Can You Imagine?

January 11, 1999
“How genetic engineering 
will change us in the
next century”

Can you imagine the realism of this Time magazine cover from January 11, 1999? Yes, the snake has been a symbol¹ of the medical profession for centuries, but what might be subliminally conveyed in this image where two DNA chains (double helix²) morph into a snake when forecasting “The Future of Medicine: How genetic engineering will change us in the next century”?

Barely six chapters into God’s history of the world, we read:

5 ¶ And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually (Old Testament | Genesis 6:5),

so, considering our technified world (some six millennia later?), what might the imaginations of some latter-day hearts be? We know of the imaginations of some Nazis,³ but have we ever considered the imaginations of some in our own land⁴?

Unethical Human Experimentation in the United States⁵
          (Read, weep, and awaken.)

Do we imagine there is no comparison between us and them, because our experiments were done by individuals or small groups versus an entire nation? But what if that all changed with Operation Paperclip⁶?

So back to the Time magazine cover. How many are aware of these facts:

• older dictionaries like my 1976 Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary (Unabridged) list the first definition of “virus” as “venom, as of a snake”⁷;

• early 2020 media reports (even MSM, like CNN) suggested COVID origins linked to snake⁸;

• post-2019 studies in China (2020), France (2020), Italy (2021), United States (2021), and South Africa (2022, 2023) have identified venoms in the blood, urine, and stools of positive-test COVID patients, and that negative-test controls had no such venoms⁹;

• DNA plasmids at their most basic level “are small circular pieces of DNA that replicate independently from the host’s chromosomal DNA.” “They can introduce foreign DNA into another cell.” “The ease of modifying plasmids and the ability of plasmids to self-replicate within a cell make them attractive tools for the life scientist or bioengineer.”¹⁰ As Dr. Ardis describes them: “DNA plasmids, in my opinion, may be the most horrible and terrifying creation of modern science. It is literally a Trojan Horse, a stealth weapon designed with a payload that can make your body kill itself in many ways"¹¹;

• “Scientists study diseases including AIDS, cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease and many other deadly diseases using laboratory mice. Humans and mice may not look alike, but almost all the genes in mice share functions with genes in humans. So, humans and mice get the same diseases for the same reasons" [emphasis added]¹²;

• researchers “consume” more mice than snakes do and in doing so the researchers found that injecting mice with two DNA plasmids each containing one-half of a complete cobra venom protein (pre-mRNA)  would cause the mouse in vivo to begin producing cobra venom mRNA within minutes, resulting in the death of every mouse so injected within 6 minutes¹³;

• mice are like canaries in a coal mine for humans; except no one who knew about these dead mice told humans about plasmids and possible versions of pre-mRNA in mandatory vaccines;

• the ability to make venom has been coded into the seeds of some edible plants to serve as insecticides¹⁴;

• someone must benefit if a body never coded to produce venom now does through genetic engineering. Who could the beneficiaries be?

Just as in the days of Noah, imaginations can run the gamut, so what can we imagine conspirators for power, gain, glory and domination might discuss in their simulations, table-tops, and in camera brainstormings? Wouldn’t they imagine every possible vector scenario if they planned a pandemic for purposes of power, gain, glory, and domination? How much damage could a few regional servitors do travelling the globe¹⁵?

What a joy of mockery this must be for the un-bodied mocker of God’s plan of healing and redemption? If man can be genetically modified to produce his own poison, thus ensuring and enduring perpetual sickness, then the (self-deceived) mocker must assume he has finally achieved the “end of man”¹⁶; except, he forgets: God has built in a redundancy of healing modalities because He knew:

4 In consequence of evils and designs which do and will exist in the hearts of conspiring men in the last days, I have warned you, and forewarn you, by giving unto you this word of wisdom by revelation— (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 89:4).

With every passing day, more data is surfacing and searchable for those who seeing, choose to see, who hearing, choose to hear, and caring, choose to speak up and out.

The most comprehensive exposé of all this is probably Dr. Bryan Ardis’ book: Moving Beyond the COVID-19 Lies: Restoring Health and Hope for Humanity.

So whatever you know or feel (or think you know) about Dr. Ardis, you will do yourself and your loved ones a service by reading and studying this book that details much of the past decade. What the initial virus vector was, whether in water or a myriad other possible  combinations of beverage, food, air-conditioning, “sanitation measures,” etc., etc., (or was perpetuated via jabbing), is undoubtedly known by “snakes in the grass” (with apologies to the non-venomous ones).

Consider also the words of Dr. Shankara Chetty of South Africa, starting circa minute 50 of this interview.¹⁷

Thus, a word to the unwise, but repentant soul: In the present state of pscience,¹⁸ pharmacopoeia¹⁹ is probably not your answer. There are many God-designed remedies that repentant souls can seek out. We can ignore the evidence only so long before it becomes too late to be healed; too late to be awakened as we have been commanded.

23 Wherefore, O ye Gentiles, it is wisdom in God that these things [the doings of secret combinations] should be shown unto you, that thereby ye may repent of your sins, and suffer not that these murderous combinations shall get above you, which are built up to get power and gain—and the work, yea, even the work of destruction come upon you, yea, even the sword of the justice of the Eternal God shall fall upon you, to your overthrow and destruction if ye shall suffer these things to be.
24 Wherefore, the Lord commandeth you, when ye shall see these things come among you that ye shall awake to a sense of your awful situation, because of this secret combination which shall be among you; or wo be unto it, because of the blood of them who have been slain; for they cry from the dust for vengeance upon it, and also upon those who built it up.
25 For it cometh to pass that whoso buildeth it up seeketh to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries; and it bringeth to pass the destruction of all people, for it is built up by the devil, who is the father of all lies; even that same liar who beguiled our first parents, yea, even that same liar who hath caused man to commit murder from the beginning; who hath hardened the hearts of men that they have murdered the prophets, and stoned them, and cast them out from the beginning  (Book of Mormon | Ether 8:23-25, bold emphasis added).

