drugs, sex, love of money, fame, occult rituals and other psycho-affective  agents.  The chip will up the game significantly and will guarantee the devil of the intensely fanatical foot soldiers he needs in his rebellion against the Most High.  Please see a brief summary of this point here.


Anthony Levandowski, founder of what is called the AI (Artificial Intelligience) Church describes a new god referred to as “Whatever”, which the AI community believes is going to emerge at some point when the internet-of-things has become operational.  With the internet as its nervous system, the world’s connected cell phones and sensors as its sense organs, and data centers as its brain, the ‘whatever’ will hear everything, see everything, and be everywhere at all times. The only rational word to describe that ‘whatever’, thinks Levandowski, is ‘god’—and the only way to influence a deity is through prayer and worship.”  “What is going to be created will effectively be a god,” he surmised. “if there is something a billion times smarter than the smartest human, what else are you going to call it?”  With this kind of system, it is not difficult to imagine the antichrist setting up an image, and  “give life to the image so it can talk…” as described in Rev.13:15.


Of course, as we have repeatedly highlighted, there are two wings needed for the new world order (NWO) to fly: the one world government aspect under the antichrist, and the one world religion under the false prophet.  The NWO is actually a resumption of the disrupted project in Genesis 11:1-8 when in defiance of God, men decided to “build a city and a tower”.  The city being the state component and the “tower that reaches the heaven” the religious component of the NWO.  It is in this concept that the well-known efforts of the current Pope (predicted to be the last Pope) to bring about a new world religion synthesized from all the existing ones is notable.  We can’t begin to discuss that in this essay, but to show there are intense activities along that dimension, we point out that the Pope intends to bring the youths of the world together to launch a Global Educational Pact  It is envisaged this would change their attitudes to religion and social values, (including the issue of homosexuality which the Pope has consistently endorsed.)   Previously scheduled for 14th May,2020m,  the event has now been shifted to October 11-18 apparently due to the ongoing lockdowns.


So here we are in April 2020, faced with proposals being formally presented by Bill Gates requiring the world adopts BOTH mandatory vaccine and mandatory chipping in one clean swab!  And perfect timing too, since it turned out that a Project, called the ID2020 Alliance conceived in 2017 has been working tirelessly to develop just exactly the system being proposed by Mr Gates.  From inception, the project was expected to take off in 2020 (hence the name); and it was concluded right on schedule last October.  The readiness was announced in terms of the technical certification “Mark” which is now unveiled!  About the same time, a “table-top” simulation exercise (called Event 201) considering the various socio-economic scenarios should there be a coronavirus pandemic in the world was carried out under the leadership of Mr Bill Gates.  A few weeks after these two events, very conveniently, we found ourselves requiring their prescriptions!  You could either celebrate the foresight and genius of these globalists or scream conspiracy!



Way forward Nigeria


It is evident that Nigeria and sub-sahara Africa in general has been enjoying some providential shielding from the coronavirus scourge so far.  However, it would be totally ill-advised to start celebrating our “coldspot” status at this stage.  As we have detailed above, there is an agenda to it all, and sub sahara Africa is obviously meant to be the major theatre.  It is not at all reasonable to expect the globalists would backup at this juncture so early!


Despite the relative calm here, some western nations are evacuating their nationals.  And as further indication that the world is still waiting for a second phase to the ongoing pandemic, we may note unexpected activities such as the procurement of 10 million coronavirus masks by Israel, and significantly, that being handled by her secret service, Mossad.  The WHO has repeatedly affirmed that masks are not needed to prevent transmission of the current strains of coronavirus – about 8 of them so far identified, since they are not air-borne.  But then nobody can call the Israelis foolish!


Another area Nigeria needs to exercise caution is in the roll-out of 5G infrastructure.  Ongoing accusations and denials about the exact status of the technology in Nigeria is unfortunate, but is typical of how the government handles extremely important public health issues – including genetically-modified foods, for instance.  Concerning 5G, the correct thing to do is carry out impact studies first  – determining those who would be most vulnerable, under what conditions, and what mitigation measures would bring down the health hazards considerably – before moving forward cautiously. For instance, one of the principal modes of actions of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation on man is via well-understood disruptions in the voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCC) of the cell membranes.  And there are already a good number of affordable therapeutic solutions that can inhibit these disruptions and possibly mitigate the deleterious impacts of 5Gs.  But we should first own up to the problems and commit to honest diligent research.


