Here recently I came across an interesting article that grabbed my attention, the title of this article from Creation Moments. Is your brain really necessary? It starts off with some questions. How does the brain remember what it learns? What happens when you think? Is your mind the same as your brain? As modern science learns more about the wonders of the brain, it also learns that it is farther than ever from learning how the brain works. Some former materialists are beginning to ask whether man has a non-material spiritual part. A few years ago, doctors tried to save a child suffering from a severe brain disease by removing the entire left half of his brain. Since important centers for language and speech are in the left half of the brain, they did not expect the child to speak in a normal way ever again. Not only did the child recover, but as he grew into adulthood, his language skills were far above normal. Professor John Lorber writes about a student who had an IQ of 126 and held academic honors in mathematics, yet was found to have virtually no brain tissue at all. Professor Lorber decided to study similar cases. He found several and at least half of these people who had 95% of their cranium filled with spinal fluid instead of brain tissue had higher than average IQs. Professor Lorber wrote about these cases. in an article entitled, Is Your Brain Really Necessary? Yes, our brains are really necessary. However, these examples show us that the brain God has given us is even more marvelous than we thought. They also show that there is a great deal more to us than simply tissues and organs. Not one of us can claim that God didn't give us the mental abilities to be productive in glorifying him. I think it's very interesting, and I believe as believers in Christ we need to make a distinction between our brain, the brain matter, and our mind. I believe our mind is a part of our spiritual nature, and what's interesting is the Apostle Paul says in Romans 7 verse 24 and 25 as he speaks of the conflict and the battle in his life spiritually, Oh, wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? He says, I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So then with the mind, I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin. I want you to consider the importance of the mind. It does not take a lot of brain, obviously, to have knowledge, but here's what I want to consider in this study and examine why so many are deceived. In fact, it's interesting, 2 Timothy 3.13 says, but evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. If we can summarize the last few years, I believe there's a lot of deception that is becoming obvious in our world around us. And I want you to consider also that most Americans have education, but no understanding and discernment. So in this study, I want for us to examine why so many are deceived today. First of all, as giving you some examples, deceived into following political messiahs who are pushing their wars upon us. I just list some examples. There's numerous ones, but these are ones that came to my mind as I was writing some things out here for this study. The Bush family, Donald Trump. Well, Donald Trump did not start any wars, but he dropped more bombs than all presidents before him. Bibi Netanyahu. Again, as we think about this, we're following political messiahs who are pushing their wars, pushing us, trying to push us into World War III. Something else, as another example, why so many are deceived into doing everything that government leaders will say. into giving up their God-given rights protected by our constitution. And I want you to consider that many are doing what government leaders say, even if it violates the word of God. It's been a while since I've mentioned this, but Psalm 94, verse 20 and 21 says, shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, speaking to God here, which frameth mischief by a law. Notice, framing mischief, sin, wickedness by a law. They, that's the throne of iniquity, they gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous and condemn the innocent blood, but the Lord is my defense and my God is the rock of my refuge. Where's our trust as we think about this? So many today are also deceived into accepting false doctrine, false teaching. Paul says in Ephesians chapter four, that we should not be tossed about with every wind of doctrine. How many times so many are caught up into the latest teaching. The Bible emphasizes sound doctrine, not doctrine that sounds right. We need to search the scriptures daily to see if the things are so that we're being taught from the word of God. Also, so many are deceived today into trusting science. They're trusting the experts. They're trusting physicians. They're trusting big pharma. As I was doing some research for this series of studies, I came across an article. This is actually dated, I believe, from 2021, that the healthcare providers were bribed into suggesting COVID vaccines. Congressman says leaked document shows. GOP representative Thomas Massey shared a document Thursday outlining Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shields vaccine provider incentive program for Kentucky providers. And this was done in various places. He was reporting on what happened in Kentucky. Representative Thomas Massey, representative from Kentucky, shared a document on social media Thursday outlining Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shields vaccine provider incentive program for for Kentucky-based providers. The document showed doctors could make thousands of dollars in bonus compensation for inoculating their patients during the pandemic. Two separate categories were outlined in the document. The first included bonus parameters for providers based on their practices, total vaccination numbers by September 1, 2021. Providers in the state of Kentucky could have made anywhere from $20 to $125 per vaccinated patient based on how many total patients in their practice have received the jab by the aforementioned