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00:06 Hello and welcome to a very special
00:08 Secrets Unsealed program. 00:09 My name is C.A. Murray, and it is my privilege and pleasure 00:13 to welcome you to a time where we're going to 00:15 ask you to listen very closely. 00:17 You'll want to pull out that iPad or get a pencil and paper, 00:20 or however you want to take notes. 00:22 But we've got some information that we know is 00:24 going to be of import to you. 00:26 I'm in the company of our president and founder 00:29 and speaker, Pastor Stephen Bohr. 00:31 Pastor, good to have you here. 00:32 Good to be here. 00:33 You will note right away we are practicing social distancing. 00:37 We are not that close to each other. 00:39 We are close to each other in heart, but not physically today. 00:42 And you will forgive us for that. 00:44 But we're going to be talking about the coronavirus COVID-19. 00:49 And so we're trying to model what we're speaking about 00:53 in a very, very real and practical way. 00:55 Our guest is a very special individual. 01:00 He carries with him a very particular and unique 01:03 portfolio and perspective. 01:06 So he's going to say some things that you will want to hear 01:09 that you may want to write down and refer to 01:12 in the coming weeks, coming days, coming months. 01:14 He is chairman of the Secrets Unsealed board. 01:17 So we thank him for that. 01:19 He is also a medical doctor. 01:21 He also has a connection with the CDC, 01:24 and we'll try to dig into that just a little bit more. 01:28 He is the health officer for Kings County. 01:33 He has been for, I think you told me 30 years or so, 01:36 an emergency room physician. 01:38 So he's got a lot of history behind this, 01:41 and he has a lot of years of practice and study. 01:45 So what he has to say is going to be very important, 01:47 very, very germane to where we are in the world 01:51 and in society today. 01:52 He is a Christian. And we praise the Lord for that. 01:54 And he is a practicing Seventh-day Adventist. 01:57 You can't do much better than that; 01:58 to have a doctor who knows the Lord 02:01 and knows how to pray and how to talk to Jesus. 02:03 He is Dr. Milton Teske. 02:05 Good doctor, good to have you here. 02:06 It's a privilege to be here. 02:08 Yeah, and as we said, he is no stranger to us 02:10 because he's chairman of the board. 02:11 So he kind of tells the pastor what to do. 02:15 - Sometimes. - And the pastor promptly obeys. 02:18 Amen and amen. 02:20 As we said, we're going to be talking about the COVID-19 02:24 coronavirus which is so much on everybody's mind 02:28 and in the news, and there is so much worry, so much 02:35 trauma and drama in the minds of so many people. 02:37 We want to demythologize some of this stuff today. 02:39 We want to sort of pull the wraps off and talk 02:42 with Dr. Teske because he does have a unique perspective. 02:45 He comes from a unique place, and we want to 02:49 talk to him a little bit more about that. 02:51 Before we go into the actual virus, good doctor, 02:54 would you tell us what your working with the CDC is? 02:58 And tell us a little bit about being the health officer 03:01 for, is it Kings County? 03:02 ~ Yes. - Yeah. 03:04 As the health officer, I am the key individual 03:07 for our county in terms of dealing with any issues 03:12 that have to do with the public health of the community. 03:15 And normally we take care of STD outbreaks and 03:21 things like tuberculosis, which is a threat to the community, 03:25 as well as various environmental threats. 03:28 But right now this new coronavirus pandemic 03:32 has totally taken over and occupied pretty much 03:37 all of our time all day long. 03:39 Double time from what we normally spend, you know, 03:42 working and trying to battle this and do everything we can 03:45 to protect the community from this very deadly virus threat 03:51 that is hitting us here. 03:54 I will be on phone calls, conference phone calls, 03:58 with the California Department of Public Health 04:00 multiple times a week. 04:02 I will be on conference phone calls with the CDC 04:06 back in Atlanta, Georgia every week. 04:09 And also we get what they call, presidential calls 04:13 where we meet with the head of FEMA, 04:16 Health and Human Services, and other members of the 04:19 coronavirus team out of Washington, D.C. 04:21 We all work together to come up with the best plans 04:26 and strategies to try to stop this pandemic, 04:31 to lessen its affect on everybody and 04:34 do everything we can. 04:37 In the United States, public health policy 04:41 is really done on a local jurisdiction basis, you know. 04:46 We have over 60 jurisdictions here in California. 04:50 And each jurisdiction is responsible for all of the 04:55 action in terms of public health in their area. 04:58 It's directed on the state level and supported by the national 05:04 work at the CDC and in Washington, D.C. 05:07 But it's really a local jurisdiction type activity, 05:12 and everything is done on a local level 05:14 under the direction of the State Department of Public Health. 05:18 ~ Now I hasten to add, you're not here to speak 05:20 for the CDC, but it should be mentioned that you get 05:24 briefings and information from that body regularly, daily. 05:28 ~ Yeah, we get all of the... 05:30 I know what's going to be on news that evening before you do. 05:35 Sometimes we get an emergency page, "Call in immediately. 05:40 We've got this emergency," because the governor 05:42 is ready to make an announcement in an hour, 05:44 you know, type of thing. 05:45 But they always let us know ahead of time 05:48 what's coming down. 05:49 And they give us time to put input and stuff into it. 05:54 In California, the recent lockdown, we don't use the 05:59 term, "lockdown," but the shelter in place order 06:02 for the state, then the CDPH comes in and sort of 06:06 redefines a lot of things about what are the critical 06:10 sectors, and which ones are exempt, and under what 06:14 conditions are they exempt, and what are the details. 06:16 We're often in the position of defining and interpreting 06:20 and putting that out there, you know, to the public 06:24 as to how do we go about obeying the governor's executive order 06:29 to shelter in place? 06:30 What does that mean to you, and in your business, 06:33 and in this business? 06:34 And indeed, there are provisions fortunately 06:38 that allow Secrets Unsealed to continue in its vital function 06:42 of communication to the public and carry on its work right here 06:47 under proper measures. 06:50 For which Pastor Bohr praises the Lord, and we all do to. 06:52 Amen. You better believe it. 06:55 So nothing would come down county wide that will not 06:58 go through you, or pass by you, 07:00 or certainly that you would not be aware of. 07:02 We would be aware of it. 07:05 Well, pastor, I guess we need to delve into 07:08 what exactly is the coronavirus? 07:10 How is it transmitted? 07:12 All of those kinds of things. 07:14 Is there anything particular you want to start out with 07:15 before we move on? 07:17 Yeah, I think people might be interested, Dr. Teske, 07:19 in the physiology of the coronavirus 07:22 and how it actually works. 07:23 ~ Yeah, okay. 07:25 So I think we have a picture here of the coronavirus. 07:28 And it's structured like a giant ball. 07:32 When I say, "giant," it's extremely microscopic. 