#Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

 Anyone who ever read the bible, especially chapter six of the Book of Revelations, which predicts the Apocalypse, knows about the four horsemen:

Pestilence.

War.

Famine.

Death.

When you search the internet, you’ll find many predictions, mainly from fanatical religious preachers, about the  #‘End of Times’. “The End is near.” We’ve heard and read about it for decades.

With all the things going on right now in the world, one begins to wonder. Perhaps the end is finally here.

Take the horseman of ‘War’ for instance. Fighting never seems to stop anymore. There are wars going on everywhere. However, right now the greatest danger we face, is #ISIS (also known as ISIL). Over 30,000 crazy, bloodthirsty psychopaths are on the warpath. They are fighting a jihad, a holy war, bent on killing the infidels, the non-believers, in their quest to bring about an Islamic state in the Middle East. A dictatorial state run by religious fanatics. The most dangerous type of government you can have. Besides, what is holy about any war? The followers of this group are nothing but terrorists. They are using religion only as an excuse to still their hunger for power and their sick desire to kill innocent people.

The #Book of Revelations talks about Satan and his dark forces killing anyone who rejects Satan. Could it be that ISIS is this dark, evil force? It makes sense. Peaceful, good people do not kill others who are of different opinions and faiths. A god that allows his followers to murder others is an evil god. Good will triumph in the end, which is reassuring, but in the meantime millions of humans will have to suffer.

With the threat of the Ebola virus, the aids virus, and other new viruses popping up, one cannot help but think of another horseman: Pestilence.

What about the horseman ‘Famine’? With the weather patterns changing and all the disaster happening all over the globe, we may soon face food shortages. And the way humans are multiplying, especially in the third-world-countries, famine is pretty certain. Wasn’t it last year when so many people died of starvation in Africa?

The last horseman: Death. Self-explanatory. With war, pestilence, and famine comes death.

I am not particular religious. I don’t believe the bible stories about how the world (universe) was created. I don’t believe Earth was created in seven days, or, as some people believe, 6,000 years ago. I believe in the theory of evolution. Of course, I admit, I could be wrong.

As a writer of Fantasy and Science Fiction stories, I keep an open mind to anything. Who really came up with all those ‘revelations’? Perhaps they were travelers from the future who lived through all these terrible happenings and they managed to escape into the past and brought back those predictions. Perhaps everything happens in cycles. It has happened before, many times maybe, and the predictions are just racial memories from people who lived through and survived the last cycle. (Don’t laugh about those kind of speculations. Anything is possible. I knew someone who still believed the Earth was the center of the universe and the sun circled the Earth! And no, I’m not that old ☺)

Interesting theories and something to ponder. For me, anyway. However, it doesn’t matter if these predictions are merely fantasy stories written centuries ago, or by people who foresaw them in their dreams, or if they are ‘memories’, the fact is, humanity is experiencing and facing dire times.

Perhaps there are forces out there who want to make those predictions come true by causing many of these things to happen. Obviously, they can’t control the weather. Or can they? However, we can’t lie back and say, “Well, it has been written and God will come to the rescue. There is nothing to worry about. It will all turn out well in the end.”

That, of course, is like the proverbial ostrich that hides its head in the sand, pretending everything is okay. We need to wake up, take a stand and fight fire with fire. We have to fight this murderous force with everything we have. Not just bombs from the air. It is imperative to have military forces on the ground and fight these maniacs in the streets of the cities they’ve already taken over. They don’t show any mercy to anyone; raping women, murdering even children, cutting off heads and recording it, executing prisoners, threatening the whole world with death, and so forth. We cannot show them mercy, either. They must be eradicated from this Earth for good. By that I don’t mean throwing them in jail.

According to the news we hear and see on TV, there are around 80 young men in Canada right now who have returned from ISIS-training camps. Apparently, our Spy-agencies are tracking them and keeping an eye on them. Pardon me? Why did these traitors not get arrested the moment they stepped out of the airplane that brought them back to Canada?

They should have been taken into custody, their Canadian citizenship revoked, charged with conspiracy to commit a terrorist act and thrown in jail with no lawyer to bail them out. Any lawyer showing up who wants to represent them should also be thrown in jail and charged with ‘association with known terrorists’.

Harsh? Yes, but it will have to be done before they can get organized and bring the war to our doorsteps. Do innocent people have to die before we wake up and take drastic measures?

I’m the last person who wants to live in a police state, but it doesn’t have to come to that. All we need are tailor-made laws to allow such actions and make them legal. We cannot listen and give in to minority groups, especially non-Canadians, who will definitely object to such laws. Innocent Canadians won’t have to worry.