This is a condensed edit of a four-part series I wrote in 2023, responding to an Adventist Review article. I have deleted the parts dealing with things other than Covid and the Covid vaccines.
This is a comprehensive review of what was done to us during the Covid saga, who did it, and why. I refer to the who—all of the significant institutions of Western Civilization—as “the Hive.” These institutions worked together, without any obvious central direction, to misinform, terrify, stampede, censor, intimidate, loot, harm, and ultimately kill many people within the developed nations.
The reason I am re-publishing this today is that the Conrad Vine/Ron Kelly saga has made it clear that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is deeply integrated into the Hive. Yes, we knew about the 2015 vaccine statement and the 2021 “re-affirmation” statement, which opined that we Seventh-day Adventists have no legitimate religious liberty objection to forced Covid vaccination.
That was very bad, but what is even more telling is that the whole machinery of the SDA Church was brought to bear to destroy the one man, Conrad Vine, who dared to stand up and tell the GC “you have sinned. Repent.” In the effort to get at this man, they fired a completely blameless senior pastor of a large and dynamic local congregation, to the great dismay of the members of that congregation.
It has become apparent that enforcing the Left’s Covid narrative is more important to the powers that be in this church than anything else, certainly more important than the church membership. At this point, we can justifiably ask, “Does the SDA Church have any mission more important to its hierarchy than promoting the Hive, and acting as the Hive’s enforcer?” From where I’m standing, the answer is “no.”
The Covid-19 Vaccine
Discussions about the COVID-19 vaccine being the mark of the beast. Carrie’s husband is a doctor who recommends the COVID-19 vaccine to his patients, and comments to this effect left them both upset.
Now we are there. We have arrived at the real reason the article was written.
First, there is no group of Adventists that believes that the vaccine itself is the mark of the beast. Adventists, especially the conservative ones skeptical of the official narrative, the government-media-tech-lord imposed narrative, are fully aware that in Adventist eschatology the mark of the beast is Sunday sacredness in place of the Bible Sabbath. Absolutely no one is under any confusion about that fact.
Wyatt Allen, who has written for this site and commented on the Review story, noted that the “mark of the beast” accusation did not ring true:
“there's not one Seventh-day Adventist who has taught that the vaccine is the mark of the beast. Not one. Certainly not a whole church. I have heard this lie repeated to condemn those who have concerns about the vaccine, but it has never been verified. Not one.”
The idea the vaccine itself is the mark of the beast is not a thing in Adventism. But the vaccine mandates are a different story. The mandates are related to the mark of the beast, and if we are not discussing that in Adventist churches, there is a problem.
What is Not Done of Conviction is Sin
If we are under conviction not to take the vaccine, then for us to take the vaccine is sin. It is a compromise of our principles. It is analogous to receiving the mark of the beast in the hand rather than on the forehead. Those who accept the mark on their forehead are thereby signaling that they believe Sunday is the true Sabbath; those who receive it in the hand know that Sunday is the not the true Sabbath, but accept the mark in their hand, because they want to continue to participate in the money economy.
I pointed this out in my rebuttal to ADCOM’s October, 2021, vaccine statement:
Whether one is vaccinated or not most certainly can be a matter of salvation. . . . If we are under conviction, we had better follow our conviction, because we are judged based upon how we live up to the light we have been given. We must not violate a God-given conviction as to what is the right path.
“So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.” James 4:17;
“But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.” Rom. 14:23.
The question of vaccine mandates is certainly related to the mark of the beast. The issue in Revelation 13 is whether you will go against your conscience and accept the mark in your hand, not out of faith or belief but as an accommodation to the ruling authorities. If you do, you are lost eternally. We had better begin now to practice resisting what is not done out of faith.
But there is another, more direct connection between the vaccine mandates and the mark of the beast.
The Mark of the Beast and the Vaccine Passport
The mark of the beast is enforced by excluding dissenters from the money economy:
“And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark— the name of the beast or the number of its name.” Rev. 13:16-17
How, technically, is this achieved? How do you keep people from buying and selling, freezing them out of the economy? The way the authorities went about dealing with Covid, rushing out an inadequately tested vaccine, making that vaccine mandatory, then suggesting a “vaccine passport” as a proof of vaccination, clearly signaled that they were reaching for something that would give them Revelation 13 power, the power to prevent dissenters from buying or selling.
A. Fear is the Key—Overhype the Threat
First, the authorities fear-mongered the disease to an absurd degree, leading many to believe that if they contracted the Covid-19 virus they were likely to die, when in fact the chances of dying from the virus were small. The death rate was something like 0.25 percent, the survival rate 99.75%. Covid was more deadly than seasonal influenza, but it was not exactly Ebola.
The authorities also acted as though the pandemic were a threat to everyone, when it was mainly a threat to the old and frail. Infants and children are less threatened by Covid than by seasonal influenza. Fit, healthy people under age 65 were not severely threatened, either, (although the obese and those with multiple “co-morbidities” were at risk). It is not until we reach the over-65 demographic that Covid becomes substantially more deadly than seasonal flu; the median age of Covid fatalities is 78—which is also the life expectancy in the United States.
Despite an age-stratified threat in which the young were not threatened, schools, colleges, and many types of businesses were shut down. Shutting down the schools and businesses harmed many who need not have been harmed, and did nothing to slow the spread of the virus. It is impossible to look back on the political authorities’ insane overreaction to Covid without wondering what its real purpose was, because it had nothing to do with public health.
B. Cause More Death by Discouraging Early Treatment
Worse than the overreaction of public officials was the under-reaction of the medical profession. Most doctors would not treat Covid outside of the hospital. They waited for people to get sick enough to need hospitalization, then pushed expensive, unsafe drugs such as Remdesivir (“run-death-is-near”), put them on ventilators and waited for them to die, and many did (90% of patients put on ventilators died).
No treatment protocol was issued except by maverick physicians, most notably Peter McCullough and Vladimir Zelenko, but their efforts were dismissed as quackery by a medical profession that seemed indifferent to Covid deaths—when they were not actively facilitating them with Remdesivir and ventilators.
Perhaps the most shocking evidence of a conspiracy to discourage pre-hospital treatment of Covid was the slander of older, proven drugs like hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, and widespread efforts by professional associations to discipline doctors who prescribed them. In some countries where these drugs had long been available over-the-counter, they were re-scheduled for prescription only. Obtaining medications for the early, non-hospital treatment of Covid came to resemble scoring illegal street drugs—it was against the will of the rulers, and hence had to be done quietly, almost secretly.
