Hidden Killer
You never know when you will come into contact with this germ. Your own sweet newborn, that everyone wants to cuddle and pet, becomes a deadly disease carrier! Your fellow-workman may infect you when he shakes hands with you in greeting, innocent of the fact that he picked up "staph" germs the night before when he went to visit his mother in the hospital. Your milkman may pass it on to you with his morning delivery, if he's being treated with antibiotics for a stubborn skin rash and has developed "staph!"
This germ will cause you some illness or live in you until you pass it on to another, hidden, but virile all the time. This "super-germ" lives in ice for 66 days! In your clothing, on the walls, in the meat, the vegetables, the bedding it lurks and lives for months! It surges through the house or hospital on the currents of the ventilating or air-conditioning system.
And when it lands on you or some other susceptible human being, it grows overnight into a painful disease DOUBLING ITS NUMBER OF GERMS EVERY TWENTY MINUTES!
"In 1960, the U.S. Veterans Administration Cooperative Committee for Hospital Infection reported that the frequency of significant staphylococcal infections in general medical surgical hospitals ranged between 10 and 13 percent." (Good Housekeeping, August, 1961)
Yet, the New York State Health Department estimated that "up to 90 percent of babies by the time they leave the hospital are carriers of (staph) organisms "and" 40 to 60 percent of the hospital staff and a like number of patients hospitalized in wards other than the nursery are also infected" (Sunday News, July 13, 1958).
Formerly harmless micro-organisms have become dangerous enemies. Once harmless in a God-intended microbe balance in the body, these "new" germs are stirred to multiply and produce disease by medical treatment given in ignorance of, and directly in opposition to, God's laws of health.
"Thousands of millions of bacteria and fungi are always present in our mouths, throats and intestinal tracts. Some of them are essential to the digestive processes; others, in the colon, manufacture certain essential vitamins. Even those that do us no direct good, at least do us no direct harm" (Reader's Digest, November, 1959).
The antibiotics (the word means "anti-life") work by killing off disease-causing bacteria. BUT IN THE PROCESS KILL OFF MANY HELPFUL ORGANISMS!
This upsets the God-intended health balance. As the doctors themselves put it, "Have the very 'miracle drugs' which conquered pneumonia (?), streptococcus infections, and typhoid fever only SAVED MAN FOR DEATH FROM GERMS 'HARMLESS' UP TO NOW?" This is the fear of Dr. Maxwell Finland of the Harvard Medical. School! He warns us that, "Sulpha drugs, penicillin, and the newer antibiotics may have lulled the human body's natural defenses into inactivity!" (Newsweek, May 18, 1959).
Why People Take Drugs
The average person wants to keep on having the "fun" of sinning — breaking laws set to govern health and happiness — then, when he gets sick as a result, takes a PILL TO ERASE THE PAIN! His immediate thought is to do away with the result of sin without altering the cause. When a doctor tries to explain to a patient that he is going to have to change certain ways of doing things, he either has to threaten the patient with death if he doesn't change, or the patient says, "Aw doc, cut out the lecture, just give me a pill for what ails me — that's your job!"
Aldous Huxley wrote, "It is characteristic of human beings that, when anything goes wrong, they should always begin thinking out some ingenious device for masking the superficial symptoms." Among average persons, little is done to resolve or even acknowledge aches and pains and diseases, which are the end results of a wrong way of living! Mr. Huxley continues, "It is so much easier, as well as more immediately satisfying, to call to our aid one of the newest antibiotics, a tranquilizing tablet, a pep powder or, in the last resort, an expensive vaccine . . . but the essential cause of the condition will have been left untouched, remaining latent in the system, awaiting opportunity to break out and make itself felt" (The A-V, June, 1960).
Even many doctors who would want to teach people how to live are caught in the vise by people who seek only a cure for their sickness while they still break the laws of health.
Is a New Drug Needed?
Many articles on the subject of this dreaded modern disease, "staph", urge more "research" to find out all about this super-germ. Medical authorities advise that "ordinary sanitation should be practiced in hospitals AT LEAST AS WELL AS IN HOTELS AND MOTELS!" (McCall's, July, 1961).
Certainly cleanliness is one of God's most pronounced principles brought out throughout the Bible, and should be practiced regardless of this disease. BUT CLEANLINESS ALONE WILL NOT SOLVE THE GROWING PROBLEM!
People suffering NOW from this germ all hang their hope on their "FAITH" in the medical profession — and patiently wait until a new, MORE POWERFUL DRUG is found to combat the ravages of staphylococcus. "Now, there are reports of a major success in the battle — A NEW POWERFUL DRUG. It is a synthetic (chemically made) penicillin called Staphcillin!" (Good Housekeeping, August, 1961).
Despite the lesson of the history of modern "miracle drugs," the whole population suffering from "staph" infections flocks to its doctors and demands this new drug to relieve its suffering! They do not stop to think that they need to be treated only because they used the old "new" drug, antibiotics, in the first place! They are like the man God describes in Amos 5:19, ". . . a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or he went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him!"
