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The Burden of Damascus

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Nuke or no nuke?

Syria has been front and center in the news these days, as the government of Bashar al-Assad has fallen to Islamist rebels while the power brokers who propped up his government for their own purposes sat on the sidelines and watched. As for Assad, he escaped from the capital Damascus and fled to Moscow, where he was welcomed with open arms by President Putin.

Not being as much of a political wonk as some in the watch community, it's still a bit too soon for me to try and sort through the situation in Syria with a high degree of clarity and scope out just how all this might play out. I'm pretty much like a lot of ordinary people right now, saddled with a case of "wait and see." So, that's not the point of this article—we'll have to wait and see.

Now, I may not be much of a political wonk, but I admit that I am a bit of a Scripture wonk. So, rather than a little geopolitical prognostication, what I want to do here is consider a hot topic that's been making the rounds in prophetic circles these days: the question of Damascus and its relationship to an oft-quoted prophecy in the book of Isaiah.

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OCT '23: Where Is This Going?
As Israel responds forcefully to the recent terrorist attack by Hamas, it has many prophetically minded believers asking the obvious question.

Where Is This Going?

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As everyone knows, on Saturday, October 7, Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas struck Israeli territory with a barrage of about 3,000 missiles, thanks in large part to a temporary and suspiciously ill-timed failure of their Iron Dome air defense system. At the same time, waves of Hamas terrorists penetrated Israeli territory, killing over 1,300 innocent civilians (with a documented focus on young children, women, and the elderly), and taking over 200 hostages alive back to Gaza.

The next day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially declared the nation of Israel to be at war with Hamas. The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) called up 300,000 reserves and swiftly cleared Israeli territory of all terrorists, and began launching airstrikes on Gaza. In addition, Israeli ground troops are preparing to move into Gaza to attack terrorists and rescue hostages.

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1/14/2025 — From the "Death by Death" Department...

As you all know, there has been no shortage of controversy concerning the mRNA COVID vaccines over the last several years. Many have claimed the vaccines were grossly undertested (with certain test results discreetly buried) and recklessly foisted on the public in order for Big Pharma companies like Pfizer and Moderna to cash in and rake in tens of billions of dollars.

Many are convinced the public has been lied to by Big Pharma, various government agencies, and the mainstream media from the very beginning of this entire COVID saga. Hey, the vaccines are safe and effective, didn't ya know...and those lies provided cover for the global effort to push the mRNA vaccines on the whole world.

More recently, however, scarier theories have begun to emerge. As cancer rates in many countries have begun to rise sharply for reasons that remain elusively unclear, some have even gone so far as to blame the mRNA vaccines. But there is never any mention of the vaccines in articles about this worrying increase in cancer rates, right? So surely this must be yet another one of those anti-vax conspiracy theories, right?

Well, if that's what you were hoping for, I'm afraid I've got some bad news:

Turns out it's not a conspiracy theory after all.

Dr. Kevin McKernan is a genomics scientist and founder of Medicinal Genomics, and has recently done groundbreaking research into cancerous tumors. And as a result of what he has found, he is sounding the alarm.

What McKernan has basically done is gene-sequenced a cancerous tumor, and he has discovered that its genetic sequence matches that of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine. To make a long story slightly less long, this essentially represents the first definitive scientific proof that the mRNA vaccines absolutely do cause cancer in vaccinated individuals. John Beaudoin, Sr., an independent vaccine investigator, was a bit more blunt:

"When Kevin McKernan gene-sequenced the tumor [...] and matched the genetic sequence to the Pfizer vaccine, it's freaking over. It's over."

To which McKernan added:

"And we can find components of Pfizer's vaccines inside this thing a year after vaccination."

So there it is: Our worst fears about the mRNA vaccines have been confirmed.

And I fear it's only going to get worse.

As I discuss in an article entitled "A Horse of a Most Peculiar Color," I am of the opinion that the mRNA vaccines will lead to a wave of deaths that will constitute part of the fourth seal judgment, described by John in Revelation 6:7–8 as the rider on a pale or sickly green horse. John tells us that death will come in four forms: (a) the sword, (b) famine, (c) death, and (d) wild animals. And it is the third item that catches one's attention.

Obviously (a), (b), and (d) need no further explanation. But in (c) we have "death by death" (Greek: thanatos). I mean, what's up with that? As I explain in the article I linked to, usage of the Greek word thanatos seems a bit odd here, and leaves a thoughtful reader wondering just exactly what kind of death John is actually talking about. The reason I say that is because it's not the same word he most likely would have used if he had simply meant "disease" or "pestilence" in the usual sense, although that is a legitimate secondary meaning of thanatos. But in other places a different word is used for those.

So just what is John talking about??

As I explain in that article, I am tempted to see John's odd usage of "death by death" as a reference to something he wouldn't have understood in familiar human terms. And I am tempted to see this as a reference to the huge number of deaths that are going to occur in the next few years due to the effects of a vaccine that is, to put it mildly, neither safe nor effective.

Part of me prays I am wrong...but I just can't shake this one off.

Fortunately, I was able to avoid the mRNA vaccine. But one of my wife's high school friends just died a couple of weeks ago following a nearly two-year battle with multiple tumors throughout her body. And according to my wife, she had gotten several mRNA vaccines, like many people in Taiwan.

Is there a connection? Only God knows.

And God also knows that I don't have any plans to get an mRNA COVID vaccine anytime in the foreseeable future.

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