There are a few scriptures that indicate about what percentage of mankind will perish in the last days. I also believe this is before Jesus comes back with His armies and puts many more to the sword that have chosen to take up arms against Him.
Revelation 6:7-8 – 7 When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” 8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
I just put down verses seven and eight, but the previous two horses before the fourth one are a part of the equation that kill by sword and famine. This one is plague and I’ve heard a theory that the wild beasts could mean actual beasts that lose their fear of men, or the pestilences in the form of viruses etc, which kind of goes along with plague. Never-the-less the first horse is supposedly the antichrist riding in on a horse with a bow and no arrows, signifying peace and shortly right after the other three horses of death and destruction follow.
I believe the church is gone before all of this as I am a pre-tribulation guy. If you want to know why I am a pre-tribulation guy I have many posts in the rapture category explaining why. So 25 percent or so will be killed in Revelation 6.
Revelation 9:13-19- 13 The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. 14 It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.
17 The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. 18 A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. 19 The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.
Sounds like missiles or warheads to me. Just think this is John almost two thousand years ago trying to explain what he was seeing in his vision.
So where is our math equation right now? Let’s start with a 100% and take off 25% for the fourth of mankind killed in Revelation 6. Now we have 75% left and a third of mankind is killed in Revelation 9. One third of 75% is 25%. So just from those two things spoken in Revelation we have half of mankind being killed from just these things alone.
Now there is one more interesting thing that Jesus says in Matthew 24.
Matthew 24:38-41 – 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
Notice in verse 39 the ones being taken away are the ones that perish. Then Jesus continues on the next verse and says that is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field and One taken. That’s how much? That’s fifty percent. Two women and one will be taken the other left. Once again fifty percent.
Over half of those on earth will die during the tribulation at least, probably more. It truly will be hell on earth. Even when this all is happening though, many still will not repent.
Revelation 9:20-21 – 20 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk. 21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
I see the hardness in many today.
Open your hearts to the Lord and may your spirit grow in God’s love.