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In modern times, a major root of the belief that the growth of world population needs to be limited and in fact significantly reduced, is found in the writings of Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834).[1] Malthus was an English economist, cleric and scholar who was influential in the fields of political economy and demography. Although it has been pointed out that his theory has many weaknesses, put simplistically his model can be represented by graphing an ever-increasing world population against the corresponding decline of food and natural resources due to over-consumption by such an increasing population. Human overpopulation can ultimately lead only to misery on the part of many and a struggle to survive collectively. The point where the lines cross on the graph below would represent an ideal maximum level of world population:
The argument of so-called Malthusian
theory is simple, but deceptive and frankly evil: we must limit world
population growth if we are to survive as a species, and furthermore, if we are
to live a happier life with an equitable sharing of the earth’s resources
without exhausting them, then in fact we need to significantly reduce world
population.
Such thinking has become known as the
‘depopulation agenda,’ and it has been taken up by many globalists in recent
times. The development and wide practice
of eugenics theory in Western countries during the late 19th and early 20th
centuries was based in part on this kind of thinking, and it led to the
sterilisation and even the extermination (under the Nazis) of ‘undesirable
groups.’ More recently, leading
globalist figures such as David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger believed that
population control could be fulfilled through different factors such as wars,
famines and their consequent hunger and starvation, periods of significant
economic turbulence, disease and pandemics, birth control, and so on.[2],[3],[4] Such factors do indeed have a limiting effect
on the growth of human population, of course, but globalist thinking moves
beyond this, suggesting the proactive and deliberate use of such factors (and
others) with the ultimate aim of reducing world population.
The “Club of Rome,” a globalist thinktank,
has also come up with similar ideas. It
suggested that after World War 2, humankind needed to recognise a new enemy
against which we need to collectively fight to ensure our own survival, and it
came up with the idea that actually humanity itself is the greatest problem
that we face:
‘The need for enemies seems to be a
common historical factor. Some states
have striven to overcome domestic failure and internal contradictions by
blaming external enemies. The ploy of
finding a scapegoat is as old as mankind itself – when things become too
difficult at home, divert attention to adventure abroad. Bring the divided nation together to face an
outside enemy, either a real one, or else one invented for the purpose. With the disappearance of the traditional
enemy, the temptation is to use religious or ethnic minorities as scapegoats,
especially those whose differences from the majority are disturbing…
Every state has been so used to
classifying its neighbours as friend or foe, that the sudden absence of
traditional adversaries has left governments and public opinion with a great
void to fill. New enemies have to be
identified, new strategies imagined, and new weapons devised…
In searching for a common enemy
against whom we can unite, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat
of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like, would fit the bill. In their totality and their interactions these
phenomena do constitute a common threat which must be confronted by everyone
together. But in designating these
dangers as the enemy, we fall into the trap, which we have already warned
readers about, namely mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human
intervention in natural processes, and it is only through changed attitudes and
behaviour that they can be overcome. The
real enemy then is humanity itself.’[5]
So we ourselves are the real problem, the
enemy that needs to be collectively faced and overcome! Therefore, in order to survive, we need to
limit and preferably reduce our numerical growth.[6] This kind of thinking has recently been
married to climate-change ideology with its net-zero goals in order to further
the globalists’ agenda.
Bill Gates is also on record as aiming for
world population control and reduction, and he sees the increasingly widespread
use of abortion and vaccines (some resulting in sterilisation) as also being
viable methods to hinder the growth of world population.[7] Many observers now believe that mRNA- and
DNA-based injections are bioweapon tools to move this agenda forward, widely
evidenced by the debilitating loss of health and significantly increased levels
of excess deaths worldwide, which came about as a result of their use from 2020
onwards. Similarly, the ever-widening
practice of euthanasia in Western countries is also seen by many as a
depopulation tool, and given its present trajectory it will probably eventually
become a suggested if not expected lifestyle choice.
Others have taken this thinking even
further, suggesting that world population needs to be reduced to a level of
around one billion, or even as low as five hundred million people. This latter figure would represent a
reduction of around 94%! They go as far
as to say that this goal needs to be reached in the near future, with some
suggesting a date around 2025 for this goal to be reached. The figure of five hundred million was
inscribed on the so-called Georgia Guidestones (which were recently demolished
by an unknown source).[8]
Although this date of 2025 is now clearly
unfeasible, yet all these different sources indicate that there is a clear
globalist agenda afoot whose aim is to significantly limit and reduce world
population by any means they see fit to use, and to accomplish this at some
stage in the near future. When
artificial intelligence has increasingly taken over many roles in society, as
is envisaged, and the need to employ humans to do many jobs is no longer
necessary, thus rendering many of us both unemployed and unemployable, a whole
new class of ‘useless eaters’ will emerge, as Yuval Noah Harari puts it.[9] No doubt many will feel that they are then on
the scrap-heap of life, wondering what is to become of them! Or perhaps, as Prince Philip put it, we
should all aim to be reincarnated as a virus after we die, so that we can help
to solve the world’s overpopulation problem?![10]
However, I believe that this present evil
Malthusian desire of globalists to cull off a major portion of humanity and to
significantly reduce world population, so that the remainder can then be ruled
over effectively as slaves by the rich elites who will basically own everything
in their ‘brave new world order,’ will be frustrated in the purposes of God.