Christians, as Salt of the earth and Light of the world, have primary responsibilities in advocating for sustainable development of our nation to the glory of God.  Like so many Biblical characters (from David, Daniel and company, to the Apostles), it is our privileged and sacred duty to take a stand for the values of the Kingdom of heaven at a time like this, and we can trust the almighty God to faithfully do His own bit.


As for globalists and their mesmerized fans who, in their rage and vain imagination, are taking counsel together against the LORD and against his anointed, saying “Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us;”  we simply wish to remind them that the Most High God Who made the heavens and the earth is still securely seated on His throne. And His simple message for such a time as this is:

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. And the idols he shall utterly abolish.”   Isaiah 2 verse 17-18.


To those wondering what on earth God is doing, and why He is allowing all these disruptions, we submit that God’s having foretold all these events thousands of years ago, shows clearly He is in control.  In Rev 17:17 the Bible declares ahead that a global government structure that excludes the almighty will transiently operate on the earth in the very last days.  But, according to the Bible, it is actually God’s will that the globalists would be effecting!

“For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.” Rev 17:17  


In other words, it is actually God’s plan that a global government scheme that seeks to exclude Him should be hatched, and should “succeed” for a short while.  The whole point is to allow the rebels play out their cherished “animal-farm” ideas and see if these are indeed superior to God’s ways, as they are insisting. After the entire project has been shown to be the utter failure it would be just like the Orwellian Animal Farm, nobody will be able to justifiably accuse the LORD of being a despot (Psa. 51:4); when He now swings in and install His everlasting righteous Kingdom on earth, as it is in Heaven.


In the meantime, the desperate plans of the globalists will continue to suffer various setbacks until the time appointed by the Almighty God. When that auspicious time arrives, the Church will be evacuated from the earth in what is known as the Rapture (like it happened to Enoch and Elijah before); while the nation Israel will be assisted to the hiding place prepared for her here on earth Rev 12:6  till the antichrist and the false prophet have finished messing themselves and their society up thoroughly and the LORD comes with the intervention.


The antichrist and the false prophet will thereafter be consigned to hell fire, together with their boss, Satan.  (Rev.20:10).


Anyone who chooses to follow these boastful losers at this present time should be prepared to accompany them for all eternity in the hell fire (Mat 25:41, Rev. 20:15); but the Good News is that anyone seed of Adam, who would ask to change sides and come over to the Lord Jesus is always ever welcome, irrespective of the burden of sin they may be carrying (John 6:37, John 10:29).  His very name, Jesus, means the One who has come to save people from their sins (Mat.1:21).



Ile-Ife, 9th April, 2020

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Dr. Fauci NEJM Editorial Suggests That COVID-19 Fatality Rates May Be 10x Lower Than Official Projections

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Dr. Fauci, whose guidance to President Trump has resulted in a near total lockdown of the country, recently published an editorial in New England Journal of Medicine that rightly points out serious flaws in his own doom-and-gloom COVID-19 fatality projections.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the guiding force behind President Trump’s recent order to extend social distancing guidelines another 14 days toward the end of April; social distancing guidelines that require maintaining "shelter-in-place" quarantines and extrending the shut down of millions of businesses and livelihoods which have already suffered irreparable and potentially catastrophic consequences.
It has been the president and mainstream media’s seemingly unquestioning confidence in the accuracy of Dr. Fauci’s projections which led Trump to announce on March 15th that he would adopt Dr. Fauci's aggressive strategy of locking down the country for  14-days in order to prevent what he warned could be 1.7 million Americans fatalities from COVID-19 if his advice was not heeded.  
Yet, in a strange turn of events, an editorial authored by Dr. Fauci and published online on February 28 in the New England Journal of Medicine titled, “Covid-19 — Navigating the Uncharted,” points out that, while at present, the currently reported case fatality rate is approximately 2%, these statistics are based on case definitions requiring a diagnosis of pneumonia, i.e., only those who are acutely ill with pneumonia are counted as COVID-19 infected, and not the potentially vast pool of individuals who are asymptomatic carriers or are only suffering from mild symptoms. His paper elaborates further on this point:
 “If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%.” [bold added]
In fact. Dr. Fauci suggests the case fatality rate might be as low as 0.1%.
This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.2” [bold added]
Dr. Fauci’s paper rightly points out the likelihood that there is a massive submerged iceberg of asymptomatic or mild cases of COVID-19 that have gone completely unacknowledged and untested, and that therefore the death toll from COVID-19 is more akin to seasonal influenza at 0.1%. 
It turns out that seasonal flu has far more deaths attributed to it (23,000) than COVID-19 (2,449 as of 3/31/20 according to the CDC). As reported by LiveScience:
"...in the U.S. alone, the flu (also called influenza) has caused an estimated 38 million illnesses, 390,000 hospitalizations and 23,000 deaths this season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)." 
Given these facts, how can the dominant narrative any longer be unquestionably maintained, namely, that we are all facing a deadly pandemic that requires the total suspension of all our basic civil liberties to combat, while at the time causing potentially catastrophic effects to the socioeconomic and psychobiological health of hundreds of Americans,  amplified by what is an irrational and media-hyped fear and panic? Learn more and take action at Stand for Health Freedom and their most recent campaign: Could Unchecked Government Power Be More Dangerous than the Threat of Infectious Disease? 
To learn more about the highly confusing and flawed COVID-19 testing methodologies read: Op-Ed: Does the 2019 Coronavirus Exist?

