Time Is The Factor In How We Look At It

  Nadene Goldfoot                                                     

• It was Haman  of Persia;, the king's advisor,  who had started killingJews back in Queen Esther's day, before 330 BCE. In those days,  Persia  covered much land.   That was about 2,355 years ago.  

1492 was the date given for the Spanish Inquisition when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella put out a statement that Jews had to leave their country or convert.  Actually, the government had been coming down on Jews even before that date.  

In 1492, during the reign of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), the Spanish Inquisition was already well-established, having been authorized by Pope Sixtus IV in 1478 at the request of Spain's Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, to enforce Catholic orthodoxy, especially after the conquest of Granada and the expulsion of Jews, with the Pope granting the monarchs power to appoint inquisitors to root out heresy and enforce religious uniformity. 

• Grand Inquisitor: Tomás de Torquemada(Oct 14, 1420-Sept 16, 1498), a Dominican, became the most famous, leading the charge against heresy.  Any hidden Jew was charged with heresy and tortured to death.   Tomás de Torquemada born in  Ávila, Castile) was the first grand inquisitor in Spain, whose name has become synonymous with the Christian Inquisition’s horror, religious bigotry, and cruel fanaticism.                                
  
       A torture chamber where you must admit you are a Jew;  then death, possible at the stake by fire, or in the torture chamber itself
• As it happened, there were Jews with businesses or older relative who could not pick up and leave quickly.  They were not interested in becoming Catholics.  They had to go through baptism but practiced Judaism on the   sly.They became the Marranos, conversos or anusim. Jews were even trackeddown who had immigrated to Mexico much later.  

When did Protestant Christianity enter the picture?  Protestantism officially started on October 31, 1517, when German monk Martin Luther posted his "95 Theses" in Wittenberg, Germany, challenging Catholic practices like indulgences and sparking the Protestant Reformation, though its ideas grew from earlier reform movements and took time to develop into distinct denominations.

This was only 25 years after the Spanish Inquisition that was still in force.25 years is a long time.  Think of a baby girl  born in 1492. She can be awife and mother of 5 children by 1517.  

Martin Luther, a German monk and theologian, is credited with leading the Protestant Reformation starting in 1517 by challenging the Catholic Church's practices, particularly the sale of indulgences, with his 95 Theses, sparking a movement that reshaped Christianity and led to new Protestant denominations like Lutheranism. Other key figures like John Calvin also became crucial leaders, but Luther was the catalyst. 

Martin Luther's views on Jews shifted significantly over his lifetime, moving from an initial hope for their conversion to Christianity to later extreme hostility when this did not occur. His later writings are considered virulently antisemitic and have been widely condemned for their influence on German antisemitism and their use by the Nazi regime.   

• Early Period (until approximately 1536): Luther expressed a more favorable view, criticizing the mistreatment of Jews by the Catholic Church in his 1523 essay That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew. He believed that presenting the "pure" Gospel could lead to their conversion.  This viewpoint is still being viewed by many. This viewpoint was introduced 31 years after the Inquisition.
• Later Period (after approximately 1537): Following the failure of his conversion efforts, Luther became increasingly hostile. This period is marked by harsh anti-Jewish treatises, most notably On the Jews and Their Lies (1543). This conclusion took place 51 years after the inquisition. He called  Jewis
• h  defense of the Old Testament, etc, lies, as they only accepted the New Testament.  51 years covers grandparents still alive after the Inquisition.  
• On the Jews and Their Lies is a significant work in which Luther proposed a plan of persecution. His suggestions to German princes included destroying synagogues and homes, confiscating religious texts, forbidding rabbis from teaching, and seizing their property. He also made statements advocating violence against Jews. In another work from the same year, he employed derogatory language and associated Jews with the Devil. 
  Legacy and Modern Condemnation
  Luther's anti-Jewish rhetoric is widely acknowledged by historians as a major factor in the rise of antisemitism in Germany. Centuries later, his writings were utilized by the Nazi Party to justify their ideology and actions, including the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom. Time from 1492 is 446 years.  Anti-Semitism brought about by the Spanish Inquisition has been active for about 500 years up to Nazi period.  
• The United States will be  only 250 years old in 2026. A lot has taken place. 
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• We have been burdened with 500 years of anti-Semitism.  From Kristsalnacht to today has been 87 years.  
• So we can figure about 600 past years of dealing with anti-Semitism.  Today, the Nazis havebeen replaced by fundamental terrorists of the Middle East, who areaiming to kill all Jews.  
• Today we have several Christian groups backing Israelis.  CUFI is one.  CBN is another.  Also, so far, we have the American President on our side,Trump, who Netanyahu is trying to work with.  
• Addend:  I just watched Einstein's theory of time of the 4th dimension.  He said itwas hard for him to understand, but that we really don't die, which was nice to hearby this 91 year old who finds every day and moment precious;  and that seems tobe what we should be doing as it is.  

