Chance (15 Mar 2020)
"Did No Modern Day Prophets Predict This Pestilence?"


Hello John and Doves,

"Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipstich, said that "it's likely we'll see a global pandemic" of coronavirus, with 40-70% of the world's population likely to be infected this year.

Ira Longini, a biostatistician and adviser to the World Health Organization (WHO), has predicted that two-thirds of the global population my eventually contract COVID-19.

Prof Gabriel Leung, chair of public health medicine at Hong Kong University, says if the transmission estimate of 2.5 additional people for each infected rate is accurate, that would result in an "attack rate" that would affect 60 to 80% of the world's population."


"According to the World Health Organizaiton, COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, has already killed about 3.4 percent of confirmed cases around the world.  This figure is not only higher than previous estimates, but it's more than twice that of the death rate of the flu.  The fatality rate for seasonal flu is less than one percent, comparatively."  https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/announces-global-death-rate-coronavirus-061225297.html
WHO Announces Global Death Rate For Coronavirus Is Now 3.4%

The world population  as of March 2020, is just under 7.8 billion people.
World Population Clock: 7.8 Billion People (2020) - Worldometer

The conservative percentage of 40% would result in 3.12 billion people infected.
The high percentage of 80% would results in 6.24 billion people infected.

3.4% of 3.12 billion is 106 million deaths.
3.4% of 6.24 billion is 212 million deaths.

I have seen death rates reported up to 20%, that would result in 624 million/1,248 million deaths for 40% and 80%, respectively.

Where were the modern day prophets warning us of this?  I can't recall any recent warnings of a worldwide pandemic.  (Please post a letter if you know of such prophecies.)  It seems many churches these days have their own 'prophets'...did any predict this?  I've seen numerous prophecies in recent years of tsunamis hitting the coasts, of earthquakes splitting the U.S. in half, of a major earthquake hitting the west coast.  Prophecies predicting economic collapse.  Prophecies predicting WWIII.  But with this COVID-19, did we get blindsided?  Surely this would have been on someone's radar?  I certainly didn't see this coming.  No way was a pestilence of this infectivity and lethality on my radar.  I certainly didn't expect this before the Tribulation Period starts.

I believe the time for evangelism has passed - with Billy Graham being the last great world evangelist.  What I've been seeing since his death, are men of God warning 'judgment is coming'!  David Reagan, Perry Stone, and Franklin Graham come to mind.

As I've written before, the birth pains are upon us...and this could be THE pestilence that moves us right into the fourth seal.  There is no reason those seals can't be opened in quick succession.  Some people have suggested that the first 4 seals will be opened before the Tribulation starts - it's easy to see all four horses in the world today, especially with this COVID-19 pandemic now  But, I believe most people think all the seals are opened during the Tribulation period.

Either way, the seals will be opened, the horses will ride.

It's been said that God does nothing without warning his people first. 

Jesus in Luke 21 warned us of coming birth pains. He lists them:  Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, great earthquakes, famines, pestilences in various places, and terrifying things and great miraculous signs from heaven.

John in The Revelation wrote about the fourth horse of the apocalypse, the pale horse, bringing pestilence. One fourth of the earth's population will be killed by sword, famine, disease and wild animals.  That's 1.95 billion people.

These things were predicted a couple of thousands of years ago. 

We've been watching the birth pains - the wars and rumors of wars, the increase in major earthquakes, the huge famines, with more famine coming with the HUGE locust swarms that have hit in Africa, the Middle East, working their way across to China now.  And this novel coronavirus pestilence that is just breaking out across the world.  We have not seen the "terrifying things and great miraculous signs from heaven" - but they are coming!

'Pestilence' is defined as a fatal epidemic disease, any very serious infectious disease that spreads quickly and kills large numbers of people.  
PESTILENCE | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary

This novel coronavirus is definitely panning out to be a pestilence...a significant pestilence.

To me this is looking more and more like an End Times pestilence.

Ezekiel 21:14, 15 is about "The Lord's Sword of Judgment"  "It is a sword for slaughter - a sword for great slaughter, closing in on them from every gate...So that their hearts may melt and many may stumble...it is drawn for slaughter."  The number 19 in Strong's Hebrew means "slaughter".  (COVID-19)

And there may be an even worse pestilence coming (some think this is a nuclear attack), but it could be another disease:

Zechariah 14:12, 15, 16 speaks of a coming plague:  And the Lord will send a plague on all the nations that fought against Jerusalem.  Their people will become like walking corpses, their flesh rotting away.  Their eye will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.....This same plague will strike the horses and mules, the camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.  Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.

Many have thought this plague was a nuclear 'incident', but it could be a pestilence because the victims are like walking, rotting corpses and animals are affected by the same thing and the destruction of cities/infrastructure is not mentioned along with this plague - just people and animals.

There is obviously a lot more coming!

The birth pains are increasing!

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!

Maranatha!

Chance