The Deadly Pestilence Loimos Continues to Fulfill Prophecy!
June 1, 2006
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Beginning in 1982, I included in all my lectures the statement that I was certain HIV was the major pestilence referred to in Luke 21:10, and that I did not believe they would ever find a vaccination or cure for it and, if I happened to be incorrect about them never finding a cure or vaccination for it, when they finally did, it would be too late. Twenty five years have passed, and the best they have been able to do is slow down its effects, and give the ones infected longer to live before it finally took
its toll. The word translated as “pestilences” in Matthew 24:7,8 is “loimos.” According to Bullinger’s critical lexicon it means “any deadly infectious disorder,” which certainly describes HIV and its deadly bloom AIDS. I do not deny there are other types of “loimos” that may fit the criteria to satisfy its meaning, but none as well as HIV/AIDS.
Matthew 24:7,8 – For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. [8] All these are the beginning of sorrows.
According to the 10th Annual UNAIDS Progress Report “the virus has spread to virtually every country in the world, infecting 65 million and killing 25 million.”
Please read the article which follows, then read Prophecy Update 19 from our Archives we issued five years ago, which follows the Excerpt from the New York Times by Reuters.
Begin Excerpt from the New York Times by Reuters News Service
25 Years On, Anti-AIDS Drive Still Falling Short
By REUTERS
May 30, 2006
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Twenty-five years after AIDS was first recognized, the world is in better shape than ever to put an end to the disease but is falling short on many fronts, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
“Despite some notable achievements, the response to the AIDS epidemic to date has been nowhere near adequate,” reported UNAIDS, the U.N. agency that coordinates the global campaign against the devastating disease.
In the years since U.S. doctors first described it in June 1981, AIDS and the HIV virus that causes it have “spread relentlessly from a few widely scattered hot spots to virtually every country in the world, infecting 65 million people and killing 25 million,” UNAIDS said in its 10th annual progress report.
Researchers have produced “mountains of evidence about how to prevent and treat this disease,” said the report, based on data gathered by the U.N. system from 126 countries since December 2005.
But anti-AIDS initiatives and their results vary widely from country to country, and many are falling short of the benchmarks they set for themselves in a landmark special session of the U.N. General Assembly in 2001, UNAIDS said.
“Because this pandemic and its toll cannot be reversed in the short term, we need to sustain a full-scale response for the next decades,” it said on the eve of a follow-up session opening on Wednesday in New York.
End Excerpt from New York Time by Reuters News Service
Archive Prophecy Update Number 19
February, 2001
Matthew 24:7,8 – For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. [8] All these are the beginning of sorrows.
In Prophecy Update Number 18 we conducted a lengthy discussion of why earthquakes, famine, and pestilence were, just before Jesus returns, according to the word “odin,” supposed to follow the pattern of birth pangs a woman suffers in child bearing. We demonstrated that, for the first time in history, when Israel became a nation, worldwide earthquakes were following such a pattern. But what about Matthew’s “pestilence,” is it following the pattern of a woman’s birth travail for the first time since Jesus prophesied it would
? Absolutely! The basic root meaning of the word “loimos,” translated “pestilences,” is simply “any deadly infectious disorder.” Many plagues have passed through mankind since the fall, but none have generated a massive pandemic that continuously accelerated over a long period of time. These “loimos” have never been able to follow the pattern of a woman’ s birth pain
s for very long on a worldwide basis. Cholera, small pox, typhoid, bubonic plague, and so on, have appeared in short spurts like false labor, but none has ever maintained a persistent, ever increasing, epidemic characteristic with seemingly no end. But now, for the first time, we have a “loimos,” a deadly infectious disorder, that has portrayed these characteristics from its inception.
The HIV virus is the first to perfectly match the pattern of a woman’s birth pangs, and it will continue to do so until the travail of the woman Israel ends, and the Son she rejected arrives. HIV is a virus that has swept across the globe like wildfire. HIV cases worldwide increased from a trace in 1980 to more than 5 million in 1985, to more than 10 million in 1990, to more than 20 million in 1995, and to a whopping 35 million in 2000. AIDS, the dreadful blossom of HIV, was first reported in a British sailor, who died in England in 1959.
HIV has hardest hit Africa up to this point, but it is poised to spread into Asia and the former Soviet Union as an ever-increasing storm. And, in truth, medical researchers seem no closer to fining a cure than they were twenty years ago.
Are there other “loimos” infections that have also started to demonstrate the patterns of a woman’s birth pangs? Yes! The World Health Organization (WHO) fears that tuberculosis may kill 30 million worldwide during the next decade.
The emergence of drug-resistant strains, and the spread of HIV have both hampered efforts by health agencies to slow the renewed spread of the consumptive illness. Another sort of “loimos” is malaria, which is on the rise around
the world, and once curative treatments are losing their effect.
It is a pestilence of global dimensions, and new strains are evolving that scientists fear will be untreatable.
But what about all the microbes generating all this pestilence, this “loimos,” these deadly infectious disorders, what are they doing, how are they behaving? Are they doing something that will make the pestilences continue to act like a woman’s birth pangs through the tribulation period? Yes! A leading national magazine cover, back in the last century, carried the bold print title: “REVENGE OF THE KILLER MICROBES – ARE WE LOSING THE WAR AGAINST INFECTIOUS DISEASES?” Tuft’s Levy answered the question in Newsweek Magazine by stating: “The rise of drug-resistant germs is unparalleled in recorded biologic history.” Because of this contributing factor, pestilence will become more and more widespread in its acceleration until the second advent of Christ.
End Archive Prophecy Update 19
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