Chapter Three "Fighting Coming Plaques"

CHAPTER 3

FIGHTING COMING PLAQUES

The reasoning of our minds place limitations on our immune systems.  For what is coming we must learn to transcend this limitation of our mind or become victims of the limited minds of those trapped in a world cut off from God.

Remember the plaques of Egypt.  We call it the Passover.  The blood of a lamb was placed on the door post and the plaque against Egypt passed over those in their household.  A powerful external symbol used to activate the mind of those receiving it.  Was there something in the blood of the lamb?  NO!  Was there anything in the external that if used today would produce the same, getting plaques to pass over our household?  Answer...NO!

I have said this so that I won’t be misunderstood and have someone putting blood on their door post to ward off germs.  We do not live by external signs and symbols but internal realities.  Whatever was given to them then in symbols is not for us now; the physical activity being implied.  So, where am I going with this?  At risk of being misunderstood, which I know some will do.  At risk of being called crazy and being accused of going off the deep end, I must give what has been given to me.  You can judge what I share as from the ramblings of a demented mind, demon possessed or whatever.  Still, I must share this even though there is a side of me that would attempt to stop me, desiring to be well spoken of and liked, thus keeping it to myself.        

This was as far as I got with this article...the above four paragraphs, years ago.  As I sit and type these brief notes up I am wondering what stopped me or distracted me and kept me from continuing on with what I was leading to.  So, I ask now, “Father, what was being shared to me when I hand scratched these notes while at work?”

   

“Body exercise profits little, but godliness is profitable in this life and the life to come.” I Tim. 4:8 (Also read verses before this, I Tim 4:1-7 )  I remember taking off on this verse in light of our immune system.  Just before I set down and started typing these notes, my wife, Irene, and I were in conversation about the immune system.  She always has a negative reaction to the TB test on her job.  So, she had to go and do what the medical system requires and get an X-ray.  Well, it always comes up negative.  No problem.  But many years ago, the first time she reacted negative; a shot was given to her which is the usual procedure for this.  This is a one time thing and is to never be done again.  That shot was to increase the natural immune system again TB.  The negative reaction just shows that at some point in your life you have come in contact with the virus.  It does not mean you have TB. 

Well she just started a new job after 30 years at her old job.  They required a TB test.  You know the story from here.  They never asked her if she ever had this shot.  So, they gave her another shot that caused her X-ray to come out bad.  Needless to say, the doctor should have asked Irene if she ever had this shot before.  Irene had long sense forgotten it.  If asked, they could have checked and found out that she did have it thus they would not have given it again. 

To the point....this caused needless worry and paper work and gave me more desire to want to know just what God was going to share to me about developing our immune system beyond the “LOWER” method of body exercise, meaning, in this case, the shot given above.  I believe this is only allowed of God because of our lack of knowledge of a higher level of protection referred to above as godliness.  We may feel we have made many a breakthroughs in medical science when in truth the breakthroughs may not be to the development of godliness but more dependent upon body exercise or self-effort.  The opening remarks of this chapter were “Warnings” of what may be heading our way, things that the medical field will not be able to handle.  Also I see just those opening remarks forewarning me of this situation with Irene.  Medical accidents do happen; accidental or sometime, in our time, intentional.  If we develop this matter of a HIGHER method, these accidents could be covered and even avoided.   We would gain an immune system that only God could give us and become less dependent on the body exercise of limited medicine of this natural realm. 

Note this, I wrote this many years ago and as I view what is happening in current News, and postings in the various forums on the web, I can see and understand the warning given to me back then to find and develop this idea I just shared of godliness, a method beyond body exercise.

I must place this disclaimer before going on.  I am in no way advocating, as some have mistakenly done, that you refuse medical treatment and step out and, so-called, trust God.  I believe those in the medical procession are there for reasons.  Call it a level where one, in his or her faith, to which they must turn to, until such time a higher level, is truly obtained.  It depends on where you are in your beliefs.  I had suggested above, that when medical sciences CAN NOT come to our aid, or as some are proving today, and are seeking to harm us intentionally, we have better learn to develop methods that reach further then they have. With that in mind, I will share what I have come to see backed by Scriptures.  Read with me the following text in Romans 8:13 in light of what I’ve said so far and I will share more that expands this further and will assist in any coming plaques.  Romans 8:13 “For assuming that you are living habitually under the dominion of the sinful nature, “YOU ARE ON THE WAY TO DYING;” but, assuming that by the Spirit you are habitually putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.” (Wuest Expanded Translation).

