Global Pandemics Are Coming

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The Fourth Horseman

Yes, the Holy Bible, the inspired Word of God, does indeed speak of large-scale pandemics. Approximately a third of the verses in this special book are prophecies foretold to occur in the end time—the period right before the return of Jesus Christ. The first several verses of Revelation 6 speak of the infamous “four horsemen of the apocalypse.” Together, these represent the chaotic and desperate times brought on by man’s evil.

In “Zika Virus and the Pale Horse of the Apocalypse,” Trumpet contributor Wayne Turgeon wrote:

The first three horsemen of the apocalypse symbolize religious deception, war and famine. Along with the fourth horseman, pestilence, these riders represent the end-time culmination of the most traumatic problems endured by a rebellious mankind. They picture one of the most ominous scenarios ever.

“And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth” (Revelation 6:7-8).

He elaborates more on this “pale horse” in the booklet The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, writing:

The context mentions two of the other horsemen—war and famine. But we cannot be certain of the symbolism of the last horseman from this passage. The key word to its identity is the word pale, which often makes us think of someone who is feeling sick, having an anemic-looking appearance. Pale is translated from the Greek chloros, which we would normally take to mean the color of chlorophyll, the property that gives plants their healthy green appearance. When used biblically, however, chloros means the sickly pale green color of sickness and disease.

Other biblical translations describe the pale horse as an ash-colored horse, a horse sickly green, a horse sickly pale and an ashy pale horse. We have continually stressed throughout that we should look to Christ the Revelator to explain these seals and symbols. He provides us with the most correct word to unlock the true identity of this pale green horse which man’s best translations cannot: “and there shall be … pestilences” (Matthew 24:7). The man on the pale horse symbolizes climactic, globe-encircling plagues and pandemics occurring and soon to occur in this modern age!

The Only Way to Beat a Global Pandemic

At the Davos summit, former World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan commented on the subject of preventing such disasters. She described the world as ill prepared on every level of government for fighting a global pandemic, warning that it is “difficult to go to war with an invisible army” without coordinated global resources.

The only way mankind can prevent a global pandemic disaster as foretold in Revelation is by turning back to God.

The Trumpet magazine has constantly pointed to Deuteronomy 28 as the climatic summary of all the crises coming upon the nations of Britain and the United States. God outlines in this chapter the blessings for obedience and the curses for disobedience, elaborated upon in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse:

“But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee …. The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption [chronic, degenerate diseases such as aids], and with a fever, and with an inflammation [malaria or communicative diseases such as influenzas], and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew …. with the botch of Egypt [elephantiasis], and with the emerods [tumors, cancer, etc], and with the scab, and with the itch [aggravated psoriasis and other nutrient-deficiency diseases such as scurvy, rickets, etc], whereof thou canst not be healed [incurable or drug-resistant diseases] … with madness [mental illness, insanity] and blindness, and astonishment of heart [emotional distresses such as depression]” (Deuteronomy 28:15, 21-22, 27-28).

However, God promises to protect those who obey Him from the horrors brought on by the symbolic pale horseman (Psalm 91:10). He only wants the best for us. It is His desire to bless us, not cause us harm (John 10:10).

Consider the first part of Deuteronomy in contrast to its latter verses. “And it shall come to pass, if thou hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all His commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all other nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God” (Deuteronomy 28:1-2).

Dangerous diseases are growing more widespread and severe as the world slides into a moral cesspool. The only way to remove these curses from our land is to turn back to God. That is exactly why God is sending these curses—to get His people to turn to Him. To learn more about this subject, read The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.