Not all doctors toed the line drawn by the medical associations and licensing authorities. Mine was an exception, and many of yours were, too. But, on the whole, the medical profession was revealed to be an alarmingly top-down army of automatons, and the licensing authorities did everything possible to intimidate anyone who stepped out of line. Dr. Ryan Cole and Dr. Peter McCullough are still being harassed by their licensing authorities; Dr. Zelenko has passed away and I doubt even the New York authorities would bother lifting his license at this point.
C. Create Demand for an Experimental Vaccine
All this was done deliberately, and it soon became apparent why it was done: to gaslight the world into believing that there was no treatment for Covid other than the experimental vaccines then being developed at lightning pace. The fear-mongering and non-treatment were designed to stampede the population toward a vaccine based upon a novel technology: hijacking your body’s genetic machinery to make copies of an element of the Covid-19 virus—the spike protein—in order to stimulate an immune response to the spike protein.
They told us it was safe to repurpose the body’s genetic machinery to produce the spike protein, because it was only a small portion of the whole coronavirus. But the spike protein by itself is capable of causing serious problems, including myocarditis and other heart problems, which have shown up in people who were vaccinated but who never had the disease, including teenagers and young people, whom we would not expect to have heart problems at such a high frequency.
When the vaccines were finally marketed, a stampeded public submitted to vaccination en masse, just as the pharmaceutical companies had planned. But over time it emerged that the vaccines were ineffective. They did not prevent infection, transmission, serious illness, hospitalization, or death. They do not constitute “immunization” as that term has historically been understood, because they do not make you immune to the disease.
D. Not a Safe or Effective Vaccine—Not Really a Vaccine at All
In “sterilizing” vaccines, a vaccinated person cannot be infected and cannot pass the virus to others, but this is not true of any of the Covid vaccines. A fully Covid-vaccinated individual can still be infected and can still pass the virus to others. There are several reported cases of Covid outbreaks within a population consisting only of the fully vaccinated.
Pfizer and its wholly-owned governmental subsidiaries, the appallingly corrupt FDA, NIH, and CDC, claimed that the vaccine was a sort of pre-therapy, meaning that if you did contract the disease, the vaccine would make the illness less severe and less likely to end in hospitalization or death—which, again, has little to do with what, historically, has been communicated by the terms “vaccination,” “inoculation,” and “immunization.”
But even this alleged pre-therapeutic value was fleeting, lasting about 4 to 6 months, after which it would be necessary to submit to a “booster” shot. But vaccine efficacy gets worse with each booster, and apparently distorts the immune system more seriously after each booster, such that most symptomatic Covid-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths were occurring among fully vaccinated people. In other words, the vaccines and boosters soon achieved negative efficacy, meaning that the vaccinated were more likely to contract Covid than the unvaccinated.
Worse than the iffy efficacy was the danger of adverse events. The vaccines have been associated with thousands of adverse side-effects, including blood-clotting disorders, cardiac emergencies, myocarditis, Guillain-Barré Syndrome, autoimmune disease, spontaneous miscarriages, nervous system disorders, heavy menstrual flow, and female infertility. The vaccines also interfere with the natural immune system, making a person more susceptible to viral infections and cancer. Several doctors are reporting fast-moving “turbo” cancers.
Worst of all, many vaccine side effects harmed young people, who were at no risk from Covid itself, but who were given the vaccine anyway, to further pad Pfizer’s bottom line. Thousands of otherwise healthy teenagers and young adults now suffer from myocarditis, a serious heart injury.
Historically, when a vaccine was associated with any significant number of deaths or serious injuries, it was withdrawn from the market. In 1976, a mass campaign to vaccinate for Swine Flu was halted after more 48 million vaccines had been administered when the vaccine was associated with Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a rare neurological disease. It was later determined that the Swine Flu vaccine had caused 532 cases of Guillain-Barré, of which 25 died, but the vaccination program was halted after a connection was verified in fewer than 60 cases, with one death.
Yet the Covid-19 vaccines have been left on the market despite an horrendous side-effect profile. Based upon insurance actuarial data and data on disability claims, Edward Dowd very conservatively estimates that the Covid vaccines have killed 300,000 working-age people, and probably hundreds of thousands more elderly people. Recently, a group of European researchers estimated that the vaccine has killed 13 million worldwide. This is the only vaccine in human history that has been allowed to remain on the market with a safety profile even one percent this bad.
E. You Must Have a “Vaccine” to Have Mandatory Vaccination
And yet, even as the news that the vaccine was neither safe nor effective gradually leaked out, surmounting society-wide censorship never seen in a Western country in peacetime, forced vaccination—vaccine mandates—were all the rage, in both the public and private sectors. Many large corporations made the vaccines mandatory. The “Biden Administration” did everything within its power to force the vaccine on everyone. Government employees and everyone in the U.S. Military were forced to take the clot-shot, and OSHA rushed out a “temporary standard” (eventually struck down by the Supreme Court) requiring all employers with 100 or more employees to develop, implement, and enforce a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy.
Again, the vaccine does not prevent infection and does not stop the spread of the disease—it supposedly has a pre-therapeutic affect on those who get sick from Covid. Hence, there was no public health rationale whatsoever to force everyone to take the vaccine. Even if every person in the entire world was vaccinated, we would never achieve “herd immunity,” nor drive the Covid-19 virus to extinction. These things simply are not possible with these vaccines, and were never thought to be possible.
Why, then, was it so important to force people to be vaccinated? The Western world had never seen its governments act so seemingly irrationally, nor so aggressively in seeking to snuff out reasonable expectations of human freedom, expectations that heretofore had been protected by both law and custom. It soon became obvious that these governments were not being motivated by concerns of public health.
F. Covid Was a Man-Made Plague
Covid-19 emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, not from the “wet market” in Wuhan, China. This is being admitted, piecemeal, by the U.S. Government, most recently by the Department of Energy and by FBI director Christopher Wray, but it has been known for a year and a half.
How did this virus come into being? It was the product of genetic engineering, of human beings manipulating the virus. The research being done by the “bat lady” at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Shi Zhengli, was called “gain of function” research, the idea being to redesign the virus so as to make it more deadly. (Darwinian theory notwithstanding, in nature, pathogens do not evolve to become more complex; they degrade. “Gain of function” research is really aimed at producing a bio-weapon; it is bio-warfare research.) This research was being funded, in part, by American taxpayers through a grant from the Anthony Fauci’s National Institutes of Health.
