Mankind will
be almost totally wiped out at the time of the end, according to veiled
prophecies in both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible
Mankind represented by the prophet’s hair.
In the book
of Ezekiel, the LORD told the prophet to shave his head and beard. “And
thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's rasor, and cause it to pass upon thine head
and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weight, and divide the
hair” (Ezekiel 5:1).
Ezekiel was
instructed to divide the hair into three parts, with each part representing a
third of mankind, and illustrate what will happen to each group. “Thou shalt
burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the
days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part,
and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter
in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them” (Ezekiel 5:2).
Let us now endeavor to analyze the meanings of the three parts of the
prophecy, step by step. These are repeated in somewhat more direct and simpler
terms a few verses later.
First 33% will die of pestilence and famine.
“Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in
the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled…”
(Ezekiel 5:2a).
“A third
part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine
shall they be consumed in the midst of thee” (Ezekiel 5:12a)
This seems
to be linked to the appearance of the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse, who
will usher in a world war (“siege”) and
the much-dreaded Great Tribulation that the apostle John wrote about in the last
book of the Bible:
“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 6:8).
They will hold sway over a quarter of the world. And, as the names of the horseman
(Death) and his retinue (“hell” – Hades,
region of the dead) denote, they will bring about widespread death through war
(“sword”), famine (“hunger”), pandemics (“death”), and hunger-maddened animals (“beasts of the earth”).
The “pale
horse” in the original Greek text is hippos
chloros (“green horse”). As green is the traditional color of the Arabs and
Islam, “green horse” probably refers to Islamic jihadists. Moreover, Muslims
now make up about one-fourth of the world population.
Second 33% will perish on the day of the LORD.
“…and thou
shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife…” (Ezekiel 5:2b).
“…and a third
part shall fall by the sword round about thee…” (Ezekiel 5:12b).
An army of destroying angels will arrive on the day of the LORD to kill
wicked people. “I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also
called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a
tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of
hosts mustereth the host of the battle. They come from a far country, from
the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to
destroy the whole land. Howl ye; for the
day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the
Almighty” (Isaiah
13:3-6).
”A fire
devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the
garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and
nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance
of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. Like the noise of
chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of
fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. Before
their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness” (Joel
2:3-6).
“And the
number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. And
thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having
breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the
horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and
smoke and brimstone. By these three was the third part of men killed, by
the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their
mouths” (Revelation
9:16-18).
Last 33% will remain.
The prophet Zechariah made a running tally of the casualties. “And it shall come to pass, that
in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off
and die; but the third shall be left therein” (Zechariah 13:8).
Last 33% will be scattered in the air.
“…and a third
part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword
after them” (Ezekiel 5:2c).
“…and I will
scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw
out a sword after them” (Ezekiel
5:12c).
How will the
remaining people be scattered in the air? Planet Earth will overturn! “Behold, the LORD maketh the earth
empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth
abroad the inhabitants thereof” (Isaiah 24:1).
Last 33% will go through fire.
The worst, however, is yet to come. “And I will bring the third part through
the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as
gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them:
I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God” (Zechariah 13:9).
Those who will
call on the true name of the LORD will be physically delivered.
A few will be divinely protected.
“But take
a few strands of hair and tuck them away in the folds of your garment”
(Ezekiel 5:3).
Mercifully, a blessed few will survive through the ordeals. “For in the time of trouble he
shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall
he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock” (Psalm 27:5).
“Seek ye the
LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek
righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the
LORD's anger” (Zephaniah
2:3).
“Come, my
people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide
thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be
overpast. For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her
blood, and shall no more cover her slain” (Isaiah 26:20-21).
The rest will go through fire.
“Then take
of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in
the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of
Israel” (Ezekiel
5:4).
The elect will be taken before fire engulfs the earth.
“Likewise also
as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they
sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of
Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them
all” (Luke
17:28-29).
Lot personifies
the “elect”. They will be taken up in the first resurrection of the dead and
“rapture” of the living elect saints before the fire from heaven burns up the
earth.
Earth will burst into flames.
“And the angel
took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and
cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and
lightnings, and an earthquake” (Revelation 8:5).
“But the
day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens
shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with
fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be
burned up” (2 Peter
3:10) .
Hardly any survivors.
“Therefore
hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate:
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left”
(Isaiah
24:6).
“I will make
a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir”
(Isaiah
13:12).
After the
earth shall have been burned, it will be easier to find gold than a living man.
Amen.
(Excerpted from, END TIME Decoded,
by M.M. Tauson, Amazon.com)