To learn more about the misleading fatality projections, read COVID-19 - Evidence Over Hysteria.

Thursday, March 26, 2020

NIGERIA’S SUPERFICIAL RESPONSE TO COVID-19, BETRAYS UPCOMING GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AGENDA


Personnel of the Nigeria Police making an arrest.        


It is intriguing that the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) should become such a “noisy pestilence” despite not really being anyway extra-ordinarily deadlier than its older and still prevalent cousins in the human coronavirus family, not to talk of other classes of tougher infectious diseases.  Indeed, with respect to mortality or morbidity, COVID-19 could hardly stand in the same class with diseases like cholera, ebola, malaria, Lassa fever,  and a few others – none of which has provoked global socio-economic disruptions anywhere near what COVID-19 has achieved in the past four months.  As explained in a detailed article that has been shared over two million times on the internet, the subtle strength of this novel coronavirus, lies in the fact that the health risk associated with it is more of a systemic nature than personal.  This means that while the direct danger to the regular man on the street might be insignificant, the collective danger to society could be enormous. Assessing and dealing with this type of risk is quite challenging, and is open to a number of subjective non-transparent factors.  In such a circumstance, it is quite possible for top experts to offer even diametrically opposing counsel as the way forward – as we have indeed been seeing all across the globe in this case


In this article, we critique Nigeria’s handling of COVID-19, suggest possible improvements, and taking instruction from the response options being pursued by Nigeria as a key developing country, we proffer our opinion as to where we think the whole ball game is headed.

Italy currently has the largest mortality figure attributed to COVID-19. According to a study by the Italian government, 99% of the mortality is in people already struggling with other medical conditions; and at least 50% of them have been diagnosed with three or more diseases. COVID-19 death, then, was merely the proverbial last straw. In Nigeria, the first death attributable to this coronavirus was reported on 23rd March. However the 67 year old gentleman involved had diabetes and was undergoing chemotherapy for multiple myeloma. Yet officially, his death is attributed to neither of these two underlying chronic diseases, but coronavirus!  If the ultimate goal is to save lives at minimum socio-economic costs, it is necessary we examine how our efforts should be weighted and distributed in fighting these two complementary agents of death: COVID-19 on one hand, and underlying chronic medical conditions on the other. Without COVID-19, the patient can still go ahead managing his health condition for a couple more years perhaps; and without the health condition, COVID-19 is virtually innocuous. This subject is extensively critically reviewed on the  Greenmedinfo blog.

Our view in this piece is that such priority-setting decisions require carefully conducted risk assessment, based on local values and sensibilities, rather than policies uncritically imported from elsewhere.  What is optimal in one location and circumstances may not necessarily be the best at another - even while the scientific contents remain unassailable. In our humble opinion, current efforts to fight the novel coronavirus in Nigeria have been directed mainly at pleasing global authorities and getting their commendation rather than what is actually needed to produce desired local results.  And since no one can lightly impugn the intelligence of the folks handling our response, the choices they make is more indicative of an overall philosophical outlook and agenda (global in nature), rather than incompetence or naivety.

