I didn’t think I was trying to be a “19.98” expert. I’ve cited no scripture. I did see specials and study stories about the black plague. There are some parallels. The plague was brought into various parts by lively ship borne trade. Many societies of the time were rather loose in their morals and there were many oppurtunities for body to body contact where infected fleas would be spread from person to person. The black plague took out 50-60 percent of the various regional populations over a period of 30 to 50 years and entire regions were devastated. Yet the antichrist didn’t appear and Revelation did not come to pass. It was a judgment just the same and it caused changes in how the body politic would eventually come to know the Renaissance and Birth of the age of reason. Survivors of plague became more individualistic and had to become resourceful. Relationships, as a whole, with the Established church at the time were also changed.
Of course in our day and age, Israel is now a nation so we know that a whole series of prophetic “dominos” are set to come crashing down. “Pestilences in diverse places” was one of the signs Jesus told us to expect as his coming was drawing near. Ebola may be a “horse” death comes riding in on!
No reference to you or your posts/positions at all. (Sorry if it looked like that.) Merely a general observation that when SHTF, the meanings might just be plain as day, and it's all the "experts" who might need to run for the hills. :)
Obama himself has got to count as one of those "“Pestilences in diverse places”. Instead of being a "Patient Zero" who knocks down the first domino, he's more like a "Pestilence Zero", the pox that once elected, sets the destruction in motion that takes down the entire system.