(Official Olympic logo for 2024)
The 2024 Olympic games are planned to begin with opening ceremonies today. However, troubles have already been caused:
French rail lines disrupted by ‘coordinated sabotage’ ahead of Paris Olympics opening ceremony
July 26, 2024
France’s high-speed train lines were targeted by multiple “malicious” acts including arson on Friday, in what has been described as “an attack on France” and “coordinated sabotage” to disrupt travel ahead of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
The French state railway company SNCF said in a post on X that “a large number of trains were diverted or canceled,” and asked “all travelers who can to postpone their trip and not go to the station.”
The operator said the Atlantic, Northern and Eastern high-speed lines were impacted, with damage caused to several of its facilities, adding that one of the acts was “foiled” in the east after SNCF agents scared off several individuals. The Atlantic line services the west and southwest of France from Paris, the Northern line takes travelers from the French capital to Lille and the Eastern line journeys from Paris to Strasbourg.
SNCF CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou told journalists on Friday that cables – which are there to ensure the security of train drivers – were set on fire and taken apart but that authorities “don’t know who is behind it.” https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/26/europe/france-rail-network-disruption-paris-olympics-intl-hnk/index.html
There have been many concerns about terrorists and these games. Yesterday, some suspected terrorists were “detained” in Belgium:
French minister thanks Belgium for detaining 7 terror suspects on eve of Olympics opening ceremony
July 25, 2024
On the eve of the Olympics opening ceremony in Paris, France’s interior minister thanked Belgium Thursday for a string of raids that led to the detention of seven people for questioning over suspected terrorist activities.
The Belgian Federal prosecutor’s office said that the people detained during 14 raids in towns and cities across the country “are suspected of participating in the activities of a terrorist group, of financing terrorism and preparing a terrorist attack.” …
Police in Paris have launched a huge security operation to secure the opening ceremony for the Games that draw thousands of athletes and millions of spectators to the city.
Olympic events are being held throughout France, including in the northern city of Lille, just 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the border with Belgium.
A Belgian investigating judge will decide whether the suspects detained will be formally placed under arrest, the prosecutor’s statement said. The raids took place in cities and towns including Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent and Liège.
Belgium is one of several European nations which have been hit hard by extremist attacks in recent years. https://apnews.com/article/terrorism-belgium-suspects-olympics-966191331732ea4d1e663a65d96a9e49
Jesus prophesied “troubles” during our time (Mark 13:8), and we are seeing some.
To better control and surveil people, the French government is requiring having a particular QR code to be in certain places during the period of the games.
The 2024 Summer Olympics open July 26 in Paris, France, and it will be different from any other Olympic Games.
Spectators traveling to the City of Love will have their movement tracked and restricted through the use of digital QR codes.
The city’s Olympics website states:
“The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are fast approaching, and with them come their share of security measures. These include the introduction of restricted areas accessible only on presentation of a QR code.” 05/15/24 https://leohohmann.substack.com/p/summer-olympics-in-paris-to-construct?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
But surveillance will worsen in Europe in the future:
15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. (Revelation 13:15-18)
Peter Koenig wrote the following during COVID and QR codes:
The Final Solution. Full Digitization. “The QR Codification of the World”
October 15, 2021
Many of the UN agencies, not all yet, have started mandating vaxxing for their staff… or else.
How come, it hasn’t occurred to everyone yet, that there is something wrong? Badly wrong. Can it be that it is simply cognitive dissonance? You know that there is something horribly wrong, but your comfort zone doesn’t allow you to admit it? That was the case in the Third Reich – that brought forward Hitler’s tyranny. The rest is history. …
In most European countries you are not allowed to go to restaurants or any public evet unless you can show the vaxx-certificate – an infamous QR-code on your cell phone, that would be read by another cell phone, programmed to read your QR-code.
You have no idea what is or what will eventually be put on this QR-code. The goal is all your personal information, from your complete health record to your criminal record, your bank accounts – just everything. But you wouldn’t know. You cannot read what is on the QR-code. “They” can, since it is programmed that way.