What made the bio-engineered Covid virus so dangerous to humans was the “furin cleavage site.” The idea of putting cleavage sites in coronaviruses was mooted just a few years before the Covid plandemic began. In March, 2018, DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, discussed inserting cleavage sites into Covid viruses; the memo in which this was discussed was leaked in September, 2021. Dr. Alina Chan has testified:
"We know now that this virus has a very unique feature, called the furin cleavage site, that makes it the pandemic pathogen it is. Without this feature, there's no way this would be causing this pandemic. Only recently in September [2021] did a proposal get leaked showing that scientists from the EcoHealth Alliance [run by Peter Daszak] were in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology developing this pipeline for inserting novel furin cleavage sites, these genetic modifications, into SARS-like viruses in the lab.”
There is no doubt whatsoever that the Covid virus was genetically engineered and emerged from the WIV laboratory. Western intelligence knew all along that the first three known cases were workers at the Wuhan Institue of Viology. The Hive has been brazenly lying about this all along, as they have been brazenly lying about everything else. The Hive are people of the lie.
It is not known whether the virus escaped the Wuhan Institute of Virology through negligence, or whether the Chinese Communist Party intentionally weaponized it against the West. But once the virus was out of the lab, China used the virus as a bio-weapon, continuing to send workers from Wuhan on direct flights back and forth to Milan, Italy, where some 50,000 Chinese work in the Italian garment industry; Milan became the epicenter of European Covid infections. The communist Chinese also sent people from Wuhan on direct flights to other countries, including San Francisco, California, and New York City (until President Trump stopped those flights).
G. A Plandemic
On October 18, 2019, just a few weeks before the first Covid case was reported in China, several public and private actors, including Johns Hopkins, Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, hosted Event 201, A gathering of experts gamed a fictional coronavirus pandemic very similar to what happened just months later.
The participants included George Fu Gao, a representative of the Chinese Communist Party in an exercise that was designed to game out how to use a pandemic to take down the CCP’s only economic and military rival: the United States. Another participant was Avril Haines, a former NSC advisor to President Obama and former CIA agent. Bill Gates was heavily involved in Event 201, and in similar events going back almost 20 years, when he first met Dr. Anthony Fauci. Robert Kennedy, Jr., writes:
“Over the next two decades, that partnership [between Gates and Fauci] would metastasize to include pharmaceutical companies, military and intelligence planners, and international health agencies all collaborating to promote weaponized pandemics and vaccines and a new brand of corporate imperialism rooted in the ideology of biosecurity. That project would yield Mr. Gates and Dr. Fauci unprecedented bonanzas in wealth and power and have catastrophic consequences for democracy and humanity.”
The response to Covid-19 was pre-planned in event 201, and in previous planning sessions similar to it. The response was “in the can” so to speak, waiting to be rolled out when the disease came along. Almost all of what took place in response to Covid—hyping the threat, discouraging early treatment, stampeding the masses toward an under-tested vaccine, making the vaccine mandatory, and using high prestige, trusted institutions like the FDA, CDC, NIH, AMA, HHS to accomplish all of this—was thought out and gamed out long before Covid-19 emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
But perhaps the most crucial element was the coordinated media response.
H. Government and Media Gaslighting—The Censorship Industrial Complex
There have been many shocking aspects to the Covid saga, but none more so than the widespread censorship. It is shocking that this happened, and perhaps more shocking that the many media corporations and institutions involved were so out-in-the-open about turning their backs on their own ethics and best traditions, as well as basic American and Western values.
In the summer of 2019, even before the plandemic began, the major media companies formed something called the “Trusted News Initiative.” It was formed not to control information about the pandemic, but rather to control news about the 2020 U.S. election, which the tech lords and big media players already knew was going to be rigged and stolen.
A BBC article, published on March 27, 2020, stated very openly:
“The Trusted News Initiative (TNI) was set up last year to protect audiences and users from disinformation, particularly around moments of jeopardy, such as elections. The TNI complements existing programs partners have in place.
The partners within the TNI are: BBC, Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, Microsoft, AFP, Reuters, European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Hindu, CBC/Radio-Canada, First Draft, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
This is basically everybody who matters in news media, especially in an age when most people get their news on the Internet, and many of those read only stories posted to social media such as Facebook and Twitter. The media trust or oligopoly partnering in the “trusted news initiative” would make certain that only their 2020 election narrative was given mainstream coverage:
Last summer the BBC convened a Trusted News Summit, bringing together senior figures from major global technology firms and publishing. The summit agreed to work collectively, where appropriate, . . . on various initiatives [including]:
Early Warning System: creating a system so organizations can alert each other rapidly when they discover disinformation which threatens human life or disrupts democracy during elections. The emphasis will be on moving quickly and collectively to undermine disinformation before it can take hold.
Voter Information: co-operation on civic information around elections, so there is a common way to explain how and where to vote
Shared learning: particularly around high-profile elections
But although it was formed as an integral part of the effort to steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump, in March, 2020, with the pandemic abroad in the land, the “Trusted News Initiative” quickly added controlling the pandemic narrative to its core censorship mission.
Now the partnership will extend its efforts to identifying false and potentially harmful Coronavirus information by putting in place a shared alert system.
Launching today [March 27, 2020], partners will be able to alert each other to disinformation about Coronavirus so that content can be reviewed promptly by platforms, whilst publishers ensure they don’t unwittingly republish disinformation.
"These are challenging times for each and every one of us. We'll do everything we can, working together, to stop disinformation about Coronavirus in its tracks."
The rest is history. Anyone who tried to put out truthful information about Covid, its low death rate, its highly age-stratified risk profile, the vaccine, its inefficacy, or its dangerous side-effects, was de-published, de-platformed, cancelled, fired, and generally threatened with whatever the elite establishment could find to threaten them with. It was the most extreme censorship ever seen in peacetime in a Western country.
We now know that it was not just media and tech lords who were doing this. Thanks to Elon Musk giving us a peek at the Twitter’s back end, we know that thousands of government agents from several different agencies, most prominently the FBI, were “assisting” the tech companies in their censorship campaign by flagging hundreds of thousands of social media posters and posts.
There was effectively a partnership between the federal government’s alphabet agencies and the social media companies to promote the “safe and effective” narrative and quash any stories about deaths and injuries caused by the vaccines. In testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives last month, journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger called this the “censorship industrial complex.”
“The censorship industrial complex combines established methods of psychological manipulation, some developed by the U.S. Military during the Global War on Terror, with highly sophisticated tools from computer science, including artificial intelligence. The complex’s leaders are driven by the fear that the Internet and social media platforms empower populist, alternative, and fringe personalities and views, which they regard as destabilizing. Federal government officials, agencies, and contractors have gone from fighting ISIS recruiters and Russian bots to censoring and deplatforming ordinary Americans and disfavored public figures.”
