Demetrics and Pauline Roscoe

UK experts are ‘highly confident’ that a new coronavirus variant is more contagious England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said Saturday the new strain “can spread more quickly” and was responsible for 60% of new infections in London.

Stop what you are doing and come to faith in Christ, right now. The Lord will give you plans later. Come now, before you can’t see the light through the darkness.

New Covid strain 70% more transmissible, Britain cancels Christmas, imposes stricter curbs

On Saturday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed tighter coronavirus curbs on millions of people in England and largely reversed plans to ease restrictions over Christmas, as the country battles a new more infectious strain of the virus.

The Lord controls who sees the Darkness and who sees the LIGHT out of Darkness.

Psalms 25:12-14
(Complete Jewish Bible)

¹²  Who is the person who fears ADONAI?
He will teach him the way to choose.
¹³  He will remain prosperous,
and his descendants will inherit the land.
¹⁴  ADONAI relates intimately with those who fear him;
he makes them know his covenant.

Exodus 10:22-23
(NKJV)
So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. ²³ They did not see one another; nor did anyone rise from his place for three days. But all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

Let Your LIGHT So Shine 2

Editor; Val Gunter

ADONAI controls the Light and the darkness. Elohim regulates the truth and hides knowledge from the arrogant. Yahweh hides the deep sayings from the egotistic and gives revelations to the broken.

Let your light shine before men, which is Yeshua’s most effective way of teaching or sharing ones faith. When we bless our enemies and do good unto those who would do harm onto us, these acts of righteousness are  “צְדָקָה, Tzedaqah” the Hebrew verb for preforming an act of kindness.

“צְדָקָה, Tzedaqah” is the equivalent to the Day Of Atonement. Yom =Day Kippur is Atone (Hebrew: יוֹם כִּפּוּר or יום הכיפורים)

As the Holy Lamb of God came to fight a battle, all Heaven knew He wouldn’t win. The anguished, tormented Lamb of GOD fighting the Dragon of The Book of Daniel didn’t make sense, but ADONIA, the GOD of Israel, has the power to open the eyes of the teachable. The Lamb of GOD had no offensive weapons, nor did He have defensive armor.

Matthew 8:17
(CJB 2016)
¹⁷  This was done to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet Yesha‘yahu,
“He himself took our weaknesses and bore our diseases.”

The Lamb of God was victorious because He was obedient to The Law. Jesus was the only soul, who came to take on the rigorous details of the Torah, never failing in any of them.

While the Western believers struggle with the Hebraic culture and the Jewish mindset, the Messiah became Torah. Now, the believing world could watch Yeshua, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and become submitted to the FATHER by observing the SON. When we find the love of truth, the cross of Christ makes more sense. It’s a love walk and not a formula, but love causes you to do things and you accomplish things because of the love factor.

John 14:15-21
(CJB)
¹⁵ “If you love me, you will keep my commands; ¹⁶ and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another comforting Counselor like me, the Spirit of Truth, to be with you forever. ¹⁷ The world cannot receive him, because it neither sees nor knows him. You know him, because he is staying with you and will be united with you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you orphans—I am coming to you. ¹⁹ In just a little while, the world will no longer see me; but you will see me. Because I live, you too will live. ²⁰ When that day comes, you will know that I am united with my Father, and you with me, and I with you. ²¹ Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me, and the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”

Judas was in the same room with Christ and couldn’t received words of the Kingdom, because the HEAVENLY FATHER knows an open heart, rather than one which is all ready full.

John 14:22-26
(AMP)
²² Judas, not Iscariot, asked Him, Lord, how is it that You will reveal Yourself [make Yourself real] to us and not to the world?
²³ Jesus answered, If a person [really] loves Me, he will keep My word [obey My teaching]; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home (abode, special dwelling place) with him.
²⁴ Anyone who does not [really] love Me does not observe and obey My teaching. And the teaching which you hear and heed is not Mine, but [comes] from the Father Who sent Me.
²⁵ I have told you these things while I am still with you.
²⁶ But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you.

These new doctrines say you can’t go to Heaven by obeying the truth (the Word of GOD). You enter Heaven by faith. Unfortunately, the new Testament word for faith means to obey what the word said; it has nothing to do with mental powers. Such doctrines appeared in the ’70s. “Faith is the belief of a doctrinal statement or written trusted to be the WORD of GOD of affirming one’s trust. The Complete Jewish Bible frequently replaces the word “faith” with Trust.

“Faith” 4102. πίστις pístis; gen. písteōs, fem. noun from peíthō (G3982), to win over, persuade. Faith. Subjectively meaning firm persuasion, conviction, belief in the truth, veracity, reality, or faithfulness (though rare).

