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Recently, while in intercessory prayer, the triune God through the Holy Spirit opened up my eyes to a powerful truth, namely, "The Eight Blood Points to the Cross.” I don't know about you, but when I think of the blood which Jesus shed for me, I rejoice in the blood shed at the cross! However, the Lord showed me that my vision was limited! There were so many other places that He suffered and shed His blood.
Christ’s blood was not only shed on the cross; it was first shed in the garden of Gethsemane where great drops mixed with sweat dripped to the ground as He agonized over the decision He had to make! Scientists have proven that though rare, it is possible for someone to so be in agony that blood capillaries will break, allowing blood and sweat to mix. The blood which was shed in the garden is what I call the “first blood point”, where the most precious substance that this world had ever seen, Jesus’ sinless blood, dripped down on this sin filled planet!
Secondly, the Bible says that as he was brought before Caiaphas the high priest he was "buffeted", which means he was punched in the face while they mocked and spit on Him! Severe punching no doubt produced blood, perhaps from his lips. Although no bones were broken, He still could have had a bloody nose. This was the next blood point. Once again His sinless blood dripped to this polluted planet’s surface. Thirdly, they made a crown of thorns and rammed it down on His head, as they continued to mock Him by sarcastically calling Him the "King of the Jews". This being blood point number three. Once again, the priceless precious sinless blood dripped down on the ground of the world that he was called to save.
Next, I think of the blood point of the blood that was on the garment that they ripped from His body and gambled over it! Many Times when I am praying I envision myself covered with the blood-stained garment of Jesus. Oh what a price the second Adam, our Lord Jesus paid for our sins! Blood point number four was as they threw this bloody garment to the ground, to cast lots over it. Number five, I think of the fact that as He was strapped to a whipping post. We know that the Romans' whip laid 39 stripes upon his back because history says that Roman law prevented them from going over 40 because 40 or more would either kill people or drive them into insanity from the pain. Blood point number five is that blood, from the Roman whips lashes, would have literally have been splattered everywhere including upon the soldiers themselves. Blood would've been running profusely out of his back down on the ground and all over that area.
Oh the precious blood of Jesus and the precious body that it ran out of! We don’t fully grasp why He had to shed so much blood, in so many places, but we need to realize that it needed to be enough to cover the sins of the whole world!
Blood point number six occurred as an old rugged cross, hand hewn out of a tree, with splinters and rough edges, was placed on His shredded back. He was forced to carry that cross up what is called the road named the Via Delarosa, which translated literally means the way of suffering! The actual street is made up large cobblestones. The Bible says that as He stumbled under the weight of the cross a man called Simon the Cyrene, an African man from Ethiopia, helped Him carry it the rest of the way. Without a doubt before Simon intervened, as Christ kept stumbling and falling under the weight of the cross that His knees were scraped, bruised, and cut? Can you envision the bleeding of His knees on the stones of that rough road leaving a trail to the place He was about to be crucified?
Blood point number seven happened when He arrived at Golgotha's Hill or the "Place of the Skull." He was nailed to the cross with three nails which tradition indicates were six inches long! The blood would have run once again profusely down his arms and legs. It would have soaked into the dirt and mingled with the sun-dried blood of criminals who had been crucified there before him. Most people do not realize how much time passed after they erected the cross and dropped it into the pocket in the stone. He hung on those three nails for six hours before He died! The movies recreate the story and we watch the crucifixion for about five minutes then the scene changes! However, for six long hours He hung naked in the heat of the sun with His full body weight on three huge nails! "It was the third hour when they hung him on the cross and at the ninth hour he gave up the ghost!” Mark 15:25 and verses 34-37 (KJV). His precious blood and the only blood we think about is the blood that ran down the cross and fell in the dirt of this stone cold planet, and it fell for the sins of the world!
Lastly, a Roman soldier was instructed to run a spear up through His side into His heart! The Bible says that when he did this, blood and water gushed out. Blood point number eight was the blood that rushed down the soldier’s spear onto himself, and on the earth beneath his feet. We must understand that every ounce of the blood of Jesus’ body came out during the multiple stages of suffering up to and on the cross. Though seemingly it all fell onto the dirt on eight different unimportant pieces of real estate, nevertheless, in the spirit realm, it was enough to cover the sins of all mankind forever!
Rev Nolan J Harkness is the President and CEO of Nolan Harkness Evangelistic Ministries Inc. since 1985. He spent most of his adult life working in youth ministry. He also felt the calling of Evangelist/Revivalist and traveled as the door was open holding evangelistic meetings in churches throughout the Northeast. His website is www.verticalsound.org.
(CNN) If you take blood pressure medicine, you'll want to double-check your bottle. Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd. has expanded its recall of losartan potassium and losartan potassium/hydrochlorothiazide tablets.
Tests found trace amounts of a potentially cancer-causing impurity called N-methylnitrosobutyric acid in some of these drugs. The company is recalling 36 additional lots, it said Thursday.