The constant blather about “disinformation” notwithstanding, the thousands of government agents were in fact censoring admittedly accurate information to protect the “safe and effective” vaccine narrative:
“Government-funded censors frequently invoke the prevention of real-world harm to justify their demands for censorship, but the censors define harm . . . so broadly, in fact, that they have justified Facebook censoring accurate information about COVID vaccines, for example, to prevent “vaccine hesitancy.” Their goal, clearly, is not protecting the truth but rather persuading the public. . . . Persuasion by covert means is censorship.
Biden administration officials scolded Twitter and Facebook executives for not doing more censorship. There were many instances of Twitter banning or labeling “misleading” accounts that were true or merely controversial. Twitter suspended a physician for accurately describing the results of a peer-reviewed study on mRNA vaccines.
Facebook, under pressure from the White House, censored "often-true content” that a company executive said in the spring of 2021 "does not contain actionable misinformation” but was “discouraging vaccines." The State Attorney General of Missouri, who is suing the Biden Administration for violating the First Amendment, released the email. “As you know,” wrote the Facebook executive whose name was redacted, “in addition to removing vaccine misinformation, we have been focused on reducing the virality of content discouraging vaccines that does not contain actionable misinformation.
“And, increasingly, the censors say their goal is to restrict information that “delegitimizes” governmental, industrial, and news media organizations. [In other words, they don’t want you criticizing your betters, the elites who run things] . . . This extreme, reactionary attitude is, bluntly, un-American.”
The people running our government and our large corporations and media companies have entirely rejected and repudiated truth, justice, and the American way. They are capable of anything.
The Hive and the Proving of the Concepts
A widely shared thesis is that what unfolded over the past three years was a “proof of concept,” a real-life test run, or beta test, of several methods and techniques of consolidating wealth and power in the hands of the global elites. I call these elites the “Hive.” The Hive includes private sector actors—big pharma, big tech, big media, the Davos crowd (Klaus Schwab, George Soros, Bill Gates, and other billionaires who attend the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, each year), Wall Street, the City of London—as well as national and transnational governmental, quasi-governmental, and Non-Governmental organizations—the Chinese Communist Party, the UN, the World Health Organization, the permanent U.S. Government, especially its intelligence gathering (FBI, DOJ, CIA, etc.) and health-related (FDA, CDC, NIH, etc.) agencies, the Center-Left parties in all Western countries, especially the Democrats in the USA.
I use the term “hive” to indicate a group of many independent actors working toward a common purpose, but without an explicit “conspiracy.” Like a beehive or an ant colony, the Hive seems to work with remarkable coordination toward a common goal, without hierarchical control and often without explicit directives.
This is not to say there is no planning; Event 201, the 2019 meeting at which the Trusted News Initiative was formed, and the annual WEF conclaves are all planning and coordination sessions, and there are many others. But most of the actions are not pre-planned, yet a large group of institutions and actors can turn on dime all at once—like a school of fish—and work together toward their goals with astonishing speed and efficiency.
Broadly speaking, the Hive’s aims were to increase their own wealth and power while simultaneously undermining or destroying the rights and freedoms of common citizens, making us more subject to anti-democratic control and oppression. On both counts, the Hive succeeded, probably far better than they could have anticipated or imagined. Below are some of the concepts the Hive wanted to prove, and did prove, during the Covid pandemic.
The last three years revealed that most people were far too willing to give up fundamental rights in exchange for the promise of safety. The Hive needed only to mendaciously insist that we must forfeit our freedom if we would effectively fight the virus, and we all-too-eagerly surrendered our freedom. The Hive’s propaganda was mostly lies, but people swallowed the lies. Concept proved.
The Hive told us that, in order to beat the virus, we had to give up our freedom of speech and expression, especially our freedom to state facts and opinion on social media and elsewhere that went against the Hive’s “official” narrative. So we surrendered our freedom of speech. Concept proved.
The Hive told us that, in order to beat the virus, we had to give up our freedom to congregate for worship, our freedom to sing hymns together, and our freedom to eat together as Christians have been doing since the First Century. So we gave up our freedom of worship. Concept proved.
The Hive told us that, in order to beat the virus, we had to give up our freedom to work and earn a living to support our families, our freedom of movement, our freedom to keep our businesses open. So we surrendered our economic freedom and freedom of movement, and became prisoners in our own houses. Concept proved.
Many who began working from home during the pandemic will never go back to the city centers. The Hive will not be hurt, but owners of commercial real estate in downtown areas will lose; the coming crash in commercial real estate may rival or even surpass in severity the 2008 crash of residential real estate. Concept proved.
Because of arbitrary and epidemiologically irrelevant business closures, people shopped online, and the tech lords—Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg—raked in many extra billions of dollars, even as their remaining brick-and-mortar competition was all but destroyed. The tech lords are of the Hive, whereas local business owners are middle class and typically political opponents of the Hive. Concept proved.
The Hive shut down gyms, health clubs, and local restaurants, causing people to eat junk food at home, packing on pounds and making themselves more vulnerable to Covid, creating a feed-back loop of isolation, fear, dysphoria, illness and death, and further enriching the tech lords and big pharma. Concept proved.
The Hive terrorized people into believing that Covid had a high death rate and that there was no treatment for it other than expensive, organ-destroying drugs like “run-death-is-near,” and that only a vaccine could effectively fight Covid. Sure enough, most people submitted to an inadequately tested, experimental “vaccine” that hijacks your body’s genetic machinery to make copies of a part of the virus—the spike protein—that, by itself, causes serious harm. Concept proved.
For decades it has been suspected, because of the revolving door between government and big business, and the possibility of lucrative employment with the latter after serving in the former, that the FDA really works for the drug companies it is supposed to be policing. This is known as “regulatory capture,” meaning that the industry has effectively taken over the government agency and suborned its regulatory function. No one who has observed the FDA’s actions with regard to the Covid vaccines could ever again think of the FDA as anything other than a subsidiary of Pfizer. The FDA failed us—it failed us abjectly, utterly, and completely—in the hour of our greatest need for it. Concept proved.
It wasn’t just the FDA, but also the CDC, NIH, HHS, and every other part of the government connected with health that failed us. It was the medical profession as a whole. The Left has long since taken over the professional associations, e.g., the AMA, ABA, ALA, etc. The Covid saga was a test of just how top-down the professions have become. The Hive controls the top of all professions, and bet that if doctors were threatened with disciplinary actions and de-licensure, they would fall in line behind refusing to treat Covid and ignoring the horrific adverse reaction profile of the Covid “vaccines” which is several orders of magnitude worse than any vaccine in the history of vaccination. They were right. Concept proved.