07:36 But there is this ball, and the ball is studded 07:38 with all of these little spikes sticking out of there. 07:42 These little spikes sticking out have a very special function. 07:48 They are the ones that actually allow it to attach to a cell 07:54 and infect that cell. 07:56 Inside the center of the ball are certain important enzymes 08:00 for it to carry on its work, and the code. 08:03 It's an RNA molecule that has the code for 08:06 all of the proteins to build a virus, 08:09 as well as the various proteins that are going to help it 08:12 in that building process. 08:14 And so what happens is, when that virus comes and touches 08:20 a surface of a cell, those little spikes stick in. 08:23 And because of their function, they actually open a hole 08:26 and they inject the code and these enzymes into the cell. 08:30 Once inside the cell they take over, they hijack the normal 08:36 machinery of a cell. 08:38 And instead of the cell making all of the components that the 08:41 cell needs to do for whatever that particular cell 08:43 was going to do, now it uses the same machinery 08:49 to read the code from the virus 08:51 and it starts building viral proteins. 08:54 It starts building proteins to make up the wall. 08:56 It starts building the enzymes it needs, 08:58 and it starts building those little spike proteins, 09:01 and it starts assembling viruses. 09:04 And very shortly the cell is full of hundreds, 09:09 thousands, of viruses that it has built. 09:12 And of course, at a certain point there are certain enzymes 09:15 that actually start destroying the cell wall, 09:18 cutting holes in the cell wall, and now the viruses 09:22 can be released outside of the cell. 09:25 And of course, the cell rapidly moves on into a process 09:30 of cellular death and disintegrates at that point. 09:33 But now we have thousands of viruses 09:36 that go out and infect other cells next to it. 09:39 ~ Now you used the term, and I hate to cut you off, 09:41 but I think this is very fascinating, 09:43 this virus comes in and hijacks the machinery of the cell, 09:48 using it for its own purpose. 09:49 And in so doing, it destroys the cell. 09:52 ~ Yes. - Yeah. 09:53 - So it's a usurper. - Yes. 09:56 And a very deadly one. 09:58 In other words, it makes use of it, 10:01 and in the process destroys it. 10:04 And now we have thousands of cells infected with it. 10:08 And each one of them will go through that same process, 10:11 and disintegrate and die, releasing thousands more. 10:16 And quite soon, you will become symptomatic. 10:21 And you will start... 10:24 The virus comes in the air. 10:27 Someone else with the infection coughs and breathes in your face 10:30 or near you, or you touch something where somebody else 10:34 coughed and you rub your nose, or someway, 10:37 and you now have that virus in you. 10:40 It goes first to the epithelium there in the nasal passages 10:45 and starts infecting those cells. 10:47 And very soon you start getting a runny nose. 10:50 As it goes further down the throat 10:52 you may get a little bit of a cough. 10:55 Now God designed our bodies with a way to fight infections. 11:00 We call it the immune system. 11:02 A very complex, very robust system which really 11:07 has a way of fighting a lot of enemies. 11:10 God built it in there to protect us. 11:13 And as it starts to react to this, it becomes aware 11:18 of the presence of this enemy, it knows it's an enemy, 11:21 it starts making antibodies against it. 11:24 The antibodies will tag the viruses. 11:27 Cells called macrophages, the big eaters, come around 11:31 and they start to gobble up these viruses and destroy them. 11:36 They actually gobble them up, take them inside 11:38 and digest them, and rip them apart into pieces, 11:41 and get rid of them for you. 11:43 And of course, ideally they would be able 11:47 to do this quite quickly. 11:48 As in the case of the common cold, you get a runny nose, 11:52 maybe a sore throat, a little bit of cough, 11:54 you feel awful. 11:55 By the way, when you feel awful, all of those aches and pains 11:59 that make you feel miserable while you've got it, 12:03 the fatigue, they're all caused by messages. 12:06 They're chemical molecules made by the immune system 12:09 as part of the battle that's going on to fight it. 12:13 That's how you know the battle is going on, 12:15 when you feel all that. 12:16 Of course, you can take it as a sign it's time to rest. 12:19 "I need more sleep right now. I need my rest. 12:22 And I need to kind of stay away from other people as well 12:25 and not infect them." 12:27 A fever is often a part of it. 12:30 A fever not only is a sign that you've got an infection 12:34 going on, a fever is actually part of fighting that infection. 12:38 As the temperature goes up, these macrophages, 12:41 these big eaters, become hyperactive. 12:47 It's sort of like sharks in a feeding frenzy. 12:50 Instead of just gobbling up a few, they become like this... 12:53 I mean, if you're a virus, you do not want to 12:57 see a febrile macrophage. 12:59 I mean, it's all over. 13:00 These things are tremendously powerful. 13:03 And when the fever goes up, instead of their usual ability 13:06 to stuff, they really become super active. 13:09 And so, you know, God's got a good system designed there. 13:12 Amen, amen. 13:14 This kind of reminds me of, Dr. Teske, a verse that we find 13:17 in Psalm 139. 13:20 It actually says, "For You formed my inward parts; 13:25 You covered me in my mother's womb." 13:28 And then it says, "I will praise You 13:30 for I am fearfully and wonderfully made." 13:32 ~ Amen, amen. ~ Yes. 13:34 Yeah, God designed this into us there. 13:37 Just as an aside, one of the things that sort of inhibits 13:40 the work of those cells, those eater cells, 13:43 is a lot of sugar. 13:44 I remember you mentioned that one time, that 13:46 one of the things you want to do when you get sick 13:48 is cut your sugar intake. 13:49 ~ Yeah. - Cut the soda. 13:50 Cut anything with the sweets, 13:52 because you're inhibiting your own recovery. 13:54 ~ Yeah, those macrophages, you know, they measure 13:58 how fast they can eat. 13:59 And they have what they call the phagocytic index. 14:02 And they count how many, you know, 14:05 bacteria or viruses they eat. 14:07 And a normal one is like, say, fifteen or sixteen 14:11 phagocytic index means they are working really good. 14:13 That's normal. 14:15 A can of soda or a piece of cake, that much sugar 14:19 is enough to strip this coating... 14:22 There's a coating on here with which they sense them. 14:24 And once you strip that coating off that senses them, 14:29 you can't identify them. 14:32 And they just kind of float around and do nothing, 14:34 and then they just, you know, "How you doing, virus?" 14:37 and go on their way. 14:38 They just... 14:39 Their phagocytic index goes down to zero. 14:43 They just stop eating. 14:45 So yeah, in terms of, we're getting ahead of our story, 14:48 but that's okay. 14:50 You know, sugar is a real enemy right now. 14:54 And you want to stay away from that. 14:56 It's going to really impair your ability to fight this. 15:00 What about greasy foods? 15:02 Greasy foods can damage it to, but not to the same degree. 15:06 They do a lot of other bad things, 15:08 but sugar is your real enemy in terms of 15:11 fighting this infection right now. 15:13 How about, you know, fruit that like has sugar? 