And what will they seek to relieve the NEW PAIN, THE NEW UNEXPECTED REACTION FROM THE NEW "WONDER DRUG?" WILL THEY SEEK A "MIRACLE DRUG" THAT IS NEWER YET?
What is the answer?
Where can YOU turn?
In this God-defying age, modern society has fallen into the same medical idolatry as ancient Israel in the days of Ahaziah! "IS IT BECAUSE THERE IS NO GOD IN ISRAEL that you are going to consult Baalzebub the god of Ekron (the patron deity of medicine)?" (II Kings 1:3, Moffat).
WHERE IS GOD?
Our Almighty Creator God says that HE IS OUR HEALER! (Exodus 15: 26). Anyone who takes upon himself this prerogative is taking the name of God in vain; and, in setting himself, or his theories, drugs and medicines up in the place of God, is also GUILTY OF IDOLATRY!
GOD PROMISES TO HEAL! "Bless the Lord, 0 my soul, and FORGET NOT ALL HIS BENEFITS: WHO FORGIVETH ALL THINE INIQUITIES; WHO HEALETH ALL THY DISEASES!" (Psalm 103:2-3).
GOD COMMANDS US to come to HIM with our sicknesses: "Is any SICK AMONG YOU? LET HIM CALL FOR THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH; and let them pray over him anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith SHALL SAVE THE SICK, and the LORD SHALL RAISE HIM UP!" (James 5:14-15).
This same God even goes out of His way to perform SPECIAL miracles for those who do not have direct access to His ministers: "And God wrought SPECIAL MIRACLES by the hands of Paul: so that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them!" (Acts 19:11-12).
This same MERCIFUL GOD rules in Heaven today! He doesn't need any NEW MIRACLES. He just uses the same forgiving miracle EVERY TIME! — ". . . by whose stripes [the punishment Jesus suffered] YE WERE HEALED!" (I Peter 2:24).
"But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting (not "good" today, and "no-good" tomorrow like man's "wonder drugs") upon them that fear him . . . TO SUCH AS KEEP HIS COVENANT, AND THOSE THAT REMEMBER HIS COMMANDMENTS TO DO THEM!" (Psalm 103:17-18).
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More Promises
GOD ALSO PROMISES to bring on this disobedient nation a plague of sickness and disease UNPRECEDENTED IN ALL HISTORY: "A THIRD PART OF THEE SHALL DIE WITH THE PESTILENCE!" (Ezekiel 5:12). Pestilence and diseases just like this "staph" super-germ now baffling medical science!
And there is no escape from it! Read with your own eyes the prophetic diagnosis of this exact disease, promised to come to this lawless nation! "The Eternal will strike you with Egyptian boils, with tumors, scurvy, and itch INCURABLE; and the Eternal will strike your knees and legs with evil boils, INCURABLE BOILS FROM HEAD TO FOOT!" (Deut. 28:27, 35 Moffat).
WHY THIS CURSE?
"BECAUSE thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS and statutes which he commanded thee" (verse 45).
God warns that things will become so bad that "thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear the day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning!" (Verses 66-67). UTTER HOPELESSNESS!
WHERE WILL YOU TURN?
God promises to keep this up until this nation realizes (or you as an individual realize) that it must repent, CHANGE ITS WAY OF LIVING, and turn to GOD — THE ONLY SOURCE OF LIFE AND HEALTH!
God says, "What of their gods, the steadfast ones they relied on! . . . Let them protect you! Ah, LEARN THAT I, I AM THE REAL GOD; THERE IS NO GOD BUT ME: MINE IS THE POWER OF DEATH AND LIFE, I HEAL!" (Deuteronomy 32: 37-39).
The medical profession needs to recognize the SOURCE OF HEALTH AND HEALING! Those one-out-of-every-sixteen Americans working for the health of the nation need to spend their hours of research on the CAUSE OF DISEASE! They need to teach people how to live so they won't get sick, instead of manufacturing more and newer drugs, in a grim and vicious, sickening circle!
This nation, and every other, needs to come on bended knee before its Creator God and exchange hormones for hope, move from medicine to mercy, turn from tranquilizers to trust, reject antibiotics — "against-life" — and seek the very SOURCE OF LIFE: GOD OUR HEALER!
How About You?
WHY don't you personally claim God's promise of protection from this prophesied pestilence — a pestilence, as you can see from this article, that is JUST NOW BEGINNING!
Ask God to fulfill to you personally the promise HE makes in Psalm 91 "Thou shalt not be afraid . . . for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday . . . Because THOU hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, THY HABITATION; THERE SHALL NO EVIL BEFALL THEE, NEITHER SHALL ANY PLAGUE COME NIGH THY DWELLING!" (Psalm 91:5-10).