date. For example, to receive the $125 bonus per vaccinated patient, The provider must have vaccinated at least 75% of their practice's total Anthem members by September 1, 2021. Seventy-five, three out of four, every three out of four of their patients. The second category bumped up the bonuses, but was specifically for inoculations between September 1, 2021 and December 31, 2021. The parameters for that shorter time frame gave Anthem providers as much as $250 per newly vaccinated individual if the provider has inoculated at least 75% of its Anthem members. As with the previous category, based on the provider's total number of vaccinated patients within their practice, the bonus amount per newly inoculated patient varies. For context, a health provider with roughly 265 patients could have received as much as $25,000 in bonus money. I remember reading one short little meme statement about a doctor who claimed that she could have made $1.5 million if she had recommended the COVID vaccine to 6,000 of her patients. So we're trusting doctors, we're trusting physicians who have investments in these pharmaceutical companies, who are doing these things in relation to their bonuses. They're being bought out, so we're being deceived. You think about all the things that were promoted during the pandemic, as it is called, lockdowns. Everybody was to be locked down, no gatherings above 10 people, masks, I remember seeing a short little video about the effectiveness of masks. Someone inhaled on a vape pipe, put the mask on and breathed out and you could see the vape vapors coming out all around the mask. They protected no one. And I think about some of the individuals I saw driving in a car, they were in a car by themselves with their mask on, or walking down a street by themselves and they had a mask on. So many people have been deceived into thinking everything, doing everything that the government says. And then finally, of course, the shots. Closing churches for months, no family gatherings, no visiting the elderly in care centers for months. So many bought into all of these things without ever considering whether or not they were true. So many have been deceived into accepting democracy. I remind you that our nation was established as a constitutional republic, not a democracy. I am Fox San Antonio's Jessica Hedley. And I'm Ryan Wolf. Our greatest responsibility is to serve our Treasure Valley communities. The El Paso, Las Cruces communities. Eastern Iowa communities. Mid-Michigan communities. We are extremely proud of the quality, balanced journalism that CBS 4 News produces. But we are concerned about a country that is responsible for one-sided news stories plaguing our country. Plaguing our country. The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. More alarming, some media outlets publish these same fake stories without checking facts first. The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. I want you to consider that we have heard the lie so long that we believe we are a democracy. Check out Greece to see how democracy works, the effects that democracy has upon a nation. Again, I emphasize, but evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. We need discernment. We need discernment desperately in these days. Let me mention this as far as 1 John 4, verses one through six. How do we know the difference between truth and error? Now, specifically, obviously, this is talking about spiritual teaching, but again, I wanna draw this application for this study. 1 John 4, verse one. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets are gone out into the world. I want you to consider that there were many, many false prophets pushing these things during the time of the COVID so-called pandemic. Hereby I know ye the Spirit of God. Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come. And even now already is it in the world. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. They are of the world. Therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them." We need to pay attention to the ones who the world is following. We are of God. He that knoweth God, heareth us. He that is not of God, heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. Why is it that so many believers, professing believers in Christ, were caught up in the deception over the last four and five years? I want you to consider it's because we've lost our ability to discern even doctrinal matters so that we are susceptible to being deceived by things that this world is pushing toward us. I'm gonna give you an example of this, even from the pandemic. And again, I'm emphasizing these things because they are pushing a pandemic again upon us and a healthcare emergency, as I mentioned last week. I wanna mention the one organization that I came across in relation as an aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. It's called Faiths for Vaccines. Let me just read this introduction as to who they are. Faiths for Vaccines is an inclusive multi-faith movement comprised of local and national religious leaders, as well as medical professionals who are working together to identify and resolve current gaps in vaccine mobilization, outreach, and uptake. Therefore, the initiative seeks to increase opportunities for faith-based institutions, particularly houses of worship, to engage and support the United States government, notice, to engage and support the United States government in its efforts to increase vaccination rates through the advancement of equitable vaccine distribution and combat vaccine hesitancy. Notice the government was working with faith-based organizations to break down the resistance to combat vaccine hesitancy. How many times I saw videos of pastors posting videos online, their church was requiring vaccinations in order to attend services. God help us. The shared goals of faiths for vaccines. Demonstrate religious communities trust in the vaccine. Well, I don't trust the vaccine, I still don't, and I don't trust the next one that's coming out