15:16 Or orange juice? 15:18 Can you get too much of that? 15:20 Not really, because it comes so loaded with antioxidants 15:25 and phytochemicals and all of these other things. 15:28 You know, we talk about one thing in the immune system; 15:31 the immune system is extremely complex. 15:34 And there is in fruits and berries and all of these things 15:39 hundreds and hundreds of... 15:42 I think I read once that blueberries have 15:44 600 bioactive molecules. 15:47 These are molecules that go inside cells, 15:50 they're taken up and used by cells. 15:53 And most of them we don't even know what they do. 15:55 But they're obviously doing something. 15:57 And more and more we're finding out that many of these, 16:00 as we start to discover what they're doing, 16:03 they have roles in the body's immune system. 16:05 They turn on or turn off certain things 16:08 that help them to do a better job of fighting something 16:11 or stop doing something they're not supposed to do. 16:13 It's very complex. 16:15 And we need that large selection and variety 16:20 of these particular types of molecules. 16:23 You know, it used to be we knew there was vitamin C, 16:26 and vitamin B6, and thiamin, and riboflavin. 16:30 You know, a few vitamins. 16:31 And then they said well there's 26 essential vitamins. 16:35 And now we realize that, no, there are hundreds and hundreds 16:39 and hundreds of essential vitamins. 16:41 And you're not going to get them in processed food. 16:45 The only way to come up with that variety of all of those 16:48 ones is to actually take the food the way God made it there 16:52 by eating oranges, and tangerines, and apples, 16:55 and blueberries, and figs, and whole grains, 16:59 and vegetables, and all of that type of stuff. 17:01 That's the way to get what your body's immune system needs. 17:04 The best thing you can do is to take it the way God gave it. 17:09 I want to take us into something that Pastor Bohr 17:11 talked to us this morning in the staff. 17:14 I just took my wife out to pick up a quick lunch, 17:18 and I noticed in the store on the floor they have 17:21 marks that were six feet apart. 17:23 And when you went in there, they made you stop 17:25 at six feet from the next person, 17:28 and you couldn't move until the other person moved. 17:30 One, let's talk about transmission; 17:32 and is this six foot radius, is that enough? 17:35 Is that sufficient? 17:38 Most of our... 17:39 Again, when we talk about this coronavirus, 17:42 most stuff we're talking about is to a certain degree a guess. 17:47 An educated guess made by some really smart people 17:50 that know a lot about epidemiology and viruses. 17:53 But this is a new virus. 17:55 We really haven't had this before. 17:57 Nobody is immune to it. 18:00 And so a lot of the stuff, we're making our best guess. 18:04 Our best guess on this is that it's primarily 18:07 what we call droplet. 18:08 Coughing, sneezing puts out these microscopic particles 18:13 of moisture with viruses on them. 18:16 And they go so far and will settle, 18:18 and they'll fall out of the air. 18:20 You know, if you're more than six feet, the thinking is, 18:23 yeah, they've probably fallen to the ground. 18:25 They're probably not, you know... 18:27 If you're real close to somebody, 18:28 sitting right beside them, yeah, you're breathing 18:31 in what they're breathing out 18:32 and you're probably really exposed to it. 18:34 I saw one study that was done on a bus in China. 18:38 They took a four hour trip across country. 18:41 And one person was infected in the back of the bus. 18:44 And there were people 15 feet away that were infected 18:47 after that ride. 18:49 You know, the longer you're in a closed place, 18:51 the more likely that type of thing, you know. 18:53 Being on an airplane, being on a cruise ship. 18:57 We've had some real bad outbreaks in various prisons 19:00 throughout China where one person gets it 19:02 and pretty soon everybody's got it. 19:05 So the more closely people are crowded together, 19:09 the more quickly and effectively this virus can spread 19:12 from person to person. 19:14 ~ So this virus seems to be more contagious, 19:16 much more contagious than others? 19:19 Very much so. Compared to... 19:22 I mean, there's others that are quite contagious. 19:25 I mean, if you want to compare it to some of the other 19:29 epidemics, you know, what's the difference here? 19:32 Probably you remember back in 2009 they had what was called 19:35 the swine flu. 19:37 It was kind of a pandemic spread around the world. 19:40 It was very infectious. 19:42 But it wasn't very deadly. 19:45 In other words, most people that got the swine flu 19:48 got miserable, and got sick, and got well. 19:52 More recently, you may remember the SARS epidemic. 19:56 The SARS virus was actually a coronavirus 20:00 like this one is. 20:02 And matter of fact, almost identical to 20:05 the current COVID-19 virus, this SARS virus. 20:10 And it has become quite deadly. 20:13 And they have done various... 20:14 But it wasn't that infectious. 20:17 In other words, it spread, it was really deadly if you got it. 20:20 But we were able to isolate people, you know. 20:23 In other words, we finally got it, we isolated everybody, 20:26 and we don't let anybody else get around it, 20:28 and we can contain it. 20:30 And we were able to contain the SARS. 20:32 And after a year it was gone. 20:35 You know, in the second year it was gone. 20:36 And SARS hasn't been around since then. 20:41 You haven't seen anybody die of SARS because we contained it. 20:44 Well now, in this current one they actually took a SARS virus 20:52 and they've actually changed those spike proteins 20:55 where it infects, and now they have become super infective. 20:59 And now we have sort of the infectivity of the swine flu 21:05 combined with the much more deadliness of the SARS epidemic. 21:11 Maybe we should take a minute and talk about 21:14 how it goes beyond runny nose and cough 21:18 and body aches and fevers. 21:21 If it can spread, if our immune system is weak... 21:25 Maybe our immune system is weak just because we're older 21:28 and everything doesn't work as well as it used to. 21:31 Or maybe we already have congestive heart failure, 21:34 or lung disease, or diabetes, or some other immunocompromised 21:38 or weakening thing that makes us more susceptible 21:41 and our immune system can't just wipe it out 21:43 like a cold and make it go away. 21:46 It spreads down into the lower respiratory system, 21:50 down into the lungs. 21:52 And when this virus starts infecting the epithelial lining, 21:56 all the little microscopic air sacs in your lungs, 22:01 and starts destroying them, as they destroy, fluid comes out 22:04 and starts filling those spaces. 22:06 That's what we call pneumonia. 22:08 We can take an X-ray or a CT scan and you see these areas 22:12 start to fill up with fluid. 22:13 They'll turn up as white spots on the scans and they'll see it. 22:17 It starts out in the peripheries of the lungs, 22:19 and pretty soon there's a spot here and there. 22:21 And pretty soon these spots are joining together. 22:24 And as they take up enough of the lung space, 22:26 pretty soon you can't move enough air. 22:29 You can't breathe enough air to actually, get your oxygen level. 