A full list of recalled drugs is available on the US Food and Drug Administration website
The company hasn't had any reports of users getting sick, but the impurity level in these pills is above what the FDA considers an acceptable daily intake level.
Doctors prescribe losartan for patients with high blood pressure and for Type 2 diabetics who have nephropathy. The FDA advises patients who take these drugs -- even the ones that have been recalled -- to continue taking them but to talk to their doctor or pharmacist immediately about alternative treatment.
This latest recall is related to the valsartan recall that has been expanded multiple times since July. The FDA put the Chinese company Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceutical on an import alert after it learned that the company made the tainted ingredient that is at the heart of most of these recalls. The impurity is a chemical that is used in gasoline as a stabilizer and as a lubricant additive.
The FDA started testing all heart drugs called angiotensin II receptor blockers for these impurities. Also known as ARBs, they block a potent chemical in the blood called angiotensin that causes muscles surrounding blood vessels to contract. When the chemical binds, it narrows the vessels, and that can cause high blood pressure.
It's unclear exactly what the cancer risk is if you take the contaminated pills; the FDA believed that the risk was low with the valsartan recall.
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It estimated that if 8,000 people took the highest dose of valsartan (320 milligrams) containing the impurity, N-nitrosodimethylamine or NDMA, from these recalled batches daily for four years, there may be one additional case of cancer over the total lifetimes. Many patients take a much lower dose of valsartan, and therefore their risks are theoretically much lower.
The FDA said it will continue to test all products containing valsartan and similar drugs for the presence of impurities.
Veteran journalist Mike Willesee was unique. And it’s fair to say Australian television will never see anyone quite like him again.
Over the years, he told so many memorable stories – all in his own distinctive style. But there was one that captured his imagination more than any other. Along the way, it also changed his life.
Mike wanted an answer to the greatest mystery of all. Does God exist?
His investigation has all the ingredients of a Dan Brown thriller – exotic and dangerous locations, supernatural events and skulduggery in the Church.
In Argentina and Mexico, blood and flesh mysteriously appeared on communion wafers. In Bolivia, a statue of the son of God appeared to weep tears and blood.
Physical evidence of a divine presence? Or an elaborate hoax?
To the faithful there is no question. To men of science, it’s a mystery to be explained.
In one of his final major television reports Mike Willesee uses the very latest in forensic technology to answer the biggest question of all, revealing the results of his 20-year investigation for Sunday Night. Whether you’re a believer or a sceptic, you’ll be stunned by what he uncovered.
IN MEMORIAM: MIKE WILLESEE 1942 - 2019
This Encore Edition of SUNDAY NIGHT: TRUE STORIES hosted by Melissa Doyle airs on Sunday at 8.30pm on Seven and 7PLUS
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BOSTON (RNS) – Six years after the deadly Boston Marathon bombing, a local mosque continues to host an annual blood drive in honor of those affected by the terror attack.
Monday’s 123rd running of the Boston Marathon marked the sixth anniversary of the attack, which left three people dead and more than 260 injured, as well as the first time the marathon was run on the exact anniversary of the bombing. At 2:49 p.m. — six years to the moment when the first bomb exploded at the finish line – the Boston Athletic Association held a moment of silence, and the bells at nearby Old South Church were rung.
Days after the race, as they have for six years, members of the Baitun Nasir Mosque in suburban Sharon, Massachusetts, collected more than 30 blood donations on Friday at Boston City Hall.
“(Our community) holds this special blood drive every year to honor those affected by the Boston Marathon tragedy, help humanity and to emphasize true Islam’s teaching regarding the sanctity of life,” organizer Nasir Rana said.
“We want to tell the people that the only blood Muslims shed is to help humanity,” he said.
The blood donations will help patients at Boston Children’s Hospital, which partnered with the mosque for the drive.
“I feel really good doing it, especially to help the kids who are sick,” said Alia Mahmud, who donated blood for the first time and says she brought her two children to show them “that it’s important to help people.”
Safdar Mahmud, her husband, is a social studies teacher at a local charter school.
“It’s one thing to teach students about civic duty, and another to model that civic duty for them to learn to be better citizens and leaders in our community,” he said after donating blood.
The project is part of the nationwide Muslims For Life campaign, which organizers say has collected more than 60,000 pints of blood and helped save more than 160,000 lives since 2010, to honor victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Baitun Nasir has hosted Sept. 11 anniversary blood drives at local police departments for years.
Immediately after the bombings shook the city, Rana said, they began brainstorming ways to extend the effort to honor the victims of the Boston Marathon attack.
The resulting blood drive, held on the six-month anniversary of the bombing, included high-profile attendees, including the city’s mayor, police commissioner, state representatives as well as now-Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley.
Tom Grilk, CEO of the Boston Athletic Association, the group responsible for organizing the Boston Marathon each year, also attended.