as well. Support houses of worship and faith communities to innovatively distribute vaccines. Again, getting them to the churches so that the churches can promote them and push them. Advocate and advance equitable vaccine distribution, create space for multi-faith collaboration, and pave the way for global equitable vaccine distribution. I don't want any part of it, no part whatsoever. As I was doing some reading for this lesson, I came across a situation that happened in 2013 related to two CNN reporters. They actually were anchors for two different agencies, but these two CNN reporters pretended to be in separate locations for a live report. But what was hilarious is that the same cars and a bus passed before both cameras. That's deception. There's so much deception in our world today. I'm gonna give you some examples here. And again, these are related to the pandemic that's been announced as I started a study last week on this. First of all, RFK Jr. is anti-vax. I mentioned this briefly in my lesson last week. I want you to listen to the statements that are made by Wikipedia related to RFK Jr. that he is pro-vaccine, he's an anti-vaccine activist, he's a conspiracy theorist, and he's an environmental lawyer. He's also described as being the founder and chairman of Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine advocacy group and a leading proponent of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. I'm gonna let RFK Jr. himself clarify some things in relation to the Wikipedia description of himself. This is audio that's taken from the Healthy American. I wanna emphasize that the first and last statements are repeated for emphasis. People call me an anti-vaxxer, but I'm not. I'm pro-vaccine. And I don't think that we ought to be mandating medical interventions for unwilling Americans unless we know precisely that that vaccine is going to end up helping people rather than hurting them. Most people call me anti-vaccine, but I'm not anti-vaccine. And your kids have all had vaccines? My kids are all fully vaccinated now. So you're not intrinsically anti-vaccine? No, I was never anti-vaccine. You know, I think most people don't know what my stance is on vaccines. I've never been anti-vaccine. I want to start out by saying this, and I want to say it emphatically. I am pro-vaccine. I have always been fiercely pro-vaccine. And I believe that we ought to have policies that encourage full vaccination for all Americans. Well, like you said, I'm pro-vaccine. I've never said anything anti-vaccine. So what are you suggesting? Women don't take these vaccines? No, I am furiously pro-vaccine. I want to see, you know, I've had all six of my children vaccinated. I want to see everybody be taking their vaccines. We need full coverage. People don't take them because they no longer believe in CDC. I've never been anti-vaccine. I was fully vaccinated. And I've never been anti-vaccine. First of all, you started out by introducing is anti-vaccine, which I'm not. People say I'm anti-vaccine because they don't want to have the argument with me about how to improve vaccines. And I'm not anti-vaccine. I'm not anti-vaccine. People call me an anti-vaxxer, but I'm not. I'm pro-vaccine. And I don't think that we ought to be mandating medical interventions for unwilling Americans unless we know precisely that that vaccine is going to end up helping people rather than hurting them. That first and last statement made by RFK Jr. was made in 2019. I'm gonna emphasize it again because I want you to catch the wording. Again, I'm showing us how we can be discerning with the things that we see and hear. I don't think we should be mandating medical interventions for unwilling Americans unless, unless we know precisely that that vaccine is going to end up helping them rather than hurting them. He is not anti-vax. In 2024, World Economic Forum had a theme for their annual convention, their annual gathering, Rebuilding Trust. RFK Jr., as a member of the Kennedy family, wants to restore trust in the government. Did you catch what I just said? He wants us to trust, be able to trust the CDC, the FDA, the EPA, all of these government agencies once again. RFK Jr's uncle, JFK, signed into law the Vaccine Assistance Act of 1962. This Vaccine Assistance Act gave federal money to states, counties, and school districts for vaccines. His uncle was pro-vaccine. Government funding, Kennedy big government. I also wanna highlight another statement that he made, RFK Jr. made in a 2021 debate, RFK Jr. versus Dershowitz. Kennedy says, when Alan and I were kids, people wanted to get vaccinated. People wanted to get vaccinated. There was no fear of the polio vaccine, and people had a tremendous trust in our health regulatory officials. And today, that trust has evaporated to the extent where today, 50% of the people polled in this country are saying that they may not take the COVID vaccine, and 27% are a hard no. This is even before the vaccine is developed. Again, I remind you again, this was in 2021 before the vaccine. Why is that happening? Now, at 14 minutes, this statement is made. That is the question I think we really have to ask ourselves. Why do so many Americans no longer trust the regulatory officials and trust this process? And one of the reasons is, as you know, vaccines are very, very interesting and a very different kind of medical product because it is a remedy. It's a medical intervention that is being given to perfectly healthy people to prevent someone else from getting sick. And it's the only medicine that's given to healthy people. So you would expect, we would want that particular intervention to have particularly rigorous guarantees that it is safe because you are saying to somebody, we are going to make you make this sacrifice for the greater good. You have no health problems. You have zero risk for this disease, and we are going to force you to undergo a medical intervention. And our side of the bargain should be, oh, we want this to be completely safe. Let me ask you, how is