Julie Green: One Of The Most Powerful Messages I’ve Ever Been Given!

This is a powerful, encouraging word through Julie Green:  https://welovetrump.com/2022/07/25/julie-green-one-of-the-most-powerful-messages-ive-ever-been-given/

"Church, Here Is the Narrative of the Day..." Johnny Enlow

 A good word from Johnny Enlow posted on The Elijah List:

"Church, Here Is the Narrative of the Day..."

Johnny Enlow, Nashville, TN

God Has Not Scripted a Losing Storyline

Church, here is the narrative of the day. This is not a day when evil triumphs. This is not a day when Jesus returns to rapture us. The rapture is/was never a rescue operation; to believe so is to believe that God has scripted a losing storyline – He has not. Whatever the rapture is, it is not a reward for losing the planet – despite being the overwhelming majority.

Jesus did not say, "I will build My Church and then pull them out before the gates of Hell encroach upon it." No, He said, "...I will build My Church, and the very gates of Hell shall not prevail against it" (Matthew 16:18). That is the correct narrative of the day. The Church is His Ekklesia, the called-out ones who must challenge the gates of Hell, wherever those gates are.

The "Capture" Not the Rapture

Where are those gates of Hell? Those gates of Hell are positioned at the tops of the Seven Mountains: at the highest places in media, the economy, in government, in education, in family structures, in arts and entertainment, as well as in structures that call themselves "church." If you are part of a church that is just a "reprieve" from all that is going on in the world, you are not part of the Church; you are part of a "Christian social club." (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)

Jesus said He would build His Church, and that this Church of His would position itself against the very gates of Hell. This isn't the rapture, this is the capture. The very gates of Hell must be captured and occupied by sons and daughters of light. Didn't He say that as well, "Occupy until I return"? Occupy what? Occupy your place of assignment. It is militant thinking. It is against the very places where satan opens up gates of Hell. That is where you occupy. That is where your assignment is. "Church going" is not to be a respite from hearing about the battle. Church is where orders for battling are to come from.

"Do you not understand that the gates of Hell are a reality? Do you not understand that the gate of Hell in the media is occupied through agents in Twitter, CNN, Fox, CNBC, Facebook, Google, etc.? Do you not understand that the economy has gates of Hell in Wall Street, in the Central Banks, in Davos, in the World Economic Summit? Do you not understand that other gates of Hell are in Hollywood, Harvard, Rome, Religious Headquarters, the United Nations, the CDC, the WHO, the Supreme Court and Congress?

"Do you not know that he who illegally poses as president is referred to as 'Pedo Peter' by his own son? Do you not know that criminals, disguised as politicians and healthcare workers, are still enforcing deadly vaccines? Do you understand, Church, that you are the only ones I have empowered to remove the Luciferian criminals from these gates of Hell? Do you really think a celebratory rapture is in order when you haven't even identified the correct battlefield?

All of Creation Groans for the Revealing of the Sons and Daughters of God

"Do you think thousands of Christian social clubs, that refuse to show up at the gates of Hell, are targets for a rapture? Did I not say that YOU are the salt of the earth, and if YOU, as the salt, don't bring the healing, cleansing and preserving agent of salt into society's structures, you are good for nothing but to be trampled on? Do you now think that being trampled upon is a precursor to the rapture?

"Do you not see that being trampled upon is the result of being 'Christian social clubs' and not the Ekklesia Church I spoke of? Are you now afraid your members will leave if you tell them that a gate of Hell is a gate of Hell? Are you now so cozy with darkness that you don't shed light on it? Have I not allowed things to be so clear in society right now that it is not a matter of politics but just right and wrong? Has not pure evil been made obvious? Do you still insist on playing it neutral?

"Come on, Church. Rise up. Rise up and be all I have foretold that you would be. Rise up as creation groans and travails for you to be My gates-of-Hell-challenging Ekklesia. Rise up as I orchestrate a great day of deliverance for you and for the nations of the world.