  

                                   Story of Elijah and Baal 
• I'm very aware of the present and the past; things in my memory bank (with my present getting foggier with names) but the future?  I haven't lived it yet.  Well, right now I am in a sense;  this is the future I read about when I existed inthe past, like Brave New World, and 1984, books that predicted life in the future.However, Einstein says his math equations prove that the future exists.  To me, this does sound so biblical!  No wonder prophets did their thing.  They were getting a picture of the future!  He mentioned we are made of stardust.     
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DANIEL Prophet Of Today's Age, and How It Was Written, Part 3

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                

What do we know of the Biblical Book of Daniel, mentioned in Ezek. 14:14. Ezekiel was a Prophet of the 6th century BCE, and most likely a member of the priestly family of Zadok who served in the Temple before its destruction in 586 BCE. He was also exiled to Babylon before Jews were exiled to Tel Abib on the river Kebar in Babylonia where he prophesied over a period of 22 years (592-570 BCE).

 Daniel was named along with Noah and Job.  He was an ancient sage; is referred to in Ezek. 28:3 (which is the source of the phrase, "A Daniel come to judgment" in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice). 

 They say "Daniel" was also found in an ancient tale discovered in a Ugaritic text as well. Ugaritic texts originate from the ancient city-state of Ugarit, located on the Mediterranean coast of modern-day Syria. Specifically, the texts were discovered at Ras Shamra (the tell of Ugarit) and nearby Ras Ibn Hani. These texts provide valuable insights into the language and culture of the ancient Near East, including aspects of Northwest Semitic religion. 

In our  Tanach (Old Testament), Daniel is listed under "Writings" and is almost at the end, coming after Esther's story.  Daniel was from the tribe of Judah living in exile in Babylon  and lived in  300 BCE.   It's writing about the future !

He has amazing and unusual experiences at the courts of King Nebuchadnezzar , Darius the Mede, and Belshazzar.  Chapters 7-12 are apocalyptic;  the visions relate to ancient times, but the reference seems to be to the 4persecuting kingdoms of Babylonia  Media, Persia and Greece.

They allude to historical events down to the period of Antiochus Epiphanes of Syria (175-163 BCE) whose wicked rule is to be succeeded by the kingdom of heaven.  His visions seems tocome to Judah at the beginning of the  Maccabean revolt ofabout 165 BCE.  The Book of Daniel contains Aramaicwriting of chapters 2:4-7; and 28 which caused a profoundinfluence on subsequent mysticism.  

                          Aramaic, the Bible's 3rd language

Aramaic was the language of the Jews from the 5th century BCE to the 11th century CE. They wrote many of their religious books in it, including the Babylonian Talmud, Targumim, Midrash, and some parts of the Tanakh.  It became the international language used by many people.   Additionally, the Hebrew square script evolved from the Aramaic script in the 2nd century BCE.

END OF TIMES IS HERE

Nadene Goldfoot     

son, Steve Henwood   with 2 cartoons                                         

                             Atmospheric entry of viruses that will live on people

The end of the times we have heard about is upon us.  We're living right in the future we have read about in science fiction; when all changed-though due to wars that included such things as atom bombings that scoured the earth, changing people and our way of life, sometimes even forcing us back to underground living shelters to escape the damaged air.

We have shootings, killing each other going on more than ever!  They're reverting back to the past in their manner, acting more like CAVE MAN than advanced beings of the year 2021.  In 1984 when we were warned aplenty, 2021   WAS the future.  “1984” is at its core a novel about language; how it can be used by governments to subjugate and obfuscate, and by citizens to resist oppression.  Language has been used to scare almost half of this population into thinking that a vaccine will kill you; but it is right before our eyes of all the deaths going on that the dying did NOT get the vaccine.  

                                                            

People have no patience to see doctor's warning through; thinking they licked the virus and ending our prevention steps when at least 30% of viruses are still with us; turning on even stronger changes of their bodies into the big gun killers, the Delta viruses.  They can do that, mutate into more and more varieties unless we rid them all-100%.  

                                                                     

Here we are.  People 200 years from now;  if there are still people, will look back and wonder just how did their elders ever become so stupid as to bring their past into such chaos.  How did we ever miss the mark of ALL getting our COVID virus shots and wearing masks to rid ourselves of the first viruses of COVID 19 and DELTA in the first place?  

This is a preview of our future, folks.  How is this happening?  We seniors complied beautifully, knowing we'd die with our weakened immune systems, and our children took care of us by making sure we got them and quickly.