The objective is to have in essence this QR-code implanted in your body. That’s pretty much what Klaus Schwab proudly said in his … interview with the French Swiss TV in 2016. He frames it something like this: Humans will become “transhumans”. …
Have you noticed at what speed ATM machines are disappearing? How cashiers in banks disappear? They will soon no longer be necessary, because you don’t control anymore cash. There are entire countries in northern Europe which are almost there: Full digitization. In some countries, among them Sweden, some people have already voluntarily let a nano-chip be implanted under the skin of their wrist. The chip works like a built-in bank account. Young people love it. It’s so cool. You swipe you hand, not even a card anymore – and the payment is made. Except, these people have no idea, how this will be played out in the future. https://www.sgtreport.com/2021/10/the-final-solution-full-digitization-the-qr-codification-of-the-world/
It is true that most people have no idea how electronic payments and tracking will play out in the future as they do not understand, believe, or respect many aspects of biblical prophetic teachings.
QR codes seem to be a step towards a coming totalitarian nightmare–and they have been required for aspects of travel—and more–already.
Now, here is some what was at Wikipedia about QR codes:
QR code for the URL of the English Wikipedia Mobile main page.
A QR code (an acronym for Quick Response code) is a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional barcode)[1] invented in 1994 by the Japanese automotive company Denso Wave.[2] A barcode is a machine-readable optical label that contains information about the item to which it is attached. In practice, QR codes often contain data for a locator, identifier, or tracker that points to a website or application. A QR code uses four standardized encoding modes (numeric, alphanumeric, byte/binary, and kanji) to store data efficiently; extensions may also be used.[3]
The Quick Response system became popular outside the automotive industry due to its fast readability and greater storage capacity compared to standard UPC barcodes. Applications include product tracking, item identification, time tracking, document management, and general marketing.[4]
A QR code consists of black squares arranged in a square grid on a white background, which can be read by an imaging device such as a camera, and processed using Reed–Solomon error correction until the image can be appropriately interpreted. The required data is then extracted from patterns that are present in both horizontal and vertical components of the image.[4]
QR codes are being used for control, but the control is not complete yet. Things such as Artificial Intelligence will also be incorporated in the coming years.
Regarding the Olympics, the old Worldwide Church of God published the following:
EVERY four years the world watches the supreme effort of sportsmen striving for their Olympic triumph.”
So writes Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in the foreword to the book The Olympic Games, 1984.
“Healthy competition and fellowship,” continued the IOC’s chief executive, “are needed more than ever today in strengthening the desire for peace and lessening the effect of political conflict.”
Olympic ideals, however, often contrast with the grim reality of the world. Again, in 1984, as in previous Olympiads, the Olympic ideal and its motto Citius, Altius, Fortius — Swifter, Higher, Stronger — are marred by the powerful forces of nationalism. …
International disputes continued to plague the Olympics, threatening the very existence of the Games in 1972 in Munich.
Even though white — ruled Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe) complied with all IOC requests — namely, it should compete under the British flag and anthem rather than its own — a big row over its participation erupted right on the eve of the Games.
Two weeks before the Games were to start, 20 countries vowed to withdraw if the Rhodesian team was allowed to compete.
Then the most terrible event in the history of the Olympic Games occurred on September 5, 1972, the 11th day of the Munich spectacle. Eight Arab commandos of the . “Black September” organization entered the Olympic Village in Munich and commandeered the Israeli team’s residence. After 20 hours of high drama ending in a police shoot-out, 11 Israeli athletes and five commandos lay dead. …
Olympic officials decry the alarming spread in the use of anabolic steroids, by which muscle bulk can be increased rapidly and to an unnatural degree. The IOC promises strict computerized detection measures in Los Angeles.
The problem of drugs affects countries in both the East and West. American hurdles champion Edwin Moses said in 1983 that at least 50 percent of America’s Olympic athletes take illegal drugs. “As a track-and-field athlete who doesn’t use drugs ,” remarked Moses, “I now consider myself to be in the minority.”
The ban on steroids has led to the search for less traceable substances. One such substance is a human growth hormone, a potent “strength juice” derived from the pituitary glands of cadavers and priced at US $500 for a three-week supply.
