Summary: We continue to study the signs of the second coming of Jesus. Today we look at the role of PESTILENCES and PLAGUES. God is trying to wake us to be prepared for the second coming.

LAST DAYS: PESTILENCE Series on the Second Coming

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com

THE HORSES ARE COMING… WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? Don’t be derailed!

Jeremiah 12:5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

REVELATIONS 6 RECORDS THE FOUR HORSEMEN THAT ARE COMING AT THE END OF THIS AGE…

1. WHITE HORSE… He is the lamb. He has a crown, he conquers, he has a sword.

2. RED HORSE… He takes away all peace, war, anger and death.

3. BLACK HORSE… Death follows the war and destruction that the red horse left… He has a BALANCE IN HIS HANDS… shortages, high prices, don’t hurt the oil and wine… rich people.

4. PALE HORSE… Death follows the taking of peace, war and destruction, famines, shortages and pestilences.

THE CHURCH SHALL ESCAPE… ( No time here to develop this!)

Luke 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

THROUGH OUT THE BIBLE GOD HAS ALWAYS USED FAMINES AND PESTILENECES TO WAKE UP HIS PEOPLE. These too will be used in the last days and the Bible warns us that that PEOPLE REFUSE TO HEED THE WARNINGS. They will make these tools a joke and a laughing matter.

Related words

Pandemics ---- EPIDEMIC ---INFECTOUS --- SICKNESS --- FEAR --- PEST ---

Genocide… TERRORISM ---

Habakkuk 3:5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.

Ezekiel 33:27 Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.

Matthew 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Get real, pestilences are not controlled by space aliens. The root of the problems have to do with human beings. The Bible teaches that Jesus Christ second return will be preceded by a period of tribulation as the world has never known. Many natural disasters will contribute to this sicknesses and dead of masses. The evil ones and his cohorts will help bring sin to a head.

Spiritual, social and economic collapse will lead to an undermining of the church, the family and society.

Pestilence is any epidemic with high death rate. Often a pestilence is a serious infection that can be carried by rats, mice, insects --- fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes, dirty water and poor sanitation. .

A pestilence means it is difficult to get rid of… Often we can observe this is a results of a crisis, war, famine, economic issues, floods, wildfires, volcanos, and garbage disposal.

THE TOOL OF PESTILENCE means deadly and overwhelming diseases that affect the community at large.

BLACK MOLD DEMENTIA PANCREATIC CANCER HIGH CHOLESTEROL HEART ISSUES

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE (younger and younger) Peripheral Artery Disease

SEPSIS a complication of infection often found in medical facilities BLOOD INFECTIONS DRUG ABUSE

Gangrene AIDS Antibiotic resistance DIABETES

Remember history? In Europe? There was a Black Plague that killed over 30% of all people.

In 1616 the New England area had a 3 year pestilence that kill almost 90% of the people.

Somali’s famine is leading that nation is a crisis of pestilence that contributes to death of thousands.

The last days records that PESTILENCE will be ONE OF THE FOUR HORSE MEN OF THE APOCALYPE. The last book of the Bible. Pestilence is more than just sickness in people. Pestilence can cover animals and crops, plant life.

PESTILENCE WILL HAVE SYMTOMS, CAUSES AND THE HOPE OF A CURE. Pestilence means contagious, infectious, devastating,

The Bible also says: NOISOME PESTILENCE… Noisome means to be annoyed, annoyance,

PLAGUE: a stroke of affliction or disease, sent as Divine Chastisement, painful afflictions and disease, severe calamity, judgement of God,

GOD USES PLAGUES AS TOOLS … 10 plagues on Egypt: 1. Nile to blood, 2. the frogs, 3. lice, 4.flies, murrain--- epidemic pestilence, 5. boils, The first 5 were copied by magicians.

7. hail, 8. Locust, 9. Darkness, 10. The death of the first born…

THE HEBREWS WERE EXEPMT AS THE LORD MADE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HEBREWS AND EGYPTIANS.

Revelation 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

Revelation 21:9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

2 Chronicles 20:9 (KJV)

9 If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.

CONCLUSION: ONE OF GOD’S TOOLS WILL BE USED IN THE LAST DAYS. IT SEEMS PEOPLE WILL REFUSE TO ACKNOWEDGE AND REPENT.

Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

BEWARE OF PESTILENCE, PANDEMICS, AND PLAGUES AND MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY FOR THE SOON RETURN OF JESUS.

His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com

Series on the Second Coming.