“It was symbolic of the fact that in tragedy people can come together, people who care can come together,” Grilk said of the blood drives in a speech to the community last year. “The blood drives stood for the proposition that we are all of us one community in the eyes of God, and that we are never better than when we remember that.”
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Blood Pressure Medication Recall Expanded Again For Risk Of Cancer-Causing Ingredient
The blood pressure medication recall is expanding again, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd.'s recall is the latest in the growing list of blood pressure medications highlighting possible traces of an unexpected impurity, which was detected as having potential cancer-causing effects.
So far, an additional 36 lots of Losartan Potassium Tablets USP and 68 lots of Losartan Potassium/Hydrochlorothiazide Tablets have been included in the expansion.
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(CNN) Russian researchers have found liquid blood and urine inside the frozen carcass of a foal that died 42,000 years ago in Siberia's Verkhoyansk region.
The animal's body fluids were extracted during an autopsy and tested in the hope of cloning the extinct species, according to Semyon Grigoriev, director of the Mammoth Museum at Northeastern Federal University (NEFU) in Yakutsk.
Mammoth tusk hunters discovered the ancient foal embedded in the permafrost of the massive Batagaika crater during the summer of 2018.
The foal was found in the Batagaika crater.
Grigoriev told CNN via email that the foal appeared to have been just two weeks old when it died, likely by drowning in mud which then became part of the permafrost.
"An autopsy showed the foal carcass was extremely well-preserved, the body even without deformation," he added. "The hair cover also preserved most parts of the carcass, especially at the head and legs."
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Sharks have figured out a few things about how to survive in the over 400 million years they've been around. But researchers never suspected one of those things was an ability to live with levels of toxic heavy metals that would kill other animals.
Liza Merly, from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, and her colleagues made the discovery while gathering general health data from blood samples extracted from Great White sharks in the waters off South Africa.
Heavy metal exposure can cause a wide range of devastating neurological and physiological problems in humans and other animals. But Merly told Quirks & Quarks host Bob McDonald that these sharks suffer no apparent negative consequences from having high levels of mercury and arsenic in their blood.
"We could not find any relationship at all between the level of heavy metals and any negative impacts on the shark. So, as far as we could tell, they're handling the presence of those metals relatively well."
Great white sharks do not seem to suffer from high levels of heavy metals in their blood. (Neil Hammerschlag)
Getting blood from a shark
Merly's colleagues collected blood samples from 43 sharks as part of a larger project to develop physiological baselines for sharks. The animals were captured and carefully raised out of the water onto specially designed platforms.
"It's not it's not a trivial thing" said Merly. "These are very large animals and so you have to be careful. And once they are secured on a platform we can then take a blood sample from the caudal vein, which is near the tail and that usually yields a good amount of blood where we can do all kinds of tests."
Pieter Koen from The South African State Veterinary Service draws blood from a great white shark raised out of the water onto a special holding platform. (OCEASRCH)
After the blood samples and body measurements were taken, the sharks were tagged and released. The blood was then screened. Part of the testing involved looking for blood levels of 12 trace elements and 14 heavy metals, to better understand the impact heavy metals, in particular, are having on great white sharks which are a vulnerable species.
Mercury, arsenic and lead
All 14 of the heavy metals that were screened for were present in the great white shark blood. The team found alarmingly high concentrations of three metals: mercury, arsenic and lead. In fact the levels of mercury and arsenic were so high that they would be lethal to most other species.
The great surprise was that despite this, the sharks seem to show no ill effects. This suggest that great white sharks may have a protective mechanism that mitigates the harmful effects of exposure to heavy metals.
Merly and her colleagues can only guess what that mechanism is and how it works. "There's a possibility that sharks have potentially important protein components, like metal binding proteins, that may mitigate the impacts of metals, and may also be part of how they metabolize the metals in the body. It could be how and when these metals are moved from the blood to the tissues. We really don't know."
A tagged great white shark swims away from the research platform. (OCEARCH)
Understanding shark physiology may help us
One question they could at least partially answer is where these toxins came from. Heavy metals bio-accumulate in the food chain and as Sharks are top predators, they will tend to build up levels by absorbing these toxins from the the animals they eat. The team can't say just how much of this is from natural sources and how much is due to human pollution.
Measuring these heavy metals in shark blood, though, may be a useful way to determine the health of the ecosystem in which they live and the levels of heavy metals present in the animals they eat on down the food chain.
This could also have implications for humans as we are also top predators. We eat many of the same fish as sharks, and we also consume shark.
But the real benefit of this knowledge might be that figuring out how sharks deal with these heavy metals in their blood could help us do the same.
"The best thing that sharks are doing for humans has nothing to do with shark consumption", said Merly. "It has to do with sharks being used as a model to study some important aspects of their physiology. This is why losing sharks at the rate that we're losing them is really problematic because they could actually serve really important biomedical role."
Dorsal fin of a great white shark in the study. (Neil Hammerschlag)
