Flu, Plagues and the End Times

   Flu is an every-year occurrence and kills an estimated 23,000 people per year in the U.S., if we go back as far as 1976 in figuring the average.  However, if we go back only 12 years, to 2007, the annual average jumps to 32,000 deaths. The 2003-2004 flu season was even more deadly with a toll of 48,000. That is a lot of death for a single country, and why is death increasing? 

   The death tally usually begins in October, according to an article by Jeffrey Rubin, FOX News, when flu season officially gets rolling across the country. The season runs through May and typically reaches its height in February.

Nationwide, one common flu strain going around is H1N1, a kind  of Influenza A also referred to as Swine Flu. Nationally, H1N1 has dominated among flu cases, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. H1N1 tends to be most dangerous for children and pregnant women. 

   The Bible is full of plague, disease and pestilence used as judgements against mankind.  In Revelation, it comes upon mankind through the fourth horse of the apocalypse and bowl judgments:

   “I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.”  (Revel ...

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