Coronavirus, The US Government Confirms 1,000 Cases

The US coronavirus toll rises

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Schools, temples, churches, and other large gathering places within much of the New York City suburb of New Rochelle will be shut down for two weeks as the state battles to contain one of the nation's worst coronavirus clusters.

The National Guard will be called in to help clean facilities and deliver food, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday. 

Cuomo announced plans to enforce a "containment area" for a 1-mile radius around the center of the cluster, an area of Westchester County that includes much of the city of New Rochelle and stretches into the town of Eastchester. 

As of Tuesday afternoon, the state had 174 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, second only to Washington state.

"This is literally a matter of life and death," Cuomo said.

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More than 100 cases are in Westchester County, tied to an Orthodox Jewish community where a lawyer was the first case in the region. 

Any large gathering places, including several public schools, within the containment area, will be closed from Thursday through March 25, the governor said. Residents who live within the containment area will be free to leave their homes and the area so long as they have not otherwise been ordered to quarantine, Cuomo added. 

In New York City, the United Nations closed its headquarters to the general public and suspended guided tours in an effort to prevent the spread of the virus.

US death toll rises to 28; confirmed cases at 1,023

The U.S. death toll due to coronavirus has risen to 28 as infections spread to all but a handful of states. The global death toll topped 4,200, and the number of confirmed cases approached 120,000.

New Jersey reported its first death, a 69-year-old Bergen County man with several underlying health complications, including emphysema, diabetes, and hypertension. 

State Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said the man went into cardiac arrest Monday night and was revived, but died Tuesday morning after going into cardiac arrest again.

The number of U.S. confirmed cases rose to 1,025 early Wednesday, including Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announcing the state's first two cases and declaring a state of emergency.

The two people who have the virus — a man from Wayne County with a history of domestic travel and a woman from Oakland County who traveled internationally — are both hospitalized, said Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, chief medical executive and chief deputy director for health at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

Donald Trump on coronavirus: 'It will go away, just stay calm'

President Donald Trump sought to allay concerns over the spread of coronavirus on Tuesday on Capitol Hill after pitching Senate Republicans on his plan to provide relief to those affected by the economic uncertainty amid the outbreak. 

"It will go away, just stay calm," he told reporters after the meeting. "Everybody has to be vigilant and has to be careful. But be calm. It's really working out." 

The president's proposed stimulus package is expected to include a payroll tax cut, a provision that has been met with mixed reactions among some Republican senators. 

"They were just about all there, mostly all there," Trump said.

Trump also said he feels "extremely good" and didn't "think it's a big deal" to be tested for coronavirus, and the White House doctor told him he saw "no reason to do it."

Some lawmakers who were in close contact with Trump in recent days have self-quarantined after coming into contact with a person who tested positive for coronavirus at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland last month.

Top among them was Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who flew with Trump aboard Air Force One from Florida back to Washington on Monday, and Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., who was recently named Trump's chief of staff.

Gaetz tweeted Tuesday that he tested negative but will remain in quarantine until Thursday.

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CAST YOUR BREAD UPON THE WATERS: PASTORS’ MASTER KEY TO STEAL FROM THE CONGREGATION

The Bible quotation is often used by pastors.

The only way to know the mind of a white man is to interact with them. Therefore, working with them is an opportunity to know their minds, and the more I speak with them, the more I get information about what they think about Africa.

Europeans who have visited Africa always speak well about Africans, amidst all the hardships and challenges they face daily, but those who haven’t stepped into the continent and don’t even have plans to visit Africa have negative perceptions towards the continent.

Many think Africans are lazy people, and if you ask them the reason, this is what they say: "Africans have a lot of resources but can’t do anything significant with them. The corrupt leaders always depend on foreign leaders for their daily bread. Africans are religious; therefore, they are always expecting miracles from heaven."

“Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days, and bring one-tenth of your income into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my house. Test me in this way,” says the Lord of Armies. “See if I won’t open the windows of heaven for you and flood you with blessings.”

These are some of the Biblical quotations that have inspired and generated a chain of fake pastors, churches, prophets, and bishops, deceiving the people continually around the world. They are the master keys that open the heart of the poor and hungry congregation to give everything they have to the pastors.

Has God’s house become a den of thieves, criminals, cheats, adulterers, fornicators, and lairs in Ghana? Ghana is known to be one of the most peaceful and God-loving countries in West Africa, with several mosques and churches, but now it seems everyone is a pastor in the country.

The sudden rapid increase of mushroom churches throughout the nation demands if the church truly cares about the poor, the afflicted, and those with diverse problems, or is just an institution of a profit-oriented business.

In my recent visit to Ghana, there was no place I freely passed, without seeing an advert or post boards of pastors, bishops, and prophets, which reminded me of one of the prophecies of Jesus Christ: “Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.” Matthew 24:4-5, King James Version.

Among a multitude of pastors in Ghana is one called ‘Bishop’ Daniel Obinim, who claims to have powers to heal and heads a church known as ‘International God’s Way Church. Ghanaians are very intelligent people, yet I couldn’t find the reason many people have lost their intelligence to follow someone called Daniel Obinim.

I saw on the television this man who claims to be a pastor healing an impotent man by holding his penis and stomping a pregnant woman’s belly, during church service, talking of her wife’s vagina, and engaging in other deceitful acts.

What has happened to Ghana, this great nation? On the television, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Obinim tells the congregation that he has powers to visit people in their dreams, when the great redeemer or messiah, Jesus Christ, who the storm obeys his voice, didn’t even visit any of his followers, whether dead or alive, in their dreams.

