Who hasn't heard of the four horsemen of the apocalypse?
Since WWI - the great war, involving the whole world, there has been no peace. The world is again on the brink of another major war.
Since WW2 the world experienced the most peace it ever has and the most unity with Nato.
The riders of the pale horse, and the black horse fittingly describe these world events.
The pandemic, which we are still facing, was/is like a plague of death, from pestilence.
There have been many pandemics, many were much worse.
- Plague of Athens (430 to 426 BC): During the Peloponnesian War, typhoid fever killed a quarter of the Athenian troops and a quarter of the population. This disease fatally weakened the dominance of Athens, but the sheer virulence of the disease prevented its wider spread; i.e. it killed off its hosts at a rate faster than they could spread it. The exact cause of the plague was unknown for many years. In January 2006, researchers from the University of Athens analyzed teeth recovered from a mass grave underneath the city and confirmed the presence of bacteria responsible for typhoid.[56]
- Antonine Plague (165 to 180 AD): Possibly measles or smallpox brought to the Italian peninsula by soldiers returning from the Near East, it killed a quarter of those infected, up to five million in total.[57]
- Plague of Cyprian (251–266 AD): A second outbreak of what may have been the same disease as the Antonine Plague killed (it was said) 5,000 people a day in Rome.[citation needed]
- Plague of Justinian (541 to 549 AD): The first recorded outbreak of bubonic plague started in Egypt and reached Constantinople the following spring, killing (according to the Byzantine chronicler Procopius) 10,000 a day at its height, and perhaps 40% of the city's inhabitants. The plague went on to eliminate a quarter to half the human population of the known world.[58][59]
- Black Death (1331 to 1353): The total number of deaths worldwide is estimated at 75 to 200 million. Eight hundred years after the last outbreak, the plague returned to Europe. Starting in Asia, the disease reached the Mediterranean and western Europe in 1348 (possibly from Italian merchants fleeing fighting in Crimea), and killed an estimated 20 to 30 million Europeans in six years;[60] a third of the total population,[61] and up to a half in the worst-affected urban areas.[62] It was the first of a cycle of European plague epidemics that continued until the 18th century.[63] There were more than 100 plague epidemics in Europe during this period.[64] The disease recurred in England every two to five years from 1361 to 1480.[65] By the 1370s, England's population was reduced by 50%.[66] The Great Plague of London of 1665–66 was the last major outbreak of the plague in England and killed approximately 100,000 people, 20% of London's population.[67]
- Third plague pandemic (1855): Starting in China, it spread into India, where 10 million people died.[68] During this pandemic, the United States saw its first outbreak: the San Francisco plague of 1900–1904.[69] Today, sporadic cases of plague still occur in the western United States.[70]
- The 1918-1920 Spanish flu infected half a billion people[71] around the world, including on remote Pacific islands and in the Arctic—killing 20 to 100 million.[
This debunks that "the end times are at hand" rhetoric.
This to me is like clear evidence, of fulfillment of one of the end-time prophecies.
Who does not agree, and why not?
How is it clear? There have been far greater times were wars were raging around the world and terrible pandemics?
This is a discussion of the Persian myth from ~1600 B.C. that the Christian writers made Revelations from.
Zoroaster taught that the blessed must wait for this culmination till Frashegird and the
'future body' (Pahlavi 'tan i pasen'), when the earth will give up the bones of the dead (Y 30.7). This
general resurrection will be followed by the Last Judgment, which will divide all the righteous from the wicked, both those who have lived until that time and those who have been judged already. Then Airyaman, Yazata of friendship and healing, together with
Atar, Fire, will melt all the metal in the mountains, and this will flow in a glowing river over the earth. All mankind must pass through this river, and, as it is said in a Pahlavi text, 'for him who is righteous it will seem like warm milk, and for him who is wicked, it will seem as if he is walking in the • flesh through molten metal' (GBd XXXIV. r 8-r 9). In this great apocalyptic vision Zoroaster perhaps fused, unconsciously,
tales of volcanic eruptions and streams of burning lava with his own experience of Iranian ordeals by molten metal; and according to his stern original teaching, strict justice will prevail then, as at each individual j udgment on earth by a fiery ordeal. So at this last ordeal of all
the wicked will suffer a second death, and will perish off the face of the earth.
The Daevas and legions of darkness will already have been annihilated in a last great battle with the Yazatas; and the
river of metal will flow down into hell, slaying Angra Mainyu and burning up the last vestige of wickedness in the universe.
Ahura Mazda and the six Amesha Spentas will then solemnize a lt, spiritual yasna,
offering up the last sacrifice (after which death wW be no more), and making a preparation of the mystical 'white haoma', which will
confer immortality on the resurrected bodies of all the blessed, who will partake of it. Thereafter
men will beome like the Immortals themselves, of one thought, word and deed,
unaging, free from sickness, without corruption, forever joyful in the kingdom of God upon earth. For it is in this familiar and beloved world, restored to its original perfection, that, according to Zoroaster,
eternity will be passed in bliss, and not in a remote insubstantial Paradise. So the time of Separation is a renewal of the time of Creation, except that no return is prophesied to the original uniqueness of living things. Mountain and valley will give place once more to level plain; but whereas in the beginning there was one plant, one animal, one man, the rich variety and number that have since issued from these will remain forever. Similarly the many divinities who were brought into being by Ahura Mazda will continue to have their separate existences. There is no prophecy of their re-absorption into the Godhead. As a Pahlavi text puts it, after Frashegird 'Ohrmaid and the Amahraspands and all Yazads and men will be together. .. ; every place will resemble a garden in spring, in which
there are all kinds of trees and flowers ... and it will be entirely the creation of Ohrrnazd' (Pahl.Riv.Dd. XLVIII, 99, lOO, l07).
