@Hekuran
and yet the consequences of the tribulation that shall come upon the whole world immediately before the return of Jesus
will most certainly end in depopulation on a grand scale ...
Here is a imaginative description of nuclear missiles, nuclear war and nuclear darkness with the effects of nuclear radiation poisoning ...
Rev 8:7 The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up,
and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
8 The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood.
9 A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
10 The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
11 The name of the star is
Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter.
12 The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light might be darkened,
and a third of the day might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night.
Jesus himself refers to the danger of total human annihilation and of his need to intervene ...
Matthew 24:21 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.
22 And if those days had not been cut short,
no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
(Weymouth) And if those days had not been cut short, no one would escape; but for the sake of God's own People those days will be cut short.