Most medical research is funded by the government, mainly through the NIH which has a budget for Fiscal Year 2023 of almost $50 billion. With that enormous war chest, those—Anthony Fauci and others—who control the money and dole it out to researchers can largely control the research and publishing agenda. Additionally, the drug companies spend about $40 billion a year on advertising and promotion, a chunk of which goes to publications of various types. The Hive figured that because it pays for almost everything published in “peer reviewed” medical and scientific journals, it could either keep counter-narrative studies from being published at all, or delay publication until their goals for the vaccine were achieved. They were largely, although not completely, successful. Concept proved.
One of the biggest scandals of the Covid saga was that Covid-19 is man-made, a genetically engineered virus, effectively a bioweapon. It was a Hive project from first to last, funded by the NIH, DARPA, the CCP, and probably other Hive elements we do not yet know about. The NIH’s Anthony Fauci was able to use his control of the research-funding purse-strings to suppress and cover up—for the critical first couple of years—the human origins of Covid-19. He was aided in the cover-up by Hive media.
The Hive bet that, with the owners and titans of both legacy media and social media firmly ensconced in the Hive, they could nullify the West’s traditional and (in the U.S.) constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and of the press. They figured that although there were other social media platforms, FaceBook, Twitter, and Google/Youtube had an effective monopoly, and that if dissenting voices could be throttled on these platforms, the counter-narrative could be strangled in the cradle and the “official” narrative would be protected. (They banned President Trump from Twitter and then, just to play it safe, they de-platformed Parler.) Concept proved.
The Hive knew what most Americans do not yet know, which is that the social media companies, although owned by private citizens through large, publicly traded corporations, are in a covert partnership with the intelligence community (IC). The IC subsidizes social media because it incorporates the data social media generates into the IC’s panopticon surveillance operation which, since the “Patriot Act” was passed after 9/11, has been aimed inwardly at the American people. They figured that, since there was already a covert partnership between the IC and social media, they could, with impunity, task thousands of federal agents to monitor our posts, and notify the tech companies to censor anything counter-narrative. So far the plan has succeeded spectacularly, First Amendment notwithstanding. Concept proved.
The Hive used their control of the media and censorship apparatus to cover up the fact that Covid is less dangerous to children than seasonal flu, and imply that children and youth were seriously at risk, and, sure enough, many allowed their children to be given a clot shot that might kill them, whereas Covid by itself never would. Concept proved.
In 2020, Hive operatives (Marc Elias and his team of “Lawfare” attorneys) convinced courts and/or legislatures in many states, including the key swing states that, because of Covid, voters could not be expected to risk going to the polls where their identity and eligibility to vote could be verified. So ballots were printed by the millions and mailed out, where they were harvested by paid agents and deposited in unmonitored drop boxes by the bunches, usually in the dead of night. In such a system, there is no way to verify anything, and the potential for fraud is almost unlimited. Thus were the 2020 and 2022 general elections rigged and stolen. Concept proved.
Given the ballot-harvesting system, candidates do not matter. With a good ballot-harvesting machine in place, a badly brain-damaged stroke victim can win a statewide senate race over a charismatic heart surgeon. Going forward, elections will have nothing to do with candidates, debates, political advertising, issues, or party platforms. They will not measure voter sentiment, but will indicate only who has the best ballot-harvesting operation. Given their decade-long head start (including perfecting ballot-harvesting machines in California, Oregon and Washington), that will likely be the Democrats for quite a while. Thanks to Covid and its planned over-hyping, the Hive has swept away, for the time being, any electoral obstacles to the implementation of its political program. Concept proved.
The Vaccine Passport
One of the concepts the Hive desperately wanted to prove was a vaccine passport, which is a form of proof—preferably digital, preferably a smart phone app—that the holder has tested negative for, or been vaccinated against, a disease. Such proof would be required before entering a building, boarding a plane, eating at a restaurant, going to a movie theater, or working out at a gym. There would be a central, official registry of the vaccinated, and the registry would communicate with your phone app.
The World Health Organization issued a hundred-page document discussing the technical and legal aspects of a vaccine passport, and an American coalition consisting of Bill Gates, Oracle, and the Mayo Clinic began developing another vaccine passport concept.
Long after it could be argued with a straight face that they had any relationship to public health, the “Biden Administration” kept vaccine mandates and entry restrictions in place, because they wanted to prove the concept of a vaccine passport. You do not need a vaccine passport if vaccination is not mandatory, so the mandates had to stay in place.
Vaccine passports by themselves are an obnoxious imposition on a free people, but when combined with other systems, including (1) a social credit score and (2) a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), they would give government frightening power over everyone, all but extinguishing personal liberty. Such a joint system is now technically feasible.
The Social Credit System
It is no secret that our Western ruling elites envy and idolize the Chinese Communist Party’s extremely thorough, carefully thought-out totalitarian control over the vast population of China. The Hive would love to exercise that same level of control over the citizens of Western countries.
One of the CCP’s means of control is the social credit system it has been developing for about a decade. The system monitors each individual’s support for the communist regime, as well as other indicia of good behavior and good citizenship. Each person has a running score, just like people in the West have a credit score that is tracked and monitored by the three credit bureaus.
The ranking system is controlled by the CCP’s economics planning team, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the People's Bank of China, and the Chinese court system. The system scores companies, non-profits, NGOs, and government organizations as well as individuals, and is being imposed in a piecemeal fashion, with pilot programs in many urban areas. It will soon be universal in China.
Infractions include bad driving, smoking in non-smoking zones, buying items the government deems “frivolous,” buying too many video games, and spending too much time playing video games. But most of the infractions are related to speech and communications. Posting “fake news” is an infraction; posting unapproved comments on social media platforms is an infraction.
Parenthetically, I note that during the past three years, those of us who post to social media such as Facebook or YouTube have a gotten a preview of the social credit system, as the censors at those sites (as well as the FBI agents who also monitor social media) have repeatedly struck our content, and given us various “warnings” “fact checks” “time outs,” etc. (The Leftists reading this won’t have any idea what I’m talking about, because the Left is seldom censored on social media, but many of you will understand from first-hand experience.)
What happens when your “social credit score” falls too low? You are not allowed to travel. By the end of 2018, communist officials had banned people 17.5 million people from purchasing flights. The CCP also denies people luxury options, like business-class train tickets and high-end hotels.
