"The Power of the Lord was Present to Heal Them"
SECTION I: Swine Influ and Gangsters
In Japan, or specifically in western Japan, or critically in Kobe City and Osaka Pref., two major commercial centers, the swine flu victims have been found and reported suddenly over these two days to reach more than 100.
Frankly speaking, Kobe and Osaka are regarded as more contaminated by crimes involving gangsters than in any other large cities in Japan.
Mexico, the possible birthplace of the swine flu, is also well known for drug-related crimes and murder cases.
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Mexico sees inside job in prison break
The prison warden and two top guards are arrested in Zacatecas after suspected drug cartel men in a 17-car convoy and backed by a helicopter entered the facility and freed 53 inmates.
By Tracy Wilkinson
4:19 PM PDT, May 17, 2009
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Officials reached that conclusion after reviewing tapes from security cameras. The footage shows the ease with which a convoy of 17 vehicles, backed by a helicopter, approached Cieneguillas prison. About 30 men, some in police uniforms, passed through the gates, rounded up the prisoners, loaded them into the cars and sped away.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-prison18-2009may18,0,4319828.story
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No one knows how those gangsters would behave when they realize that they have been also passed the infection on to.
Could we regard the situation as divine punishment?
SECTION II: Plague in the 6th Century Europe
When the Western Roman Empire fell, Europe got into a tragic period of the plague.
It terminated the last hope of revival of the Roman Empire.
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First Pandemic: Plague of Justinian
Main article: Plague of Justinian
The Plague of Justinian in A.D. 541–542 is the first known attack on record, and marks the first firmly recorded pattern of bubonic plague. This outbreak is thought to have originated in Ethiopia. The huge city of Constantinople imported massive amounts of grain, mostly from Egypt, to feed its citizens. The grain ships were the source of contagion for the city, with massive public granaries nurturing the rat and flea population. At its peak the plague was killing 10,000 people in Constantinople every day and ultimately destroyed perhaps 40% of the city's inhabitants. It went on to destroy up to a quarter of the human population of the eastern Mediterranean.
In A.D. 588 a second major wave of plague spread through the Mediterranean into what is now France. It is estimated that the Plague of Justinian killed as many as 100 million people across the world.[10][11] It caused Europe's population to drop by around 50% between 541 and 700.[12] It also may have contributed to the success of the Arab conquests.[13] [14] An outbreak of it in the A.D. 560s was described in A.D. 790 as causing "swellings in the glands...in the manner of a nut or date" in the groin "and in other rather delicate places followed by an unbearable fever". While the swellings in this description have been identified by some as buboes, there is some contention as to whether the pandemic should be attributed to the bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, known in modern times.[15]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_(disease)
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So, when the seventh century arrived, Europe was no more the same as it had been in the era of the Roman Empire so prosperous or struggling for survival.
(To be continued...)
Luk 5:17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
Luk 5:18 And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.
Luk 5:19 And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.
Luk 5:20 And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.