What happens to the world's population during the seal judgments?
During the seal judgments, pestilence and disease will wipe out one-fourth of the world's population. That means over a billion people will die in a matter of two or three years. This staggering depopulation is beyond human comprehension, yet it is only the beginning of the tribulation's death toll.
Les explains that as the tribulation opens, the seal judgments bring pestilence and disease that will kill one-fourth of the world's population—over a billion people in just two or three years. He notes that while World War II cost fifty million lives, that is just a drop in the bucket compared to what is coming. Later, within a matter of months, the human race will lose one-third of its population, and the number of the army of horsemen is 200 million.
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.