Iran Reports 9 Coronavirus-Linked Deaths As WHO Warns Number Of Cases Outside China ‘Won’t Stay Low For Very Long’

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    This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge. 

    Update (1010ET): Talk about a spike in deaths: Iran is now reporting 9 deaths after shocking the world by revealing that two Chinese nationals infected with the virus had died in the city of Qoms earlier this week.

    The Iranian regime has reportedly imposed a China-style crackdown on Qoms, deploying military and crowd-control police across the city.

    It’s just the latest sign that the cases and deaths ex-China are accelerating.

    CNBC’s Eunice Yoon reports that Beijing has warned Hubei not to allow people back to work before March 10.

    Local leaders said yesterday that they would launch a special financing vehicle to help struggling companies in the province survive the outbreak.

    Following the WHO’s daily press conference, Director-General Dr. Tedros said the WHO had confirmed 1,000 cases outside mainland China (with more than half of them infected aboard the ‘Diamond Princess’), and 7 deaths, likely exclude some of the deaths announced over the past 12 hours. Though he added that the data coming out of China “appeared to show a decline in new cases.”

    “Outside China, we have seen a steady drip of new cases, but we have not yet seen sustained local transmission, except in specific circumstances like the Diamond Princess cruise ship,” he added.

    More ominously, Dr. Tedros exclaimed that the outbreak is far from over, and if governments don’t take adequate steps to fight the virus, the number of cases outside China “won’t stay low for very long.”

    Worried about more shortages of personal protective equipment like facemasks, Dr. Tedros pleaded with a dozen different manufacturers to do whatever they can to keep up appropriate global supplies.

    The director said the WHO expects to have more data from two clinical trials for treatments in roughly 3 weeks.

    Since we haven’t posted a breakdown of new cases yet today, we figured we’d share this list of countries, cases and deaths courtesy of the Associated Press:

    According to the Associated Press, the latest figures provided by each government’s health authority as of Thursday in Beijing are:

    • Mainland China: 2,118 deaths among 74,576 cases, mostly in the central province of Hubei
    • Hong Kong: 65 cases, 2 deaths
    • Macao: 10
    • Japan: 727 cases, including 634 from a cruise ship docked in Yokohama, 3 deaths
    • Singapore: 84
    • South Korea: 51, 1 death
    • Thailand: 35
    • Taiwan: 24 cases, 1 death
    • Malaysia: 22
    • Vietnam: 16
    • Germany: 16
    • United States: 15 cases; separately, 1 U.S. citizen died in China
    • Australia: 14
    • France: 12 cases, 1 death
    • United Kingdom: 9
    • United Arab Emirates: 9
    • Canada: 8
    • Iran: 5 cases, 2 deaths
    • Philippines: 3 cases, 1 death
    • India: 3
    • Italy: 3
    • Russia: 2
    • Spain: 2
    • Belgium: 1
    • Nepal: 1
    • Sri Lanka: 1
    • Sweden: 1
    • Cambodia: 1
    • Finland: 1
    • Egypt: 1

    In other news, UK passengers aboard the ‘Diamond Princess’ will be evacuated by their government on Friday. The chartered evacuation flights (following the standard template) will land at Boscombe Down airbase in Wiltshire. Elsewhere in the anglosphere, Australia has extended its travel ban for arrivals from China into the fourth week. It will last until Feb. 29, the Guardian reported.

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    Hours after Japanese press reports claimed that two passengers who contracted COVID-19 aboard the ‘Diamond Princess’ died yesterday – news that was later confirmed by Japanese authorities – South Korea reported its first fatality while one of its major cities asked citizens to stay inside and avoid venturing outdoors, according to the Washington Post.

    According to Japanese government officials, both of the virus-related fatalities were Japanese citizens in their 80s who had been moved off the ship more than a week ago for treatment in a Japanese hospital, though the government has so far declined to release names.