They will also prevent you, or your children, from going to college. In 2017, Seventeen people who refused to serve in the military were barred from enrolling in higher education or even continuing studies in high school. In July of 2018, a Chinese university denied a slot to an incoming freshman, because his father had a bad social credit score. The negative sanctions only get worse from there, and likely include imprisonment, slavery in a work camp, and becoming an involuntary organ donor.
The Coming Digital Currency
The World Economic Forum, and hence many Western governments including Great Britain under Rishi Sunak and the “Biden Administration,” are strongly pushing a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). All money would be digital; cash would be outlawed. There would be only one bank with deposits, the central bank, which, in the United States is the Federal Reserve, the “Creature from Jekyll Island.”
The advantage of a CBDC is that there would be no bank failures. The Fed can create money at will by pushing a button; they could create as much money as they would need to bail themselves out (it might cause inflation, but the Fed is causing rapid inflation now by creating so much money). A CBDC would also eliminate bank runs, because (a) see above, there would be no bank failures, (b) there would be nowhere else for depositors to put their money, there being no other institutions accepting demand deposits, and (c) no one could withdraw cash because there will be no cash, just digits, ones and zeros in cyberspace.
The disadvantage (from my point of view, not the government’s) would be complete and total loss of freedom and privacy. The government would be able to monitor or track every penny you spent, where you spent it, and what you spent it on. They could prevent you giving money to disapproved persons like Canadian truckers, and, if you are a disapproved person (say, a Sabbath-keeper), prevent you getting any money.
Forget going on the lam; that would be a thing of the past. Even if there were a device on which you could store your digital currency that is not location-tracked 24/7 as your cell phone is, every time you bought gasoline or a bag of potato chips, your location would pop up on the Fed’s computer, and government agents would be dispatched to collect you. If you don’t want the government to know where you are, you must throw away your device, and beg, borrow, barter, or steal everything you need.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has called digital currency a “high priority project,” and the “Biden Administration” issued an Executive Order in March, 2022, elevating creation of a CBDC to “the highest urgency.”
Why is there such a push for central bank digital currency? To answer that question, we need to review something that happened in Canada just over a year ago.
The Great Canadian Bank Heist
Three years ago, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (or Justin Castro, if you respect the patriarchal convention of giving a child his father’s surname) was concept-proving an unnecessary vaccine mandate; any truckers who hauled to and from the United States had to be vaccinated before they were allowed to cross the U.S./Canada border in either direction. But this time there was substantial resistance; the truckers did not want to be injected with a useless, dangerous clot shot just to be able to work and provide for their families. They went on strike and shut down several strategic bridges and border-crossings.
Their protest was entirely peaceful and reasonable. Nevertheless, on Monday, February 14, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act (formerly the War Measures Act) by unilateral decree. Soon thereafter he began using brutal violence to break up the truckers’ protest.
But Trudeau and his enforcer Chrystia Freeland (a former WEF “young global leader,” as are half Trudeau’s cabinet) did something beyond ordering the Mounties to ride roughshod over peaceful protesters. They started freezing bank accounts.
Canadians who had not been charged with or convicted of any crime, much less judicially sentenced to any fine or asset forfeiture, awoke to find their bank accounts frozen; they had no ability to access and spend their own money.
The seizures were nakedly partisan. On February 17, David Lametti, the “justice minister” in Trudeau’s government, said—on television—that if you hold the wrong political views, you should be worried about your bank account:
“If you are a member of a pro-Trump movement who is donating hundreds of thousands of dollars, and millions of dollars, to this kind of thing, then you ought to be worried.”
Watching this on Tucker Carlson’s show, I said, “this is going to start a bank run.” It had already started, and by February 16, less than two days after the account seizures began, Canada’s banks shut down online access to accounts. The banks whose customers lost online access included the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), the Bank of Montreal (BOM), Scotiabank, and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC).
From then on, you had to get into your car and drive to the bank to withdraw or transfer money. But obviously people did just that, because on Wednesday, February 23rd, nine days after he invoked emergency powers—and just two after he won a vote in the Canadian House of Commons affirming his use of those powers—Trudeau pulled the plug on himself. He announced that the state of emergency was over.
"The situation is no longer an emergency, therefore the federal government will be ending the use of the emergencies act. We are confident that existing laws and bylaws are sufficient to keep people safe."
Again, Trudeau had gone to the trouble to secure legislative approval for his emergency powers just two days before. Why the sudden change of course? What happened?
What happened is that Trudeau’s bank heist had caused a bank run. Realizing that their money was no longer protected from Leftist thuggery from the likes of Fidel Castro, Jr., thousands of Canadians moved their money outside of Canada, or just withdrew cash and carried the paper money out of the bank.
Because the fractional reserve banking system operates on narrow margins, a loss of even ten percent of funds on deposit would ruin the Canadian banking system and cause widespread bank failures. What Trudeau was doing threatened to devastate the entire Canadian economy.
Some very powerful people took Trudeau aside and said, “You’ve got to stop this. Now!” And he did.
The lesson of this episode is that there is freedom—and an important check on governmental power—in cash and in a multiplicity of banks.
By contrast, when a CBDC is established, and one institution monopolizes all demand deposits, there will be no freedom and no check on state oppression.
With cash, you have privacy; the government does not know what you’re spending your money on, or with whom you are transacting business. The ruling elites hate that; they want absolute control. Said Augustin Carstens, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements:
“We don’t know who’s using a $100 bill today and we don’t know who’s using a 1,000 peso bill today. The key difference with the CBDC is the central bank will have absolute control on the rules and regulations that will determine the use of that expression of central bank liability, and also we will have the technology to enforce that… and that makes a huge difference.”
Our rulers lust for absolute control over our finances. The Trudeaus of the world (and our American politicians are no better) covet the power to freeze us out of the economy with just a mouse-click, and they will move heaven and earth to get that power.
The Ultimate Tool of Totalitarian Control
A vaccine passport, a social credit system, and a Central Bank Digital Currency—put these three together and you have the ultimate tool of totalitarian control. You also, at long last, have the means to make Revelation 13:16-17 a reality:
“[the 2nd beast] also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.”
Just about every biblically literate person understands this. On a Church of God blog it was written of the vaccine mandates:
“We can only wonder if this potential mandate is a precursor to what will take place in the Tribulation. God’s prophetic word tells us the false prophet will cause “all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name” (Rev. 13:16-17).”
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“All of these technologies will merge at the intersection of Big Data, big banks, Big Tech and big government. Your social credit score will now be tied in not only to your Internet activity but to your bank account and your vaccine status. Welcome to the Great Reset, a/k/a New World Order.
