The Prelude of the Start of the End of the World
But, through WWII, the Cold War, and the War on Terror, this scale of pandemics never occurred until 2020.
From this point of view, the 1918 Spanish Flu was a bad omen for WWII (and subsequent incidents) where grave atrocities such as the massacre of Jewish people, the use of atomic bombs, the Japanese kamikaze suicide attacks, etc. were implemented by the mankind. And, as aftermaths of WWII, a despotic communist government was established and consolidated in China following Russia.
In this context, everything that has happened between 1918 and 2020 can be regarded as having been warned of by the 1918 Spanish Flu where more than 500 million people were infected and 40 million people were killed by viruses according to WHO's estimation.
So then, what is being warned of by the 2020 corona-pandemic that is going on with the current number of global deaths of yet less than a million? At least, we had better think that the era based on the warning by the 1918 Spanish Flu has been over and another era has begun.
Immediately before the 2020 pandemic, the American society was being split due to biased political behaviors of President Trump; China was increasing its egocentric influence on the world with its economic power under President Xi; Russia was strengthening its militarism under leadership President Putin; and the EU was losing its ideal with the UK exiting based on selfish interest while facing the rise of Islamic terrorism and increased refugees.
Indeed, the era has really changed. And the possibility of WWIII might be increasing. Although only few people predict WWIII will occur between the US with its allies and China or Russia, there is no denying such a possibility, since the US cannot abandon its destiny of propagating freedom, liberty, and democracy (if not the American-version of Christianity) to the world while the regimes in China and Russia never give up their obsessiveness of ruling their people and expanding their power as much as or as far as possible.
Anyway, the American ideal and the Chinese/Russian ruling style cannot stand in a row. In this century, predominance of either side over the other will be made clear. And it might be settled through WWIII in the worst case with hundreds of millions of global victims. From this point of view, this corona-pandemic must be viewed. It might be graver than common observation, feeling, and judgment of people in the world.
So, as I claimed before, as Isaac Newton predicted that the end of the world will start around 2060, the prelude of the start of the end of the world must be starting with this 2020 corona-virus. It means that we should not be simply waiting for 2021 when vaccines will be widely available in the world, but we should be more serious in observing, feeling, and judging this era.
Indeed, Christ Jesus said to see through the era as you try to predict the weather of the next day. Therefore, we have to see the true course of events in this era through the corona-pandemic.
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Matthew 8 King James Version
28 And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
30 And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.
31 So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
32 And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.