The Abomination of Desolation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church

SIGNS OF HIS COMING 17
Many of the bacteria that cause diseases are becoming antibioticresistant.
Sleeping sickness is rampant in Somalia and Lyme disease is
making a come back in the USA.
The incidence of skin cancer has doubled in Caucasian females.
Malaria, a disease that was supposed to have been eradicated, is
becoming endemic in the tropics, with new drug-resistant strains
appearing. Prophylactic drugs given to travellers going to these areas
are becoming useless. Recently, Canadians coming from these areas
are increasingly being diagnosed with a malignant strain of Malaria that
attacks the brain, and several fatalities have occurred.
In a recent article in Time Magazine (September 8, 1997) titled
“Mosquitoes get deadly,” we are told that, “The virus causing the
deadly brain disease [Encephalitis] is at large and that nature’s most
loathed insect was carrying it.” Outbreaks were reported in Florida,
New York’s Long Island, Massachusetts, North Dakota and Georgia.
West Nile Virus, another deadly virus carried by mosquitoes is now
commonly found in both the USA and Canada.
THE FIFTH SEAL:
The fifth seal depicts the persecution of the faithful, again
predicted by the Lord in the next verse, “Then shall they deliver you up
to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for
my name's sake.” (Matt 24:9)
When the sixth seal is opened, the scene is that of the end of the
world:
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was
a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair,
and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto
the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is
shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when
it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out
of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and
the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every
bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the
rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall
on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne,
and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is
come; and who shall be able to stand? (Rev 6:12-17)