    The latest reports Thursday morning confirmed another 13 cases aboard the DP bringing the total to 634. The odds that individuals being released from the 2-week quarantine on Thursday and Friday might have contracted the virus, but have yet to show symptoms, remains high. The death in South Korea raised the death toll ex-China to 10.

    The speed is hardly a surprise for those who have been paying attention to all of the new research, instead of dismissing it for being ‘alarmist’ and ‘not peer-reviewed’.

    Finally, earlier this week, researchers published the largest study yet of the outbreak, which confirmed that COVID-19 is more contagious than SARS and MERS, leaving it on par with seasonal influenza.

    Still, experts insist that the virus’s fatality rate is probably around 2%, meaning that it’s less deadly than SARS, but the wider spread will result in more deaths, CNN reports.

    “My sense and the sense of many of my colleagues, is that the ultimate case fatality rate … is less than 2%,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN’s Jim Sciutto on “New Day” Tuesday. “What is likely not getting counted is a large number of people who are either asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic, so the denominator of your equation is likely much much larger.”

    “So I would think at tops it’s 2% and it likely will go down when all the counting gets done to 1% or less. That’s still considerable if you look at the possibility that you’re dealing with a global pandemic,” he added.

    Even as President Xi does everything in his power to present an image of success to the Chinese people – in his speeches, he claims the Chinese government’s strict quarantines have been an unmitigated success – global experts, including the WHO, have warned that the disease will continue to spread globally and that the end of this crisis is still far from certain.

    And as new confirmed cases dropped substantially on Wednesday in Hubei, everywhere else, the rate of new infections is accelerating.

    In South Korea, the number of cases soared by almost two-thirds to 104 overnight, further emphasizing our observation that the number of cases ex-China has started to accelerate notably as the curve starts to resemble an exponential progression.

    One WHO health expert told a Japanese TV station on Thursday that the virus is “a moving target” making it difficult to collect information and treat people: “Nobody has ever had to deal with this situation before, this is a new virus on a ship with 4,000 people, there are no guidelines for that.” He added that he suspects there was a substantial amount of transmission before it arrived in Yokohama, adding that it was “not possible” to isolate everybody individually.

    The WHO senior epidemiologist was responding to claims made by another expert in infectious disease that the Japanese had failed to observe proper quarantine protocols.

    Back in Korea, the mayor of Daegu, a city of 2.5 million where 10 South Koreans contracted the disease from a church service, asked residents to stay indoors. Iran also reported two infected that then died.

    Experts suspect that one woman in Daegu may have infected at least 40 others by going to her Christian church, according to Yonhap. The alleged ‘superspreader’ is the reason for the huge jump in new cases on Thursday. Experts say the city is now facing an “unprecedented crisis” following the spike in cases.

    “We are in an unprecedented crisis,” Daegu’s mayor, Kwon Young-jin, told the press.

    Cases are also surging in Singapore, where Deutsche Bank confirmed that an employee in its Singapore office had contracted the virus.

    Adding to its woes, Iran reported three new cases on Thursday a day after it confirmed two virus-related deaths in the city of Qom.

    Warnings about the virus’s economic blowback are increasing, as Goldman said Thursday that stocks aren’t completely pricing in the risks from the virus.

    Meanwhile, Air France-KLM, Qantas, and the global container shipping giant Maersk became the latest companies to warn about the financial impact of the continued spread of the coronavirus.

    As President Xi balances the risks to tens of thousands of lives on one hand and keeping his promise to double the size of China’s economy by 2020 on the other, it seems the leadership in Beijing are beginning to believe their own propaganda. Premier Li Keqiang, Xi’s No. 2 who is in charge of the committee managing the crisis, local governments should seek to increase the rate of resumed production and work, according to China Central Television.

    Put another way: Come on in, the water’s fine, and if you get the virus and die, we’ll cremate your body and tell your family you died of “pneumonia.”

    China’s smartphone shipment declined 50%-60% during the 2020 Spring Festival holidays due to the coronavirus outbreak. About 60 million smartphones remain unsold.