In a piece addressed to “COVID-19 deniers”, Arefa Cassoobhoy established the two basic reasons why COVID-19 is deserving of the notoriety it has acquired while further arguing  that no countering measure should be adjudged extreme.  The main strength of COVID-19 is its being contagious in asymptomatic people who may not even know they are harbouring the virus.  They could therefore transmit it unconsciously, ad infinitum, seriously endangering other vulnerable people (both loved ones and strangers) while they themselves remain healthy.  This situation places a heavy moral burden on the vast majority (who won’t be affected by the virus), such that what might have been a chivalrous “I don’t fear the disease, I can risk my life” becomes an ignoble “I am safe, I don’t care for others!”  This invariably provides implicit justification for the lockdowns, and their enforcements even via obnoxious methods.

Secondly, neither vaccine nor proven routine treatment is available at the present time; and being novel, we don’t have any pre-existing immunity to it, as we do to the older coronaviruses. The implication of this is that every symptomatic case (and this could be anywhere between 2%–3% among infected persons aged £19 years, to ≥31% among infected adults aged ≥85 years) could require intensive and specialized medical attention.  Should these present at hospitals in too quick succession, both medical personnel and resources could become overwhelmed, especially in societies where every single life matters and qualifies to receive the best medical attention available.  Thus the basic strategy for combatting the virus involves slowing down the rate of new hospitalizations at all costs, while stepping up efforts to find the cheap routine treatments or vaccine. This goal is referred to as “flattening the curve.”

Management of environment-based health hazards is all about risk management and sustainable development.  Risk management involves balancing the costs and benefits, while sustainable development ensures that the three major dimensions of Environment, Economy, and Society are holistically taken into consideration even as we juggle the balls.  This delicate operation can only be meaningfully implemented by folks familiar with the local terrain and values. A State House Press Release signed by Garba Shehu on 19th March provided a brief report on steps being taken by President Buhari’s administration to “mitigate the effects” of COVID-19 on the Nigerian people.  In the short statement, President Buhari premised his assurance on the appropriateness of measures he was announcing  primarily on the “commendation” already received from the World Health Organisation (WHO). He further added that “what this country is doing has been recommended as a template” - presumably to other countries. Unfortunately, under some conditions, such as a global pandemic, getting the praise of “global authorities” is not necessarily a virtue.  It is an open secret that these Institutions are not (and really, could not) be as independent as they themselves probably would like to be.  They routinely come under tremendous pressure and are forced to push values dictated to them by other clandestine but extremely powerful interests.  We have seen this over the decades, from the operations of the various agencies of the UN and the Bretton Wood institutions whose raison d’etre, anyway, is to maintain global peace - even if it will come at the expense of some “unfortunate” few.  It is remarkable that America’s measures to counter COVID-19 announced on March 11, were applauded neither by the WHO nor by America’s traditional allies in Europe.  As a wise man once said, “self first is not selfishness!”

An especially apt and ongoing example of how risk assessments carried out by an Agency such as the WHO can be seriously flawed and dangerous to an uncritical society is the continued use of mercury-laden vaccines for our children in Nigeria.  According to the reasoning of the eggheads at the WHO, the projected attending increased annual budget of the Agency by up to $333 million and other issues bothering on logistics, tip the scale in favour of the continued use of thimerosal  (mercury) containing vaccines (TCVs) in Nigeria rather than shifting to the alternative products used in the developed nations, since TCVs were proscribed there, decades ago.  Thus, based on the tacit counsel of the WHO to a supposedly resource-challenged nation, we have continued to infuse the brains of our own children with deadly mercury, jeopardizing their future mental and emotional wellbeing. At the same time, we give lie to the basic premise underlying this “scientific risk assessment” as the country continues to squander enormous resources via crap corruption or insane battle for meaningless ethnic or even religious superiority.  There are many other critical examples of us naively swallowing camels prescribed by global bodies while straining out the gnats they fastidiously recommend to us. But none could be as serious as this present issue of our response to COVID-19.