"Arise and shine with courage, with conviction, with clarity. Leave your lukewarm Christian social club if its effect on you is lukewarmness. Find My Ekklesia in places not called 'church.' Recognize My Ekklesia and My Ekklesia leaders in very untraditional settings, if necessary. Recognize My Ekklesia, whether it is in a building called 'church' or an online community. Be taught by those who understand this narrative that I lay out for you.

"My finest hour upon the earth is coming, and it is intended to be yours as well, as you move in alignment with Me. Carry Me; carry My presence; carry My storyline. The best is yet to come."

Do Masks Make You More Likely to Get Long COVID? by Dr. Mercola

 I detest masks!  I also feel embarrassed and anxious for anyone wearing one because I know they don't work.  It is obviou those wearing them have not done their research and are operating in fear.  This article from Dr. Mercola gives very convincing we should not be wearing one.

Do Masks Make You More Likely to Get Long COVID? by Dr. Mercola During the COVID-19 pandemic, 80% of U.S. states mandated masks to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2, but accumulating research shows mask mandates and use do not lower the spread of the virus.1 While rules requiring masks did increase compliance, they didn't translate to lower transmission growth rates, whether community spread of SARS-CoV-2 was low or high.

Even before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, mask mandates were put in place without ever properly evaluating efficacy, but that didn't stop them from dividing communities and being used as a form of virtue signaling and a visible reminder of compliance with the "new normal."

Now, with research showing not only that masks don't protect you but may actually make you sick, the rationale behind their widespread mandated usage must be questioned.

Mask Mandates Didn't Lower COVID-19 Cases

Using CDC data, researchers with the University of Louisville calculated total COVID-19 case growth and mask use for the U.S. No significant differences were found in case growth between mandate and non-mandate states during periods of low or high transmission.

"Surges were equivocal," they noted, concluding, "Mask mandates and use are not associated with slower state-level COVID-19 spread during COVID-19 growth surges."2 While stating that their findings "do not support the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 transmission rates decrease with greater public mask use," they did note that "masks may promote social cohesion as rallying symbols during a pandemic."3

Similarly dismal results from mask mandates were demonstrated in Europe. A study published in Cureus analyzed data from 35 European countries, including morbidity, mortality and mask usage, over a six-month period. The researchers noted:4

"Mask mandates were implemented in almost all world countries and in most places where masks were not obligatory, their use in public spaces was recommended … These mandates and recommendations took place despite the fact that most randomized controlled trials carried out before and during the COVID-19 pandemic concluded that the role of masks in preventing respiratory viral transmission was small, null, or inconclusive."

When the data were analyzed, the study also revealed that the widespread use of masks did not reduce COVID-19 transmission. Worse, a moderate positive correlation was found between mask usage and deaths in Western Europe, which "suggests that the universal use of masks may have had harmful unintended consequences."5

Mask Mandates in Schools Didn't Reduce COVID-19 Cases

As part of the government sponsored propaganda campaign, a widely cited CDC study, published in October 2021, reported that counties without school mask mandates had larger increases in COVID-19 case rates in children after the start of school compared with counties that had school mask mandates.6

The study was used to support school mask mandates, but a team of researchers revisited the research, incorporating a larger sample size and longer study period. The updated study,7 published in May 2022, used nearly six times more data compared to the original study and found no significant relationship between mask mandates in U.S. schools and COVID-19 case rates. According to the researchers:8

"We failed to establish a relationship between school masking and pediatric cases using the same methods but a larger, more nationally diverse population over a longer interval. Our study demonstrates that observational studies of interventions with small to moderate effect sizes are prone to bias caused by selection and omitted variables. Randomized studies can more reliably inform public health policy."

On Twitter, surgeon and public policy researcher Dr. Marty Makary pointed out that the CDC's original study appeared to include cherry-picked data and the agency refused to publish an update using the more extensive data:9

"This study demonstrates how the CDC was cherry-picking data to support their school mask dogma. The article states that CDC's MMWR journal rejected publishing this re-analysis. Most likely because it exposed the CDCs salami-slicing of data & use of science as political propaganda."