    Chinese officials are pulling out all the fiscal and monetary steps to protect China’s damaged economy, and on Thursday local officials from Hubei announced a new lending scheme – a “special financing vehicle” – worth 50 billion yuan (more than $7 billion) to stabilize financing for local companies.

    To be sure, the drop in new cases last night was largely caused by health officials reversing their decision to include “clinically diagnosed” patients – i.e. those who haven’t yet tested positive due to a shortage of effective tests – in the case totals.

    The spate of deaths rattled investors overnight, and US equity futures are pointing to a lower open on Thursday, and a rush of risk-off trading in Asia has pushed the BBG dollar index to a 4-month high following the latest piece of evidence that the coronavirus isn’t simply “another flu”.

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      1. False Flag?
        ChiCom BioWeapon test?
        Or a cover for ChiCom internal Purge?

        Communism-Globalism-NWO Communism/Collectivism
        ALL are systems of Tyranny-Slavery-Genocide.

        But you BreadLine Bernie- Obamanista’s- Clintonista’s are too damn lazy to open up a History book. Or maybe you do know but just don’t care? Maybe you can’t read because of “modern” public schools that train children to be following globalist enviro commies, instead of teaching reading-writing-critical thinking?
        ** Democrats support the Industrial killing of babies in their mothers wombs. They murder babies and call it “choice” / “womans rights”. Planned Parenthood industrial baby killing mills, sells murdered babie’s body parts for profit. Read that again, FACT. This is allowed in the “changed” Amerikka.
        ** Communism is the Industrial killing of human beings War/Famine/GENOCIDE. Read history.

        * The ChinaVirus is the perfect cover for a PURGE/Genocide of people the ChiComs want gone. Honk Kong protestors and dissidents removed DEAD, due to “ChinaVirus”.
        * ChinaVirus also perfect cover story to get westerners to voluntarily leave China.

        I have not seen ONE “news” outlet state the obvious.
        You may be witnessing, 4th Generation Warfare on protestors, free thinkers, and targeted populations.
        Not just a flu. Not just a ChiCom BioWeapon test.

        ChinaVirus also could be a cover for economic collapse.
        Are the empty football stadiums and Boing grounding of planes also a part of a coverup in USSA?
        If patriots are dead or locked up then they don’t go to football games.

        Someone should be asking questions. Why isn’t any so called “news” outlets looking deeper past the ChiCom narrative?

        KNOW YOUR ENEMY:
        * Problem-Reaction-Solution
        * “Never let a crisis go to waste”–Hillary Clinton, and many others before her statement.

        If you people don’t wake up soon. You will never wake up again. Hell is upon us all.
        You will never have it as good as you do right now. Enjoy it while you can. Because Hell is on your doorstep.

        Plague-War-Famine-Economic Collapse-Murderous Tyrants bringing out incinerator ovens to dispose of dissidents purged. Phase one: Social credit score was used to target.
        Phase two: ChinaVirus ChiCom bioweapon as a cover.
        Phase three: Ovens for humans. Genocide.

        Google-YouTube-FaceBook collecting data for same scenario for US or a global scale? TechTyrants don’t like useless eaters.

      2. The decision has been taken to take the population death hit and get people back to work. The math has been done, and if it takes out 10% of the population, then so be it. Basically, the death rate will be akin to the numbers killed by the yearly flu outbreaks plus the numbers killed in accidents etc. Not the end of the world.

        As for the virus, it favours Asian men and Asian men are EVERYWHERE. So it will spread around the world, sweeping through China Towns.

        Think of it like the HIV virus. It predominately impacted gay men and blacks. And it still mostly impacts those groups.

        Human beings have an amazing capacity to stick around. After the great plagues people got back to screwing and the population grew again. One of the problems of our time is modern healthcare and science has allowed some seriously ill and weak people to survive on drugs. Just two decades ago most would have died young. What we need to do is use gene science to make sure nobody is born with these hereditary diseases and disabilities. The medical savings would be extraordinary and we would have a healthier and more beautiful population.

