A Warning to Future Tragedies with this Less Harmful Pandemic
An unusually deadly influenza pandemic, called the Spanish flu, set off in 1918, resulting in 500 million infected people and 17 million to 50 million deaths.
It was at the end of WWI. It was before the Great Depression that started in 1929. And it was also before WWII that started in 1939 where 50 million to 80 million people were dead, including civilians and military personnel.
It spread in three waves between 1918 and 1919.
Three pandemic waves: weekly combined influenza and pneumonia mortality, United Kingdom, 1918–1919
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#History
Many faithful people at the time must have wondered why this pandemic was generated around 1918. And, as time went by with the Great Depression and WWII, they might think that the the Spanish flu was an ill omen for the Great Depression and WWII.
Or, the truth might be that the God tried to punish the mankind for their accumulated sins and evil deeds before occurrence of other tragedies by allowing for this pandemic as a warning. But, Satan misguided the mankind to the further tragic events of the Great Depression and WWII.
So, this 2020 corona-virus pandemic may be regraded as another warning by the God. If the mankind as a whole still continue to follow Satan loving money more than words of the God, the decisive tragedy or punishment by the God should come in the near future.
The measure may be global GDP.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-05707-7_4
If this graph shows growth of men's faith in God, the God should have protected the mankind from any tragedies and pandemics. But as this graph shows the trend in global GDP, it mostly means the trend of men's subservience to Satan, since GDP is a measure of material wealth produced and consumed by men following temptation of Satan.
By watching this trend, we should think that it is natural that the God gave the warning with the Spanish flu in the early 20th century. And as the trend has not stopped over the 21st century, it must be also natural that the God gives another warning in the early 21st century. And, this corona-virus pandemic set off.
The solution to prevent this pandemic must be, in this context, to further strengthen our faith in God.
Otherwise, the warning will come true like in the case of the Spanish flu. Maybe another Great Depression and WWIII, involving especially China, must occur in the 21st century. In this case, the total material civilization of the mankind will be threatened. And, there will be nobody who writes a history book of the human beings in the 22nd century, since the civilization should collapse in the 21st century.
It is dangerous for the mankind with insufficient faith in the God and insufficient spiritual capacity to handle this huge GDP that includes great capacity of production of weapons, including nuclear, chemical, and biological ones.
It is natural that the God gives a warning even in the form of this pandemic that gives less harm and damage than anticipated great future tragedies.
(In this context, we had better watch out in 2039 and 2049 like in the case of the Spanish flu.)
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Matthew 4
18 And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
20 And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.
21 And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
22 And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.