Are the lockdowns, school closures, severe restrictions on the economic, social, and even religious spheres, justified in Nigeria (even without any suspension of the Constitution, declaration of state of Emergency, or even just a courteous presidential address)? Perhaps yes, strange times demand strange measures.  However what is clearly suspect are the dimensions and details of implementation which are totally insensitive to local values; and which most likely would render the entire exercise not only meaningless but futile. As we write this, the report came in that the weekly statutory meetings of the Federal Executive Council, meant to review and steer the affairs of the nation, are being suspended indefinitely, because of COVID-19.  This implies that the country is then to be run as in a state of emergency with Mr Boss Mustapha (head of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19) effectively in control – possibly for the next six months!

In the management of a pandemic, time is the critical element.  The two management options available are first, containment - seeking to limit the spread of infection via lockdowns and social restrictions.  The other option is mitigation, when the bulk of the efforts are directed at providing treatment while awaiting the attainment of herd immunity in society.  Obviously both should go on pari passu, but the crucial point is on the relative weights allotted to each effort.  As clearly spelt out by the WHO itself when advising against border closures on account of COVID-19, the containment option ceased to be viable around February 20, from which time it had become more profitable to direct the bulk of efforts to combat the virus at mitigation. Of course, several individual nations, in exercise of their sovereign rights, chose to ignore that particular counsel. Even right now, more nations are still deciding to close their borders as containment efforts.

Our beef with the current measures adopted by Nigeria to fight COVID-19 is mostly in the details and the spirit behind them.

First, the measures generally lack specificity and convey the impression that not much preceding homework had been done.  For instance, most of the lockdowns announced have been “till further notice” without some indications when they might be reviewed.  In most countries clear timelines are courteously announced to the citizens – with reasonable time to quickly adjust.  For instance South Africa announced days ahead, that a 21 day national lockdown would be commencing on Thursday 26th March.    Also in a similar vein, in prescribing limits for the number of people that could publicly gather, the specifics  in the Nigerian measures have been hazy as well as arbitrary.  For instance in Osun State, Christians went to bed on the night of Saturday 21st March with the instructions that they could meet for worship and prayers in groups not exceeding 50; but overnight there was another directive that no meeting at all would be permitted.  A number of Church meetings were subsequently physically disrupted and the buildings locked up on Sunday, based on just a few hours of prior poorly-disseminated notification! Meanwhile the Presidential Task Force as at March 23 still allows gathering of up to 50 people.

The real problem with these non-specificities is that no one is really sure what informed the measures being announced.  For instance what is the basis for pronouncing a flat maximum attendance figure for a cathedral with regular seating capacity of 10,000 and another Church auditorium that could only sit 100?  With such opacity, citizens are not sure the orders are actually meant to achieve any concrete results or to merely create required news items for the global press. Or perhaps, as we are suggesting here, they are actually meant to please some global elites and further their hidden agenda.

Still on the apparent non goal-oriented nature of the lockdowns, it is also difficult to understand the basis for determining which facilities and sectors qualified for “lockdowns”   and which do not.  While Churches and Mosques were prominently cited, markets which in Nigeria tend to have higher human densities were excluded. Some cosmetic attempts were made to regulate commercial transportation systems.  But even without the customary “overloading” of passengers, the proximity between passengers in a commercial car or bus is far less than what could be obtained in a typical Church meeting. On the same confusing note, the Nigeria Railway Corporation reversed itself (probably on orders from above) and announced it will now continue its services even amidst all the stay-at-home orders.  Imagine the bewildering contradiction: folks who just arrived together in a crowded public transportation are not allowed to subsequently sit together, pray and study the Bible even in a more spacious location!  It is difficult for the public to cooperate with measures that clearly are not meant to achieve anything tangible.

Even then, the restrictions announced in Nigeria are still less baffling than the ones being  announced elsewhere.  In Ghana, President Nana Akufo-Addo with all candour and gravity announced the proscription of any gatherings in Churches and Mosques for four weeks; but in the same speech, could only advise patrons at “shopping malls, restaurants, Night Clubs, hotels and drinking spots” to kindly ensure they practice social distancing! Does this give a hint about where all this is coming from, and where it might be headed in the not too distant future?