“Add in advances in AI [artificial intelligence] and facial recognition and millions of surveillance cameras and you are talking about a lockdown slave state that makes George Orwell’s 1984 look like a picnic in the park.
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“The type of controls prophesied in Revelation 13:16-18 were not possible when Jesus inspired the Apostle John to pen the above. But it is possible now with digital technology. Digital passports and/or some type of national identity card may well be tools of the Beast of the Sea (the man of sin) and the Beast from the Earth (the final Antichrist).
“The time of 666 control of nearly all aspects of buying and selling is coming.”
The Church of God gets it. Why don’t we get it?
Rod Dreher, who was raised a Methodist, converted to Catholicism in his 20s, and about ten years later converted to Orthodox Christianity, gets it, too. In the context of a discussion about CBDCs, he writes:
“This is happening, right now. I remember when I was a kid, reading a Christian End Times book, and wondering how they could ever come up with a system in which you could not buy or sell unless you had the ‘mark of the Beast’ — meaning, symbolically, that you were a slave to a global system (in the Roman Empire, slaves had tattoos on their foreheads or hands, to mark them as property). Well, now I know. And so do you.”
With all due respect to Janel Tasker and her friend, if we are not talking about the mark of the beast in connection with the Covid saga and the resulting push toward vaccine passports and a CBDC, we are not really Adventists. This is what we should be talking about, because this is happening right now, and it is fulfilling Bible prophecy. Talking about Bible prophecies fulfilled is what Adventists do.
We Must Destroy the Unvaccinated!
There is a final connection between the Covid saga and the mark of the beast: the Hive needed to gin up hatred for those of us who would not take the vaccine, so that the public would consent to making us second-class citizens, with no right to work or hold a job, or serve in the military, no freedom of movement, no right to travel, no right to shop or eat in restaurants, or go to moves, etc. There was even discussion—and limited implementation—of making the non-vaccinated wear an identifying marker such as a badge, wristband, or armband (although not a star of David).
The Hive-controlled media dutifully began the “othering” of those of us who did not want to take the clot shot. The media, all those conspirators who joined the Orwellianly named “Trusted News Initiative,” carried on a campaign of demonization against anyone who was “vaccine hesitant” stating that we were endangering our own families, children, neighbors, and friends. We were the undesirables, the untouchables.
Prominent Adventist voices joined in, with one Andrews professor writing, in an official church publication, that Adventists who resisted vaccination should be treated as second-class citizens:
“I'm not arguing for mandatory vaccination. But I am saying that your choice not to be vaccinated will appropriately come with limitations on community participation, work and travel.”
Ironically, the “othering” and demonization was done in the name of the public good, in the name of kindness, thoughtfulness, and consideration for others. As Naomi Wolf expressed it:
“You know, ‘You’ve got to exclude those people for the good of the community,’ or ‘You’ve got to mask yourself and your child to save your child.’ This really brilliantly upended American culture because it cast freedom as selfish.”
It was all propaganda, of course; the unvaccinated were no more likely to spread the Wuhan Flu than the vaccinated. But the demonization of those who resisted was part of the plan. Another concept proved.
We can expect this same type of media-wide campaign of demonization to go hand in hand with all futures attempts to impose Revelation 13 economic and banking controls on the populace.
“. . . in the future the problem of buying and selling will be a very serious one.” Last Day Events, p. 99.
The Mask Mandate Fraud
Here is the final issue that Janel Tasker’s friend “Carrie” encountered:
“During the height of the pandemic, a church where not one person was wearing a mask despite a government mandate to do so. These well-meaning advocates of personal freedom may have felt they’d gained a victory, but they lost an opportunity to minister to Carrie, who quietly left, not wanting to expose her family and her husband’s elderly patients to a bug she picked up at church.”
There was never any solid evidence that masks slowed the spread of the virus.
Another major study on that topic came out January 30th, a literature review by the Cochrane Library, entitled “Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses.” Physical interventions included, “social distancing, screening at entry ports, isolation, quarantine, physical distancing, personal protection, hand hygiene, face masks, glasses, and gargling.” The conclusion was that hand-washing helps a little, but nothing else does:
We included 12 trials . . . comparing medical/surgical masks versus no masks to prevent the spread of viral respiratory illness (two trials with healthcare workers and 10 in the community). Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness (ILI)/COVID‐19 like illness compared to not wearing masks (risk ratio (RR) 0.95, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.84 to 1.09; 9 trials, 276,917 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence. Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of laboratory‐confirmed influenza/SARS‐CoV‐2 compared to not wearing masks (RR 1.01, 95% CI 0.72 to 1.42; 6 trials, 13,919 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence). Harms were rarely measured and poorly reported (very low‐certainty evidence).
The Hive media immediately issued stories saying that the results of this study had been “misinterpreted.” The hive even leaned on the editor of the Cochrane Review to say that the results were misinterpreted, as the execrable Richelle Walensky, head of the CDC, noted in congressional testimony (106:55), while admitting that the Cochrane Review is the “gold standard” of scientific literature reviews.
But the results were not misinterpreted. Masks don’t work. They are a waste of time, and not at all harmless. Evidence continues to mount that mask mandates were perhaps the worst public-health intervention in modern American history.
So why were masks mandated? It was yet another case of concept proving: The Hive was letting you know that it can force you to wear something on your face that has no public health value. As with the vaccine, the important point was precisely that it had no epidemiological or medical value, and was known to have none, but they could force you anyway. Concept proved.
In every aspect of the concept proving, the Hive has exhibited cruelty and sadism, no more so than in forcing children to wear masks. It was clear early on that Covid posed no threat to children, and that children did not spread the virus to adults. And it was known long before Covid that small children need to see faces and facial expressions while learning spoken language to develop into adults who communicate normally, and that masking children, and the adults they interact with, will harm and delay a child’s development. There’s a ton of literature on this topic, for those who claim to care about such things.
But it did not matter to the Hive; they needed to demonstrate their power over us in many ways, and harming children is just fine with them. That is why they are still promoting the vaccination of children when there is no upside whatsoever and very considerable risk.
The message was clear: we matter, you do not; your life has no value, your children have no value, you have no freedom, you should not have any freedom, and any freedom you think you have, we can take away on a whim, because of our inherent superiority to you.
The elites who run the Hive and its constituent institutions are evil people. They are hugely increasing their wealth and power, and they do not care how many among the masses they have killed, are killing, and will kill—and that number is already well into the millions.
