The coronavirus disease (COVD-19) has infected more than 86,000 people globally, triggering fears of the Christian Apocalypse. Since the virus first emerged in China’s Wuhan City last December, nearly 3,000 people have died.

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Conspiracy theorists and hardline Christian evangelists have now alleged links between the coronavirus and prophecies in the Bible’s Book of Revelation.

The Book of Revelation by the Apostle John outlines the end of the world and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

In the final chapters of the Bible, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will arrive to destroy vast swathes of the planet.

According to Jeremiah Jaques from the Philadelphia Church of God website, the Book of Revelation is about “things which shall be hereafter”.

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