Thursday, August 2, 2012

UP UPON A ROCK

SEVEN WORST KILLER PLAGUES IN HISTORY:

   1.  SMALLPOX:  killed more than 300 million people in the 20th century alone.
   2.  SPANISH FLU:  (1918-1919)  killed 50 to 100 million people worldwide in less than two years,
   3.  BLACK DEATH:  (1340-1771)  killed 75 million people worldwide.
   4.  MALARIA:  (1600-Today)  kills about 2 million people per year.
   5.  AIDS:  (1981-Today) has killed 25 million people worldwide.
   6.  CHOLERA:  (1817-Today)  8 pandemics; hundreds of thousands killed worldwide.
   7.  TYPHUS:  (430 B.C.?-Today) killed 3 million people between 1918 and 1922 alone, and most of Napoleon's soldiers in Russia.

NEW MYSTERY DISEASES IN 2012:

   1.  In Uganda, a "nodding disease" has killed 100 and infected another 2000.  There has also been an outbreak of ebola in Uganda and this disease could become a contender for worst plagues ever.
   2.  In India and Iran, a new deadlier form of tuberculosis has struck those nations and is totally drug resistant; killing 1000 people a day in India.
   3.  In the Philippines, people are sick and dying from leptospirosis in flooded areas; disease is spread from infected rats, dogs, cats, and other animals.
   4.  In Vietnam, a mystery disease is killing children and there is no known cure for the disease.
   5.  In Cambodia, a mystery disease is killing children and there is no known cure for the disease.
   6.  Chagas, a disease spread by reduviid bugs in South America, transmitted to the United States through immigration and blood transfusions, has produced 300,000 cases in the United States.  There is no known cure for chagas, which has also been called the new HIV/AIDS of the Americas.

   Elsewhere, sudden outbreaks of horrifying diseases are popping up all the time.  Nearly 7 million bats have died from white-nose syndrome over the past five years; eastern rattlesnakes are dying painful deaths from a mysterious new fungal disease.
   Mexico has declared a national animal health emergency because of an aggressive bird flu epidemic that has infected 1.7 million poultry.

 Jesus said in the gospel of Luke:
      Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: 
     And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. 
      And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
      Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:  for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

   So then, what shall we say to these events as we are witnesses to a tital wave of pestilences and plagues that are sweeping across the face of the earth? 
   From what we are seeing, we should know and believe that this is only the beginning of pain and great sorrow, for the Lord has spoken.
   Run to Him!  For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion:  in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.  (Psalm 27: 5)

  
      
  
  
  

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