What happened to one-fourth of the population in the seal judgments during the tribulation?
During the seal judgments that open the tribulation, pestilence and disease will cause one-fourth of the world's population to be gone. With population between five and five and a half billion, that means over a billion people will die in only two or three years.
Les explains that back in the seal judgments, when the tribulation first opened, by the end of the pestilence and disease, one-fourth of the population will be gone. He notes that today's population is running between five and five and a half billion, so that is over a billion people in a matter of two or three years. He compares it to World War II, where fifty million lost their lives, calling that just a drop in the bucket compared to what is coming. Later, within months, the human race will lose one-third of the world's population, which he calls mind-boggling.