In the period of world history before the
Great Tribulation, the maximum fractions used in the word of God relating to
judgements on humanity and its consequent depopulation are the single use of
‘one quarter’ and the repeated ‘one third’ mentioned in the fourth seal and the
first five trumpets respectively (cf. Rev. 6:7-8, 8:7-12, 9:15).
So personally, even if we take seriously
the globalists’ agenda to significantly cull world population in the coming
years by whatever means they may deem to use, yet I do not believe that God in
his mercy and grace will allow their plans to be fully realised. We do not need to live in fear of that
happening. Before the period of the
Great Tribulation, I do not believe that he would allow anything above an
absolute maximum reduction of one-third, if even that.[11]
Notwithstanding this, the word of God does
teach that there is indeed coming a time when the world’s population will be
considerably reduced. This depopulation
will happen during the Great Tribulation.
Although there is a real sense in which sinful and evil human (and
therefore globalist) intentions can be subsumed under the judgements and wrath
of God, yet, according to the word of God, it is not the globalist agenda which
is the primary moving cause of this depopulation, it is God’s end-time
judgements and the pouring out of his wrath because of human sin.
Therefore, during the Great Tribulation,
the world will experience the ongoing implementation of the evil globalist
agenda and its Malthusian effects leading to the depopulation of humanity, but
this will be in the wider context of God’s end-time judgements on human sin.
This depopulation of the world during the
Great Tribulation is clearly described by the prophets Isaiah and
Zephaniah. Neither of them minced their
words when they described God’s end-time judgements on the nations of the
world. They both give us graphic and
vivid descriptions of the worldwide catastrophe which will take place through
these expressions of God’s wrath:
‘See,
the Lord is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its
face and scatter its inhabitants – it will be the same for priest as for
people, for master as for servant, for mistress as for maid, for seller as for
buyer, for borrower as for lender, for debtor as for creditor. The earth will be completely laid waste and
totally plundered. The Lord has spoken
this word.’ (Isa.
24:1-3)
‘“I will
sweep everything from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord. “I will sweep away both men and animals; I
will sweep away the birds of the air and the fish of the sea. The wicked will have only heaps of rubble
when I cut off man from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.’ (Zeph. 1:2-3)
‘The
great day of the Lord is near – near and coming quickly… That day will be a day of wrath, a day of
distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a
day of clouds and blackness… I will
bring distress on the people and they will walk like blind men, because they
have sinned against the Lord. Neither
their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the Lord’s
wrath. In the fire of his jealousy the
whole world will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live in
the earth.’ (Zeph.
1:14-15,17-18)
‘I will
punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins… I will make man scarcer than pure gold, more
rare than the gold of Ophir…’
(Isa. 13:11-12)
Similarly, Jesus used the examples
of the Flood in Noah’s time and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in Lot’s
time as analogies of this end-times worldwide tribulation (Luke 17:26-29). Both of these events resulted in
depopulation, the first almost fully so on a worldwide scale, but the second
only locally.
Using the analogy of birth-pains (i.e.
wars, famines, earthquakes, pestilences, and so on), this will be the time when
the end-times birth pains will be at their most intense: they will be very
frequent, very intense and very painful! (Matt. 24:6-8). It will be so bad that some people will die
from heart failure as they experience deep levels of inward stress and fear
over what is happening in the world:
‘On the
earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of
the sea; men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things
which are coming on the earth…’
(Luke 21:25-26 NIV and AV synthesised)
Very many people will die or be killed
during the Great Tribulation, that’s how bad this time will be![12],[13]
However, as bad as it will be, the Lord will not put an end to humanity even in
this time of his wrath. In his purpose
and his mercy, he has shortened these days, so that, although many people will
indeed die, yet at least some will survive:
‘For
then there will be great distress, unequalled from the beginning of the world
until now – and never to be equalled again.
If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the
sake of the elect those days will be shortened.’ (Matt. 24:21-22)
However, as I said above, the word
of God makes it clear that the moving cause of this end-times depopulation of
human life on earth is the pouring out of God’s end-times wrath in
judgement. Although such things as wars,
pestilences, famines and their consequent hunger and starvation, and so on, are
certainly mentioned in the word of God as being birth-pains of the end-times
(Matt. 24:6-8, Rev. 6:3-8), and these are certainly some of the means of
depopulation spoken of by present-day globalists, yet they are not the primary
moving causes of the end-times worldwide depopulation which the word of God
speaks about.