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_of_Asclepius
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus
2.“In molecular biology, the term double helix[1] refers to the structure formed by double-stranded molecules of nucleic acids such as DNA." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleic_acid_double_helix
“Deoxyribonucleic acid (pronunciationⓘ[1]; DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix. The polymer carries genetic instructions for the  development, functioning, growth and reproduction of all known organisms and many viruses. DNA and ribonucleic acid (RNA) are nucleic acids. Alongside proteins, lipids and complex carbohydrates (polysaccharides), nucleic acids are one of the four major types of macromolecules that are essential for all known forms of life." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA
3. Spitz, Vivien. Doctors From Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans. 
4. Doctrine and Covenants | Section 38:29
   29 Ye hear of wars [and crimes] in far countries, and you say that there will soon be great wars [and great crimes] in far countries, but ye know not the hearts of men in your own land.
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States
6. "Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the US for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959; several were confirmed to be former members of the Nazi Party, including the SS or the SA." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
7. What is a virus? | Dr Lee Merritt with Dr. Bryan Ardis - Nicotine from A-Z ? (Live Free or Die) https://rumble.com/v6u8ya1-dr-lee-merritt-with-dr.-bryan-ardis-nicotine-from-a-z.html | Go to minute 25 for research on historical definition of "virus".
Also see: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PfMmgl5vrfgIf
8. • https://frontlinegenomics.com/snake-venom-related-enzyme-underlies-covid-19-mortality/ By Sophia Ormiston (2021)
"Snake venom-related enzyme underlies COVID-19 mortality
"Enzyme driving COVID-19 similar to snake venom toxin"
• https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/22/health/snakes-wuhan-coronavirus-outbreak-conversation-partner
"Using samples of the virus isolated from patients, scientists in China have determined the genetic code of the virus and used microscopes to photograph it. ... / "But when the researchers performed a more detailed bioinformatics analysis of the sequence of 2019-nCoV, it suggests that this coronavirus might come from snakes.
• https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210825/Enzyme-related-to-rattlesnake-neurotoxin-linked-with-COVID-19-infection-severity.
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/snakes-could-be-the-original-source-of-the-new-coronavirus-outbreak-in-china/
• Jan 22, 2020 | https://scitechdaily.com/snake-pneumonia-coronavirus-outbreak-in-china-traced-to-snakes-by-genetic-analysis/
• https://lens.monash.edu/@coronavirus-articles/2020/05/07/1380319/snakes-alive-venom-may-play-a-role-in-the-fight-against-covd-19
9. https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2025/10/snakes-in-grass.html
10. A plasmid is a small, extrachromosomal DNA molecule within a cell that is physically separated from chromosomal DNA and can replicate independently. They are most commonly found as small circular, double-stranded DNA molecules in bacteria[1] and archaea;[2] however plasmids are sometimes present in eukaryotic organisms as well.[3][page needed][4] Plasmids often carry useful genes, such as those involved in antibiotic resistance, virulence,[5][6][7] secondary metabolism[8] and bioremediation.[9][10] While chromosomes are large and contain all the essential genetic information for living under normal conditions, plasmids are usually very small and contain additional genes for special circumstances. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmid
11. Dr. Bryan Ardis, Moving Beyond the COVID-19 Lies: Restoring Health and Hope for Humanity, p. 159.
12. From www.jax.org/why-the-mouse/test-drugs# as quoted by Ardis, p. 160
13. Ardis, pp. 161-165.
14. Compound search insecticide & GMO & wheat, corn etc.
15. https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/04/questions-for-contagion-trackers.html
16. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-end-of-man.html
17. Was This Doctor Right About COVID-19 All Along?
(Vital Signs Asia | Oct 6, 2025 | Time 57:47 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2at1ZB57uEk&t=2941s
18. Pscience is the corrupted offshoot of honorable Science. It is the inevitable consequence of man's obsessive pursuit and protection of power, gain, glory, and domination. Pscience is pseudo, psychopathic, propagandizing, plagiarizing, politicized, psy-opic, and above all, profit-obsessed, and profit-driven. This obsessive pursuit and protection by people without conscience is often enabled by naïve, trusting, or fear-filled acolytes. Pscience is a one-faith, one-dogma, heretic-fearing, self-deceiving, other-censoring system. The 21st Century question is: What are we now enabling or supporting? Science or pscience?
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/12/when-pscience-becomes-god.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/06/death-of-science-tyranny-of-pscience.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/10/pscience.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/07/a-representative-history-of-pscience.html
19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacopoeia
"A pharmacopoeia, pharmacopeia, or pharmacopoea ..., meaning "drug-making", in its modern technical sense, is a reference work containing directions for the identification of compound medicines. These are published or sanctioned by a government or a medical or pharmaceutical society,[1] giving the work legal authority within a specified jurisdiction. In a broader sense it is a collection of pharmaceutical drug specifications."
https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-sorcery.html
"Interestingly, the New Testament Greek word translated “sorcery” is pharmakeia, which is the source of our English word pharmacy. In Paul’s day, the word primarily meant “dealing in poison” or “drug use” and was applied to divination and spell-casting because sorcerers often used drugs along with their incantations and amulets to conjure occult power."

Weaponizing “Good”?