it that you understand a vaccine is safe for children? By giving the vaccine to children. So in other words, this whole vaccination plan, even RFK Jr. holds to, is making sure we have safe vaccines. Listen to the following statements made by Dr. Jay, I'm assuming his last name is Bhattacharya, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. This is an Epoch Times video. It's taken from the American Thought Leaders. Listen carefully to his statements that he makes about regaining trust, restoring trust in the vaccines. And so the question is, why don't we just kind of explore these realities and then chart a way forward here? I mean, I think we have a fantastic tool to protect the vulnerable, the vaccines. work very hard to convince vulnerable people that it's worthwhile for them to get it. And that involves, for instance, not doing a mandate. A mandate essentially, what it's done is created a class of people. Like the vaccine, the anti-vax movement used to be a small fringe movement on the edge of society. And scientists would obsess over it, or how can there exist X percent, less than 1 percent of people that don't agree that an MMR vaccine is a good idea. What the vaccine mandates have done, what this entire policy environment has done, including the denial of natural immunity, for instance, immunity that's provided by recovery after COVID, is it's created deep distrust over this vaccine. And now that this anti-vax movement, if you will, is 20% of the population, 30%, I mean, it's some much larger fraction. It's mainstreamed it. It's because people have lost trust in the science. Scientists have made all kinds of promises about the lockdowns, about the vaccines that have not come to pass. So I think we've created this like deepest trust in science and in medicine through these like coercive policies and these set of failed promises. And I think what needs to happen is we need to work to heal that. I mean, public health is actually quite an important thing and having a public health that people can trust is actually important for people's health. So when we think about the children's health defense, I went to their website and I have some statements from this. And I want you to consider how easy it has been for us to be deceived by somebody who appeared to be anti-vax. And in reality, he's wanting to restore trust in safer vaccines. Here's three statements that Children's Health Defense emphasizes. Protecting children, exposing harms, seeking justice. Here's this statement as far as their mission. This is their mission statement. And again, this is an organization that was established by, founded by RFK Jr. Our mission is ending childhood health epidemics by eliminating toxic exposure. You notice he does not say by eliminating vaccines. That's not what he said. We will restore and protect the health of children by eliminating environmental exposures, holding responsible parties accountable, and establishing safeguards to prevent future harm of children's health. Insistence on fully informed consent and individual rights to refuse a vaccination become imperative given the lack of long-term follow-up and surveillance. Only 1% of adverse events are captured and reported. Vaccine recommendations are tainted by financial conflicts of interest of regulators. The current childhood vaccine schedule was not approved using evidence-based science and policy. The childhood vaccine schedule has never been tested on fully vaccinated versus unvaccinated. Did you catch that? I'm going to read that statement again. The childhood vaccine schedule has never been tested on fully vaccinated versus unvaccinated. You're doing experimentation and watching the results on children. And there is sparse research into which patients are likely to have adverse events. Very little research. How do you know if patients have adverse events unless they have the vaccines? America is in the midst of many childhood epidemics. Over 50% of our children are chronically ill. We owe it to our children to examine what is happening to their health and correct it as soon as possible. That's an official statement on the Children's Health Defense website. Another example I want to give you in relation to how easy it is for us to be deceived, and many were deceived, by this whole thing, but treatments for COVID-19. Of course, the two that were popular and debated were hydroxychloroquine, which was an anti-malaria medicine used for decades, and then also the medication ivermectin. Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic agent that was discovered in 1975, and it's on WHO's list of essential medicines. Essential medicines used to treat parasites in both animals and humans. Now, some of this information I pulled out of an article, Coronavirus Fact Check Number 12, Ivermectin. This is from Off Guardian, September 2021. So in the midst of all of this, the accusations were made that many doctors were spreading misinformation about hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. Two studies claimed ivermectin could cure COVID. I wanna mention a couple of problems that this article mentions here. First of all, ivermectin is an anti-parasitic that weakens the cell membranes of parasitic neurons. Viruses do not have cell membranes or neurons. And ivermectin was never used to treat viruses for decades before. A second problem is this. Any study done on COVID-19 patients has this major roadblock. The only tool, quote unquote, used for diagnosing COVID-19 were the PCR tests. And they are not fit for the purpose as even the inventor of the PCR test has stated. It is impossible to tell the difference between someone with the flu and a false positive test. all testing for treatments of COVID-19 are unreliable. And therefore, because of that, I want you to consider that 99% of COVID patients survived. So did they survive because of the treatment or did they survive because of their God-given immunity? So the serious question for us to ask is, would those using ivermectin have survived