Beyond these technical details however is the question of morality in compelling people to stay at home indefinitely when no provision had been put in place to meet their basic needs of food, water, and probably also required prescribed drugs.  In the developed countries where lockdowns were being pronounced, well-established online supply chains exist.  Sad to note that in Nigeria, a good fraction of our people actually need to go and slug it out virtually every day before they can earn the money needed to bring food to the family table.  Compare this with the reports from the UK, Italy, among others, that government will support private employers in paying salaries for workers who have to remain at home in the lockdown.  Self-employed folks also qualify for a one-time grant.  Various other measures of economic bailouts are being announced by several nations to cushion the financial stress on citizens who are being asked to stay at home. Of course, all these have economic implications for the state, as we shall be mentioning later!

Associated with the non-specificity of details in the lockdowns being pronounced in Nigeria, is the absence of specific measurable indicators to judge success or failure of the measures. In fact it was not only till 24th March that considerable number of diagnostic test kits (donated by Jack Ma and Ali Baba) reportedly arrived in Nigeria, buttressing the stories circulating on social media that many people who observed relevant symptoms in themselves and requested for testing were being rebuffed by the responsible authorities.  As the WHO had earlier affirmed, lockdowns without measurable targets are meaningless and cannot be expected to produce any tangible result on the long run.  According to Mike Ryann, WHO Chief Emergency expert: “The danger right now with the lockdowns is that, if we don’t put in place the strong public health measures now, when those movement restrictions and lockdowns are lifted, the danger is the disease will jump back up.”

In our opinion, “lockdowns” would have been more meaningful, understandable, and implementable if based on movement restrictions within specific geographical entities.  Thus, people might be restricted to their cities, wards, boarding schools, and so on; but allowed to interact freely within that sector in other to provide other extremely important social supports as needed.  Several studies have pointed out the immense health and mental hazards that would certainly follow a blanket mass self-isolation policy in society. The limited resources available for testing and identifying infected people could then be more profitably deployed to checking those who wish to exit or enter those set boundaries.

Furthermore, and probably most importantly, the vulnerable population within each lockdown sector should be scrupulously identified and put on strict but supported self-quarantine. This would be a reasonable easy-to-communicate measure, which the populace would then creatively seek to implement within local contexts.  For instance, strict isolation of the elderly has now become the cornerstone of Israeli’s strategy against COVID-19 after the initial efforts at mass containment. In the words of  Israeli Defence Minister, Naftali Bennet, “The most important thing, more than general social distancing, more than testing testing testing, is to separate old people from younger people.”  In Britain, the vulnerable people recommended for self-quarantine has been identified as “people over 60 years of age,” together with younger people with serious health problems (such as asthma, HIV), as well as pregnant women.   According to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, "The (National Health Service) will be contacting these people (1.5 million of them) in the coming days urging them to stay at home for a period of at least 12 weeks."  

In the meantime as counselled by WHO’s Mike Ryann, the period of the “lockdowns” should be used to strengthen our healthcare systems all over the nation with facilities for cheap and fast diagnosis of COVID-19 provided across board.  It could also be a great time to help the citizenry cultivate sound hygienic practices such as handwashing, and perhaps that excellent age-long traditional practice whereby the right hand is dedicated for use for interactions with people, and the left hand reserved for handling bio-hazardous objects and for interactions with non-humans. Imbibing these would be of considerable value in curtailing COVID-19 now and promoting sound health thereafter.

In concluding the technical critique segment of this article, we hasten to emphasize again the importance of exercising caution and holistic discernment as we attempt to draw lessons from situations in other times and climes. For example, many have simplistically attempted to justify apparently half-baked measures being proposed today by citing their presumed effectiveness during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-19.  However analysts have warned that such comparisons cannot be glibly made, considering the vast differences in clinical profile, severity, biological signs and the level of knowledge between the two pandemics.  Dwelling on the issue of level of knowledge, French historian Rassmussen pointed out that: “At the time of the Spanish flu, people didn’t know the influenza pathogen, and without this knowledge, it wasn’t possible for them to create a vaccine. Scientists did not isolate the particular virus strain that causes influenza in humans until 1933…..we decrypted the RNA of the coronavirus within a few days...”  One has to be very careful to avoid using comparisons that create more fear than illumination.” he warned. https://www.france24.com/en/20200320-how-does-the-coronavirus-compare-to-the-spanish-flu

