How much of the world's population will die within months according to this prophecy?
According to the prophecy, within a matter of months the human race will lose one-third of the world's population. This staggering loss follows earlier judgments, including the seal judgments where one-fourth of the population perishes over two or three years.
Les explains that the current population is between five and five and a half billion. He compares the coming death toll to World War II, where fifty million people lost their lives, calling that a drop in the bucket. In the seal judgments, one-fourth of the population—over a billion people—will be gone in two or three years. Then, within a matter of months, the human race will lose one-third of the world's population. Les describes this as mind-boggling, noting that the way these people are put to death is shown in verse 16 with an army of 200 million horsemen.