John 14:13-17
(AMP)
¹³ And I will do [I Myself will grant] whatever you ask in My Name [as presenting all that I AM], so that the Father may be glorified and extolled in (through) the Son.
¹⁴ [Yes] I will grant [I, Myself will do for you] whatever you shall ask in My Name [as presenting all that I AM].
¹⁵ If you [really] love Me, you will keep (obey) My commands.
¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever—
¹⁷ The Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him. But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you [constantly] and will be in you.

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⁸  he humbled himself still more by becoming obedient even to death —
death on a stake as a criminal!
⁹  Therefore God raised him to the highest place and gave him the name above every name;
¹⁰  that in honor of the name given Yeshua, every knee will bow —
in heaven, on earth and under the earth —
¹¹  and every tongue will acknowledge that Yeshua the Messiah is ADONAI —
to the glory of God the Father.
¹²  So, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed when I was with you, it is even more important that you obey now when I am away from you: keep working out your deliverance with fear and trembling, ¹³  for God is the one working among you both the willing and the working for what pleases him.

Philippians 2:11-16
(AMP)
¹¹ And every tongue [frankly and openly] confess and acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
¹² Therefore, my dear ones, as you have always obeyed [my suggestions], so now, not only [with the enthusiasm you would show] in my presence but much more because I am absent, work out (cultivate, carry out to the goal, and fully complete) your own salvation with reverence and awe and trembling (self-distrust, with serious caution, tenderness of conscience, watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Christ).
¹³ [Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight.
¹⁴ Do all things without grumbling and faultfinding and complaining [against God] and questioning and doubting [among yourselves],
¹⁵ That you may show yourselves to be blameless and guileless, innocent and uncontaminated, children of God without blemish (faultless, unrebukable) in the midst of a crooked and wicked generation [spiritually perverted and perverse], among whom you are seen as bright lights (stars or beacons shining out clearly) in the [dark] world,
¹⁶ Holding out [to it] and offering [to all men] the Word of Life, so that in the day of Christ I may have something of which exultantly to rejoice and glory in that I did not run my race in vain or spend my labor to no purpose.

WHAT DOES THE BIBLE TEACH ABOUT PESTILENCE,
PLAGUES AND GLOBAL PANDEMICS?
Joel C. Rosenberg – Johua Fondation
Founder and Chairman of The Joshua Fund1
March 2020
While the term “pandemic” is a modern term and never used in the Scriptures, the Bible
does use ancient Hebrew and Greek words for pestilence and plagues at least 127 times.
• The Hebrew word “dever” (רֶ בֶ דּ – (which is commonly translated in English versions of the Bible as “pestilence” or “plague” – is used 49 times in the Hebrew
Scriptures (Tanakh / Old Testament).
• The Hebrew word “nega” (עַגֶנ – (which is mostly (though not always) translated in English versions of the Bible as “plague” – is used 78 times in Hebrew Scriptures (Tanakh / Old Testament). It is specifically translated into the English word “plague” 65 times in the King James Version (KJV) of the Old Testament.
• The Hebrew word “Makkah” (הָכַּ מ – (which is sometimes (though not always) translated in English versions of the Bible as “plague” – is used 48 times in the Hebrew Scriptures (Tanakh / Old Testament). It is specifically translated into the
English word “plague” 11 times in the King James Version of the Old Testament.
• The Greek word “plege” (πληγή) – which is often (though not always) translated in English versions of the Bible as “plague” – is used 21 times in the Greek New
Testament. It is specifically translated into the English word “plague” 12 times in the King James Version.
• The Greek word “loimos” (λοιμός) is used 3 times in the Greek New Testament. It
is specifically used twice as the English word “pestilences” in the King James Version.
While not every use of the words, pestilence and plagues, in the Bible refers to a terrible,
infectious disease, many of the references do.

FACTSHEET-BibleAndPandemics_BRANDED.pdf (joshuafund.com)

The Plague

Exodus 10:21-28
(NKJV)
The Ninth Plague: Darkness
²¹ Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, darkness which may even be felt.” ²² So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. ²³ They did not see one another; nor did anyone rise from his place for three days. But all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
²⁴ Then Pharaoh called to Moses and said, “Go, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be kept back. Let your little ones also go with you.”
²⁵ But Moses said, “You must also give us sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. ²⁶ Our livestock also shall go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind. For we must take some of them to serve the LORD our God, and even we do not know with what we must serve the LORD until we arrive there.”
²⁷ But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go. ²⁸ Then Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me! Take heed to yourself and see my face no more! For in the day you see my face you shall die!”

