“And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.” (Revelation 6:5-8)
Based on this data, I would take “the fourth part of the earth” to mean the physical earth, rather than the entire population of people on the earth, currently numbering over 8 billion.
June 2024: This year and last have seen historically high levels of forced displacement worldwide.
People trying to escape conflict who remain in their country contribute to the greatest increase in displacement – 68.3 million people – a nearly 50 per cent increase in five years. Additionally, the number of refugees and those needing international protection increased to 43.4 million.
Under Biden administration programs more than 1 million people fleeing armed conflicts in Afghanistan and Ukraine, or political and economic crises in countries like Haiti and Venezuela. had been allowed to enter the U.S. without the visas that are typically required.
President Trump has reversed these programs and set a goal of removing 1 million people annually, to conduct the largest deportation operation in history.
In addition to using longtime U.S. detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba and the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Trump’s administration has reportedly explored, sought, or struck deals with at least 19 countries to which he is planning a major increase in deportation flights in coming weeks:. Angola, Benin, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Eswatini, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Kosovo, Libya, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Panama, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and South Sudan, the youngest country in the world and one of the poorest, which has experienced repeated bouts of violence since gaining independence from Sudan in 2011. Deportees are not matched by any criteria to these countries where they are sent without any support network whatsoever, including language.
The Gaza Strip became a refuge for Palestinians who fled or were expelled from Israeli-seized territory during the 1948 war, only to be occupied when Israel subsequently captured the Gaza Strip, initiating its decades-long military occupation of the Palestinian territories. Crammed into a territory only 25 miles long and 3.7 to 7.5 miles wide (141 sq mi), Gaza has one of the world’s highest population densities, currently around 2 million Palestinians, half of whom are under the age of 18. The mid-1990s Oslo Accords established limited self-governing authority, with Islamic Hamas taking over the governance of Gaza in 2006 and subsequently warring with Israel.
In October 2023 the Israeli military responded to an attack on southern Israel from Hamas militants with extensive aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip heedless of civilian populations, followed by a large-scale ground invasion as part of the broader Israeli–Palestinian conflict. This is the most significant military escalation in the region since the Yom Kippur War 50 years earlier, with battles also occurring in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and along the Israel–Lebanon border.
July 10, 2025: More than a year and a half of conflict has killed 50,000 civilians within families, ergo mostly women and children, and injured 125,000, and left over two million Palestinians, half of whom are children, without access to sufficient water, food or medical care. A severe humanitarian crisis has taken hold in Gaza.
Kingdom Come 