With many events now open to female athletes, the IOC and various international sports federations have been compelled to introduce femininity tests to make certain that no men or so-called super-females (those having an extra “X” chromosome) unfairly compete against normal females. Many women athletes understandably have recoiled against having to have a “certificate of femininity” in order to participate.
Lord Killanin is blunt about the drug abuse prevalent in international competition. “If scientists are going to create ‘artificial’ athletes,” he says, “to compete in the Olympic Games or any international sport, then the sooner the international competitions are ended the better. Sport is about the attainment of the complete man or woman, physically and mentally, by natural, and not artificial, means” (The Olympic Games. 1984, page 22).(Hogberg G. (Plain Truth Magazine July-August 1984)
Here is a link to our video: Olympics and Biology.
That said, a positive benefit of the Olympics sometimes can be that they encourage more people to exercise.
Notice in an article by Harry Sneider, the old Plain Truth magazine taught:
A LITTLE EXERCISE COULD MEAN A LIFETIME OF HEALTH!
The right kind of exercise can add years to your life and dollars to your wallet! …
You say you can’t afford the time to exercise? The truth is, unless you have a special health problem, you can’t afford not to exercise! Scientific research and experience prove that the human body needs exercise to maintain good health. No one can totally neglect it without paying a penalty. Millions suffer unnecessary ills and die prematurely because they are living inactive or sedentary lives for which their bodies were not designed.
Medical and health specialists around the world emphasize the importance of physical fitness, particularly in our modern world where riding and sitting are a way of life.
Dr. Paul Dudley White. noted Boston heart specialist who has helped presidents and other leading Americans achieve better health and productivity through exercise, has stated: “Physical fitness is vital for the optimal function of the brain, for retardation of the onset of serious arteriosclerosis, which is beginning to appear in early adult lives, and for longevity, and a useful and healthy life for our older citizens.” …
I have worked with all age groups, with overweight as well as handicapped people. I have witnessed great transformations, not only physical, but mental and emotional, as a result of a sound program of physical fitness tailored to individual needs.
Here are some of the results you can gain from a good physical fitness program:
• You’ll develop strength and endurance which will help you perform daily tasks with greater ease and economy of movement.
• Good muscle tone and posture will help protect you from back problems.
• Your appetite and weight will be more controllable. When you are inactive, the appetite, normally a marvelously precise guide of how much you should eat, no longer functions accurately. In other words, you will eat more calories than you actually expend. The result is creeping overweight. Some overweight is not the result of eating too much, but of exercising too little.
• Your blood and lymph system will function better and won’t get clogged up easily. Coronary arteries will become wider; blood will flow easier and faster. Many doctors believe proper exercise reduces cholesterol levels in the blood. And active people have fewer heart attacks and better recovery rates than inactive persons.
• The efficiency of your heart and lungs will rise sharply. The total effect is that all your body’s systems will be strengthened, and you will feel much better overall.
• Enjoyable exercise provides relief from tension and serves as a safe and natural tranquilizer. And sleep will come easier. (Plain Truth Magazine July 1977)
That article is decades old, but the benefits are still needed.
The Bible itself warns about obesity, getting fat, being physically lazy, and excessive eating.
The New Testament says that bodily exercise can help (1 Timothy 4:8), yet most Americans do not get enough physical activity.
The Continuing Church of God (CCOG) has the following video on our Bible News Prophecy YouTube channel:
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The Plain Truth About Exercise
A 2019 report shows that Americans are becoming sedentary. Since it is a physical thing, should Christians be concerned about exercise? Could not exercising possibly be a sin? What did the ‘Plain Truth’ magazine report about exercise? What is the US CDC reporting about exercise? Can exercise help prevent diabetes, heart disease, and obesity? Can exercise help sleep, endurance, and aging? Are there scriptures about exercise and health? What about laziness? What are some of the risks and benefits of exercise? Dr. Thiel addresses these subjects and more.
Here is a link to our video: The Plain Truth About Exercise.
Anyway, while there can be some good from the Olympics, it is terrible how dangerous and perverse the world has become.
The Olympics and intentional sabotage simply highlights part of that.
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