Annihilation of Mankind in 3 Stages




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)