After being referred to a podcast about “Religious Freedom,”¹ I have observed even more frequent use in other Church articles of this phrase: “except when necessary to protect health and safety,”² as in:

[Religious freedom is] the right to “exercise” or live your religion without interference from government or others, except when necessary to protect health and safety.³

SO what are the acceptable restraints, not just to religious freedom, but to all our Constitutionally enumerated rights and freedoms if the test is “when necessary to protect health and safety”? What restraint cannot be judged by control-obsessed Utopians to be necessary for "health and safety" — necessary for our own good or for the good of society or the planet? It shouldn’t be that hard to discern possibilities considering our extended exposure to the “live exercise”⁴ called COVID-19:

• Forced closure of businesses
• Forced masking
• Prohibited public gatherings (including for worship, funerals, weddings, etc.)
• Prohibited singing in public
• Forced experimental vax for employment, school, transplant, travel, gatherings, etc. etc.
• Forced quarantines and / or isolation even within households
• Threatened removal and / or destruction of pets
• Banned outdoor activities even for exercise
• Snitch lines
• Restricted medicines
• Debanking
• Prosecution for lawful protesting
• & on and on.

For those paying attention, the live exercise (escalating control) continues with the mantra "health and safety" taking center stage with a key component being the "health" of the planet. How far have and could other measures of control go for "health and safety"?

• No walking, fishing, picnicking in the woods⁵
• killing of healthy (at risk???) animals⁶
• no eating / consuming of ... (you name it: meat, sugar, candy, certain herbs, certain natural remedies, etc.)
• enforced dieting for unacceptable BMI
• govt. enforced treatment protocols for various diseases
• things one can and cannot watch, read, discuss, write about
• how, where, and how often one can travel
• 15-minute towns and cities
• what and how many animals one can own, even on a farm / ranch
• compelled retrofitting of homes to meet climate standards
• yearly, mandatory home inspections for evolving code compliance
• number of children per family
• & on and on.

Some of these items may seem unimaginable in Western society, but then who could have imagined what was done during COVID-19?

Evil is obsessed with inverting the Good and will co-opt, corrupt, or weaponize every Good that it can as the agenda to totally control or destroy the world goes on with the help of so many.

Let us never forget:

Those who would give up essential Liberty [Freedom], to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty [Freedom] nor Safety.⁷

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1. I first became aware of the “health and safety” wording in limiting freedoms through a friend’s reference to this podcast:
The Uncomfortable Truth About Religious Freedom
(Connor Boyack | August 17, 2025 | Time 48:16 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7slU4-a4-M&t=566s
Subsequently, I found the same working in various other places (See footnote 2; bold emphasis added):
2. • Understanding Religious Freedom:
What do we mean when we talk about religious freedom?
At its most basic, religious freedom means the right to choose, change, declare, and act upon your faith. It includes freedom to worship but is much more than that. It’s the right to “exercise” or live your religion without interference from government or others, except when necessary to protect health and safety.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/religious-freedom/answers-to-common-questions?lang=eng
• “12. Government cannot discriminate against religious believers. All people have a fundamental right to believe, worship, and exercise their religious beliefs as they wish, so long as it doesn’t harm the health and safety of others.”
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/religious-freedom/answers-to-common-questions?lang=eng
• Current Events and Social Discussion 1:
“While religious liberty is our first freedom, we need to focus on creating a space where everyone is free to act upon their core beliefs and values so long as they aren’t harming the health or safety of others.”
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/religious-freedom/answers-to-common-questions?lang=eng
• Understanding My Role:
    5. ...Just as the Savior allowed everyone to make their own choices, we need to seek to understand others’ beliefs and allow them to live as they believe, as long as they don’t harm the health or safety of others.
“Religious freedom is not absolute. Limits on religious activities are appropriate where necessary to protect compelling interests, such as the life, property, health, or safety of others. But such limitations should be truly necessary, rather than an excuse for abridging religious freedom.”
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/religious-freedom/religious-freedom-the-basics?lang=eng
• “Religious freedom is more than just the freedom to believe what you want. It’s also the freedom to talk about and act on your core beliefs without interference from government or others, except when necessary to protect health and safety.” https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/religious-freedom/religious-freedom?lang=eng
3. Full quote: What do we mean when we talk about religious freedom?
At its most basic, religious freedom means the right to choose, change, declare, and act upon your faith. It includes freedom to worship but is much more than that. It’s the right to “exercise” or live your religion without interference from government or others, except when necessary to protect health and safety.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/religious-freedom/answers-to-common-questions?lang=eng
4. live exercise
military practice using real bullets, military exercise which simulates real combat
https://english_contemporary.en-academic.com/110476/live_exercise
- pattern now being used for propaganda, political, social, medical, and other experimentation on humans without their consent or knowledge
5. https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2025/08/get-out-of-woods.html
6. Canada Orders MASS CULL of 400 Ostriches Despite No Infections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2r8VqK9c_c&list=WL&index=2
7. This was first used[1] by Franklin for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its "Reply to the Governor" (11 Nov. 1755)

This quote was used as a motto on the title page of An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania (1759); the book was published by Franklin; its author was Richard Jackson, but Franklin did claim responsibility for some small excerpts that were used in it. In 1775 Franklin again used this phrase in his contribution to Massachusetts Conference (Objections to Barclay’s Draft Articles of February 16.) - "They who can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
An earlier variant by Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanack (1738): "Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power."
Many paraphrased derivatives of this have often become attributed to Franklin:
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.
He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.
He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.
People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.
If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.
Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.
Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

Something We Can Do: Rx*

(Designed to assist a Mormon / LDS global awakening, but can be adapted for other faiths.)
 
