Ebola and Its Possible Link to Bible Prophecy
by Mark Ellis Senior Correspondent,
ASSIST News Service
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (ANS) - On October 1st, 34 NGOs warned the London Ebola Conference that the Ebola virus is spreading exponentially and that nations have only one month left to contain the outbreak. On October 13th, the World Health Organization revised its statistics, bumping up the death rate in West Africa from 50% to 70%.
Is there a biblical prophetic element to the worst Ebola epidemic in history?
“I was shocked Ebola was in West Africa at all,” says Sharon Gilbert, author of “Ebola and the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse” (Defender Publishing). Gilbert is a trained biologist who has also studied Bible prophecy for 50 years. “Ebola has usually broken out in the eastern African nations.”
She notes the genome of the eastern African version of the virus is 20% different from the present version causing a worldwide health alert, so its ability to mutate into something even more dangerous or transmissible is a distinct possibility.
Gilbert points to Revelation 6:8 to underscore her concerns about what may be coming: “So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.”
The word for “beasts” in this passage comes from the Greek word therion, which, according to Gilbert, literally means “tiny beasts.”
“I really believe these are microbes or pathogens of some kind,” she asserts. The person riding the pale horse is given the power to kill a fourth of humanity, and there are very few pathogens capable of that.
Mark Ellis is a senior correspondent for ASSIST News Service and the founder of GodReports.com. He is available to speak to groups about the plight of the church in restricted countries, to share stories and testimonies from the mission field, and to preach the gospel. He can be reached by email at: Mark@GodReports.com
ASSIST News Service
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (ANS) - On October 1st, 34 NGOs warned the London Ebola Conference that the Ebola virus is spreading exponentially and that nations have only one month left to contain the outbreak. On October 13th, the World Health Organization revised its statistics, bumping up the death rate in West Africa from 50% to 70%.
Is there a biblical prophetic element to the worst Ebola epidemic in history?
“I was shocked Ebola was in West Africa at all,” says Sharon Gilbert, author of “Ebola and the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse” (Defender Publishing). Gilbert is a trained biologist who has also studied Bible prophecy for 50 years. “Ebola has usually broken out in the eastern African nations.”
She notes the genome of the eastern African version of the virus is 20% different from the present version causing a worldwide health alert, so its ability to mutate into something even more dangerous or transmissible is a distinct possibility.
Gilbert points to Revelation 6:8 to underscore her concerns about what may be coming: “So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.”
The word for “beasts” in this passage comes from the Greek word therion, which, according to Gilbert, literally means “tiny beasts.”
“I really believe these are microbes or pathogens of some kind,” she asserts. The person riding the pale horse is given the power to kill a fourth of humanity, and there are very few pathogens capable of that.
Mark Ellis is a senior correspondent for ASSIST News Service and the founder of GodReports.com. He is available to speak to groups about the plight of the church in restricted countries, to share stories and testimonies from the mission field, and to preach the gospel. He can be reached by email at: Mark@GodReports.com