The judgements described in the seals,
trumpets and bowls in the book of Revelation give us a much broader picture of
the multiple causes which bring about the wide depopulation of the earth. As well as the birth-pains listed in Matthew
24:6-8, we can certainly add in the worldwide persecution and martyrdom of
believers; the falling to earth of a major binary asteroid/meteorite causing
widespread devastation; a major war in the Euphrates region; execution for
refusing to worship the image of the Beast; judgement for taking the mark of
the Beast; Antichrist’s wars; Satan’s final attempted holocaust of Jewish
people; extreme weather and climate-related phenomena, and the very shaking of
the planet itself (cf. Rev. 6:9-11; 8;7-10; 9:13-16; 13:15; 14:9-11; 16:2,8-9;
Dan. 11:44; Zech. 13:8-9; Luke 21:25-26).
This gives us a much fuller picture of the dynamics underlying this
end-times world depopulation.
Happily, however, as the words of Matthew
24:22 (above) and Zechariah 14:16 (below) make clear, there will be a
significant number of people who do survive this period of world depopulation
during the Great Tribulation. The
survivors will live on and will take part in the worship of Yahweh during the
millennial reign of Christ:
‘Then
the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year
after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Feast
of Tabernacles.’
(Zech. 14:16)
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[1] See his An
Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798.
[2] See the
discussion of the 1974 National Security Study
Memorandum or NSSM-200 (also known as The Kissinger Report
at https://www.hli.org/resources/the-kissinger-report-nssm-200/, accessed
09.02.2024.
[3] See articles such
as https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-WHB-1322, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12349764/, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12345113/, each accessed
09.02.2024.
[4] David
Rockefeller’s brother John D. Rockefeller III had a wide and detrimental
influence on medicine in that his financial influence over medical schools in
USA led to the exclusion of teaching subjects such as nutrition and the use of
holistic health practices, in favour of today’s synthetic pharmaceutical
prescription drugs. His financial
investments in pharmaceutical companies then led to massive personal profit,
and since then has led to similar continuing financial greed on the part of
these companies at the expense of people’s health. The Rockefeller bankers have influenced the
pharmaceutical industry and the educational system in order to serve their own
interests, leading to the suppression of holistic health, while the
pharmaceutical industry has influenced the government and education system in
order to control what is taught in schools and to promote their own agenda,
leading to the suppression of holistic health practices. See https://eightify.app/summary/health-and-medicine/big-pharma-s-origins-and-suppression-of-holistic-health-practices, accessed
12.02.2024.
[5] King, A. and
Schneider, B. The First Global Revolution. The Club of Rome, 1993,
pp.70,115.
[6] See The Club of
Rome’s 1972 book Limits to Growth, available as a pdf at https://www.clubofrome.org/publication/the-limits-to-growth/, accessed
09.02.2024.
[7] See the
well-known words attributed to him at https://populationmatters.org/news/2023/01/conspiracy-chaos-coronavirus-bill-gates-the-un-and-population/, accessed
09.02.2024. The WEF’s denial of such a
depopulation agenda, flies in the face of the other sources referenced herein
and many others which are available. It
is clearly what one would expect of a powerful globalist forum which desires to
hide its tracks by dismissing as ‘conspiracy theories’ facts which have been
plainly confirmed by many independent observers through proven evidence.
[8] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones#:~:text=The%20inscription%20read%3A,with%20a%20living%20new%20language, accessed
09.02.2024. The inscriptions were
written in eight different languages, and part of the inscription in English
read: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature –
Guide reproduction wisely (improving fitness and diversity) – Unite humanity
with a living new language.” The
inscriptions dealt with four main themes: governance and the establishment of a
world government, population and reproduction control, the environment and
humankind’s relationship to nature, and spirituality.
[9] See Harari’s book
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, UK: Penguin, 2017.
[10] Prince Philip
made this comment in a 1988 interview that he gave to Deutsche
Press-Agentur. His exact words were: ‘In the event that I am
reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something
to solving overpopulation.’ See https://www.businessinsider.in/entertainment/news/prince-philip-quote-about-reincarnating-as-a-deadly-virus-to-solve-overpopulation-resurfaces/articleshow/81992882.cms, accessed
11.02.2024.
[11] This is based on
the Moderate Futurist interpretation of the book of Revelation which
this book presents, and which sees the seals and first six trumpets as
happening before the 3½-year long Great Tribulation.
[12] Given the present
world population of around 8.1 billion people, even if say 500 million were to
survive, then over a period of 3½ years that would mean an average worldwide
death rate of around six million people every day during the Great Tribulation.
[13] This also, of
course, implies that the rapture cannot happen post-tribulation, as there would
be few if any believers still left alive to be raptured anyway.
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