248) AIDS Exceptionalism

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Over 30 new human pathogens have been detected in the last three decades, 75% of which have originated in animals, like COVID’s suspected origination in bats.

HIV originated in simians (monkeys and chimpanzees) in Africa.

But the AIDS virus didn’t make a random jump from animals to humans. It body slammed a particular population of people.

Like COVID, where the number of deaths among people over age 65 is 97 times higher than the number of deaths among people ages 18-29 years. This is because a person’s risk of severe illness from COVID-19 increases with the number of underlying medical conditions already debilitating the body’s immune defenses.

Likewise, AIDS – the full blown disease – began, and HIV – the latent infection – remains, very much in the majority in men who have sex with men because of their vulnerability to infection due to reduced immune responses from the number of underlying sexually transmitted infections already experienced.

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249) The Deadliest Pandemic In History Is Released

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What’s the worst plague the human race has ever seen?

Black Death —bubonic plague – killed over 40 million people in 100 years. There was no medication.

AIDS killed 51.1 million people in 26 years (1997-2023).

Once medication became available, global HIV-related deaths reduced by 51%, claiming 69% fewer lives in 2023 since the peak in 2004, but still:

  • an estimated 53,000–110,000 children died from HIV-related causes in 2023, and
  • and estimated 430,000–730,000] adults died from HIV-related causes in 2023.

HIV/AIDS is the defining pandemic of our time.

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SECTION XLII: When Chastening Fails To Convert, Then Judgment Comes

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I am not one of those people who believe that God sent AIDS as a judgment on sin.

Science validates the biblical record that sinners bring consequences of the natural order of biology on themselves.

Just as with the fruit in the garden of Eden, God warns,

  1. then he chastens his children which is separate from the natural consequences of sin,
  2. before he sends judgment on those who have proven that they have rejected him as their father / authority.

Two of Jesus’ disciples provide examples of

  1. converting after chastening
  2. or not, and receiving judgment.

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250) Apostate Christianity Shares Faithless Israel’s Judgment

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“ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light; Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God:” (I Peter 2:9-10)

“if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

For…The Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” (Hebrews 10:26-31)

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251) Every Judgment Is A Fiery Trial

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Back in John’s day everyone knew how the god of this world and his minions operated, so John didn’t explain the basic concepts in Revelation. But ever since humanism took front and center we are in fact ignorant of his devices (II Corinthians 2:11), and we have to learn about paganism from secular sources.

American Gods (2001) by British author Neil Gaiman is centered on the concept of making sacrifices to the gods – even when, as humanists, we don’t realize we are doing it.

Odin / Wedn (from which we get Wednesday) / head god / Satan is recruiting American manifestations of the Old Gods to participate in a battle against the New American Gods of humanism – higher standards of living, technology, especially the internet. He is working with Low Key Lyesmith, i.e. Loki Lies Maker in a “two-man con“. When Loki set up the battle between the New and Old Gods

  1. as a sacrifice to Odin, restoring Odin’s power
  2. also allowing Loki to feed on the chaos / energy of the battle

the rest of the New and Old gods are suckered into transferring their energy during the battle, and Odin and Loki are the only winners in this battle.

Parallel this hyperdimensional situation with YHVH’s battle.

YHVH’s power as carried by and manifested through his people is also weakening with the rise of the new gods.

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252) Militant Islam Is “The Assyrian” And America Is Imperial Rome

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“In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream…four great beasts came up from the sea…

fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly…diverse from all the beasts that were before it… I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit…even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame…”

If we take Daniel’s prophecy at face value, the continued existence of the fourth empire, the Roman, can be tracked throughout history despite name, location, and culture changes.

 In A.D. 330, Roman Emperor Constantine’s “New Rome,” was a Christian city of immense wealth and magnificent architecture. Constantinople stood as the seat of the Roman Empire for the next 1,100 years, until being overrun by Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire in 1453.

The Holy Roman Empire, AKA The 1st German Reich, was created in 962 AD when, as the Byzantine Roman Empire was crumbling under the Islamic assault, Pope John XII crowned Otto 1 of Prussia to perpetuate the legacy of the ancient Roman Empire. The Germany branch of the Roman Empire spanned much of Central Europe, parts of France and Italy, and various other territories across the continent.