If you know of Mormon medical staff or others (including Stake Presidencies, Bishoprics. RS/YW-YM/Prim. Presidencies, et al.) who are still captured by the COVID narrative despite all the evidence of “Neither Safe Nor Effective”; and who are still mis-, dis- or un-informed about all the data and déjà vu proving harms, injuries, and death, here is an Rx plan and plea, step by step:

1. Go to https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/printable-resources/ ;
2. Print in color (8 1/2”x11” paper) the “When You are Ready” page at https://nationalcitizensinquiry.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/nsne-printable-p11.pdf ;
3. On the backside print another page of your choice (if you wish) from those at https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/printable-resources/ ;
4. Fold “When You Are Ready” in thirds (so it faces out) without creasing the quick-scan circles;
5. Print the Rx pdf below, cut out the Rxs, date, sign, and insert into folded pages of “When You Are Ready”;
6. If you wish, you can first write or cut and paste the personal note (see the middle column of the pdf below) plus any NCI testimony references** you wish on the back of the Rx before inserting;
7. If handing out directly, or hand-delivering to doors, or mailing as flyers, first tape the top middle edge (about 1/4”). Carry copies with you everywhere and share as inspired. Make this a family activity;
8. If you have addresses for specific doctors, surgeons, nurses, paramedics, et al., and can directly mail to them, the envelop is sufficient closure;
9. In all likelihood, this will be an act of courage and endurance. Be calm and prepared, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego (Old Testament | Daniel 3) for if they could endure the fire of circa 600 B.C., we can of 2024 A.D.;
10. BEGIN by taking the prescription yourself, along with children as appropriate: one to four per day noting the ones you particularly want to share. Many NCI testimonies can be downloaded from Google Podcasts or perhaps other podcast platforms for offline listening, or can also be listened to at https://rumble.com/user/NationalCitizensInquiryCA.

Also, read Doctrine and Covenants 123*** as a family and ask: Could this be my / our imperative duty?

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* A big thanks to MS, a sibling and retired nurse, who suggested the Rx idea and carried it out locally.
** Links for those witnesses listed on the above pdf:
• Dr. Francis Christian – Surgeon - Saskatoon - Day 1
https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-francis-christian/
• Dr. Stephen Malthouse – Family Physician - Ottawa - Day 1
https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-stephen-malthouse/
• Dr. Misha Susoeff – Dentist - Red Deer - Day 3
https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-misha-susoeff/
• Dr. Charles Hoffe – Family Physician - Vancouver - Day 2
https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-charles-hoffe/
• Natalie Bjorklund Gordon – Geneticist & Epidemiologist - Winnipeg - Day 2
https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-natalie-k-bjorklund-gordon/
• Dr. Patrick Phillips – Family Physician - Truro - Day 1
https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-patrick-phillips/
• Laura Jeffery – Ontario Mortician - Toronto - Day 2
https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/laura-jeffery/
• Catherine Christensen – Lawyer with Military - Red Deer - Day 1
https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/catherine-chistensen/
*** D&C verses 11-17 referenced on the above pdf:
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 123:11-17
   11 And also it is an imperative duty that we owe to all the rising generation, and to all the pure in heart—
   12 For there are many yet on the earth among all sects, parties, and denominations, who are blinded by the subtle craftiness of men, whereby they lie in wait to deceive, and who are only kept from the truth because they know not where to find it——
   13 Therefore, that we should waste and wear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of darkness, wherein we know them; and they are truly manifest from heaven——
   14 These should then be attended to with great earnestness.—
   15 Let no man count them as small things; for there is much which lieth in futurity, pertaining to the saints [and citizens], which depends upon these things.—
   16 You know, brethren, that a very large ship is benefited very much by a very small helm in the time of a storm, by being kept workways with the wind and the waves.—
   17 Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed.—

“Eating Together” — A Divine Paradigm?

Dining / Feasting
A plandemic target?

Since listening to a brief exchange in the Exodus seminar series¹ about “eating together,”² I have been thinking about what happened to dining and feasting during COVID. What part did lockdown and isolation play in exacerbating fear, stress, distrust, and simmering anger — not against the “authorities,” but against those (including family members) who did not wholeheartedly accept the official narrative? How many “infected” family members, including young children, were quarantined in their bedrooms for 14-day stretches and mandated to mask and eat alone? And what of the communal dining-room closures in senior and other care-giving facilities? Isolation upon isolation.

Our obsessions with social media, sports, and work have already disrupted in large measure family “eating together” patterns, but COVID thrust an even broader wedge into every aspect of human sociality, celebration, commemoration, and fellowship. No church suppers. No wedding, reunion, anniversary, grad, club, or society banquets. No funeral luncheons. No dine-in cafes or restaurants for get-togethers or date-nights. At times, “eating together” seemed almost a targeted activity. Remember the fear-alarms at Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas? And remember the vax-passport phase-in for resuming “eating together” in public?

On the other hand, have we noticed in scripture:

▪ how often God commanded feasting in preparation or commemoration of memorable events³?
▪ how angels or messengers were entertained with feasts⁴?
▪ how the “certain man” sent servants out into the streets and lanes, highways and hedges to gather all who would come to his supper / feast after the initial invitees had made excuse⁵?
▪ how the prodigal son was welcomed home with a feast⁶?
▪ how feasting was almost always a part of important milestones⁷?
▪ how feasting has been used as a spiritual metaphor for God's word⁸ and for judgment and millennial days⁹?
▪ how even the miraculous multiplication of simple bread and fish at the feeding of five thousand and four thousand was a feast because of the amount of leftovers gathered up¹⁰?