It’s a fact that some people are using God’s name to steal, confuse, cheat, and sleep with members of the church. Is Obinim one of them? Are Bishop and Prophet now titles that everyone claims serving God can confer on themselves?

The need to ask this question is necessary because the prophets and bishops in Ghana are now too numerous to count when the Bible gives reference to a few people as major and minor prophets.

Jesus Christ suffered all kinds of persecution but never insulted or cursed anyone. He was oppressed and afflicted, and like a lamb, he was led to the slaughter, without opening his mouth, yet Obinim, who claims his powers were given to him by Jesus, on national television, insults and uses profane words on anyone who challenges his claims, including the former head of state, John Jerry Rawlings.

How can Ghanaians take such a person seriously to generate such multitudes of followers? Something is wrong in Ghana.

Ghanaian pastors now drive the most expensive cars. In one church service, collecting money can take place more than five times, with each having a definition of its purpose or what it serves. The longest church service in Europe is two hours, but in Ghana, there are churches that service last longer than six hours and some eight hours.

With this in mind of the white man says Africans are lazy because they sit in the church for eight hours and work for two hours. Before the end of the church service, the pastors have taken all the money of the congregation who act by faith, yet they don’t have enough to eat.

Pastors are now competing with corrupt African politicians by driving the most expensive and luxurious cars while the blind-faith congregation is struggling to make ends meet. They cast their bread but gained nothing, since many expect miracles from God instead of working hard.

Surprisingly, most of these corrupt churches have hundreds of members; therefore, who do I blame, the church or the followers? The church is so deeply corrupt that those who give a high amount of money are given high seats, and the lowest share the back seat.

Jesus fed the five thousand hungry people, but our modern-day pastors take from the poor congregation. Until the second coming of Jesus Christ, fake pastors and prophets like vampires will continue to suck the blood of the sufferers.

Is Ghana’s Obinim Among The Many False Prophets That Will Arise and Deceive People?

The founder of International God’s Way Church, Daniel Obinim, claims to have powers to heal.

“Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days, and bring one-tenth of your income into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my house. Test me in this way,” says the Lord of Armies. “See if I won’t open the windows of heaven for you and flood you with blessings.”

These are some of the Biblical quotations that have inspired and generated a chain of fake pastors, churches, prophets, and bishops, deceiving the people continually around the world.

Has God’s house become a den of thieves, criminals, cheats, adulterers, fornicators, and liars in Ghana? Ghana is known to be one of the most peaceful and God-loving countries in West Africa, with a number of mosques and churches. 

But the sudden rapid increase of mushroom churches throughout the nation demands if the church truly cares about the poor, the afflicted, and those with diverse problems, or is an institution of a profit-oriented business.

In my recent visit to Ghana, there was no place I freely passed, without seeing an advert or post boards of pastors, bishops, and prophets, which reminded me of one of the prophecies of Jesus Christ: “Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.” Matthew 24:4-5, King James Version.

Among a multitude of pastors in Ghana is one called ‘Bishop’ Daniel Obinim, who claims to have powers to heal and heads a church known as ‘International God’s Way Church. Ghanaians are very intelligent people, yet I couldn’t find the reason many people have lost their intelligence to follow someone called Daniel Obinim. 

The kowtowed so low to sleep with one of his associate pastor’s wives, one who claims of healing an impotent man by holding his penis and stomping a pregnant woman’s belly, during church service, talks of her wife’s vagina, and is involved in other deceitful acts.

What has happened to Ghana, this great nation? On the television, I couldn’t believe my ears, Obinim tells the congregation that he has powers to visit people in their dreams, when the great redeemer or messiah, Jesus Christ, who the storm obeys his voice, didn’t even visit any of his followers, whether dead or alive, in their dreams.

It’s a fact that some people are using God’s name to steal, confuse, cheat, and sleep with members of the church. Is Obinim one of them? Are Bishop and Prophet now titles that everyone who claims to serve God can confer on themselves? 

The need to ask this question is necessary because the prophets and bishops in Ghana are now too numerous to count, when the Bible gives reference to a few people as major and minor prophets.

Jesus Christ suffered all kinds of persecution but never insulted or cursed anyone. He was oppressed and afflicted, and like a lamb, he was led to the slaughter, without opening his mouth, yet Obinim, who claims his powers were given to him by Jesus, on national television, insults and uses profane words on anyone who challenges his claims, including the former head of state, John Jerry Rawlings. 

How can Ghanaians take such a person seriously to generate such multitudes of followers? Something is wrong in Ghana.

Opinion

In the time of the apostles, there was a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, who was honored by all the people. When the apostles were being mistreated, he stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men be put outside for a little while.

He said to them, “Men of Israel, take care what you propose to do with these men. For some time ago, Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a group of about four hundred men joined up with him. 

But he was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing. After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the census and drew away some people after him; he too perished, and all those who followed him were scattered.”

“Now there was a man named Simon, who formerly was practicing magic in the city and astonishing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great; and they all, from smallest to greatest, were giving attention to him, saying, “This man is what is called the Great Power of God.” Unfortunately, he also perished.

Standing on Gamaliel’s words, if Daniel Obinim claims that his powers were from God or Jesus, then he will surely survive, but if they are demonic, magic, occultism, or voodoo, then Ghanaians will live to see the painful and disgraceful end of all fake pastors, for misusing God’s name to exploit their ignorant followers.