WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT THE PANDEMIC ?
JESUS CALLED IT ‘THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS.’
Mathew 24:7,8 (Jesus) For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, (disease, plague) and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.
History provides ample evidence of wars, nation against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, from the time of Christ to our present day. Of famines, pestilences (outbreaks of severe rapidly spreading disease) and earthquakes there have been many.
Ten percent of the population of the Roman Empire perished during the Antonine plague, probably smallpox, which swept through the four points of the compass in A.D.165–180. In 1852 John Radcliffe of the Leeds School of Medicine wrote a book recording pestilences, famines and earthquakes in the British Isles from earliest times. Here is a brief list from the book. England A.D. 61 severe famine — A.D. 88 pestilence — A.D. 110 severe earthquake — A.D. 133 a great drought — A.D. 211 pestilence and earthquake — A.D. 293 famine and pestilence — A.D. 325 severe famine and pestilence — A.D. 336,355,358,362,367,368,375 — disease, famine and earthquake. Scotland A.D. 92 pestilence — A.D. 146 pestilence — A.D. 222 pestilence. Wales A.D. 114 pestilence — A.D. 310 pestilence — A.D. 336–375 pestilence, famine, earthquake.
