Life was much easier when we could dismiss people who talked about these kinds of things as ‘conspiracy theorists’,
but, sadly, Austria has now imposed a lockdown on everyone aged twelve and over (bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…) who has *not* received a vaccine--a vaccine which...
...the Lancet says still allows Covid to be efficiently transmitted, albeit a third less efficiently than is the case with those who are unvaccinated (sciencedirect.com/science/articl…)...
...and which is said by researchers to increase teenage boys’ risk of vaccine-related heart problems more than it reduces their risk of Covid-related problems (theguardian.com/world/2021/sep…).
I don’t have the know-how to subject these sources to much critical scrutiny, but if they’re even in the right ballpark, we might want to start asking ourselves some serious questions.
For starters:
Would we have believed we’d have ended up here twelve months ago?
Do we think our own government will behave any differently from Austria’s? (If so why?)
And do we plan to do anything about it?
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THREAD: The glory of God in thought, word, number, and deed.
The text of Exodus 3–15 recounts YHWH’s self-revelation to the people of Israel and his epochal victory over Pharaoh, the self-professed god of Egypt.
Its narrative makes use of three key words in order to emphasise its central themes.
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The first is the Hebrew word yad (יָד), which designates a person’s ‘hand’ or ‘arm’ and/or by extension their power.
At the outset of Exodus 3–15’s narrative, YHWH hears his people’s cry and comes down to deliver them from the ‘hand’ (yad) of the Egyptians (3.8, 14.30).
The text of 1 Chronicles 3.1–16 lists the kings of Judah from David through to the time of the exile.
Like many Biblical lists, it has some nice numerical features.
In 1 Chronicles 1, a list of ten descendants takes us from Adam down to Noah,
and then a second list of ten descendants takes us from Shem down to Abraham (1.1–4, 24–27).
Here in chapter 3, we begin with a pool of twenty descendants (David plus his six Hebron-born sons, plus his nine Jerusalem-born sons, plus his four other sons: 3.1–4),