The Many Ways Mankind Can Be Destroyed

Mathew 24:21-22 gives a startling prophecy about the potential annihilation of humanity from the face of the earth. The prophecy is as follows.

“Then there shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world [kosmos, “the earth and its system”] to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days shall be shortened there shall no flesh be saved, but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.”

Before we get into the means by which all flesh could be killed on earth, let me first comment on the word elect in verse 22. The word is the Greek eklektos, meaning “chosen out, selected, chosen as a recipient of special privilege.” While the word elect is used to describe the saints in verses 24 and 31 of Matthew 24, use of the word in verse 22 is possibly different because, even if the saints were to die along with the rest of humanity that would be no great tragedy, for they will be raised along with the rest of the saints at the resurrection. Their calling and election is predicted.

Can these elect be those whom God will preserve through the Tribulation from the seventy nations that populate the earth (Genesis 10)? Most people on earth will die during the end-time Tribulation — “Therefore the curse has devoured the earth … and few men are left” (Isaiah 24:6) — but in order to preserve descendants from all gentile nations He will cut short the time to preserve these selected gentile people … and then only those who will truly listen to the voice of Jesus and obey (Acts 3:23).

How Man Can Destroy Himself

As a former Army soldier during the Viet Nam War, I was taught in Basic Training the means to kill other people. They were (are) brutal and uncompromising, and involving an array of methods that a foot soldier is taught. The military on a macro scale, however, uses more efficient and devastating methods, beyond those that the foot soldier employs — shooting, stabbing, or bludgeoning the “enemy.”

Here are some methods that both mankind and God Himself can use to destroy all flesh from off the face of the earth.

Methods of Man

1. Radiological

• Nuclear bombs
• Nanotechnology
• Electomagnetic Pulse(EMP) weapons
• Cell phone radiation

2. Chemical

• Military distribution of toxic chemical agents
• Chlorine and fluoride in water supplies.
• Poisoning of the food supply.
• Drug usage.

3. Biological.

4. Food supplies.

5. Vaccines. 

6. Reduction in population growth.

7. Terrorist attacks on power grids. 

8. Takeover of society by robots (Robopocalpse). 

9. A scientific accident.

10. Nanotechnology. 

11. CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats).

Methods of God

1. Solar storm.

2. Asteroid or comet collision. 

3. Weather upsets. 

4. Disease epidemics.

5. Incitement of war. 

6. Supervolcanoes. 

For a detailed discussion on all of these methods of destruction of mankind please go to the library of articles, and search for the title “Ways to Destroy Mankind.” You will not be disappointed to learn of these horrible circumstances that can remove humankind from the planet, an eventuality the Satan desires to try and prevent God’s prophesied plans from being carried out!