It should be noted that a previous CDC study found mask requirements for students had little effect on COVID-19 incidence in Georgia schools, while improved ventilation, such as opening a window, reduced cases more than mask mandates for staff and teachers.10

The Foegen Effect: Mask Mandates Increased COVID-19 Deaths

A profoundly important study was conducted by German physician Dr. Zacharias Fögen to find out whether mandatory mask use influenced the COVID-19 case fatality rate in Kansas from August 1, 2020, to October 15, 2020.11 He chose the state of Kansas because, while it issued a mask mandate, counties were allowed to either opt in or out of it.

His analysis revealed that counties with a mask mandate had significantly higher case fatality rates than counties without a mask mandate. "These findings suggest that mask use might pose a yet unknown threat to the user instead of protecting them, making mask mandates a debatable epidemiologic intervention," he concluded.

That threat, he explained, may be something called the "Foegen effect" — the idea that deep re-inhalation of droplets and virions caught on facemasks might make COVID-19 infection more likely or more severe.

“The fundamentals of this effect are easily demonstrated when wearing a facemask and glasses at the same time by pulling the upper edge of the mask over the lower edge of the glasses. Droplets appear on the mask when breathing out and disappear when breathing in.”

"In the "Foegen effect," the virions spread (because of their smaller size) deeper into the respiratory tract. They bypass the bronchi and are inhaled deep into the alveoli, where they can cause pneumonia instead of bronchitis, which would be typical of a virus infection. 

Furthermore, these virions bypass the multilayer squamous epithelial wall that they cannot pass into in vitro and most likely cannot pass into in vivo. Therefore, the only probable way for the virions to enter the blood vessels is through the alveoli."12

Wearing Masks Could Be Related to Long COVID

Fögen explained that wearing masks could end up increasing your overall viral load because, instead of exhaling virions from your respiratory tract and ridding your body of them, those virions are caught in the mask and returned. This might also have the effect of increasing the number of virions that pass through the mask, such that it becomes more than the number that would have been shed without a mask.

The fact that "hypercondensed droplets and pure virions in the mask might be blown outwards during expiration, resulting in aerosol transmission instead of droplet transmission" is another issue that could make transmission worse instead of better, and the use of "more protective" masks could also backfire, making COVID-19's long-term effects worse. Fögen explained:13

"The use of "better" masks (e.g., FFP2, FFP3) with a higher droplet-filtering capacity probably should cause an even stronger "Foegen effect" because the number of virions that are potentially re-inhaled increases in the same way that outward shedding is reduced.

Another salient point is that COVID-19-related long-term effects and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children may all be a direct cause of the "Foegen effect." Virus entry into the alveoli and blood without being restricted to the upper respiratory tract and bronchi and can cause damage by initiating an (auto) immune reaction in most organs."

Clear Risks of Prolonged Mask Use

Two expert reports spoke out against the use of masks for children in 2021. The first, a psychology report,14 stated that masks are likely to be causing psychological harm to children and interfering with development.15 "The extent of psychological harm to young people is unknown," the report stated, "due to the unique nature of the 'social experiment' currently underway in schools, and in wider society."16

The second report focused on health, safety and well-being,17 noting potential permanent physical damage to the lungs caused by fibrosis from inhalation of fibrous nanoparticles.

"There are real and significant dangers of respiratory infection, oral health deterioration and of lung injury, such as pneumothorax, owing to moisture buildup and also exposure to potentially harmful levels of an asphyxiant gas (carbon dioxide [CO2]) which can cause serious injury to health," the authors explained.18

Normally, the CO2 then dissipates into the air around you before you take another breath. In the open air, carbon dioxide typically exists at about 400 parts per million (ppm), or 0.04% by volume.