22:33 So I might interject here, if you're at home taking care of, 22:38 you know, an infection like this, if you start feeling 22:42 short of breath, if your breathing rate is faster, 22:46 we say up to 20 is normal, if you're breathing 22:50 faster than that, that's a sign that you're starting to 22:53 get in trouble here. 22:54 If you've got one of those fingertip pulse oximeters 22:57 there where you see your oxygen level, 23:00 then it's like, yeah, if that's dropping down 23:03 in the 80's we know we're in trouble. 23:05 You need to go to a hospital. 23:06 You're going to need some more support. 23:09 This virus, once it starts going, this viral pneumonia 23:13 becomes very rapid in its progression. 23:16 And we often see people just in, you know, 23:18 24 hours, 40 hours, go from there to where they are really 23:23 in a critical, life-threatening situation. 23:25 You know, in the hospital we can put you on high flow oxygen, 23:28 we can put you on some respiratory assistance, 23:31 or we can intubate you and put you on a ventilator 23:33 and breathe for you. 23:35 To do everything we can to try to make use of what lungs 23:38 you've got left to keep you alive. 23:41 There is something we have called ECMO 23:44 where we can actually hook you up to a machine 23:45 that takes the place of a lung. 23:47 The problem is, there's very few ECMO machines around. 23:50 Most hospitals do not have that. 23:52 Just a few big hospitals, and they probably only have one, 23:55 or maybe at the most two or three, you know. 23:58 So that's going to be very minimally available right now. 24:02 ~ So if a person, say a person becomes very gravely ill 24:07 in their respiratory system, and they get well eventually, 24:11 do the lungs regenerate to a certain point? 24:14 Yes. If they didn't, you wouldn't survive. 24:18 The lungs have to heal, they have to get over that. 24:21 Do they regenerate fully? 24:24 From what we know, from what we've heard, 24:26 many of the survivors in Wuhan are showing what we call 24:30 pulmonary fibrosis where the damage was replaced 24:34 with scar tissue rather than some lung tissue. 24:37 And so, they may have limited pulmonary capacity 24:40 for the rest of their life if they had a really bad infection. 24:43 If you had a milder pneumonia or just the other stuff, 24:46 no, I don't think you'll notice any residual. 24:48 But a really bad pneumonia, it looks like many of them 24:51 are getting some pulmonary fibrosis, 24:53 some residual damage there. 24:57 But the damage doesn't stop there. 25:01 The virus can spread to other parts of the body. 25:04 And the heart is particularly susceptible as well. 25:09 And so, when your heart becomes infected by it, 25:12 the myocardium, the cells, the muscle cells in your heart 25:16 that allow it to beat become damaged and weakened 25:19 and start breaking down. 25:21 The ability of the heart to contract, the ability 25:24 to put out, cardiac output goes way down. 25:27 What we call the ejection fraction, how we measure 25:31 how much the heart pumps out with each beat, 25:34 can drop down to around 10 percent. 25:37 At that point, you're not pumping enough blood 25:40 to really keep your body going. 25:41 You go into what we call cardiogenic shock. 25:44 The body is, you know, pale, clammy, dark colored, 25:49 cold; and very shortly you go into cardiac arrest and die. 25:56 And what these specialists are telling us now is that 26:02 probably about half the people that die, die of the pneumonia, 26:06 and about half of them die of the cardiac arrest. 26:09 ~ So this is a very serious thing. 26:11 This is very serious. 26:13 To put some numbers on it, about 80% of the people 26:17 that get infected will probably end up with 26:21 milder type things where we have a cough, 26:25 and fevers, and feel awful, but you get better, 26:28 with nothing worse than that. 26:30 You won't need to be hospitalized. 26:31 You'll be able to stay home, eat your oranges, and get well. 26:35 But what we'll find is that another 15% are going to 26:42 require hospitalization. 26:44 You're going to need some supplemental oxygen, 26:46 it's turned into pneumonia, 26:48 but with good support you'll probably get better. 26:53 And there's probably another 5% that are going to 26:57 need to be intubated, put on a ventilator, 26:59 and are at very high risk of dying from the pneumonia 27:04 or the cardiac arrest. 27:06 So it is a very serious infection, 27:09 and it's a very contagious infection. 27:12 So if you get well, are you immune then to the coronavirus? 27:15 ~ That's the best thinking. Again, this is a new virus. 27:19 They're just starting to come out with some testing 27:21 for the antibodies. 27:23 Here in the United States nobody is really testing 27:26 for the antibodies to see how immune you are yet. 27:30 Right now we're all using a test that's called a PCR. 27:34 Polymerase chain reaction. 27:36 But what it is, is they're using these genetic probes 27:39 and they'll take a swab, it's like a little stick with a 27:42 cotton ball on the end like a Q-Tip, 27:44 but it's a special plastic one, and they're going to push it 27:47 way back in the nose, way way back in there 27:49 where the virus infection is very likely to be. 27:52 Twirl it around back there and pull it out. 27:55 This is then taken to the lab and they will test it, 27:59 because there will be viruses on there. 28:02 And the PCR test is actually testing, are there viruses 28:06 on this swab that you took out of there? 28:09 And so, if you've got a positive test, it means 28:12 you had viruses in your nose. 28:15 And so, that's what a positive COVID-19 test is. 28:19 So, doctor, that's the actual procedure? 28:21 To put this thing far back in your nose? 28:23 And to be honest, it's not real comfortable to stick a swab 28:26 that far back in your nose. 28:29 But it's the best we've got. 28:31 There are some that are coming out with some 28:33 quicker and simpler tests. 28:34 You just stick something in your mouth and take it out. 28:36 But we're still waiting on those to be deployed. 28:40 Right now, the only option is a PCR test with a nasal swab, 28:44 which we go way back to get that specimen. 28:48 - That way back is kind of frightening. 28:50 Just the thought of going back that far. 28:53 From the time that they take that specimen, that swab, 28:57 to the time they get an answer for you, we're talking how long? 29:03 It actually only takes, you know, once they 29:07 package it, take it to the lab... 29:08 A lot of time the time is taken up in the transportation. 29:12 By the way, it has to be packaged according to 29:14 special guidelines, and sealed in bags and certain boxes, 29:18 sealed, labeled, and everything to be legal to transport it. 29:21 But the labs all know how to do that. 29:23 They've been doing that for years 29:24 with all kinds of biological specimen, 29:26 so that's nothing new there. 29:28 But once it gets to the lab and they take it out and 29:30 it's your turn to get on the machine right there, 29:32 they do a bunch of them at a time, 29:34 it'll take probably about a couple of hours 29:37 to actually run the test. 29:41 And then once they get the results, those can be 29:43 transmitted electronically back to the lab that sent them 29:47 to them, or to the doctor. 29:49 And someone can then actually pick up a phone and call you 29:52 and say, "Hey, we have your test results." 29:54 - Yeah, so it's really not that long. 29:55 Well, I'm telling you the ideal. 