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21st Century Proofs!
Major Famines, Wars, and Disease Outbreaks
The Bible attests Jesus Christ, The Lord God and Creator, is the ultimate source of ALL knowledge, wisdom and understanding. As such, it must be from Him that humans have received ALL of our beneficial insights since Adam and Eve were cast out of the garden in the land of Eden. Because He has endowed us with the gift of free will, we have the ability to use that gift in untoward ways, just as Lucifer, a once exalted, holy angel in Heaven, did. He used his gift to catalyze a third of all holy angels to launch a massive rebellion against The Lord and Heaven. They were defeated, were cast out of Heaven. They fell to Earth where they have been demons and devils, ‘spiritually deceiving’ us to join them in counteracting every righteous policy of Heaven.
A masterful aspect of their deception is to blind us to The Lord’s iteratively-revealed, and systematically-applied, Grace-based strategy to attenuate our sinful lifestyles. The deception is for us to deny and explain away the tactics and instruments He declared He would use when His extension of Grace to any people would expire, possibly before being renewed after earned judgments.
The results: We persistently deny Him ANY AGENCY (any role at all) in the events He intends to attenuate our sinfulness, and to draw us to repentance and to live righteous lifestyles. As a result, we NEVER escape any of His judgments, and we NEVER ‘connect-the-dots’ between them, and His strategy. Thus, we persistently lose doubly!
Part 1 includes a long table of major famines, wars and pestilences during the 20th century. Wild beasts attacks were excluded since, as societies developed and populations increased, we have managed our general exposures to wild beasts. Those attacks have decreased at societal levels, and continue more at the personal and community levels.
As you review the 2 tables below, please ponder these points:
1. The vicious ‘cause-and-effects’ cycles from famines, wars and pestilences, are MAGNIFIED by the incredible extent to which our 21st century world is MORE INTERCONNECTED than it has ever been!
2. This inter-connectedness MAGNIFIES the price we all pay from denying The Lord any agency in what He calls His judgments against persistent, unrepented sinfulness of ‘a land’! ‘A land’ possibly because The Bible treats land is a living stewardship domain that responds to human behavior. As such:
• People on a land are the moral agents.
• The land is the affected, living organism.
• The Lord evaluates both together.
3. Our errant attitude will eventually trigger His promise to GO GLOBAL, i.e., transition from applying His judgments on ‘a land’, to applying them at a planetary level! Our increasing inter-connected lifestyles deepen our need for, and geographically expand the impacts of His judgments. (To learn about the next global judgment on His prophetic calendar, see: The 6th Seal, Civilization’s Reset? (Series))
Famines (21)
Years
Southern Africa
2002-2003
Niger/Sahel
2005
Sahel/West Africa
2010-2012
Somalia/Horn of Africa
2011
Horn of Africa
2011-2012
Yemen
2015-Cont.
Northeastern Nigeria/Lake Chad
2016-2017
South Sudan
2017
Afghanistan
2017-Cont.
Syria
2018-Cont.
South Sudan
2020
Tigray, Ethiopia
2020-2022
Grand Sud, Madagascar
2021-2022
Dem. Rep. of Congo
2021-Cont.
Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya
2022-2023
Russia-Ukraine global food shock
2022-2023
Haiti
2023-Cont.
Sudan
2024-2025
Mali/Sahel
2024-2026
Gaza Strip
2025
Global vulnerable states
2025-2026
Wars (31)
Years
Afghanistan/global
2001-2021
Iraq/Levant
2003-Cont.
Sudan: Darfur, other regions
2003-Cont.
Somalia/Horn of Africa
2006-Cont.
Mexico
2006-Cont.
Nigeria/Lake Chad Basin
2008-Cont.
Israel/Gaza
2008–2009
Syria/region
2011-Cont.
Libya/Mediterranean/Sahel
2011-Cont.
Mali/Burkina Faso/Niger/Sahel
2012-Cont.
Central African Republic
2012-Cont.
South Sudan
2013-2020
Israel/Gaza
2014
Russia/Ukraine
2014-2021
Yemen/Red Sea/Gulf
2014-Cont.
Iraq/Syria/global
2014-2019
Mozambique: Cabo Delgado
2017-Cont.
Russia/Ukraine
2022-Cont.
Ethiopia: Tigray/northern
2020-2022
Armenia/Azerbaijan/ Nagorno-Karabakh
2020 2023
Israel/Gaza
2021
Myanmar
2021-Cont.
Ethiopia: Amhara/Oromia, others
2021-Cont.
DRC/Rwanda/Great Lakes
2022-Cont.
Israel/Gaza & Regional Fronts
2023–Cont.
Sudan/Red Sea region
2023-Cont.
Haiti
2023-Cont.
Israel/Lebanon/Syria/Iran-linked fronts
2023-Cont.
Israel/U.S.–Iran (12-Day War)
2025
India/Pakistan
2025
Israel/U.S.–Iran
2026-Cont.
Pestilences (20)
Years
SARS (China/global)
2002-2004
Avian Influenza/Bird Flu (global)
2003-Cont.
H1N1 Swine Flu (global)
2009-2010
Cholera (Haiti/Caribbean)
2010-Cont.
MERS Coronavirus (Middle East/global)
2012-Cont.
Polio resurgence (global pockets)
2014-Cont.
Ebola (West Africa)
2014-2016
Zika Virus (Americas/global)
2015-2016
Cholera (Yemen)
2016-2021
Ebola (DRC)
2018-2020
COVID pandemic (global)
2019-Cont.
COVID variants (global)
2020-Cont.
Monkeypox (global/Africa)
2021-Cont.
Severe flu (global)
2022-2023
Marburg (Eq. Guinea/ Tanzania)
2023
Denge fever (global tropics)
2023-2024
Mpox (DRC/Africa)
2024-Cont.
Avian flu (U.S. cattle)
2024-Cont.
Cholera (Yemen/region)
2025-Cont.
Ebola (DRC/Uganda)
2025-2026
Comparisons
Category
100% of
20th Century
25.5% of
21st Century
%
Change
Famines
14
21
150
Wars
36
31
86.1
Pestilences
19
20
105
From this comparison, when we respect The Lord’s agency in these matters, we see that, in only about one-quarter of the 21st century, The Lord has already allowed or triggered:
• 50 percent of the number of His 20th century famine judgments on humanity,
• Close to the FULL number of military conflicts as He did during the entire 20th century,
• 5 percent more pestilences as He did during the entire 20th century, and
• 35 of these events are continuing!
Alas, thanks to our scientific, sociological and other insights He has ‘downloaded’ to humanity since Adam and Eve, we colluded to ‘explain away’ and deny His involvement in any of these events, yet we continue to suffer from their impacts.
Pray tell, what in Heaven does that say
about us as the APEX of His creation?! *
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* Most Bible translations of Psalm 8:5 erroneously claim The Lord created humans ‘a little lower than angels’. The Amplified Bible versions correct this error, and confirm He created us ‘a little lower than God’. The Young’s Literal Translation (YLT) of the Hebrew text says, ‘…and causest him (mankind) to lack a little of Godhead’. Imagine our world IF ONLY we would embrace, and then ACT like that!