      3. Nine infected in Iran and nine dead.

        I think Iran has a magic bullet cure that insures no one else will contract the virus from the infected… My guess it’s 9mm or similar.

        I’ll bet Iran has instituted a Zombie protocol for dealing with the Coronavirus. If Iran has done this, as soon as word gets out, no one will seek medical care. They will choose self or family care at home, over death by an Iranian government bullet. This will insure more are infected and will speed the spread.

        This disease will quickly find the silly and foolish then the unlucky.

        I’ve recounted this story in comments last summer, but I’ll repeat. My tween nieces were visiting and one came down with viral Pink Eye (conjunctivitis). Since the doctor can’t tell if it’s viral or bacterial they just always prescribe a ten day cours of antibiotic eye drops, but the eye drops are supposed to relieve minor pain which still helps if viral. After five days it spread to the other eye. This is when it was obviously not bacterial, but now we are into another ten days of drops for both eyes.

        I read up on it, the most common form is Adenovirus. This is a nasty virus. It eats hand sanitizer, soap and Clorox wipes for lunch and will still infect you. Touch it and touch your eye and you get pink eye, touch your nose and you get sinusitis (a summer cold) or touch your mouth and get an intestinal infection that can damage organs. I knew I had to wash well after putting in the drops, or handling the bottle, and did religiously. Like thirteen days into doing drops three times a day, while walking to the sink after finishing, I absent mindedly touched my nose, I knew I did it. I washed, washed my face and washed again. Within a couple days I had a summer cold and it clung on for three weeks.

        The lesson, you must learn the skills and practice them until you make no mistake.

        A personal gripe against the CDC and their hand washing recommendation. They suggest washing with soap once for 20 seconds. Having worked with my hands, I can say you can never get that car grease or garden dirt off your hands with just one washing, I don’t care if it’s two minutes of washing. You are much better off with shorter multiple washings with fresh soap, rinse well in between.

        Get into the habit of washing your hands every time you enter your home or at another destination. Wash when you get back from the store and again after the car is unpacked. Wipe down the steering wheel, shifter, light and signal controls every time you get in the car.

        This pandemic is a bit like heroin, every decade or two a new generation comes along who have no clue how easily heroin can kill people, and it becomes a fad. This continues until just about everyone has a friend, relative or acquaintance whom heroin has killed. Then it falls out of favor and people avoid it.
        Is Coronavirus the new heroin that no one has any experience with. Will it take someone in literally every family to die before Americans take it seriously?

        There was a video on Natural News showing people in China dead in the streets, dead in body bags piled like cordwood, women fighting in stores over the last few bags of rice, open crime in the streets, police disappearing potentially infected people, even some people purposely trying to spread the disease. It was frightening.

        Pray for the best, plan for the worst my friends.

      4. Hi,

        I wanted to share some very important news that has been spreading around the internet concerning our future well being.

        We are approaching a future of a one-world cashless society in which they will mandate us to have an RFID microchip implanted in our body. This chip will contain all our personal information and we will lose much more of our privacy because of the tracking capabilities.

        More importantly, did you know that this was all prophesied almost 2000 years ago by a man named Jesus? Don’t believe me? Keep reading…This may be the most important thing you will ever read.

        “He (the false prophet) causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

        Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666” (Revelation 13:16-18).

        Revelation 13:16-18 is speaking of the end times, and this could only be speaking of a cashless money society, which we have yet to see, but are heading towards. Why? Because we could still buy or sell without receiving the mark among one another if physical money was still currency. It logically deduces itself to this reason.

        This mark could not be spiritual, because the word references two different physical locations stating one “OR” the other.

        This is where it really starts to come together. It is shocking how accurate the Bible is concerning this RFID microchip. These are notes from a man named Carl Sanders who worked with a team of engineers to help develop this RFID microchip in the 90’s.

