Scripture for Today, 3-22-18: Deaths 2.6 Bln?

ONE HUNDRED SIXTEEN MILLION LIVES LOST IN TWENTIETH CENTURY WARS​
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​262 Million Killed by Own Governments
125+ Million Died of Famines & Pestilence

Most murderous force in the 20th century:
​War or Governments?
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​Prophecy fulfilled?
Zechariah 13:8; Revelation 9:17-18
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12-24-17, Professor Walter Williams* --  The 20th century was mankind’s most brutal century; wars took between 71 million to 116 million lives:

• 16 million World War I
• 60 million World War II

The number of war dead pales in comparison with the number of people who lost their lives at the hands of their own governments. The late professor Rudolph J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii documented that the 20th century saw 262+ million people’s lives lost at the hands of their own governments here:

1. Between 1949 to 1987 China's regime took the lives of 70+ million
2. The Soviet Union 60+ million lives lost from 1917 to 1987
3. Hitler’s Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945 killed 20+ million people
4. On April 17, 1975, Pol Pot's four year regime led the Communist forces of the Khmer Rouge into the capital city of Phnom Penh, Cambodia killing one million people or one-seventh of Cambodia’s population according to conservative estimates. Most died from starvation, malnutrition and mistreated or misdiagnosed illness; another 200,000 were executed as enemies of the state. 

The greatest murderers in mankind’s history are the Soviet Union’s Josef Stalin and China’s Mao Zedong; yet some leftists saw these communists as heroes.

• Hitler and fellow fascist Benito Mussolini - in January 1933, George Bernard Shaw described him as “a very remarkable man, a very able man.”
• President Franklin Roosevelt called the fascist Mussolini “admirable,” and he was “deeply impressed by what he (had) accomplished.”
• In 1972, John Kenneth Galbraith visited Communist China and praised Mao and the Chinese economic system. Michel Oksenberg, President Jimmy Carter’s China expert, complained, “America (is) doomed to decay until radical, even revolutionary, change fundamentally alters the institutions and values.” He urged us to “borrow ideas and solutions” from China.
• Harvard University professor John K. Fairbank believed that America could learn much from the Cultural Revolution, saying, “Americans may find in China’s collective life today an ingredient of personal moral concern for one’s neighbor that has a lesson for us all.” An estimated 2 million people died during China’s Cultural Revolution.
• More recent praise for murdering tyrants came from Anita Dunn, in 2012 Obama’s acting communications director in 2009, who said, “Two of my favorite political philosophers (are) Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa.” Recall the campus demonstrations of the 1960s, in which campus radicals, often accompanied by their professors, marched around singing the praises of Mao and waving Mao’s Little Red Book.

That may explain some of the campus mess today.  Some of those campus radicals are now tenured professors and administrators at today’s universities and colleges and K-12 schoolteachers and principals indoctrinating our youth.

Why are leftists soft on communism?  Answer: They sympathize with the chief goal of communism: restricting personal liberty. In the U.S., the call is for government control over US citizens lives is through regulations and taxation. Unfortunately, it matters little whether the Democrats or Republicans have the political power. The march toward greater government control is unabated. It just happens at a quicker pace with Democrats in charge.

* Excerpted and adapted full original report from Walter E. Williams here:

• http://worldtribune.com/life/most-murderous-force-in-the-20th-century-war-or-governments/
• Walter Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University, Virginia USA

 

Bible says 2/3 of World's Mankind will Die:

"And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein."
​Zechariah 13:8

 "I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. By these three was the third part of men killed," Revelation 9:17-18

3-22-18, As of Dec 2017, the earth population is estimated to have reached 7.6 billion.[1] World population has experienced continuous growth since the end of the Great Famine of 1315–17 and the Black Death in 1350:

When the world population was estimated appx 350 million The Great Famine of 1315–17 and especially the Black Death of 1348, reduced the population perhaps by half or more. It is estimated that the world population reached one billion for the first time in 1804. So IF 125 million died in these plagues .. added to the millions that died in wars and holocausts ... Wiki

The traditional eschatological teaching is that the two thirds will die in one monstrous event ... I wonder if it isn't cumulative and not one event??

If - in history - the millions that died in wars, killed by own governments, unnatural famines, pestilences etc tally 2/3 of the current appx 8 billion people ... it's 2.66 billion ... have that many people already died fitting the Bible narrative?
Just thinkin ... many people are speculating a nuclear war will happen, but the world has appx 8 billion people ... so killing 2.6 billion in one war? ... the USA has appx 300 million; No Korea appx 24 million; Russia 146 million ... difficult to get to the number. How would that work? [One billion is a thousand million.]