29:57 The actual turnaround time we've been experiencing 30:01 with most labs right now, they're all saying 30:05 two to three days. 30:07 Many of them are running over a week 30:10 just because of the backlog. 30:11 We're really behind in the availability of testing, 30:15 how many tests are out there. 30:18 It's just... 30:20 They are catching up. 30:21 We are doing way, way more tests. 30:22 We have a lot more labs now with supplies. 30:26 The last I heard is by the middle of this coming week 30:29 they hope to be caught up with the backlog, 30:31 and then we can see a little bit more rapid turnaround 30:34 time here, and probably just a day or two to get your 30:38 test results back once things get back up to speed. 30:41 So are all tests created equal? 30:43 I've heard that there's some tests that people take 30:46 that are false positive. 30:49 Most of the time if you get a positive test, 30:53 it's not a false positive. 30:54 You've got the infection. 30:56 On the other side, it's very possible 30:59 to get a false negative. 31:01 Because if somebody didn't stick that swab back far enough 31:05 because you were screaming and they didn't want to hurt you 31:07 and whatever, maybe we didn't pick it up. 31:11 If you've just got a few symptoms, maybe there's 31:14 not enough virus to pick up yet. 31:16 So you could have an early infection and the test would 31:19 come back negative, but you do have the virus. 31:22 So the possibility of false negative is there. 31:27 And there is a whole other area of asymptomatic people. 31:34 What we call asymptomatic spreaders. 31:37 In other words, what that's referring to is somebody, 31:40 they're infected, they've got the virus, 31:42 their body is taking care of it, but they're not really getting 31:45 fevers, or the achy pains, or a cough. 31:49 They don't really seem sick. 31:51 And it's, you know... 31:55 But they do have the virus, and it is there, 31:57 and they can spread it to you and you can get it. 32:00 So it's very difficult for us to really know who's got it 32:04 and who doesn't, you know. 32:06 It's one of the things, it's one of the reasons 32:09 we're doing the social distancing. 32:11 One of the reasons people often wear masks. 32:14 We don't really know who's got it and who doesn't. 32:18 You probably won't know that you've got it 32:21 until you've already been spreading it for a day or two. 32:24 - So why do some people get symptoms 32:28 and other people don't? 32:30 We don't know the answer to that entirely, 32:32 but it mostly has to do with your body's immune system. 32:36 A good robust immune system, theoretically, 32:41 could throw it off. 32:43 You know, if you think of adenoviruses, rhinoviruses, 32:46 some people get a common cold and some people, 32:48 yeah, they felt a little something one night, 32:51 but next morning now it's not there, they're fine. 32:53 Other people get a really bad cold that goes on for days 32:57 and they're miserable. 32:59 We're all different. 33:01 We all have different degrees of susceptibility. 33:04 So how do pandemics end? 33:06 Is there light at the end of the tunnel? 33:10 Yeah, so as we look at this global pandemic that's spreading 33:14 around the world right now, it's going to get a lot worse 33:18 before it gets better here is everybody's thinking. 33:23 You know, if you see what's happening in Italy 33:25 or what happened in China, or Iran, 33:27 we're probably going to see some degree of that 33:30 throughout much of the world right here. 33:32 But there's really four ways this can end. 33:35 And it will end. 33:37 You know, the influenza epidemic back in 1918 33:42 was a terrible global pandemic. 33:45 At least a hundred million died, five-hundred million infected. 33:52 But it ended within a year or two years. 33:55 And now we've got a little bit of a seasonal flu 33:59 that comes every year, but it's not a global pandemic 34:02 that, you know, paralyzes the world. 34:05 And that's one of the ways that a pandemic can end, 34:08 is it can become seasonal. 34:10 We could end up with a seasonal coronavirus 34:13 every winter that flares up. 34:15 It's too early to know, as we're just now getting into spring 34:19 and summer, whether that's going to give us a reprieve 34:22 and in the warm weather it's going to go away and die off, 34:25 and then only to come back this next winter or not. 34:27 We don't know that. 34:29 It could come back. 34:30 That's one of the ways a pandemic can end. 34:32 It can sort of just turn into this seasonal thing 34:34 that comes once in a while. 34:37 The other way, or one of the four, is 34:41 it can end with what we call herd immunity. 34:44 In other words, it burns through the population. 34:48 Everybody gets the infection, everybody gets immune. 34:52 Or at least a lot of the people, most of the people 34:55 that have been infected either died or have immunity to it. 34:59 And now, well, it can't spread because the next person 35:03 it comes to is already immune to it. 35:05 Is that what happened in 1918? 35:07 Pretty much, yeah. 35:09 There's a certain seasonality that still flares up, 35:12 but the bottom line is, most everybody in our population 35:15 is now immune to it. 35:17 The only problem with the herd immunity, when you look at it 35:21 just purely in that sense, is the high cost in terms of life 35:26 when you've got a really deadly virus like this. 35:29 The numbers, if we just let this burn through the population 35:32 in the United States, is there will be anywhere from 35:35 200,000 dead up to over a million dead. 35:39 I've heard numbers as high as three million dead. 35:42 You know, those are the kind of numbers we're talking about 35:45 if we just let it burn through. 35:48 And that brings up the other couple of ways this can end. 35:51 One, we can find a drug that will cure it. 35:57 We're now experimenting with several retroviral drugs. 36:01 Drugs that kill viruses. 36:03 They block viruses from working in different ways. 36:06 And so they're using some of those. 36:08 They've used some in China. 36:10 And there are some that are promising 36:12 and have some efficacy. 36:14 There's some new ones. There's also some old ones. 36:16 They're now going to start using chloroquine. 36:20 Now that's an anti-malarial that we've had around for decades 36:24 and we've used to fight malaria. 36:25 So it's a known entity. 36:27 We know what it does and doesn't do in the body. 36:30 And it seems like it may have some efficacy. 36:34 So they're going to start using that to see if we can 36:37 stop the virus with chloroquine. 36:40 And so there will be other drugs that will come up 36:43 that will be tested that will work in different ways 36:45 trying to stop the virus, kill the virus, block it in some way. 36:49 If we get some really effective ones and use them broadly, 36:53 we can sort of put out the fire here and keep it from spreading 36:57 and killing so many people. 36:58 At least the people that get infected can recover 37:01 because we can give them a medication there. 37:04 Closely related to that is something called plasma. 37:09 They actually take blood from somebody who has recovered 37:13 from the disease and we separate out the clear part of the blood, 37:19 the protein in blood from the blood cells. 37:21 And this plasma will be full of antibodies 37:24 that they have made to fight the coronavirus. 