        “Carl Sanders sat in seventeen New World Order meetings with heads-of-state officials such as Henry Kissinger and Bob Gates of the C.I.A. to discuss plans on how to bring about this one-world system. The government commissioned Carl Sanders to design a microchip for identifying and controlling the peoples of the world—a microchip that could be inserted under the skin with a hypodermic needle (a quick, convenient method that would be gradually accepted by society).

        Carl Sanders, with a team of engineers behind him, with U.S. grant monies supplied by tax dollars, took on this project and designed a microchip that is powered by a lithium battery, rechargeable through the temperature changes in our skin. Without the knowledge of the Bible (Brother Sanders was not a Christian at the time), these engineers spent one-and-a-half-million dollars doing research on the best and most convenient place to have the microchip inserted.

        Guess what? These researchers found that the forehead and the back of the hand (the two places Revelation says the mark will go) are not just the most convenient places, but are also the only viable places for rapid, consistent temperature changes in the skin to recharge the lithium battery. The microchip is approximately seven millimeters in length, .75 millimeters in diameter, about the size of a grain of rice. It is capable of storing pages upon pages of information about you. All your general history, work history, crime record, health history, and financial data can be stored on this chip.

        Brother Sanders believes that this microchip, which he regretfully helped design, is the “mark” spoken about in Revelation 13:16–18. The original Greek word for “mark” is “charagma,” which means a “scratch or etching.” It is also interesting to note that the number 666 is actually a word in the original Greek. The word is “chi xi stigma,” with the last part, “stigma,” also meaning “to stick or prick.” Carl believes this is referring to a hypodermic needle when they poke into the skin to inject the microchip.”

        Mr. Sanders asked a doctor what would happen if the lithium contained within the RFID microchip leaked into the body. The doctor replied by saying a terrible sore would appear in that location. This is what the book of Revelation says:

        “And the first(Angel) went, and poured out his vial on the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore on the men which had the mark of the beast, and on them which worshipped his image” (Revelation 16:2).

        The Bible tells us we cannot buy or sell without the mark of the beast, or the number of its name. This number is identified as 666. The Bible tells us to calculate the number 666. How do we calculate 666?

        This is where it gets really interesting. Calculating the number 666 has been long debated throughout the centuries, but has now been revealed in these last days by God. What I will show you confirms itself with the Bible the true meaning to calculate 666.

        Throughout the Bible, God uses the number 3 as confirmation of things. Here are a few examples:

        “For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one” (1 John 5:7 NKJV).

        “and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:4 NKJV).

        “…Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!” (Revelation 4:8 NKJV).

        Now what is interesting is the the mark of the beast is described in detail in three separate verses (Revelation 13:16,17,18), and each verse lists three different examples of the given topic. The last three being the number 6 being used three times in a row. This is a key point to unlocking how to calculate the number 666.

        What does it mean to count? It means to add up. So how could we add up 666? Remember my previous point about God confirming in threes. So logically, what would be the best way to count the number 666? To count it equally in threes based off the number. We cannot count it equally as 600+60+6, this would also bring us back to the start. We cannot count it as 600+600+600, or 60+60+60, because there are no zeroes in between or at the end of 666. The only logical option is 6+6+6=18. What is interesting is that the verse that reveals for us to count the number itself is verse 18, being the third verse out of three verses that describe the mark of the beast. What is 18 divided by 3? 6. So 3×6=18, or 6+6+6=18.

        Another interesting point is the only two other combinations (making a total of three possible combinations) for placing a “+” symbol in between the 6’s are 66+6=72, and 6+66=72. Add both 72’s together and you get 144. Why the number 144 is interesting is because the verse following Revelation 13:18 is the first time in the Bible where the 144,000 are being described in detail:

        “Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s name written on their foreheads…” (Revelation 14:1).

        Now if you add up all three numbers by counting 666 by moving the “+” symbol around in all three possible combinations, it would be 72+72+18=162. What is interesting about the number 162, is, if you divide 144,000 by 162, you get 888. The name of Jesus in Greek gematria adds up to 888. The New Testament was orignally written in Greek. Revelation 14:1 not only mentions the 144,000, but also the Lamb who is Jesus.

