This Pandemic in the Historic Context
It can be easily estimated that new viruses more harmful or double digit or 100 times more deadly than the current corona-virus would force major cities in the world to be locked out for more than a year, resulting in collapse of global economy and destruction of countries with tens of millions of deaths. This scale of tragedy cannot be handled and solved by any individuals, politicians, or governments.
But, as a member of the mankind, each of us should be allowed to think of meaning of this pandemic in the historic context. What is wrong about our civilization? To see it, we had better focus on a representative index of material civilization: GDP. The material civilization of the mankind has continued to increase even in the 21st century as the following graph of growth of GDP shows.
This graph does not show a trend of strengthen faith but expanded desires of the mankind. To pursue material desires is against the teaching of Christ Jesus and the God. Rather, it shows success of Satan trying to brainwash men so as to make them love money more than the God.
After the start of the Christian history with the First Coming of Christ Jesus, namely A.D. 1, this kind of tragedy has occurred several times. But in each case, people repent somewhat and must have showed enough respect to the God to be exempted from decisive destruction of the society at issue in each case.
The first case must be the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem around A.D. 70 when Jewish people were enjoying great success in survival since Abraham who had come to appear in the history 2,000 years before. Then the second case must be the destruction of the Roman Empire around the 5th century when the Empire was enjoying the hegemony over then-most civilized areas in the world.
After the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, some Jewish people started to follow Christ Jesus, which pleased the God who then allowed Jewish people to survive with Christians. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, Christians in the Empire succeeded in continuing their faith and establishing the Vatican, which satisfied the God who then allowed Europe to be recovered and developed in later centuries.
In the third case, Europeans tried to invade Jerusalem to occupy the holy city by force and violence between the end of the 11th century and the 13th century, which must have made the God angry. Then, in the 14th century, the Black Death took place, killing more than 100 million people or 22 percent of the then global population. Europeans repent, and the Renaissance was started, which must have somewhat pleased the God. Europe was allowed to continue development of its civilization.
In the early 20th century, modernized European countries, Russia, China, and Imperial Japan got into the era of wars and bloody revolutions, which must have alarmed the God. Then, that historical 1918 Spanish Flu occurred, infecting 500 million people and killing tens of millions of people. But the United States started to join the global politics while keeping respect to the God as strong as that of the Vatican. The God must have placed His hope in faith in the U.S. The mankind was allowed to further survive and develop despite the successive Great Depression and WWII.
But the mankind never ceased to pursue material wealth, which can be seen in the figure showing the trend of global GDP. In the early 21st century, namely 2000 years after the First Emergence of Christ Jesus, GDP in the world, further expanded with China's economic rise, has reached the level so high and dangerous even to the earth with so many other species. So, it is no wonder that the God has decided to destroy the material human civilization. However, the benevolent God must have decided to first give a warning to the mankind, which must be this coronavirus pandemic.
Put simply, the God must be waiting for the mankind to reach a decisive level of their material civilization so that there would be no excuse for their blasphemy, since such a high level proves that the mankind has sold their souls to Satan to the unforgivable degree.
In this context, the mankind would have to face repetition of the fall of the Temple in Jerusalem around A.D. 70 and the debacle of the Roman Empire around the 5th century. The end of this material civilization would start around 2070, as predicted by Isaac Newton, and come to a decisive point when the mankind will be exterminated or allowed to survive around 2500.
The future is yet not known. The God might somewhat tolerate general foolish and evil nature of the human civilization due to strength of faith found in some pious people. If the mankind repent enough after receiving warnings prior to 2070 or 2500, they may be allowed to further survive and develop to conquer even the Milky Way Galaxy in the 30th or 40th century.
Anyway, it is strange that people don't feel historic graveness in this corona-pandemic in association with the historical trend of GDP, an index symbolizing the strength of material desires of men and the degree of their inclination to the teaching of Satan.
So, we should think that if all the Jewish people and Judaism had been eradicated around A.D. 70 or the Roman Empire had been completely destroyed and uprooted with emerging Christianity around the 5th century, the human being should not be able to build their civilization as we see and enjoy today. It means that we need more faith than that found in those preceding cases, if we are to survive and develop toward the 30th and 40th century.
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Luk 6:24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
Luk 6:25 Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
Luk 6:26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
Luk 6:27 But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,