The Basics of Bible - Herald of Hope
The Basics of Bible - Herald of Hope
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<strong>The</strong> Independent International 12 May 1998 reported grave fears <strong>of</strong> an<br />
Aids epidemic in India:<br />
“India can fairly be described as the Aids capital <strong>of</strong> the world...While<br />
the Aids watchdog, the National Aids Committee (NASCO),<br />
estimated that there were 70,000 HIV cases in the country and 6,000<br />
Aids cases, the independent Indian Health Organisation (IHO)<br />
based in Bombay put the HIV number at 7 million and the fullblown<br />
Aids sufferers at 500,000. <strong>The</strong> head <strong>of</strong> IHO, India’s most<br />
prominent campaigner for Aids awareness, Dr IS Gilada, predicted<br />
that by 2001, in the most optimistic estimate, there will be 20 million<br />
HIV cases in the country and 2 million cases <strong>of</strong> Aids.”<br />
Also, a definite link has been established between “mad cow” disease<br />
and CJD, a fatal brain disease in humans, which turns brain tissue<br />
into jelly, and we now know that other animal diseases are being<br />
transmitted to humans. <strong>The</strong> International Independent 11 August 1998<br />
states that a livestock parasite, Old World Screw-worm, has infested<br />
two thirds <strong>of</strong> Iraq and poses a threat to Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria.<br />
<strong>The</strong> report stated:<br />
“<strong>The</strong> infestation which causes foul-smelling discharges after<br />
attacking wounds, scars and cuts, has already led to 40 deaths ...<br />
George Pumphrey, a biological warfare specialist based in<br />
Germany, said: Iraq is the latest victim in what appears to be a<br />
deliberate introduction <strong>of</strong> the screw-worm as a biological weapon.<br />
In Libya, where an outbreak occurred in 1989, 2,000 animals were<br />
killed. It was exemplarily combated, yet by the following year it<br />
covered 35,000 sq kilometres and killed 12,000 head <strong>of</strong> stock.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> infestation is caused by the larvae <strong>of</strong> the fly cochliomyia<br />
hominivorax. <strong>The</strong> female fly lays about four batches <strong>of</strong> 400 eggs on<br />
the edge <strong>of</strong> a wound, cut, tick bite, castration wound, or new-born's<br />
navel, <strong>of</strong> warm-blooded animals including human beings.<br />
<strong>The</strong> report goes on to say,<br />
“In just 12 hours the larvae hatch and enter the body for feeding.<br />
THEY CAN CONSUME A WHOLE COW IN FIVE TO SEVEN<br />
DAYS!”<br />
Pestilence is one <strong>of</strong> the signs <strong>of</strong> the end <strong>of</strong> the age, and in Zechariah<br />
14:12-15 we are told <strong>of</strong> the plague wherewith God will smite the<br />
nations who come against Jerusalem. It will affect humans and<br />
animals. We read,<br />
“And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the<br />
people that have fought against Jerusalem; <strong>The</strong>ir flesh shall<br />
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Signs <strong>of</strong> the Last Days