In the previously mentioned Exodus clip, Dennis Prager observed:

“The center of Jewish religious life is the house and the center of religious life in the house is the table.”.

How many of us can say: The center of our religious life is the home and the center of religious life in our home is the table?¹¹ Could there be any typology between our dining tables and God's shewbread table so meticulously placed in His tabernacle with its dishes, spoons, covers, bowls, and shewbread¹²?

Perhaps corrupted powers have a paranoia about people freely congregating in celebration, commemoration, thanksgiving, and fellowship, because they might freely share opinions and observations, or discuss matters of import or action? Is that why the powers are predicting (orchestrating?) a coming food shortage / famine,¹³ so “eating together” becomes a zero-sum, existential paranoia? so that sociality and fellowship revert to competitive survival — even savagery?

Next time we see “eating together” deemed a dangerous, targeted activity, let us ponder the source and purpose.

As a troubling aside: as of 2022, we no longer have the option of meeting as friends or family to eat together in temple cafeterias.¹⁴ Does the reason “to simplify temple operations” weigh sufficiently against the blessing of sharing food with fellow servants in the house of the Lord? a place of peace, quiet, and fellowship unparalleled in the outside world. For many temple-goers, nearby(?) food establishments immersed in the noise and poisons of present Babylon has no allurement. They seek to retain and carry home the spirit felt in the temple. Of course, some readers may be offended by this criticism, but for many who know the spirit of the temple (even in its cafeteria), they feel a sense of loss that dining together there has been foreclosed. (And what of the loss of hundreds of jobs?) For some, the hope and prayer is that before they auction off the kitchens, they reconsider the costs v. benefits; perhaps even to survey the wishes and will of the members and service workers impacted. For the most part, an imported sack lunch does not have the same flavor, presentation, or fellowship as a savory, hot meal served with “dishes, spoons, covers, and bowls,” and ambience. To simplify operations does not necessarily simplify life's necessities for service givers. Should reciprocal service be a prime consideration? 

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1. https://www.dailywire.com/episode/exodus-episode-5 (from min. 45:38 to 57:14)
2. Excerpt from footnote 1: The Key to Peace With Russia[?] (Jordan B Peterson Clips | Dec 16, 2022 | Time 7:05 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT2Ivm
3. Old Testament | Exodus 5:1
   1 AND afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
Old Testament | Exodus 10:9
   9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.
Old Testament | Exodus 12:14, 17
   14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. .
.. 17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
Old Testament | Exodus 13:6
   6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
Old Testament | Exodus 23:14-16
   14 ¶ Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
   15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
   16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
Old Testament | Exodus 34:22
   22 ¶ And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
Old Testament | Leviticus 23:39, 41
   39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath. ..
. 41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
Old Testament | Deuteronomy 16:16
   16 ¶ Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
New Testament | Matthew 26:17
   17 ¶ Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
4. Old Testament | Genesis 18:1-8
   1 AND the LORD appeared unto him [Abraham] in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
   2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
   3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
   4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
   5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
   6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.
   7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
   8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Old Testament | Genesis 19:3
   3 And he [Lot] pressed upon them [the two angels] greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
5. New Testament | Luke 14:16-24
   16 Then said he [Jesus] unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:
   17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
   18 And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
   19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
   20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
   21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
   22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.
   23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
   24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.
New Testament | Luke 14:13
   13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
6. Prodigal: New Testament | Luke 15:22-24
   22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
   23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
   24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
7. Old Testament | Genesis 21:8
   8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
Old Testament | Genesis 26:30
   30 And he [Isaac] made them [his former adversaries] a feast, and they did eat and drink.
Old Testament | Genesis 29:21-22
   21 ¶ And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
   22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
Old Testament | Judges 14:10
   10 ¶ So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.
Old Testament | 2 Samuel 3:20
   20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
Old Testament | 1 Kings 3:15
   15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
Old Testament | 1 Kings 8:65
   65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
Old Testament | 1 Kings 10:4-6
   4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built,
   5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
   6 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
Old Testament | Esther 1:3-5
   3 In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:
   4 When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.
   5 And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;
Old Testament | Psalms 128:3
   3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
New Testament | Matthew 27:15
   15 Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.
New Testament | Luke 5:29
   29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.
New Testament | John 2:8-9
   8 And he [Jesus] saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.
   9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
New Testament | John 5:1
   1 AFTER this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Book of Mormon | Alma 18:9
   9 And they said unto him: Behold, he is feeding thy horses. Now the king had commanded his servants, previous to the time of the watering of their flocks, that they should prepare his horses and chariots, and conduct him forth to the land of Nephi; for there had been a great feast appointed at the land of Nephi, by the father of Lamoni, who was king over all the land.
8. New Testament | John 7:37
   37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 9:51
   51 Wherefore, do not spend money for that which is of no worth, nor your labor for that which cannot satisfy. Hearken diligently unto me, and remember the words which I have spoken; and come unto the Holy One of Israel, and feast upon that which perisheth not, neither can be corrupted, and let your soul delight in fatness.
Book of Mormon | Jacob 3:2
   2 O all ye that are pure in heart, lift up your heads and receive the pleasing word of God, and feast upon his love; for ye may, if your minds are firm, forever.
Book of Mormon | Alma 32:42
   42 And because of your diligence and your faith and your patience with the word in nourishing it, that it may take root in you, behold, by and by ye shall pluck the fruit thereof, which is most precious, which is sweet above all that is sweet, and which is white above all that is white, yea, and pure above all that is pure; and ye shall feast upon this fruit even until ye are filled, that ye hunger not, neither shall ye thirst.
9. Old Testament | Isaiah 25:6
   6 ¶ And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
Old Testament | Zechariah 14:16
   16 ¶ And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 58:8-9
   8 And also that a feast of fat things might be prepared for the poor; yea, a feast of fat things, of wine on the lees well refined, that the earth may know that the mouths of the prophets shall not fail;
   9 Yea, a supper of the house of the Lord, well prepared, unto which all nations shall be invited.
Old Testament | Ezekiel 39:17-24
   17 ¶ And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
   18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
   19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
   20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
   21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
   22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
   23 ¶ And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
   24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
New Testament | Luke 22:29-30
   29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;
   30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
New Testament | 1 Corinthians 10:21
   21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
Old Testament | Malachi 1:5-12
   5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.
   6 ¶ A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
   7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
   8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
   9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts.
   10 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
   11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
   12 ¶ But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
10. Five Thousand
New Testament | Matthew 14:19-21 (Mark 6:35-44; Luke 9:12-17; John 5:5-13)
   19 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
   20 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
   21 And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
Four Thousand
New Testament | Matthew 15:32-38 (Mark 8:1-9)
   32 ¶ Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
   33 And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
   34 And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.
   35 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
   36 And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
   37 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.
   38 And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.
New Testament | Matthew 16:6-10 (Mark 8:14-21)
   6 ¶ Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
   7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.
   8 Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?
   9 Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
   10 Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
11. Remember David O McKay:
“The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no worldly success can compensate for failure in the home.” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/287590-the-home-is-the-first-and-most-effective-place-to
12. Old Testament | Exodus 25:23-30
   23 ¶ Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
   24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.
   25 And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
   26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.
   27 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.
   28 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
   29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.
   30 And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.
Old Testament | Leviticus 24:5-9
   5 ¶ And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
   6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
   7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
   8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
   9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
New Testament | Hebrews 9:1-2
   1 THEN verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
   2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
Old Testament | 2 Chronicles 29:18
   18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
Old Testament | Ezekiel 41:22
   22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table that is before the LORD.
https://www.albanymissionarybaptist.org/table-of-shewbread/
https://www.amazingsanctuary.com/the-furniture-of-the-tabernacle/the-table-of-showbread
https://tabletalkmagazine.com/article/2017/12/the-table-of-showbread/
13. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2022/09/Cafe-Econ-a-looming-Food-Crisis
https://www.theepochtimes.com/edition/the-coming-food-crisis_4645292
https://www.raptureready.com/2022/04/03/60067/
https://www.wfp.org/emergencies/global-food-crisis
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/05/19/the-coming-food-catastrophe?
14. https://www.thechurchnews.com/2021/11/5/23217666/temple-cafeterias-permanently-close-in-early-2022
https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/temple-cafeterias-closing