Think on this text also in Col. 3:17 “And whatsoever you do in word or DEED, do all in the NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.”

These texts alone reveal a lot that I will be sharing in this book.  If we continue in the flesh/sinful nature by which we were born into this world cut off from God; if we become victims of the iniquity of our parents passed on to generation after generation, an iniquity which was born in Adam & Eve, a view or purpose of life and the way to handle this life cut off from any input from God, we are without a doubt on our way to dying, as testified by the world around us.  If you do not get a hold of what God had done for us through the giving of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, than the “natural” thing will occur, sooner than later.  If we would at least gain some insight as to what scripture is sharing to us, we could at least postpone this matter of death.  If we don’t, again, we are definitely on to a fast road to our demise.  God’s desire is definitely not willing that any perish; He desires to “keep” that which He has committed unto us against that day, that appointment expressed in scripture with death; He desires to sustain us, spirit, soul and body.  It is my hope that what I share with you in this book will at least accomplishes this until such a time you gain deeper insights to postpone death by that which the Lord has given to you and you are ready to embrace.  Let me now continue:

   

Others in forums on the web entered diet and general health advice coming from scriptural and secular sources.  I respect this and will not be entering more of the same.  What I sense is something we need to consider over and above this; call it a higher approach that has always been there, now still available, yet over looked, simply because of advances in the medical field, which at times are over confident in their abilities, to the point that any intervention of God is left out.  Just say to them that you trust God; watch the look on their faces. Many won’t even say this to their doctor, knowing the reaction they would get.  They take offense even.  I know, because I have seen it happen.  I find myself avoiding them and only going as the Lord leads me to them, which isn’t often. 

   

Well, so must with my feelings about medical practitioners.  This thing of “godliness” is a key to what I’d like to share, and I am wondering if I can condense this to the point where I can get across what I’ve come to see?  Godliness isn’t what many of us might think.  We usually think of “behavior”.  Well, it is behavior, yet there is something before the behavior that initiates this behavior.  Puzzling?  Paul expressed it this way, I Tim. 3:16 “and without controversy great is the mystery of godliness;” he then lays it all out in a single breath.  I wished I could do this at this moment; there is so much to this thing of godliness which branches off and covers even our immune system.  Let me see if I can at least head in this direction in this chapter and allow other chapters to build upon it.

   

“Let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus.”  This is where we must start.  Yes, I know, we all have heard this verse thousands of times.  Are we sure?  We all know we can hear something and not really hear it. So, ask yourself, what kind of mind was this mind?  It had to be a very powerful mind for sure, it raised him from the dead…”I lay my life down and take it up again.”  Well, for now we aren’t being asked, at this moment, to go to this extreme of raising ourselves from the dead; anyway, what the Son of God accomplished took care of this.  That is about as far as it goes for most when it comes to beating death.  We all say that He will raise us from the dead; we even will “say” He could heal us, many times not really giving Him this opportunity, a doctor is used instead.  No problem, as long as they can.  But what do you do when a doctor says to you that he gives you 6 months to live?  I knew several fellow officers at work who were told this and within two months we were holding funereal services for them, honor guard, bag pipes and all, sad moments.

   

Yes, I know it is inevitable, right? What if, just what if it was a choice? What if, if you can’t handle cheating death, what if you had available to you the ability to stop PRE-MATURE death?

Would this get your attention?  I have found that this is where I have to start with most.  I have written at length on this matter, so much so that I don’t think I could put it all here.  I have attempted to do this on the web and found that it gets chopped up by other well meaning individual who end up off topic leaving me hanging and eventually pulling the post. 

   

So I will ask, as I have done with others, are you interested in seeing how we can give death a check; keep it at bay, avoiding pre-mature death, fight coming plagues, beyond using body exercise which sometimes does profit little, as Paul said to Timothy.  In its place gain godliness, that would be to our profit in this life and the life to come?  That is what this study is about, and your decision will determine if you gain what is being offered.