The German Federal Environmental Office set a limit of CO2 for closed rooms of 2,000 ppm, or 0.2% by volume. If you're wearing a facemask, the CO2 cannot escape as it usually does and instead becomes trapped in the mask. In a study published in JAMA Pediatrics, researchers analyzed the CO2 content of inhaled air among children wearing two types of masks, as well as wearing no mask.19

While no significant difference in CO2 was found between the two types of masks, there was a significant elevation when wearing masks compared to not wearing them. CO2 in inhaled air under surgical and filtering facepiece masks came in between 13,120 ppm and 13,910 ppm, "which is higher than what is already deemed unacceptable by the German Federal Environmental Office by a factor of 6," the researchers noted.20

Also important, this level was reached after only three minutes, while children wear masks at school for a mean of 270 minutes at a time. Even the child who had the lowest measured CO2 level had a measurement three-fold greater than the closed room CO2 limit of 0.2%. However, younger children appeared to have the highest CO2 values; a level of 25,000 ppm was measured from a 7-year-old wearing a facemask.21

Bacterial Infection Risk, Problems With Social Learning

The full consequences of prolonged mask use are only beginning to be understood. The University of Louisville researchers noted, however, that using a mask for more than four hours per day "promotes facial alkalinization and inadvertently encourages dehydration, which in turn can enhance barrier breakdown and bacterial infection risk."22 Other reported adverse effects include:23

Increase in headaches and sweating	Decreased cognitive precision
Association with medical errors	Interference with social learning in children
Obscured nonverbal communication	Distorted verbal speech
Removal of visual cues, which is detrimental to people with hearing loss

After a lawsuit was brought by Leslie Manookian's Health Freedom Defense Fund (HFDF), U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle finally voided the CDC's U.S. mask mandate on airplanes and public transit in April 2022.24 The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has appealed the court order,25however, making it clear that they don't intend to give up on mask mandates without a fight. In response, HFDF issued the following statement:26

"DoJ's statement [that it would appeal] is perplexing to say the least and sounds like it comes from health policy advocates not government lawyers. The ruling by the US District Court ruling is a matter of law, not CDC preference or an assessment of 'current health conditions.'

If there is in fact a public health emergency with clear and irrefutable science supporting CDC's mask mandate, does it not warrant urgent action? Why would DoJ and CDC not immediately appeal?

HFDF is left with no option but to conclude that the Mask Mandate is really a political matter and not at all about urgent public health issues or the demands of sound science. While DoJ and CDC play politics with Americans' health and freedoms, HFDF trusts individual Americans to make their own health decisions.

HFDF is confident that Americans possess ample common sense and education to understand that there are real questions about mask efficacy and risk and that CDC's policy reflects neither."

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Zucchini in abundance

 This year I decided to plant 4 hills of zucchini in our garden because I love raw zucchini in salads.  Of course, the garden is producing many more zucchini than we can eat so I began searching for recipes to use them.

I found this one, which I changed somewhat when I made it yesterday.  I have rewritten the recipe as I made it.  We thought it was excellent!  In case you, too, are looking for ways to use your abundance I thought it would be good to add the recipe to my blog.

Zucchini Casserole

4 C. shredded unpeeled zucchini

1/2 t. salt

2 large eggs

1/2 c. Parmesan cheese

2 c. (Or more) shredded mozzarella cheese, divided. 

1 c. (Or more) shredded cheddar cheese, divided

1 lb ground beef

1/2-1 c. chopped onion

1 medium green pepper

1 15 oz. can tomato sauce

1-2 t. Italian seasoning

1/2-1 t. salt

1/2-1 t. pepper

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place zucchini in colander, sprinkle with salt.  Let stand 10 minutes, then squeeze out moisture.

Combine zucchini with eggs, Parmesan, and half the mozzarella and cheddar cheeses.  Press into a greased 13x9 in baking dish.  Bake 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, cook beef, onion, and green pepper over medium heat.  Drain.  Add tomato sauce and seasonings.  Spread mixture over cooked zucchini layer.  Sprinkle with remaining cheeses.  Bake until heated through, about 20 minutes longer.