Similarly, in copying measures successfully being deployed in countries like Israel and the US in their response to COVID-19, we must learn to go the whole hog and begin to value human life in this country, in general terms, and not only when we are under the scrutiny of international radar – as in a global pandemic.  For instance we may ask if it is really appropriate to use the same parameters to assess risks to COVID-19 in Nigeria as is done in Israel, when we currently have  over two million Nigerians living in squalid pitiable conditions  in IDP camps, years after being unlawfully displaced from their homes.  Who is able to convince these people that the government of Nigeria really cares about them!  On the other hand we see from time to time, how sacrosanct the Israeli government considers the life of each of her citizens.  In fact, on one occasion, it swapped over 1,000 enemy prisoners in exchange for one soldier, Gilad Shalit!  One wonders what could have been the condition today, of that young courageous lady, Leah Sharibu, were she to be an Israeli or American citizen.   Risk assessments have to be holistic and comprehensive, not half-measured and haphazard.  All the current razzmatazz of a response to COVID-19 in Nigeria gives the sinking impression that we are again merely being pushed in certain directions by foreign (specifically globalists), interests.

Why, for instance, do we have to wait endlessly for WHO endorsement before deciding that the well-reported treatment regime of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, could be incorporated under appropriate medical supervision for the treatment of COVID-19 in Nigeria, as some other countries (China, France, US) have reasonably decided – in the face of the enormous socio-economic deprivations already being imposed?  According to UN chief, Antonio Guterres: “We are in an unprecedented situation and the normal rules no longer apply.”

Finally, we hasten to warn that the ongoing health issue is only preparing the way for even more gruesome disruptions in the social and economy sectors! While we envisage that the health-related issues will be resolved as mankind generally achieves herd immunity towards COVID-19, possibly in a couple of months from now; we expect the calamitous impact on the global economy to become apparent soon thereafter.  As averred  by UN chief Antonio Guterres, a global economic recession, “perhaps of record dimensions”, is a near certainty.  Coming from the world’s number 1 diplomat, that’s a very heavy statement indeed! And yet, we believe, even that economic fall-out would be a childplay compared with the monumental fall-outs on the social dimension that would conclude the whole process.

One doesn’t need to be a prophet or professor to discern these forthcoming scenarios. The simple open truth is that the major chess game that has been ongoing between globalists and nationalists for a couple of centuries is now heading towards a sure closure.  When ordinarily brilliant people begin to advocate silly unsupportable positions, it is only indicative of some ulterior agenda at work!  Noting how global health authorities are suppressing information about upcoming efficient treatments for COVID-19, Senta Depuydt  penned  a very insightful article on the Children’s Health Defense blog, with the self-explanatory title: Does the Coronavirus Pandemic serve a Global Agenda? The article beautifully summarized the position to which we (ChurchArise!) have been sensitizing the Church in Nigeria for over two decades.   For example an article  in this 2001 newsletter described ongoing desperate moves to push the global government agenda forward, using the Hegelian principle of Thesis (Create a Problem) –  Antithesis (Generate opposition to the problem – fear, panic, hysteria) – and finally Synthesis (Offer THE Solution to the problem).   As we further highlighted severally, (for example see section II of our Book Behold I come Quickly Vol II), apart from Health, other possible instigators of “global problems” that would require “global solution” in the Hegelian scheme are  Environment, Terrorism, and the Economy. 

It is not likely that the globalists would allow to go “waste,” the opportunities currently being offered them by COVID-19.  We believe the process described above is already irreversibly initiated.  The genie is out of the bottle, the hounds have tasted blood. For instance, it is now demonstrated that Churches all over the world (including militant Nigeria), could be politely asked to close indefinitely; and that the general populace could be restrained from social gathering -  even in a democratic dispensation. Clearly, the path to the scenario described in Rev 13:16-17 is opened, and it is only a matter of time (probably a short time) before the man arrives, who would keep “all, both great and small, rich and poor” under absolute economic and social lockdowns on his terms.

Our confidence as a Christian organization however, is that in all these things our God indeed holds all the aces and all things work together for the good of those who love Him. He is master at catching the wicked in their own conceits and He can well use even our mistakes and imperfections to His glory and our ultimate benefits.  We therefore urge everyone reading this to cooperate, as far as they are able, with the policies being rolled out by the government in Nigeria, albeit with keen discernment. Instead of this being a time to worry endlessly, the ongoing lockdowns could provide physical rest for children of God across board. Instead of the closure of church buildings dousing our spiritual fire, this could be a time to step up personal Bible study and strengthen the koinona house fellowship, as in the early Church.