                                                                       

It doesn't matter how viruses started; either in China, outer space from aliens  or our own labs.  The world was into biological warfare, seeing it was neater than bombs; less mess to clean up afterwards;  just bodies to burn.  The writing was on the wall with such places as Syria using chemical warfare against their own people.  Biological or germ warfare  was less telling; more secretive.  Biological warfare was normal, what with all the diseases we have managed to contain;  measles, mumps, all the childhood ones, others that have wiped out so many that we've managed to learn about and beat.

                                                                   

The Thinker, French Le Penseur, sculpture of a pensive nude male by French artist Auguste Rodin, one of his most well-known works, so the little guy has no idea of what a statue can be thinking about.  Are minds today as blank as "the thinker or the little guy"?  

We all have a mind and use it to think, but sometimes people just don't think clearly.  The top minds of our people are our doctors who study such things as viruses and what they can and can't do, and most of us are smart enough to follow their lead.  Politics cannot rule on this emergency.  It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or a Republican.  That doesn't help the doctors who fight diseases.  You can't use it at a crutch or a measure of your common sense.  It's become a hindrance, instead.                                                                   

This time, in order to do so, ALL must comply and receive the helps they have to offer; and that is NOT TO CONFUSE THE ISSUE WITH POLITICS.  People into politics only know about how to pass a law among like people like themselves.  They know nothing about science and viruses.  THE PEOPLE TO LISTEN TO ARE OUR SCIENTISTS.  

 If someone is so darned afraid of a little pinprick of a vaccine, they need to keep themselves in quarantine, have NO CONNECTION with any other human, have set up online food delivery at their closed door, and entertain themselves with books and TV and that's it.  They are endangering the rest of the population by keeping the viruses afloat and entering our bodies again.  The sad truth of it all is that these non-vaccinated people may not own a TV or a computer and may not even read, not realizing the harm they are doing to themselves or to others.  It only is happening when they enter the hospital.  If they do have these communicators, then they cannot continue wallowing in their pretend universe.  This is where they live and need to comply with the rules of the living.   

                                                       

 

They may be carriers and not realize it, so if the all-clear signal ever comes, they should be tested to make double sure they do not have any indication of it before they emerge like a caterpiller into a butterfly of our future society.                             

I'm tired of hearing about their beliefs that they feel G-d is protecting them when the next week they could be the ones overflowing the hospital again, wearing out the doctors and nurses to the point where right now, some are calling their calling quits out of exhaustion. 

                                                                 

We were given brains and have learned to use them so well. Our role in the world, being we are so smart, is to protect the planet and all that is on it; animals and plants.  We have arrived to the point of using solar power,                   

Tesla cars instead of gas ones, but we haven't improved on the matter of getting along with our neighbors or even husbands and wives very well, though

                                                                       

 It's almost there with the Abraham Accords arriving with the worst of religious enemies realizing how to get along and doing so.  At this point, we should all realize our potential and work towards it.  It's no time to sit back and think of just ourselves.  Realize how many people are being hurt by the person not helping to rid us of the scourge of killer viruses, something the world has never had to battle before.   It could be the end of humanity just as we're learning to live together in peace.  

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8/24/21 Update:  One of my readers mentioned the Great Barrington  Declaration.  Here it is: – "As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection. https://gbdeclaration.org/

Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice. 

Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.

Fortunately, our understanding of the virus is growing. We know that vulnerability to death from COVID-19 is more than a thousand-fold higher in the old and infirm than the young. Indeed, for children, COVID-19 is less dangerous than many other harms, including influenza. 

As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection to all – including the vulnerable – falls. We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity – i.e.  the point at which the rate of new infections is stable – and that this can be assisted by (but is not dependent upon) a vaccine. Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity. 

The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this Focused Protection. 

Adopting measures to protect the vulnerable should be the central aim of public health responses to COVID-19. By way of example, nursing homes should use staff with acquired immunity and perform frequent testing of other staff and all visitors. Staff rotation should be minimized. Retired people living at home should have groceries and other essentials delivered to their home. When possible, they should meet family members outside rather than inside. A comprehensive and detailed list of measures, including approaches to multi-generational households, can be implemented, and is well within the scope and capability of public health professionals. 

Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal. Simple hygiene measures, such as hand washing and staying home when sick should be practiced by everyone to reduce the herd immunity threshold. Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. Restaurants and other businesses should open. Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume. People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity.

On October 4, 2020, this declaration was authored and signed in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 

United States, by:Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations.Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases.Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations."

I wonder what their comment would be now that we have not only COVID 19, but that it has mutated 

into the Delta virus and now the Lambda virus out of Peru of all places, each one bad and quickly moving 

around the world.