The phrase “do not fear” appears in 281 Bible verses. 1 Peter 3:14 says, “And do not be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.” This is a reminder as the entire world is panicking about a new COVID variant–Omicron. Already, international governments are instituting more tyrannical shutdowns, travel bans, and mask mandates.

COVID Czar Dr. Anthony Fauci used the media crisis as an opportunity to push COVID vaccinations: “So this is a clarion call, as far as I’m concerned, of saying let’s put aside all these differences we have and say, if you’re not vaccinated, get vaccinated. If you’re fully vaccinated, get boosted. And get the children vaccinated.”

But, at the same time, he says they probably won’t work.

Fauci, making his rounds on weekend news talk shows, used a lot of dualistic fancy-talk to encourage everyone to get vaccinated while at the same time saying the vaccines are likely to be ineffective against Omicron variants.

On NBC’s Meet the Press, he said, “In other words, the profile of the mutations strongly suggests that it’s going to have an advantage in transmissibility and that it might evade immune protection that you would get, for example, from a monoclonal antibody or from the convalescent serum after a person’s been infected, and possibly even against some of the vaccine-induced antibodies. It’s not necessarily that that’s going to happen, but it’s a strong indication that we really need to be prepared for that.”

In other words, getting the vaccine might make you feel safer, but it wasn’t designed to work against variants.

Fauci also said that those who criticize him, especially Republicans, are liars. On CBS’s Face the Nation, Fauci said, “I’m just going to do my job, and I’m going to be saving lives, and they’re going to be lying…. So it’s easy to criticize, but they’re really criticizing science because I represent science. That’s dangerous…. And if you damage science, you are doing something very detrimental to society long after I leave.”

But Fauci’s “science” dictated the use of remdesivir and ventilators to treat COVID-19. Fauci’s directive of remdesivir treatment was discontinued for Ebola in 2018 because it caused a 50%+ mortality rate, and current FDA and CDC published studies indicate 71-75% adverse events from its use. Ventilator treatment fatality rates were 45% among COVID-19 patients, increasing to 84% in older patients.

So much for Fauci’s “science” and his god complex of saving lives while labeling anyone criticizing him as dangerous liars. That may include Dr. Angelique Coetzee of South Africa, the first doctor who sounded the alarm about Omicron. Coetzee told the UK Telegraph that Omicron patients’ “symptoms were so different and so mild from those I had treated before,” having high pulse rate, fatigue, sore muscles and a slight cough. While it may be admirable that world health authorities are so concerned, their concern is accompanied by heightened increases in civil rights violations across the globe.

2 Timothy 1:7 says, “For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”

Do not fear. Keep your wits about you. Use your Holy Spirit power of discernment. And show the love of Christ to those who have the spirit of fear.

Remdesivir studies documented by the New England Medical Journal: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1910993

A National Library of Medicine January 2021 report of 69 studies involving over 57,000 patients concluded that fatality rates were 45% among COVID-19 patients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation (ventilator treatment). The fatality rate increased to 84% in older patients. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33119402/

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When you consider the extreme commercialism of Black Friday, remember it fondly. It may not survive the future of America. As America’s youth are more accepting of socialism, all that may well change.

Surveys of Americans ages 23-38 indicate that about 36% approve of communism, and 70% of millennials support socialism. Some 60% of Democrats favor socialism. Hispanics, Asian Americans, and African Americans place socialism higher than capitalism. Even a quarter of the Republican demographic favors socialism.

A government paying for health care, tuition, and housing could tax people so excessively that Black Friday could go dark as there may be no money for gifts.

We need look no further than Argentina to see how, in a short time, government took control over the financial and physical lives of every individual in the nation. We also can see just how fast the economy spiraled downward, where people are now starving. Socialism would also restrict the guarantees of free speech and freedom of religion.

In true socialism and communism, government takes the place of God. It is the government that enjoys the fruits and labors of the people who are enslaved to it. This is in great opposition to many parts of the Bible. Solomon, for example, writes in Ecclesiastes 3:13,

“…that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.”

He didn’t say it was the gift of government, as socialism and communism require.

From a Christian worldview, it is Christ’s people, not a centralized government, that must minister to the poor and provide healing, restoration, comfort, and vigilance over Liberty.

The earliest account of American history provided by Mayflower leader William Bradford indicates that the ability to worship freely was the central theme of the Pilgrims. And in that, he writes,

“We are knit together as a body in a most strict and sacred bond and covenant of the Lord, of the violation whereof we make great conscience, and by virtue whereof we hold ourselves straitly tied to all care of each other’s good.”

And they proved this when they were dying, sometimes two or three per day, in their care for one another’s health.

When the Pilgrims were starving while trying to grow food communally, Bradford gave them their own land to till, which turned the colony around. He says,

“The failure of this experiment of communal service, which was tried for several years and by good and honest men, proves the emptiness of the theory of Plato and other ancients, applauded by some of later times—that the taking away of private property, and the possession of it in community, by a commonwealth, would make a state happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser than God…. Community property was found to breed much confusion and discontent and retard much employment, which would have been to the general benefit and comfort.”

Are we to repeat this disastrous example?

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