37:27 And now they can give you an infusion of this plasma. 37:31 And the stories I've heard out of China where they've 37:33 been doing this now quite a bit show that they get excellent 37:36 improvement right away. 37:38 Of course, we need a population of recovered people 37:41 to get plasma from. 37:42 And you know, you go through a very purifying process 37:45 to make sure we remove viruses and other infectious agents 37:49 and make sure it doesn't have other things in it 37:51 so that it's safe to give you. 37:53 But there's certainly promise in the use of plasma 37:56 in critical patients here. 37:59 One more, the fourth way is with a vaccine. 38:05 You know, we're all familiar with the influenza vaccine 38:10 that we try to get everybody to take every year 38:13 to try to give more herd immunity out here, 38:16 to try to get everybody immune so that the epidemic 38:19 can't take off and spread through the community 38:22 and spread through our nation. 38:25 So if we come up with a good vaccine and vaccinate everybody, 38:29 well then it won't have anywhere to go, and that can end it. 38:33 So the problem is it takes a while to develop and make 38:36 and get a vaccine out there. 38:39 You know, the best case scenario is a year to a year and a half. 38:43 So it's like this is going to burn through a cycle 38:45 before we really get a good vaccine. 38:47 Now they're trying to do everything they can 38:49 to speed it up and short circuit it. 38:51 There's five different companies working on their own versions 38:56 of a vaccine, so we've got five different sets going out there. 38:59 One of them has already even started in clinical trials. 39:04 Of course, right now they're sort of speeding everything up. 39:07 Now normally they take vaccines and we test them on guinea pigs 39:10 and monkeys and make sure they don't do anything bad. 39:14 They just skipped all the animals trials and they just 39:17 went to people, so we've got human guinea pigs 39:19 up in Washington state right now that have volunteered. 39:23 You know, quite heroically, I would say, 39:26 to become the human guinea pigs to see 39:29 if this will work in humans, 39:31 if it will work and do what it's supposed to, 39:33 and make sure it doesn't have any bad effects. 39:37 Back when the SARS epidemic was going around 39:41 they were starting some vaccines. 39:43 And in some of the animal trials and stuff they were doing, 39:47 these vaccines, against the SARS virus, 39:49 which again is very similar to this virus, 39:53 it had some very devastating effects 39:55 and the animals were dying. 39:56 It like triggered up the immune system, a certain percentage. 40:00 The immune system became hyperactive and just destroyed 40:03 tissues in the lungs and killed the animal. 40:05 So, you know, it's not just guaranteed 40:08 because, you know, "We have good vaccines, 40:10 we'll make it, and everything will be fine." 40:12 There are things that can go wrong with vaccines, 40:15 and there are risks in developing these 40:17 and experimenting with them. 40:19 We'll just have to wait and see. 40:22 Hopefully we'll come up with a safe vaccine that's 40:25 very effective and we can, you know, put an end to this. 40:28 But right now that's still down the road a ways. 40:31 I wouldn't count on that getting out any time 40:34 real soon to help us there. 40:35 That was my question. 40:37 There's nothing that you've said in the last several moments, 40:39 other than divine intervention, that would lead us to believe 40:43 that this thing is going to be over 40:45 in the next few weeks, months. 40:48 All of these methodologies are going to take some time 40:51 to implement and to have the desired effect. 40:53 - Yeah. - Yeah. 40:54 Yeah, we are going to have to... 40:57 We're at war, and it's going to take a while to win this war. 41:01 We will win it. 41:02 It will come out ahead. 41:04 But there's going to be quite a few casualties 41:08 between now and then. 41:09 And what we're trying to do from all of these different 41:12 strategies is, what can we do to stop the, you know, 41:17 the loss of life here. 41:19 And so, social distancing, all the various forms 41:24 of shutting down, shelter at home, 41:27 stay away, closing schools, stop having gatherings 41:31 and meetings and coming together. 41:32 Let's don't spread it around. 41:35 There's another important reason to slow it down, 41:40 even if we can't stop it. 41:42 Because our hospital capacity in this country is limited. 41:49 It has a certain finite limit to it. 41:51 We have so many hospitals, so many hospital beds, 41:54 so may ICU's, so many ventilators. 41:57 With an epidemic like this spreading like wildfire, 42:00 we can easily get more people infected, 42:04 more people that need hospitalization, 42:07 more people that need to be on the ventilator, 42:10 than we have hospital beds, or ICU's, or ventilators. 42:14 That happened in Wuhan. 42:16 That's happening right now in Italy. 42:19 The need for those services far exceeds the number of ICU's. 42:26 And it puts the doctors in a very, you know, 42:30 painful situation of deciding who gets a ventilator 42:35 and who doesn't. 42:36 Because if you need a ventilator and you don't 42:37 get one, you're going to die. 42:39 And so, it's really a very difficult thing. 42:43 The death rate, if you'll notice in China, in Wuhan, 42:46 went up quite rapidly when they reached that point. 42:48 In Italy right now, the death toll this week has really 42:51 just been climbing rapidly because 42:54 there are so many people that can't actually get 42:57 the level of care they need. 42:59 We're not at that point in the U.S. today, 43:02 but we will very soon get to that point. 43:05 And so, you know, I think we've got some really smart people 43:09 there in Washington, D.C. that are working on it. 43:11 We are building extra hospitals right now, 43:13 we're converting spaces, they're moving some 43:16 hospital ships in there trying to increase the capacity. 43:19 They're switching over, I heard General Motors is going to start 43:23 now making ventilators instead of automobiles. 43:26 You know, it's like during World War II. 43:28 Instead of making automobiles, we made tanks and airplanes. 43:32 And right now we need ventilators. 43:35 And so, people... 43:36 There's companies that could make them and haven't been, 43:40 but now we're going to start making them. 43:41 People are going to make masks. 43:42 The protective equipment, you know, is in very short supply. 43:46 All of these various things to try to bring together 43:49 to increase our capacity, but the one thing that we can do 43:52 is if we can slow the rate of spread. 43:55 If we don't all get sick next week with it, 43:58 if we spread out, space it out, even if we get it eventually, 44:02 well maybe there still might be a hospital bed 44:04 for you when you need it. 44:05 So don't just say, "Let's all go out and get infected 44:09 so we can get this over with." 44:11 Because some of us are not going to make it because 44:15 we will need a ventilator to survive the pneumonia. 