Major Famines, Wars, and Disease Outbreaks
For most of the 1st age of human history—the pre-flood age, The Bible seems to hint The Lord may have been enjoying His well-earned ‘Millennial Sabbath’. Have you noticed there is no mention of Him between Genesis 4:16 and Genesis 6:3? Since The Bible presents itself as an exceptionally strategic book—(chock full of fulfilled and a relatively few yet-fulfilled prophecies, iterative patterns interrupted by shocking reversals, multi-millennial cycles of ages, pre-echoes bouncing from one age-to-another, depictions of Heaven’s agents visiting Earth, etc.), I intuit even this lack of mention may well have been STRATEGIC.
Genesis 6:3 gives us The Lord’s evaluative assessment of humanity’s 1st age, followed by His decision to ‘wipe out’ all but 8 people—Noah’s immediate family, via a global flood that would reset His ages clock, reset Earth to its ‘Eden-like’, pre-sin virtue, and reset His relationship with humanity.
Early in the 2nd age, The Lord initiated His Genesis 3:15 prophecy—an exceptionally long, multi-generation strategy to atone for the sins of anyone who would, by faith, embrace His planned personal sacrifice on our behalf. You know the beginning and the end of His story—our ‘His-story!’
To attenuate the levels of sin across the Earth, He twice reiterated His plan to Moses, to use 4 judgment henchmen against persistent, un-repented sin. He then iteratively applied that strategy, as demonstrated in the history books of The Bible. Later. He sharpened His presentation to Ezekiel, and since then, as global populations greatly increased, He applied that strategy much more aggressively! So from ancient history, to current events, we should have perceived how incredibly faithful and persistent The Lord has been, and continues to be, to attenuate human sin, after exceptionally long periods of Grace—time for repentance. But rather than perceive, recognize and profess, we foolishly take every opportunity to abuse His amazing Grace, and then conclude either He no longer exists, or possibly never existed, and if He does, He must be ok with our sins!
Our refusals to ‘connect-the-dots’ between what He predicted, and what we have experienced, and continue to experience, evidences how we applied our scientific breakthroughs (which we derived from Him), to sideline and effectively deny The Lord God and Creator, any agency in His creation. He obviously foresaw our hearts and our conclusions. Ergo, to prove Who He is, and what He has been doing across our history, He has uniquely reserved a set of incredible modifications of His regular judgment henchmen, that He will release on a planetary scale! They will comprise about 50-to-70 percent of His predicted apocalypse! 1 Science will have no way to ‘explain away’ those modifications, as they will be ‘out of this world!’ To ensure His agency in these events will not be diminished, afterward, He will personally present Himself to the relatively few humans who will have survived His onslaught.
The fool has said in his heart,
‘There is no God!’
(David: Psalm 14:1)
…For out of the abundance of the heart,
the mouth speaks.
(Jesus: Matthew 12:34)
For anyone to whom those verses may apply, the following evidence might help you to ‘connect-the dots’, and to believe The Lord meant and did exactly what He said He would do. How’s that for faithfulness?
Major 20th Century Famines, Wars and Pestilences 2
(Generated by ChatGPT)
Famines (14)
Years
Indian Famine
1900–1902
Russian Famine
1921–1922
Chinese Famine
1928–1930
Soviet Famine
1932–1933
Bengal Famine
1943–1944
Dutch Hunger Winter
1944–1945
Chinese Great Famine
1959–1961
Niger Famine
1968–1974
Ethiopian Famine
1972–1974
Cambodian Famine
1975–1979
Ugandan Famine
1979–1981
Ethiopian Famine
1983–1985
Sudanese Famine
1984–1985
Wars (36)
Years
Second Boer War
1899–1902
Russo-Japanese War
1904–1905
Mexican Revolution
1910–1920
Italo-Turkish War
1911–1912
First Balkan War
1912–1913
Second Balkan War
1913-1913
World War I
1914–1918
Russian Civil War
1917–1923
Turkish War of Independence
1919–1923
Irish War of Independence
1919–1921
Chinese Civil War
1927–1949
Second Italo-Ethiopian War
1935–1936
Spanish Civil War
1936–1939
Second Sino-Japanese War
1937–1945
World War II
1939–1945
First Arab-Israeli War
1948–1949
Korean War
1950–1953
Algerian War
1954–1962
Vietnam War
1955–1975
Cuban Revolution
1953–1959
Six-Day War
1967-1967
Nigerian Civil War
1967–1970
War of Attrition
1967–1970
Yom Kippur War
1973-1973
Cambodian Civil War
1970–1975
Lebanese Civil War
1975–1990
Soviet-Afghan War
1979–1989
Iran-Iraq War
1980–1988
Falklands War
1982-1982
First Intifada
1987–1993
Gulf War
1990–1991
Yugoslav Wars
1991–2001
Rwandan Civil War
1990–1994
Bosnian War
1992–1995
First Chechen War
1994–1996
Kosovo War
1998–1999
Pestilences (19)
Years
Third Plague Pandemic
1894–1960
Yellow Fever Epidemics
1900–1905
Sleeping Sickness Epidemic
1900–1920
Influenza Outbreaks
Ongoing
Malaria Outbreaks
Ongoing
Polio Epidemics
1910–1955
Encephalitis Lethargica
1915–1926
Typhus
Mid-century
Smallpox Outbreaks
1900–1977
Syphilis Outbreaks
Mid-century
Diphtheria
Mid-century
Cholera Pandemic
1961–1975
Tuberculosis
Ongoing
Legionnaires’ Disease
1976–1977
HIV/AIDS Pandemic
1981–Con’t.
Ebola Outbreaks
1976–1999
BSE/Mad Cow Disease
1986–1996
Typhoid Fever
Periodic
Hantavirus Outbreak
1993–1994
1 A review of the trumpets and bowls judgments of the ~42 month-long apocalypse, reveals close correlations with the impacts of, and collateral damages from famines, wars, wild beast attacks and pestilences—The Lord’s original 4 judgment henchmen. Compare Ezekiel 14:12-23, with Revelation 8, 9 and 11:14-19 (the trumpets judgments), and Revelation 16 and 19:19-21 (the bowls judgments and Armageddon).
2 Wild beasts attacks are excluded because they are more narrow and personal, and do not occur at societal scales. But they should not be fully discounted and disconnected from what The Lord predicted.
