Reference Scripture passages: Luke 21:10-28 and Revelation 6:1-8
Being aware of the recent news, I can't help but to agree and testify that biblical prophecy from the mouth of Jesus is very true. Glance through the passage of Luke 21, how many prophetic descriptions can you identify with? [Luke 21 verse10 : Wars*, severe earthquakes, famines and pestilences(diseases) in various places and fearful events and great signs from heaven.] For me, ALL of them are what we see on daily news and the Bible tells us there are more to come... A look at Revelation 6 provides us with yet another astonishing insight. In verse 5-6 of the chapter, " A quart of wheat for a day's wages...." a day's labour and yet unable to buy enough wheat tells us the amount of hardship one has to go through inorder to earn a living. With economic downturn and increase in unemployment as the backdrop, how relevant is this prophecy to us ? Going on to Revelation 6 verse 8, ["...given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the WILD BEASTS of the earth."] Sword, lack of food supply and pandemic disease can kill even with our modern technologies and scientific advancements but what about wild beasts? Animals killing a fourth of world's population how can it be? They are either extinct, endangered or locked up in zoos and with our housing facilities and weapons, these creatures trying to harm us is a laughing stock! But once again, we are brought to attention that the current killer diseases that has emerged lately came from animals. How can it be so?
Examples like the Human Immunodeficiency Virus(HIV) responsible for AIDS being from monkeys, Bubonic plague(Black Death) from rats and the recent SARS-causing pathogen, the Corona virus that cause so much fear and several other diseases is suspected by scientists that it came from some wild animals infecting human beings and claimed millions of lives. The Bible warned its readers that these are the signs and indications of the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ which marks the final episode of world history ending with the Judgement day............Coincidental or fufilment of biblical prophecies.....You decide?