        Now what is interesting about the number for Jesus, 888, is that if you apply this same formula, you get 8+8+8=24. Why the number 24? Revelation chapter 4 tells us there are 24 elders seated around the throne of God. This is the same throne where Jesus sits:

        “Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne. And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads” (Revelation 4:2-4).

        Now if you take 8+8+8=24, and 8+88=96, and 88+8=96, you get 24+96+96=216. Take 144,000 divided by 216 and you get 666. Remember that this was the same exact formula to get the number 162 out of counting 666 that brought about the number 888 when dividing 144,000 by 162. It is perpetual.

        With using the same formula of counting by adding the “+” symbol in between the numbers, why do all these numbers relate in such a way?

        Another interesting point to note is that if you add up all the numbers from 1 to 36, it totals 666. The number 36, as in three sixes? Could this be a hint that we should add up three sixes instead of perceiving the number as six-hundred sixty six?

        So what could this mean? Well we know in this world we are identified by numbers in various forms. From our birth certificate to social security, as well as our drivers license, being identified based on a system of ruler ship. So it is possible that this RFID microchip will contain a new identification that has a total of 18 characters.

        Could this be the name of the beast, the number of its name? The one-world beast system that is identified by 18 characters? This would fit scripture that speaks of a mark that we must have to buy or sell in our right hand or forehead, and that it also contains the number of the beast, during a future cashless money society.

        Go to: http://voice-truth.com to see all the proof!

        The Bible warns us in the end times that a false prophet will rise up doing miracles to deceive many to receive this mark:

        “Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image” (Revelation 19:20).

        No matter the cost, DO NOT TAKE IT!

        “Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name” (Revelation 14:9-11).

        We are living in very prophetic times with major Biblical prophecies being fulfilled. When Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as capital of Israel in December of 2017, this was a big step to bring about the Third Temple prophesied in the Bible.

        The Bible tells us that the Antichrist will seat himself in this temple:

        “…and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God” (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4).

        In the Islamic religion, they have man called the Mahdi, known as their messiah who they are waiting to appear. There are many testimonies from people online who believe this man will be Barack Obama who is to be the biblical Antichrist. I myself have had strange dreams about him. He came on stage claiming to be a Christian with no affiliation to the Muslim faith, but was later revealed by his own family members that he indeed is a devout Muslim.

        His real name is said to be Barry Soetoro, and he had his name changed to Barack Obama. But why?

        Jesus says, “And He said to them, ‘I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven'” (Luke 10:18).

        In Hebrew, the word Barack means “lightning”, and the use of Bama (Strongs Hebrew word 1116) is used to refer to the “heights” of heaven.

        The day following the election of Barack Obama (11/04/08), the winning pick 3 lotto numbers in Illinois (Obama’s home state) for 11/5/08 were 666.

        Obama was a U.S. senator for Illinois, and his zip code was 60606.

        Regardless, whoever seats himself in that Third Temple in Jerusalem declaring himself to be God IS THE ANTICHRIST. DO NOT BE DECEIVED.

        Why do we need Jesus?

        “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).

        “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23).

        Our good works cannot save us. If we step before a judge, being guilty of a crime, the judge will not judge us by the good that we have done, but rather the crimes we have committed. If we as fallen humanity, created in God’s image, pose this type of justice, how much more a perfect, righteous, and Holy God?

        God has brought down His moral law’s through the 10 commandments given to Moses at Mt. Siani. These laws were not given so we may be justified, but so that we may see the need for a savior. They are the mirror of God’s character of what He has put in each and every one of us, with our conscious bearing witness that we know that it is wrong to steal, lie, dishonor our parents, and so forth.

        We can try and follow the moral laws of the 10 commandments, but we will never catch up to them to be justified before a Holy God. That same word of the law given to Moses became flesh over 2000 years ago in the body of Jesus Christ. He came to be our justification by fulfilling the law, living a sinless perfect life that only God could fulfill.