Blind to Parallels?

Last Sunday, I listened (via zoom) to a lesson based on Daniel 3 (Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego) and 6 (Daniel in the den of lions). As I listened to the teachers and to class comments, I wondered if any latter-day parallels (recent mandates) would be acknowledged. I did not hear any, and I wonder if it is even possible to discuss mandate parallels in the divisive, fearful climate that has been created in the last two plus years.

Of course, our recent test¹ did not amount [or did it?] to a burning fiery furnace, but can we not see any example or parallel? We were not faced (this time around) with imminent death for refusing to obey authorities or alleged experts, but many experienced significant loss of freedoms and livelihood; discrimination and invective²; and the “fury” of some leaders, enforcers, and narrative believers who were alarmed or terrified by MSM reports (and distortions).

But what is the purpose of scripture and history, if not to acknowledge the examples and parallels for our day?

16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace [or any other unlawful order or power abuse or lie], and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image [of pscience³] which thou hast set up.
19 ¶ Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: (Old Testament | Daniel 3:16-19)

Millions of us have witnessed:

▪ how the visage of presidents, prime ministers, and others was changed in a matter of days against those refusing experimental vaccination;

▪ how once respected citizens were suddenly anathema — despised as selfish, unchristian, morally deficient, anti-science, etc. by leaders, family, friends, and others (review footnote 2);

▪ how all the admirable progress of the last half-century toward more universal equity and justice has been suddenly upended by an oppressive, bullying, cultural shift.

And what of Daniel who, with his friends, had the wisdom and courage to refuse the king's food? or to disrespect the king's decree forbidding prayer [religious gathering?] (Old Testament | Daniel 6:7)?

On the other hand, how many latter-day authorities, professionals, enforcers, and others have been caught unwittingly in a power-grab conspiracy, not unlike the entrapment of king Darius?

3 Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
4 ¶ Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.
5 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
6 Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.
7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
9 Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
10 ¶ Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
11 Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.
12 Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
13 Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.
14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.
15 Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.
16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.
17 And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.
18 ¶ Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him. (Old Testament | Daniel 6:3–18)

How many parallels might we be missing?

Now two questions for those who still believe the COVID narrative⁴ or the predictive programming of more illness to come; or that safety ranks above freedom; or that contagion risk makes our day unique and, thus, has nothing in common with Daniel. Consider:

▪ if CV were a conspiracy⁵ of power to destroy human rights and freedoms and God's creation;
▪ if Pharma corps have already been fined billions for fraud⁶;
▪ if many pro-experimental-vax advocates are heavily invested in Pharma shares or lucrative patents;
▪ if more illness is undoubtedly coming because the CV power-grab and the public's conversion to pscience and fear was so enormously successful;

then, 1) how can you know whether the unexplained increases in death⁷ and illness are another CV variant OR intentional fallout from the experimental alleged cure? and 2) will your continued support or belief have consequence⁸?