44:18 And so, it's very important, all of these things, you know. 44:21 As the government comes out and says things, sometimes 44:24 it sounds restrictive when they're telling you that 44:26 you have to stay home, and you can't do this, 44:28 and there are things that... 44:30 You know, "Why can't we do it? It's not that bad." 44:32 Well, for some people, it is. 44:33 And you don't know if that somebody will be you or not. 44:37 We all need to come together on this to help the ones we can. 44:41 If we can slow this down, slow down the number of cases, 44:44 you know, don't spread it to anybody else, 44:48 we can get through this with less loss of life 44:51 than we've had in some, you know... 44:54 There's one area, good doctor, I want us to touch on 44:57 before we end our time together. 45:00 And of course, it may be one of the best ways, 45:02 and we're talking about prevention. 45:04 The one question, when I knew you were coming out, 45:06 I really wanted to ask you is, this run on masks, 45:10 is this effectual? 45:12 Does it work? 45:13 You see people in airports running around with masks on. 45:16 Does it help? Does it hurt? 45:17 Is it a placebo? What about masks? 45:20 Okay, so does a mask work? 45:22 You know, it's interesting, the Surgeon General got up and says, 45:25 "You don't need to wear masks. 45:27 It's not going to make any difference. 45:28 It's not going to help you." 45:30 And almost two sentences later, "We need to save all the masks 45:32 for our healthcare workers because they really need them." 45:36 Yeah, if you use them properly, they do work. 45:38 It's important that the mask totally seals around the side. 45:41 If you just put it on and it doesn't seal on the sides, 45:44 well the germs just go right around the mask 45:47 instead of being filtered out. 45:49 You know, the N95 have a very fine mesh and can filter out 45:53 the virus, you know, these droplet particles, 45:56 quite effectively if you're using them properly. 46:00 But all of that is sort of a moot point. 46:04 There's no place you're going to find a mask today. 46:07 You know, every store was bought out almost a month ago. 46:10 There's no place for you to get a mask right now. 46:13 So it's sort of a... 46:15 It's not going to make a lot of difference 46:16 because you're not going to be able to find one. 46:18 ~ So those who have masks? 46:20 If you got them very early on, or you've got some access 46:24 to them somehow. 46:26 But it's just something that you probably shouldn't spend 46:34 a lot of time worrying about because 46:35 you're not going to get one now. 46:37 You know they're not out there. 46:38 Now they're really trying to ramp up production of masks, 46:41 but I can tell you, all of those masks have been designated 46:44 on a national level to go to healthcare and first responders. 46:48 We need our paramedics protected, 46:50 we need our doctors and nurses in the hospitals... 46:53 You know, it's not just hospital beds and ventilators. 46:56 You need a respiratory therapist to run the ventilator, 46:59 and you need a nurse to manage your medicines 47:01 and your IV's to keep you alive, and you need a doctor there 47:04 evaluating it to access what to do and not do in your case. 47:08 And so, we need our medical professionals right now. 47:11 We need them desperately. 47:12 And we're going to need them. 47:14 They're going to be stretched really thin, 47:15 they're going to be overworked, 47:17 they're going to need everything. 47:18 But we need to protect them every way we can. 47:20 And so quite appropriately they are diverting all of the 47:25 new production of masks and protective suits 47:28 to the healthcare and first responders. 47:30 And until they have everything they need, 47:33 I wouldn't look to find any at Home Depot. 47:37 The rest of us just get in line. 47:39 Alright, I want you to help us help ourselves. 47:42 Washing hands: how much, how often, how long? 47:46 ~ As often as you can. 47:48 If somebody else coughed on that spot and you touched it, 47:51 on that doorknob, on whatever, and then you rub your nose 47:55 or something and get it on your face 47:56 and it gets in there, you've got it. 47:57 So the more frequently, the better. 48:00 They say 20 seconds. Soap and water is the best. 48:03 Just, you know, rub really good. 48:05 The easy way to do it, if you wash the center of your hands, 48:07 and then you wash the back of the hands, 48:09 and then you do between your fingers, 48:10 once you've done that and rinsed it good, 48:12 you've got your 20 seconds, 48:13 there's no viruses on your hands. 48:15 That's probably the best. 48:17 Hand sanitizer, which if you don't have a supply, 48:20 you're probably not going to get either now. 48:22 You know, alcohol solution is also very 48:25 effective if it's available. 48:28 Just plain ole dish soap and water, a bar of soap. 48:31 Soap and water will be very effective. 48:34 Is the soap and water, is it killing it 48:37 or just washing it away? 48:38 It's getting rid of it. It's washing it away. 48:40 - It's washing it away. - Yeah. 48:42 Dr. Teske, all the years that I've known you, 48:46 your primary emphasis has been on prevention. 48:50 - Lifestyle. - Yeah. 48:52 So what preventive measures can be used 48:56 to strengthen our immune system so that if we do get it, 49:00 we'll get over it quickly. 49:02 And hopefully that we don't get it. 49:04 Yeah, one of your best preventions right here is water. 49:07 ~ Well, I guess I'll get... 49:09 You want to stay hydrated here. 49:10 - Follow your example. - Indeed. 49:13 A partially dehydrated cell loses almost all of its ability 49:20 to resist infection. 49:22 The cell needs to be adequately hydrated. 49:26 And while most of us realize that we can get by on a lot less 49:31 water than is ideal during the day, we can, you know, 49:35 take the edge off our thirst and get through fine, 49:39 we need that extra water, you know. 49:42 Six to eight glasses a day, at least. 49:45 A lot more if you're physically active. 49:47 We need that water. 49:48 We need fully hydrated cells to fight infection. 49:52 And that's probably the number one. 49:54 The next thing to remember is fresh air and sunlight. 49:59 The best air purifier is not these HEPA filters 50:03 and various little devices, you know, that we use 50:06 in our buildings and house. 50:07 The best air freshener, the best air purifier 50:11 is fresh air and sunlight. 50:13 You know, if the weather permitting and the design of 50:16 your building permits, open the doors, open the windows, 50:19 let air circulate through the room, 50:22 let sunlight shine in. 50:25 Go out on the porch, go out in the backyard, 50:27 go for a walk. 50:29 Our present guidelines here in California, 50:32 they allow us to go out for exercise. 50:35 - Viruses don't like sunlight, do they? 50:37 No, ultraviolet light is one of the ways to kill viruses. 50:42 Matter of fact, in hospitals now we have these artificial 50:45 ultraviolet lights that are used in many 50:47 of the purification systems to kill the viruses. 50:51 So sunlight and fresh air is going to keep things safe, 50:56 keep it purified. 50:57 ~ So this is important. 50:58 Even though they're saying stay inside, you don't want to 51:00 be with the shades drawn and in a dark or semi-dark room. 51:04 You want some light in there. 51:05 You want ventilation, you want that fresh outdoor... 51:09 The air inside a house quickly becomes deionized. 51:14 You want this negatively charged ionized fresh air 51:17 that smells fresh from outdoors. 