The Problem of the Hive and the Evil Ruling Class
America has a very different ruling class, and a very different relationship with its ruling class, than we have ever had. In just a few years, things have changed drastically for the worse. Our elites have dramatically broken from the shared values of America’s founding. They reject constitutional norms and freedoms, and are viscerally opposed to free speech and expression. They want to control the narrative, and they are controlling it, very tightly.
The Internet, which promised freedom and democratization of information to all, has, as Tucker Carlson pointed out last Friday evening, been perverted and turned into a way to deny critical information to the citizenry. That is entirely the doing of our evil elites, the Hive, who are very, very serious about controlling what you know and are allowed to find out. They have weaponized the federal justice and law enforcement machinery against political and religious dissent.
They have also rejected any restraints upon their greed and rapacity, no longer even pretending that the common man should be allowed to earn or own anything. They have created an economic system featuring unlimited cheap immigrant labor and offshoring of manufacturing jobs to China, all to depress working class wages. The life expectancy of the white working class has significantly decreased in the last decade. The Hive does not want a fair system with a healthy and growing middle class; they want to be the lords and they want us to be the serfs. Just a few days ago, they were talking about the need to force down working class wages to fight inflation!
The dirty little secret is that the Hive’s opposition to Donald Trump is solely because he threatens the system they have built. Trump wants to raise working class wages by closing the border and repatriating manufacturing, and the Hive has shown itself ready, willing, and able to destroy every norm and every tradition of this great republic to stop him. They were also willing, obviously, to create and let loose a new pathogen, then shut down civilization in response to it, to harm the economy and Trump’s chances of re-election.
I attribute the evil and depravity of our ruling elite to the rapid de-Christianization of the United States, and especially to its rapid de-Protestantization. Americans are learning what it is to live under a ruling elite that not only are not believers themselves, but are utterly unfamiliar with biblical Christianity.
In 1955, America was about 95% Christian and 75% Protestant. As recently as 1976, America was still 91% Christian and overwhelmingly Protestant. Today, America is only 65% Christian and 45% Protestant. Among young adults, ages 18 through 29, 55% claim to be Christian and only 36% claim to be Protestant—20% evangelical, 10% mainline, and 6% historically black. That means that in 2055, America will be less than 50% Christian and about 35% Protestant, less than half what it was a century before, in 1955.
If You Let Yourselves Go Around Masked up, Christ Will be of No Value to You at all (Gal. 5:2, DRV)
The masks do nothing to slow the spread of Covid, but they are very effective at another function: the mask identifies those who willingly follow the Hive. The masks are a sign of unquestioning allegiance to the principalities, the powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this present age.
Anyone who at this late date is still wearing a mask—and there are many—is clearly signaling to the Hive, “I’m on your side; I believe it all, everything you’ve told me. Don’t worry about me; I follow orders without question.”
Yes, the mask is a mark of the beast, or at least the mark of the Hive, worn just below the forehead, signaling intellectual assent to the beastly system the Hive is building. By wearing the mask, you are saying, “my faith is not in God, but in our elites’ efforts to build a Tower of Babel to the heavens, and save humanity without God.”
That’s why this passage is so relevant, “If you let yourselves be masked up, Christ will be of no use to you at all.” (Gal. 5:2 DRV—David’s Revised Version). Okay, yes, the original says “circumcised”; Paul’s point was that if you choose circumcision, you’ve opted for salvation through law-keeping, rather than salvation through faith in Jesus Christ—hence Christ is no longer of any use to you.
The same thing applies to masking up. It signals loyalty to the system the principalities and powers of this fallen world are building. By wearing the mask, you are putting your faith in human effort, not in God’s salvation freely given to you through Christ’s death on the cross.
Paul goes on to say that anyone who is circumcised is obliged to keep the whole law. “Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.” That means you are restricted to 2,000 cubits travel on the Sabbath (1.2 km—less than a mile), you cannot start a fire on the Sabbath (no electricity, no internal combustion engine), you must practice levirate marriage and marry your brother’s widow, you have to continue to bring sacrifices to the temple, you must observe all the feasts and ceremonial sabbaths, you must observe kosher food and drink, you cannot wear mixed fabrics, you must perform ritual purification after touching a dead body, or after your period, or after childbirth, you must go to the priest if you have a rash, and about a thousand other things. Unless you are prepared to do all that, Paul says, don’t bother getting circumcised. Because if you fail in even one point, you’ve broken the whole law and you have no hope of salvation.
Likewise, unless you are prepared to do all else the Hive demands of you—take each booster shot as it rolls out, give up your freedom of speech, accept that you have no inherent right to worship, work, or travel, accept that you have no right to learn the real facts about anything, don’t object to the invasion of your country at the rate of 3 million aliens per year, accept that if you are white you are a racist oppressor and white supremacist, accept that your children’s teachers have the right to convince your 14 year old daughter to cut her breasts off, accept that you will never have real elections again, accept that your tax money, and your sons’ blood, will be squandered in Ukraine—unless you are willing to do all this, don’t bother masking up. Because if you fail in any one of these things, the Hive will come after you and destroy you.
The mask is a symbol of agreement with a narrative. Increasingly, ideological differences relate not so much to policy prescriptions as to competing factual narratives. The ultimate meaning of the mask is the wearer’s declaration of fealty to the Hive’s factual narrative.
You see, the Hive has a version of reality it wants you to accept—that Covid has zoonotic origins, that masks are effective to slow the spread of an airborne virus, that there was no treatment for Covid other than Remdesivir and ventilators, that the vaccine is safe and effective, and did not kill hundreds of thousands of people, that young vaccinated people do not die suddenly every day, that the 2020 presidential election was clean, fair and accurate in its results, that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation,” that January 6th was an insurrection, but the George Floyd riots were mostly peaceful protests, that the border is secure, and that it is in America’s vital national interests to send $200 billion a year and special forces operators—combat troops—into the war in Ukraine.
I’m certain none of that is true—not a word, not a syllable. But that, and many more lies, are exactly what the Hive is very serious about forcing me and you to believe. Anything contrary to that is dismissed as a “conspiracy theory.” Sadly, there are voices within Adventism that also say we need to believe all that, because reasons. Their reasoning, as near as I can tell, is that if we don’t believe all that, we are not submitting to the duly constituted authorities. Oh, we’re allowed to doubt the authorities at some point, but not until the Sunday law is enacted. If we object before then, we are “crying wolf.” Or something.
But if you think you can practice submitting to the Hive’s lies, that you can live by lies day after day, year after year, then one day flip a switch and start resisting the lies and living by truth, you are a fool. Live not by lies. Make a commitment today to live by truth.