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1. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-three-temptations-2021-conversion.html
2. Evidence of hostility and hatred:
If these vlogs become censored, plug the link into the WayBackMachine (https://archive.org/web/) to access:
▪ They Can Backtrack All They Like. We Will Never Forget (We Got a Problem | November 7, 2022 | Time 30:48 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MfUPyQug8k
▪ Amnesty? Forgiveness? No Chance (We Got a Problem | November 6, 2022 | Time 6:09 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JPC8GCLqsA
At some point each individual will have a choice to forgive or not the injuries or harms they individually suffered, but to forget as a society is to invite egregious repetition. These compilations witness the bullying, dark-side of human nature where safety becomes the prime value of fear-driven acolytes of a Domination System that has been pursuing total control and WO for millennia.
3. Pscience is the corrupted offshoot of honorable Science. It is the inevitable consequence of man's obsessive pursuit and protection of power, gain, glory, and domination. Pscience is pseudo, psychopathic, propagandizing, plagiarizing, psy-opic, and above all, profit-obsessed, and profit-driven. This obsessive pursuit and protection by people without conscience is often enabled by naïve, trusting, or fear-filled acolytes. Pscience is a one-faith, one-dogma, heretic-fearing, self-deceiving, other-censoring system. The 21st Century question is: What are we now enabling or supporting? Science or pscience?
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/12/when-pscience-becomes-god.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/06/death-of-science-tyranny-of-pscience.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/10/pscience.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/07/a-representative-history-of-pscience.html
4. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/10/what-is-covid-narrative.html
5. https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2022/11/a-short-message-to-news-reporters.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-conspiracy-option.html
6. https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2021/11/trust-us-honest.html
7. https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2022/08/uknown-unexplained.html
8. Book of Mormon | Ether 8:22-26
   22 And whatsoever nation shall uphold such secret combinations, to get power and gain, until they shall spread over the nation, behold, they shall be destroyed; for the Lord will not suffer that the blood of his saints, which shall be shed by them, shall always cry unto him from the ground for vengeance upon them and yet he avenge them not.
   23 Wherefore, O ye Gentiles, it is wisdom in God that these things should be shown unto you, that thereby ye may repent of your sins, and suffer not that these murderous combinations shall get above you, which are built up to get power and gain—and the work, yea, even the work of destruction come upon you, yea, even the sword of the justice of the Eternal God shall fall upon you, to your overthrow and destruction if ye shall suffer these things to be.
   24 Wherefore, the Lord commandeth you, when ye shall see these things come among you that ye shall awake to a sense of your awful situation, because of this secret combination which shall be among you; or wo be unto it, because of the blood of them who have been slain; for they cry from the dust for vengeance upon it, and also upon those who built it up.
   25 For it cometh to pass that whoso buildeth it up seeketh to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries; and it bringeth to pass the destruction of all people, for it is built up by the devil, who is the father of all lies; even that same liar who beguiled our first parents, yea, even that same liar who hath caused man to commit murder from the beginning; who hath hardened the hearts of men that they have murdered the prophets, and stoned them, and cast them out from the beginning.
   26 Wherefore, I, Moroni, am commanded to write these things that evil may be done away, and that the time may come that Satan may have no power upon the hearts of the children of men, but that they may be persuaded to do good continually, that they may come unto the fountain of all righteousness and be saved.

Will We | Should We Forget?

Original artist: Markus Szyszkowitz | 2011
Repurposed and recycled by SMS | 2022
*Image use and info below footnotes

With the initiation of a devastating new narrative of war, many of the COVID mandates are being quietly dropped by complicit powers and authorities — being quietly dropped without acknowledgement of the honorable science that is exposing the WHO, Pharma,¹ pscience,² and PHO lies and crimes that can no longer be hidden. But in the tsunamic wake of another devastating, orchestrated crisis will these unconscionable lies and crimes be ignored or forgotten?

Let us ask: Have we heard any confession, any repentance, any pleas for forgiveness for perpetuating or sustaining the lies, coercions, and crimes of a crumbling narrative of “safe and effective”? If we just go forward, pretending no one erred in judgment, conformity, persuasion, or influence; that no one need confess and repent; that rights and freedoms can be so maliciously and mendaciously disregarded without consequence, then can we expect any better outcome than greater and continuing deception, domination, destruction, and death on a global level?

Consider these two World Order (WO) facts:

● Klaus Schwab | September 20, 2017 (Harvard)
(This transcription begins at circa hour 1:07:48)³
“Yes, actually this notion to integrate young leaders (cough) is part of the World Economic Forum^[4] since many years. And I have to say when I mention our names, like Mrs. Merkel, even Vladimir Putin, and so on. They all have been Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum. But what we are very proud of now is the young generation like Prime Minister Trudeau, President of Argentina, and so on. So we penetrates the cabinets. So yesterday, I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau and I would knows that half of this cabinet, or even more [than] half of this cabinet are former or actually Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum. It's true in Argentina and it's true in France, now. And I mean, with the president, with the Young Global Leader; but what is important for me is those Young Global Leaders have an opportunity to come here and we have established a course now since several years, and I think it has, this corporation, has a tremendous impact because being here for a week really creates a strong community; and we, in addition, to the Young Global Leaders, we have now the Global Shapers in 450 cities arounds the world. ... [They enthusiastically recognize the Global Shapers in the audience.] And what is astonishing is to see how those young people really have a different mindset and I have great admiration because when I have a group of Global Shapers in the room and I asks them: are you thinking global terms or in national terms, the majority would say in global terms. If I asks them what is more important for you: to make money or to serve society, more, certainly 80 percent would raise their hand and would say: serving society. So I'm very optimistic about the future of the world because we see young generation, I think we can build what I would call a new Renaissance particularity using technology; solving all the issues moving forward.”