51:19 You need that fresh air in your lungs 51:22 because it effects not only your brain, 51:24 but it effects the surface of your lungs and how well 51:27 your lungs work to have fresh air. 51:30 You need fresh air. 51:31 It's just the way we were meant and designed to live. 51:34 So that's really key. 51:36 And then of course, really probably the biggest thing 51:39 that's going to affect your immune system 51:42 is your diet. 51:43 It's what you're going to eat. 51:45 And as we've been mentioning earlier, 51:48 all of those nutrients that God packaged when He made food. 51:52 You know, when God created this world, He looked at it 51:55 and said it was very good. 51:57 And that's still true. It's very good. 52:00 Packaged in every single blueberry, 52:03 and every single orange, every single piece of fruit 52:06 and food that God made is everything you need. 52:10 And when we take it and start processing it, 52:13 separating out, throwing it away, taking out just 52:16 single ingredients, that food becomes devoid of all of that 52:20 good stuff that we really need, that particularly 52:23 our immune system really needs. 52:25 And if you're living on processed food primarily 52:28 with a little fruit on the side, you're running at a distinct 52:31 disadvantage right now. 52:33 It like everything you eat should be a fruit, a vegetable, 52:38 a whole grain, a nut, a seed. 52:41 We need to eat it the way God made it. 52:44 It's time in this earth's history to come back 52:47 to the diet that God gave us. 52:49 It's the one thing that's going to get us through this. 52:55 ~ So how important is exercise? 52:58 Exercise is key because it helps circulation of the body. 53:02 Everything moves. 53:03 You want every cell in your body to be healthy, 53:05 but you've got to move blood through all of those cells. 53:09 Circulation moves that to there. 53:11 Exercise releases various factors. 53:14 It actually makes you create certain molecules 53:17 that enhance the immune system, enhances brain development, 53:21 enhances heart development. 53:23 All of these things. 53:25 It's extremely complex compared to our 53:27 simplistic thinking at times. 53:29 But when you exercise, when you stay hydrated, 53:32 when you eat all of the nutrients that God made for you, 53:35 it's like everything can work better. 53:38 And right now when we're facing this life threatening, 53:41 you know, viral illness, we need everything to be working 53:45 as best as possible. 53:47 We know that people that don't have everything working 53:50 well are the ones at highest risk not to make it. 53:54 Now is the time to eat the food, drink the water. 53:58 Sleep is really important. 54:00 They have found that sleep really affects 54:02 your body's immune system. 54:04 There is something about that recharging, rebuilding, 54:08 restoring activities that take place during a good 54:11 eight hours of sleep that is essential 54:14 to your body's immune system. 54:16 If you're getting less than eight hours, 54:18 you're probably getting less than the optimum. 54:21 So take time, put it in your schedule somehow someway 54:27 for quiet, dark, peaceful, sound sleep. 54:31 Give yourself a good eight hours to sleep. 54:34 It will be important to you getting through this right now. 54:38 Yeah, so this virus is in some ways forcing us to reprioritize 54:43 and re-access our own health habits and long-term habits, 54:49 as far as our recovery or even our ability to fight 54:52 this kind of invasion of our bodies. 54:55 I mean, this is why God has brought a health message 54:58 back to us at this time in earth's history, 55:01 is He knew we would need it. 55:04 Our bodies are weakened, deteriorated with limited 55:07 ability to fight these infections. 55:10 And you know, we need all the help we can get. 55:14 And we're going to get it here. 55:15 This is the way He has designed that we would 55:18 get the benefits, get the help. 55:20 He's put everything there. 55:22 He's designed our bodies to utilize those things. 55:24 You know, He will work with us when we use His agencies 55:28 to fight this battle. 55:30 - We can count on that. - Amen. 55:31 Well, let me just read a couple of versus here 55:33 from God's holy Word. 55:36 And then maybe Dr. Teske can share some words of 55:40 comfort and hope to those who are suffering at this time. 55:43 Not only because of the disease, but because of the 55:47 economy, the terrible problems in the economy. 55:50 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 55:54 "Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the 55:58 Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have 56:01 from God, and that you are not your own? 56:04 For you were bought at a price. 56:07 Therefore, glorify God in your body 56:11 and in your spirit, which are God's." 56:14 And Psalm 91 is probably the key one this year. 56:22 "He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High..." 56:26 He's going to be protected under God's, you know, 56:29 supernatural shadow of protection. 56:31 It's going to be hovering over him, protecting him. 56:35 And it's going to protect him from the noisome pestilence. 56:39 You know, we don't need to fear the pestilence that stalks 56:43 in the darkness. 56:44 "A thousand will fall at your side, 56:46 ten thousand at your right hand, 56:48 but it will not come near you." 56:51 "Neither will any plague come near your dwelling because 56:54 He'll send His angels and give them charge over you, 56:57 to protect you in all thy ways." 57:00 God has those promises there for us, 57:03 and this is the time for them. 57:05 But like many promises, it's a conditional promise. 57:10 The very first verse of Psalm 91 says 57:14 who it's written to. 57:16 It's to "he who dwells in the secret place of the Most High." 57:22 If you don't understand what that is, 57:25 now is the time to get on your knees and look at Scripture 57:29 and understand what it means to dwell with Christ, 57:33 to have Christ in you and you in Christ. 57:36 It's the essence of the gospel; Christ in you and you in Christ. 57:41 In His final interview with His disciples, 57:44 that was His message, you know. 57:48 "I will be with you to the end of the world." 57:50 And he promised that. 57:55 His final prayer was that He would be in us and us in Him. 58:01 That is the key. 58:03 Now is the time to walk as Enoch walked; 58:07 in that communion with God, in that daily prayer 58:10 where you understand that God is with you. 58:13 Not maybe, nor mostly, but you're sure of it. 58:16 You need that assurance. 58:17 Now is the time, you know, to be sure of that. 58:21 Now is the time to really come together. 58:25 God is drawing a protective covering over His people, 58:28 and that protection is His abiding presence. 58:31 We need to understand that abiding presence. 58:35 - And the way that we form that relationship 58:39 is by ingesting the Word of God. 58:42 That's how we come to know God. 58:44 You know, meditate on the Word, study the Word, 58:47 and apply the Word to the daily life. 58:49 "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, 58:53 I will fear no evil; for Thou art with me." 58:56 Amen and amen. 58:58 That's how we should be approaching this right now. 59:00 - Amen. - Fantastic. 59:02 Thank you, Dr. Teske. 59:03 Okay. 59:04 Well, we ask you to trust in the Lord. 59:08 There's no substitute for faith. 59:11 And God will be faithful. 59:14 Bye, bye. We'll see you again soon. 59:16 - Stay healthy, stay well. - Take care. |
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