as of January 2015 the highly infectious Ebola virus is still taking its deadly
toll it originated in Africa one of the first documented cases occurred in 1976
in the Democratic Republic of Congo near the Ebola River which is where the virus
got its name by far its worst hole has been in West Africa and Liberia Guinea
and Sierra Leone isolated cases have spread to the United States to Texas and
beyond early symptoms include fever headache weakness sore throat followed
by vomiting diarrhea rashes followed by bleeding from the eyes the nose the
mouth even under the skin eventually leading to the failure of various organs
and death according to the CDC on average fifty percent of those who
contract the virus if it is untreated will die and that percentage can jump as
high as ninety percent in certain instances to date the World Health
Organization estimates at 8,000 people have died over 8,000 in West Africa and
over 20,000 have been infected the threat remains and if it is not
contained global casualties could be catastrophic in the New Testament in the
book of Luke chapter 21 verses 10 and 11 Jesus Christ looked down the stream of
time and predicted certain signs that would increase as his return approaches
in verse 10 jesus said nation will rise against nation and Kingdom against
Kingdom and there will be great earthquakes in various places and
famines and pestilences the word pestilence jumps out the merriam-webster
dictionary defines the word pestilence as a contagious or infectious epidemic
disease that is Berlant and devastating Ebola certainly fits that definition of
course there have been other terrible pestilences and plagues in history such
as in the 1300s the bubonic plague wiped out a third of Europe and in 1918
through 1920 the Spanish flu killed 50 to 100
million people worldwide Ebola is a pestilence and it can reasonably be
viewed as a fulfillment of biblical prophets prophesy there's no doubt about
that and we can expect more to come the book of Revelation in chapter 16
describes a series of seven last plagues that will decimate planet Earth right
before the return of Jesus Christ the first plague describes boils on those
who receive the mark of the beast the second plague describes the oceans
turning to blood the third plague the rivers turned to blood plague number for
the Sun scorches men with fire plague number five is darkness upon the seat of
the Beast plague six global demonic activity and plagues seven describes a
great earthquake and hail devastating yeah the people of planet Earth the
seven last plagues have certainly not started yet the mark of the beast is
still ahead of us that hasn't come and so the seven last plagues are still in
the future and so Ebola is not one of those seven last plagues we might
consider to be a preliminary pestilence among other pestilences a warning to
those who have ears to hear and eyes to see another wake-up call from a merciful
creator god who is speaking he's still speaking to his planet urging humanity
to get ready that the final plagues are coming and that Jesus Christ is going to
soon return how can we escape Ebola according to dr. David DeRose in his
book evading Ebola decrease your risk of infection fare better if exposed the
best option is to build up our immune systems by living a healthy life when
the final plagues hit those who follow God fully will be protected and this by
far is the biggest issue facing each one of us today Psalm 91 in the Old
Testament describes those final times and describes how God will protect his
people who are completely on his side verse 1 says he who dwells in the secret
place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty I will say of
the Lord he is my refuge and my fortress in him I will trust trust surely
we'll deliver you from the snare of the Fowler and from the noisome pestilence
when the final plagues and pestilences ravaged the earth before Jesus comes may
God help us to be among those who say of the Lord he is my refuge and my fortress
my god in whom I trust for more information visit Whitehorse Mediacom
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