● Volodymyr Zelenskyy - President of Ukraine https://twitter.com/members_forum/status/1497183130410631170
Curiously, this lenghty twitter record of Zelenskyy's appearances and devotion to WEF has been suspended!! Option: search "Zelenskyy AND WEF".
or try here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220225142928/https://twitter.com/members_forum/status/1497183130410631170

In light of these two facts (and hundreds of others now being suppressed or false-flagged), consider and ask: Is one hidden hand⁵ puppeting all the narratives of domination, destruction, and death? Are we, at this very hour, choosing one of the seven dragon heads⁶ to favor with our support and belief? If we think leaders do not psychopathically sacrifice their own citizens for the sake of a power, WO, or Utopian agenda, then we know little of history or false-flags or elitism or the ubiquity and antiquity of power abuse. The masses (and even the naïve elites) are always fodder for satanic schemes. (Remember all those European revolutions of recent centuries?⁷)

Are we buying into more soul-capturing,⁸ soul-destroying narratives? Can we not see that all the terrible “fall-out” from COVID and now this accelerated war has been and is geared toward the destruction of civilization, culture, and especially agency⁹? How many times have we forgotten or ignored past corrupt, unconscionable actions by the powers and authorities so that evil was allowed to escalate into this present dire, dreadful situation?

Where is our obedience to the command:

23 Wherefore, O ye Gentiles, it is wisdom in God that these things should be shown unto you, that thereby ye may repent of your sins, and suffer not that these murderous combinations shall get above you, which are built up to get power and gain—and the work, yea, even the work of destruction come upon you, yea, even the sword of the justice of the Eternal God shall fall upon you, to your overthrow and destruction if ye shall suffer these things to be.
24 Wherefore, the Lord commandeth you, when ye shall see these things come among you that ye shall awake to a sense of your awful situation, because of this secret combination which shall be among you; or wo be unto it, because of the blood of them who have been slain; for they cry from the dust for vengeance upon it, and also upon those who built it up.
25 For it cometh to pass that whoso buildeth it up seeketh to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries; and it bringeth to pass the destruction of all people, for it is built up by the devil, who is the father of all lies;¹⁰

Where is our awareness? Where is our repentance? Where is our memory?

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1. Pharma: https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2021/11/trust-us-honest.html
2. Pscience is the corrupted offshoot of honourable Science – pscience being the inevitable consequence of man's obsessive pursuit and protection of power, gain, glory, and domination; being pseudo, politicized, psychopathic, propagandizing, plagiarizing, psy-opic, and above all, profit-obsessed, and profit-driven. This obsessive pursuit and protection by people without conscience is often enabled by naïve, trusting, or fear-filled acolytes and servitors. Pscience is a one-faith, one-dogma, heretic-fearing, self-deceiving, other-censoring system.
3. The 2017 Malcolm H. Wiener Lecture on International Political Economy https://iop.harvard.edu/forum/strengthening-collaboration-fractured-world-featuring-special-guest-yo-yo-ma (Time 1:08:00) (with hagiologist David Gergen). Bold emphasis added.
4. YGLs: https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-wef-school-of-world-coups.html
5. New Testament | John 10:10
   10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:
6. New Testament | Revelation 12:3
   3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
7. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/10/it-all-makes-perfect-sense.html
8, Book of Mormon | Alma 12:11
   11 And they that will harden their hearts, to them is given the lesser portion of the word until they know nothing concerning his mysteries; and then they are taken captive by the devil, and led by his will down to destruction. Now this is what is meant by the chains of hell.
Book of Mormon | Alma 40:13
   13 And then shall it come to pass, that the spirits of the wicked, yea, who are evil—for behold, they have no part nor portion of the Spirit of the Lord; for behold, they chose evil works rather than good; therefore the spirit of the devil did enter into them, and take possession of their house—and these shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth, and this because of their own iniquity, being led captive by the will of the devil.
Book of Mormon | 3 Nephi 18:15
   15 Verily, verily, I say unto you, ye must watch and pray always, lest ye be tempted by the devil, and ye be led away captive by him.
Pearl of Great Price | Moses 4:4
   4 And he became Satan, yea, even the devil, the father of all lies, to deceive and to blind men, and to lead them captive at his will, even as many as would not hearken unto my voice.
Book of Mormon | 1 Nephi 15:35
   35 And there is a place prepared, yea, even that awful hell of which I have spoken, and the devil is the preparator of it; wherefore the final state of the souls of men is to dwell in the kingdom of God, or to be cast out because of that justice of which I have spoken.
9. Pearl of Great Price | Moses 4:3-4
   3 Wherefore, because that Satan rebelled against me, and sought to destroy the agency of man, which I, the Lord God, had given him, and also, that I should give unto him mine own power; by the power of mine Only Begotten, I caused that he should be cast down;
   4 And he became Satan, yea, even the devil, the father of all lies, to deceive and to blind men, and to lead them captive at his will, even as many as would not hearken unto my voice.
10. Book of Mormon | Ether 8:23-25 (Bold emphasis added.)

*Image Info: (Repurposed and Recycled by SMS 2022)
Markus Szyszkowitz (born August 4, 1966 in Graz) is an Austrian caricaturist and comic artist who was best known for his daily comic strip series “Superrudi und Superstruppi” in the Kronen Zeitung from 1998 to 2009 | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Szyszkowitz
Repurposed by SMS 2022 under same CC license: 1) German: “Wir sollten rasch eine losung finden” [“We should quickly find a solution.”] supplemented with “We should quickly find a new narrative!”; 2) Warum [Why?]; and 3) Euro symbol replaced with "COVID-19 Narrative."
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