What does this new coronavirus strain mean for you?

By Holly Yan, CNN

Updated 6:47 PM ET, Tue December 22, 2020

(CNN) A new strain of coronavirus first detected in the UK has prompted dozens of travel bans and widespread concern about what this means for the world. While scientists dig deeper, here’s what this new strain means for you:

Why is this strain important?

The new variant has a series of mutations, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Based on these mutations, this variant strain has been predicted to potentially be more rapidly transmissible than other circulating strains of SARS-CoV-2″ — the scientific name for the novel coronavirus, the CDC said.

UK experts are ‘highly confident’ that a new coronavirus variant is more contagious England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said Saturday the new strain “can spread more quickly” and was responsible for 60% of new infections in London.

On Monday, an epidemiologist from the World Health Organization said, “We are hearing that it could spread up to 70% faster.” “What they’re seeing is that the reproduction number — so this is the number of individuals that an infected person transmits to — has increased from 1.1 to 1.5,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead for Covid-19.” I just want to put into context this up-to-70% increase.” Van Kerkhove said it’s not yet clear whether that increase “is associated with the variant itself,” or if it’s due to human behavior. So far, “there is no evidence that this variant causes more severe illness or increased risk of death,” the CDC said Tuesday. But a strain that spreads faster could lead to more infections, which in turn might lead to more hospitalizations and deaths.

Where is this strain now?

Outside the UK, this strain has been detected in countries such as Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy and Australia. A similar but separate variant also has been identified in South Africa. As of Tuesday, the strain “has not been identified through sequencing efforts in the United States, although viruses have only been sequenced from about 51,000 of the 17 million US cases,” the CDC said.

“Given the small fraction of US infections that have been sequenced, the variant could already be in the United States without having been detected.” Epidemiologist Dr. Celine Gounder said she thinks this strain is already in the US because it’s been circulating in the UK for months before this recent surge. Public Health England said backward tracing (using genetic evidence) suggests the strain first emerged in England in September. It then circulated in very low levels until mid-November. “Because this virus has been circulating for some period of time in the UK already, the cat’s out of the bag,” Gounder said. “It has spread elsewhere, including the United States.”

Who’s getting infected the most with this strain?

“Most COVID-19 cases from whom this variant has been identified have occurred in people under 60 years of age,” the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

That can be problematic because “when people are asymptomatic, they usually are under age 60,” CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen said.” So that may be why this is spreading so quickly — or part of the reason — is that many of these people aren’t showing symptoms, so they’re running around and spreading it.” Of course, people can be contagious for days before they get symptoms. And some young people suffer long-term effects from Covid-19, too. While severe illness from Covid-19 is relatively rare in children, “there is a hint is that [the new strain] has a higher propensity to infect children,” said scientist Neil Ferguson, a member of the UK’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG),But he said more data is needed.

How do I protect myself from this new strain?

This new strain means “we have to work a little bit harder about preventing the spread,” Van Kerkhove said. Gounder agreed. “What we really need to be doing is focusing on the things we know will prevent spread of this new variant — which is the same thing that works against spread of the coronavirus in general,” she said. “That is masks, social distancing.”

Will vaccines work against this new strain?

Both the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and the Moderna vaccine have shown efficacy rates of around 95% in clinical trials. But now many wonder if the vaccines would work on variant strains on the virus — like the one spreading rapidly in the UK.

Pfizer and Moderna said they’re testing their vaccines to see if they work against the UK-based strain. The new strain could mean more people will need to get vaccinated to achieve herd immunity, BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin said Tuesday. “On the topic of herd immunity, there is always the discussion about 60% to 70%,” Sahin said.” But if the virus becomes more efficient in infecting people, we might need even a high vaccination rate to ensure that normal life can continue without interruption.” The novel coronavirus has mutated before, and both vaccines have worked against variations of the virus.

How does this strain impact travel?

At least 24 countries are now banning passenger travel from the UK, including Canada, Russia, Chile, Italy, Iran and Sweden.

So far there are no plans for the US to enact a travel ban against the UK, US Assistant Secretary for Health Adm. Brett Giroir said Monday. British Airways, Delta Airlines and Virgin Atlantic have agreed to require passengers get tested for Covid-19 before boarding planes from the UK to New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. But some health experts say Americans shouldn’t be traveling anyway because new Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths are soaring — and it’s easy to infect loved ones without realizing it. “This is really not the time to be traveling,” Gounder said.

CNN’s Zamira Rahim, Jamie Gumbrecht, Fred Pleitgen and Mary Ilyushina contributed to this report.

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