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.

US Broken Record: ‘No tests’: AP reporter trying to get Covid-19 test sent from pillar to post by health authorities, told to ‘stay home’. No tests found anywhere. No clue from authorities anywhere. “Whose on First.”

13 Mar, 2020 17:12

AP reporter Steve Peoples had no luck trying to get tested for the Covid-19 virus after he presented to a primary care center and was subsequently bounced around to various other health facilities with no tests available anywhere.

Peoples tweeted on Friday that he had been experiencing “mild symptoms” — a headache, mild fever and cough — but that when he arrived at his primary care center in north Jersey, they told him to go to the emergency room instead.

I’m presenting mild symptoms (headache, mild fever, mild cough) and want to get tested in north Jersey. Primary care tells me to go to ER. ER tells me to call city health dept. Health dept tells me to go to urgent care. Urgent care tells me to go to ER. Everyone says no tests.

Off he went, only to find no more clarity from the ER, as staff there told him to call the city health department. The wild goose chase continued, as Peoples was instructed by the health department to go to an urgent care center — which then advised him to go back to the ER. 

The one consistent thing, however, was that “no tests” for Covid-19 were available anywhere — and evidently no one knew what to do with the journalist, who was haphazardly directed from one location to another potentially spreading the virus as he went, according to his own twitter message. 

Reaction to Peoples’ fruitless search for a coronavirus test varied, with some angry at the lack of clarity in the US healthcare system, while others were angry at the reporter for “overreacting” when he should “stay home”instead.

“You shouldn’t get tested. Self quarantine and ride out your cold. This is what the problem is. People get a sniffle and they panic,” one person wrote.

Meanwhile, some confirmed they had experienced a similar lack of clarity regarding testing, with one saying it’s “basically impossible” to find a test, regardless of circumstances. 

One person claimed an acquaintance had a similar experience when trying to get a test for a boy “with major lung issues” and who was suffering shortness of breath, but none were available.

Similar stories have been cropping up all over Twitter in recent days. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak wrote on March 3 that he had been given the “run-around” by the CDC when he developed “all the right symptoms” for Covid-19 after returning from Hong Kong early in January. 

On a lighter note, one commenter made a jibe at Donald Trump’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, suggesting that Peoples’ story “can’t be true” because the president said that “everyone can get perfect, beautiful tests” if needed.

Another sarcastically advised Peoples to go to Madison Square Garden, where the NBA “seems to have an endless supply of tests available offering immediate results” — a reference to the ease with which tests can seemingly be found for people in the public eye.