anyway? Last week, I mentioned to you a comparison of official numbers from the WHO, I believe it was, the WHO, as a comparison of flu cases with COVID-19 cases. I wanna remind you that the numbers that I shared, the total number of cases were no different during the first year of COVID-19, the so-called pandemic. So in other words, there was no pandemic. So if those are the same numbers as they're announcing a pandemic, does that mean every flu season is a pandemic? Dr. Yeadon comments on a documentary that's entitled Epidemic of Fraud. All these early treatment promoting doctors are frauds and they're aiding and abetting their perpetrators. This is the statement that Dr. Yeadon makes by reinforcing the notion of early treatment of a non-existent disease. They'll have helped reinforce the propaganda that there was a pandemic and that there might be other pandemics. This statement is made by Dr. Michael Yeadon in relation to this documentary that's entitled Epidemic of Fraud. He makes this statement, this is depressing. It's apparently a truthful documentary telling you about how the authorities conspired to prevent honest doctors from using their expert judgment to prescribe early treatments that might save lives in people suffering from COVID. And then he admits that he fell for the lies himself as a doctor. And he emphasizes this, this is emphasized strongly. There was no pandemic. no new illness. No one said that people were not getting sick, but there was no pandemic, no new illness, nothing changed anywhere in all causes mortality in the run-up to the fraudulent declared WHO of a pandemic. All these early treatment promoting doctors are frauds and they're aiding and abetting the perpetrators. To convince you that there was some new disease risk going around, There wasn't, Dr. Yeadon says. Therefore, it's illogical to focus on early treatment. If there was no new disease, then why are they focusing on early treatments? I must say it was a genius move by the perpetrators and obviously pre-planned. Don't hero worship the proponents of hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin and the like, because they are not your friends. They're helping the perpetrators. By reinforcing the notion of early treatment of a non-existent disease, they'll have helped reinforce the propaganda that there was a pandemic and that there might be other pandemics. There won't be. Pandemics are not real. They're yet another hobgoblin designed to frighten you into giving up more of your dwindling freedoms and ultimately all of your medical autonomy. Because we know how this ends. Everyone facing a needle containing toxic substances masquerading as vaccines. They're not vaccines. There was nothing to vaccinate you against. There won't be anything to vaccinate you to protect you against. Yet my expertise in structure-based drug design rightly alerted me early to the dark realization that these gene-based injections were designed intentionally to injure, kill, and reduce fertility in survivors. Best wishes, Dr. Mike Yeadon. ExposeNews.com, August 20, 2024. It was an article about Dr. Atlas, Dr. Scott Atlas, who was an advisor to the president and a member of the White House COVID-19 Task Force. Dr. Atlas is an American medical doctor who has worked on public health policy for 20 years. Some of his statements were taken from an interview that he had with Prager U CEO, and Dr. Atlas revealed the truth about the pandemic. And this is a summary that he makes in relation to what happened during the entire pandemic scenario. Powerful figures in Washington, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, were incentivized to politicize and monetize the response to the pandemic. And then listen to this statement that he makes. The era of trusting people solely based on their credentials is over. Now, as I consider this study, I thought of King Asa. According to 2 Chronicles 16, 12, it says that Asa in the 30 and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet. The Bible calls it a disease. Until his disease was exceeding great. Yet in his disease, he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians, plural, by the way, First of all, that statement is not saying we should never seek help from a physician. Luke was a physician. And I believe in many cases, he assisted the apostle Paul with some of his health issues from all the persecution, all the physical trauma that he experienced in his ministry. But I want you to consider what the Bible is saying here. Asa sought help from the physicians only. There is no indication in 2 Chronicles 16, 12, even after he has suffering from this disease that he ever sought to the Lord for help. As an example, surgery is needed. I am not able to operate on myself. I want you to consider there may be times where a physician is needed, a surgeon is needed. I want you to consider what Jesus said about the need of a physician. He said, they that be whole or healthy need not a physician. He also said they have no need of the physician. Now, obviously he was speaking of that spiritually, but I believe that statement is true also physically. I want you to consider what we have done in America and around the world is immunize healthy people. We send healthy people to the physician to get a shot that is harming people. Many over the last several years in particular have trusted bribed physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of these doctors were incentivized with bonuses if they had certain percentages vaccinated in their practices. So I wonder how many times we as Americans, believers in Christ, are no different than King Asa. As we seek to the physicians, we listen to everything the physicians say, and we never consider whether or not the Lord has something else to say about that. Where's our trust today? Is our trust in physicians or first and foremost in the Lord who created us with a physical ability to fight off disease? May we have discernment as we head into another pandemic that has been declared by the WHO.