In 1095, the Fourth / Roman Empire

  1. Paganized Christian Byzantine Roman Emperor – who had moved East to effectively hold the fort against the permanent Eastern military incursions against the West,
  2. and the Pope – who has stayed generally at Rome – drummed up military support by blessing the fighters as participants in a joint religious pilgrimage.

The Christian theology of war developed from the link of Roman citizenship to Christianity,

Just let that sink in.

The Roman concept of religion had never been that of an exclusive obligatory moral loyalty to an unseen and highly spiritual Being.

It made the relation between man and the gods a political duty of all good citizens.

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253) “The Assyrian” Is Still God’s Change Agent

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“The Assyrian”, the god Asshur / evil spirit, didn’t die or become inactive in any way when it lost a human body. The title “God of this world” informs us that he simply moves from one self-and- power-obsessed human being to another as empires rise and fall, remaining active and present in world politics through key leaders, but God sees through his veneer and reveals him to us.

“My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian / Pharoah at this time oppressed them without cause.” (Isaiah 52:4)

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places…that man of sin [will] be revealed, the son of perdition;” (Ephesians 6:12, II Thessalonians 2:3)

The relationship between the kings of Assyria and Neo-Babylon / Chaldees had traditionally been close, with the royal families linked by marriage. Shalmaneser III of Assyria (858-824 BC) and Marduk-zakir-šumi I of Babylon are depicted as equal partners on the front of Shalmaneser’s throne base from his palace at Kalhu.

So when the Assyrian Empire decayed from within, the guiding spirit of the sacral king naturally moved over to fresh meat in the Babylonian Empire.

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254) The End – Just Like The Beginning – Is Ordained Into Existence

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It was while experiencing the direst circumstances that the LORD God gave his faithful servant Daniel a detailed explanation of what future experiencers of the direst straits will face. If you’re like me, you’d rather face your enemy head on with knowledge, no matter how awful, than run blindly in terror.

“O Daniel, a man greatly beloved…I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days…I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth…

Behold, there shall stand up yet…Persia…Greece…the king of the north…And in his estate shall stand up a vile person…they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days…the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god…yet he shall come to his end…and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was…and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book… 

But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end:” (Daniel 10-12) 

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SECTION XLIII: 1st Sign Unsealed – The Vile King Makes The Peace Treaty

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“And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.” (Revelation 6:2)

From Daniel 11:

  • “in his [the king of the north’s estate [i.e., as his successor but not precisely his heir] shall stand up [come to power] a vile / deceitful person, to whom they shall not give the honour [military victory] of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries…the prince of the covenant [peace treaty].
    • “For the vile person will speak villany…to practise hypocrisy.” (Isaiah 32:6)
  • And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully:
    • for he shall…enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province  (Daniel 11:21-24, 44)

Both scripture and history identify the vile king as the ruler of the 4th empire.

Julius Caesar is seen as the main example of Caesarism, a form of political rule led by a charismatic strongman 

  1. whose rule is based upon a cult of personality,
  2. whose rationale is the need to rule by force during a period of widespread unrest,
  3. founding a government ruled by a military regime
  4. and establishing a new social order, by violent means.

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“And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.” (Revelation 6:2)

From Daniel 11:

  • “in his [the king of the north’s estate [i.e., as his successor but not precisely his heir] shall stand up [come to power] a vile / deceitful person, to whom they shall not give the honour [military victory] of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries…the prince of the covenant [peace treaty].
    • “For the vile person will speak villany…to practise hypocrisy.” (Isaiah 32:6)
  • And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully:
    • for he shall…enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province  (Daniel 11:21-24, 44)

Both scripture and history identify the vile king as the ruler of the 4th empire.

Julius Caesar is seen as the main example of Caesarism, a form of political rule led by a charismatic strongman 

  1. whose rule is based upon a cult of personality,
  2. whose rationale is the need to rule by force during a period of widespread unrest,
  3. founding a government ruled by a military regime
  4. and establishing a new social order, by violent means.

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