        The gap between us and the law can never be reconciled by our own merit, but the arm of Jesus is stretched out by the grace and mercy of God. And if we are to grab on, through faith in Him, He will pull us up being the one to justify us. As in the court of law, if someone steps in and pays your fine, even though you are guilty, the judge can do what is legal and just and let you go free. This is what Jesus did almost 2000 years ago on the cross. It was a legal transaction being fulfilled in the spiritual realm by the shedding of His blood, with His last words being, “…It is finished!…” (John 19:30).

        Now why did Jesus have to die for us?

        Because God is Holy and just, the wrath that we deserve could not go unnoticed. Through the perfect righteousness and justice of God’s character, it must be dealt with, it must be quenched and satisfied.

        For God has no pleasure in the death of the wicked (Ezekiel 18:23). This is why in Isaiah chapter 53, where it speaks of the coming Messiah and His soul being a sacrifice for our sins, why it says it pleased God to crush His only begotten Son.

        This is because the wrath that we deserve was justified by being poured out upon His Son. If that wrath was poured out on us, we would all die and go to hell. God created a way of escape by pouring it out on His Son who’s soul could not be left in Hades, but was raised and seated at the right hand of God in power.

        So now when we put on the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 13:14), God no longer see’s the person who deserves His wrath, but rather the glorious image of His perfect Son dwelling in us, justifying us as if we received the wrath we deserve, making a way of escape from the curse of death.

        Now what we must do is repent and trust in the savior, confessing and forsaking our sins. This is not just a head knowledge of believing in Jesus, but rather receiving His words, taking them to heart. Where we no longer live to practice sin, but rather turn from our sins and practice righteousness:

        “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Corinthians 6:9-11).

        By doing so we may become transformed into the image of God through faith in His Son Christ Jesus Who is willing to give the Holy Spirit to those who ask of Him:

        “Most assuredly, I (Jesus) say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ (John 3:5-7).

        “But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His” (Romans 8:9).

        What are you waiting for? Our Father in heaven only wants the best for us, restoring everything this world has stolen from us. This is what it means to be “holy”. To be made whole.

        He is waiting to hear from you. That God given tongue to speak language, through faith, pray to Him, ask Him to forgive you by confessing your sins and be willing to forsake them; that you accept the sacrifice of His Son Jesus on the cross, and that you want His Holy Spirit living inside you transforming you into a child of God.

        Jesus says, “but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him (the Holy Spirit) will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

        Did you know that Jesus spoke more about hell than anyone else, even more than He spoke about heaven?! For this very reason He came to die for us, to rescue us from this place that we deserve.

        He describes hell as a real place where,

        “Their worm does not die
        And the fire is not quenched” (Mark 9:44).

        And where,

        “There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth…” (Luke 13:28).

        Jesus tells us who to fear,

        “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28).

        “Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.’

        Then He who sat on the throne said, ‘Behold, I make all things new.’ And He said to me, ‘Write, for these words are true and faithful.’

        And He said to me, ‘It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.'” (Revelation 21:1-8).

        Out of all the world religions, how can we be sure the Bible got it right? The scientific data has established and continues to support that the universe once had a beginning in which space, time and matter were created. Many know this as the big bang.

        “The non-biblical religions tell us that god or god’s create within space and time that eternally exist. The Bible stands alone and says that time and space don’t exist until God creates the universe.” – Astronomer (Phd) Hugh Ross

        The Bible not only got it right that space, time and matter all came into existence at the beginning of the universe, it also states in 7 different places that the universe is expanding thousands of years before scientists discovered these things.

        Did you know that the real Noah’s Ark was discovered in the location where the Bible told us it would be, as well as having the correct dimensions? As well as proof for the destruction of Sodom Gomorrah and the Exodus account of the Red Sea crossing?

        The Bible is the most translated and read book in the history of the world, full of predictive prophecies, matching what we find in the book of nature. Wouldn’t you expect God’s word to be so?

        This information and more can all be found here: http://voice-truth.com

        God loves you!

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