Blog note. Jesus indicated that ‘fearful sights’ (various natural disasters) would occur leading up to the time known as the Tribulation and Great Tribulation (a combined seven year period of great destruction on earth). Although these types of things have occurred in the past for centuries and thousands of years, they could be identified as the ‘season of the times’ due to the ferociousness of these events. They would be occurring in greater intensity, severity, frequency, size, duration, scope … just like the pains that a woman experiences in labor the farther along she is in the labor process. We are in the ‘season of the times’ that comes just before the seven (7) year Tribulation/Great Tribulation period

… And great earthquakes shall be in diverse places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. (Luke 21:11).

… And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; (Luke 21:25)

… Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken; (Luke 21:26)

… This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. (2 Timothy 3:1)
Jesus is giving a series of prophecies about what to look for as the age of grace comes to a close. These verses are several of many such prophecies from throughout the Bible. 2017 was the worst year in recorded history for the intensity, frequency, severity, duration and occurrence of a large number of severe natural disasters worldwide. Earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, torrential flooding, unprecedented wildfires in unusual places, devastating droughts, excessive/scorching heat setting records everywhere, record snowfalls in Europe and Russia. Snow in the Arabia. This list can go on. Most studied Eschatologists believe these ‘fearful sights’ and massive natural disasters are all part of the ‘CONVERGENCE’ of signs that this Biblical and prophetic age is closing. Most people who study prophecy are familiar with the routine reference(s) made that these things will be like a woman having labor.

Terrifying video shows how socialist health care and Chinese authorities deal with coronavirus victims

By Andrew J. Sciascia, The Western Journal Published February 25, 2020 at 7:03pm

From empty Shanghai metros to the citywide spraying of airborne disinfectants, the clubbing of stray animals by hazmat teams to the Chinese Communist Party’s raiding of potential virus carriers’ homes, social fallout has been dramatic throughout the massive East Asian nation.

And judging from a recently released video filmed in Henan province, forcible apprehension of suspected patients by government actors just might stand to increase in the coming weeks, as SWAT teams have begun publicly training to detain “uncooperative” carriers.

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Riot shields, fishing nets, spike strips and disinfectant.

It’s a strange list of equipment for a 21st-century law enforcement operation, but it would seem that is what highly trained officers on the ground in the region are working with as the Chinese government seeks to prevent further disease transmission.

Released Monday morning by ABC News, the now widely available video shows Chinese officials have gone so far as to draw up plans for multitiered roadblocks and four-man arrest strategies in anticipation of the odd infected flight risk.

The apprehension seems, for all intents and purposes, to be a two-stage process.

First, authorities head off the fleeing patient, stopping his vehicle with tire spikes or armored police vans. Then, once the patient is forced out of the vehicle, the arrest team closes in.

Clothed in teal hazmat gear and headed up by a shield-carrying officer, the SWAT team closes in, catching the patient’s head in a fishing net and physically securing the individual.

As the potential patient is handcuffed by restraining officers, the net is removed, and video seems to reveal another officer will close in from the front and bag the individual’s face in a black head covering — though the position of other arresting officers obscures the detail.

Nothing says comforting like mass, militarized arrests as a national solution for global health epidemics, am I right?

That’s a rhetorical question, of course.

There is absolutely nothing comforting about the fact that a nation responsible for at least three major zoonotic outbreaks in the last two decades — and ruled by the iron fist of a communist regime — cannot seem to get its act together when it comes to public health.