In August the world was on fire. So far, September looks like it’s going to feature flooding. Below is a fire map of all the fires globally, on one given August day!

Screenshot NASA.gov

Global catastrophic floods this month of September, 2023 thus far and current: Turkey, Portugal, Sri Lanka, Georgia, spain, Taiwan, Bulgaria, Greece, Pakistan,  Bangladesh, Ukraine, Brazil, Algeria, Ecuador, Myanmar, China, N Korea, S. Korea, Norway, Africa, Slovenia, Dominican Republic, India, Russia, Haiti, and ironically God doused the Burning Man festival in Nevada, U.S. with a deluge that has left the pagan worshippers still stranded long after the party ended.

May -July 2023 there were major flood ocurrances in Japan, Guam, Philippines.

Think of the deaths in each fire and flood! Add to that the covid and vax related casualties.  Think of the many more newly homeless and/or also now without a job.

Habitat for Humanity estimates there are 180,000,000 homeless people world-wide.

Add to that, food scarcity:  Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen were already dealing with it. Really about half of the African continent are in famine conditions presently. According to World Food Programme, over 743 Million people face each day not knowing how or if their next meal will come.

Artificially inflated fertilizer prices, soaring fuel prices, droughts and other extreme weather, and many other factors are behind this trend.

Global population was about 7.9 billion (7,922,312,800)  at the end of 2022. Right now, almost a year later, the population is  8.1 billion. The world population growth rate peaked in 1987, and has been decreasing ever since. In 2020 the population growth rate dropped by .3%.

According to Reliefweb.int, In 2022, the Emergency Event Database EM-DAT recorded 387 natural hazards and disasters worldwide, resulting in the loss of 30,704 lives and affecting 185 million individuals.  Other sources put those numbers much higher. That does not account for the man- made disasters such as war, oil spills, nuclear explosions, major chemical spills and exposures.

The Bible warned us of these perilous times in Matthew 24, Luke 21, and II Timothy 3.

We don’t know what percent of the global population will be taken from here when the trumpet blows, but we do know that in Revelation 6:7-8, 25% of the global population will die. Then in Rev. 9: 15-18, 33% of those that remain, will die.

Let’s say a low number like 4% are raptured out of the current population. That’s 7.9 billion minus 4%, which is what, 316M people? That leaves 7.58 Billion left after the rapture.

Pop 7.58 billion minus 25% leaves 5.98 billion.

Pop 5.98 billion minus 33% leaves 3.58 billion by end of the tribulation, not counting any babies born during the 7 years.

The last time the world population was that low was sometime in 1968. I think the first time the UN publicised a world total was 1950, but I’m not positive about that.

Maranatha!