The ultimate loser will be the fellow who refuses to see the cascading evil and fails to safeguard himself appropriately by taking refuge under the sure shadow of the Almighty God (Proverbs 22:3, Psalms 91).  There is room for everyone under His loving wings, and He has promised never to reject anyone who would approach Him with humility and sincerity. As it is written in the Scriptures, “Draw nigh unto God, and He will draw nigh unto you” (James 4:8). I will never, no never, reject one of them who comes to Me]. (John 6:37 Amplified).


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Ile-Ife, 26th March, 2

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Dr. John C. Whitcomb, Coauthor of The Genesis Flood, Passes Away

One of the founding fathers of the Creation Science movement, Dr John Whitcomb returned back home February 5. He was aged 95. We re-post here an obituary written by Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis. https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2020/02/05/dr-john-whitcomb-passes-away/
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Dr. John Whitcomb with his wife Norma and friend Dr. Tim LaHaye+


Dr. John Whitcomb, his wife Norma, and Dr. Tim LaHaye visited the Ark Encounter on its opening day in 2016.

In a Facebook post from Whitcomb Ministries, Inc., it was announced this morning that theologian Dr. John Whitcomb, the co-author of The Genesis Flood and a giant in the modern creation movement, “entered into heavenly glory last night in his sleep.” He was 95 years old. While we grieve the loss of this great man, we’re thankful that he is reaping his heavenly reward for his faithful service to his Maker here on earth.

Dr. Whitcomb greatly impacted my life. During my final year of university studies in 1974, I first obtained a copy of his book The Genesis Flood (co-authored with the late Dr. Henry Morris). This book, along with others I had gotten, gave me biblical and scientific answers to those who attacked the record of the flood in Genesis.

This was one of the first books we sold in the ministry that began in our home in Australia in 1977 that eventually became the Answers in Genesis organization that now impacts tens of millions of people a year around the world. It was a book I showed my father, and he was so thrilled to see answers to the objections so many people in the church raised against taking the flood account literally.

There’s no doubt The Genesis Flood has been significantly used by the Lord as part of the foundation of the modern biblical creation movement. This movement is a worldwide one, and I believe it is having a major impact in helping bring a new and very needed Reformation to call the church back to the authority of God’s Word, beginning in Genesis.

I have met numerous people around the world, including pastors, teachers, professors, and others, who told me that it was The Genesis Flood that saved them from the liberal teaching that was undermining God’s Word in Genesis at their seminary, Christian college, or Bible college. I believe such examples are more than we could ever imagine.

I never thought I would one day meet Dr. Whitcomb but was so thrilled to meet this great man of God after we moved to the United States. I do believe he is one of the greatest theologians this world has seen, and we will so miss him. It was so exciting to have Dr. Whitcomb at the dedication of the land for the Creation Museum in 2000. He prayed a dedication prayer that day, and the Lord has greatly blessed this teaching attraction. Dr. Whitcomb also participated in the opening of the Creation Museum in 2007, and the dedication of the land for the Ark Encounter in 2014.
Dr. John Whitcomb Placing Stone+

In 2016, when we opened the Ark Encounter, Dr. Whitcomb, who had agreed to be on the board of directors for this evangelistic attraction, along with the board members of Answers in Genesis, laid one of the stones of the 12-stones memorial in a ceremony before thousands of people. As I said at the time, the Ark was “our 12 stones, to stand as a memorial to remind generations of the truth of God’s Word and the gospel.”

One of our board members shared,
What a giant of the faith. One of the kindest men I ever met. He was an excellent speaker as well. I heard him speak at several churches, maybe 10 – 15 years ago. He will be missed.
Dr. Whitcomb’s legacy lives on through the ministries of Answers in Genesis, the Ark Encounter, and the Creation Museum, impacting millions and millions of people, directly and indirectly, each year. I can honestly say that we at Answers in Genesis stand on the shoulders of great men like Dr. Whitcomb.
I pray God will raise up others to stand on our shoulders now, as this legacy continues to grow and impact the church and culture.
People will look back on this time in history, and just as we think about greats like Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley, George Whitfield, and others, they will talk about Dr. Whitcomb. Truly, one of the greats the Lord raised up for a specific time in history for a great purpose to shine the light of God’s Word brightly. He will never be forgotten.
Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.