SWINE FLU: PROPHECY = ‘PLAGUES’ OF END TIMES

J. Grant Swank, Jr.


NOTE: Pastor Swank authored MOMENTS TO GO, A STUDY OF THE SECOND COMING, Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1974, the book now out of print. However, a few copies are available via such venues as Amazon books.


Matthew 24:7: Jesus speaks:


World English Bible
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.


Young's Literal Translation
'For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.


Webster's Bible Translation
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there will be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places.


Darby Bible Translation
For nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places.


Douay-Rheims Bible
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be pestilences, and famines, and earthquakes in places


King James Bible
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.


American King James Version
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.


Thanks for above to Biblos.com at http://bible.cc/matthew/24-7.htm


Jesus’ literal End Times prophetic statements are found most clearly in the Gospels: Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21.


Jesus’ symbolic End Times prophetic statements are found particularly in the Book of Revelation, the latter as a vision circa AD 95 given by Jesus to John the Apostle on the Isle of Patmos off of Greece.


Plagues / pestilences are to be a part of the End Times signals prior to the Second Coming / Rapture.


We are experiencing such plagues now as I type. Note DrudgeReport’s headlines at the latter part of April 2009. Click onto http://www.drudgereport.com/


DrudgeReport:


CALDERON TELLS MEXICANS TO STAY CALM, COOPERATE WITH AUTHORITIES...
CDC RECOMMENDS PLANNING FOR SCHOOL CLOSURES...
Positive: NYC students...
WHO: Swine flu could mutate to 'more dangerous' strain...
Flu fears prompt quarantine plans...
Mexico City residents staying at home...
CLOSE TO 1,400 SUSPECTED CASES...
Russia Suspends Imports of Meat From Mexico, Some U.S. States...
New swine flu likely widespread...
Asia on alert...
10 New Zealand students in scare...
Mideast First: Israeli man hospitalized on suspicions...
6 CASES CONFIRMED IN CANADA...
Spain announces 3 suspected cases.


Yet there are those who say that we have always had plagues. True.


However, put that plagues prediction alongside the other Gospel accounts’ predications. Then add to that data Ezekiel 36-39 regarding Israel becoming a Jewish nation.


You have the generic signs in the Gospels with the particularization sign of Israel as a nation on May 14, 1948. That combination is lethal when deciphering biblical Second Coming / Rapture predictions related to present-tense newsfeeds.


The generic signs have always occurred. However, the Ezekiel sign is only graphed as of 1948 and following. Generic signs plus Ezekiel sign conclude we are living in the End Times.


Now, today take note especially of the plagues/pestilences prophecy Jesus gave to His disciples on the Mount of Olives. (It will be to that Mount that Jesus’ two feet will touch down, causing the Mount to split in half from east to west, signifying His divine power to rule the planet.)


Read “Whose Turf Is The Earth?” at http://www.postchronicle.com/religion/article_212215035.shtml