And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever. Revelations.
In the fourteenth century, according to the accounts of local officials of that time, this man appeared suddenly in the village of Wyle near Stonehenge in April of 1362. Using unfamiliar words and speaking in a strange accent, the man made dire prognostications about a pestilence which he said would wipe out humanity in approximately 600 years. Obviously, this plague-doomsday scenario is more compelling… when reality supports it with a virulent disease, whether it’s the bubonic plague, smallpox or AIDS. Now we have technological horrors, such as chemical warfare, which reared its ugly head during the deadly mustard gas attacks of World War I. During such an attack in the French trenches in October of 1917, we have an account of this soldier, who, during an assault, was wounded by shrapnel… and hospitalized, apparently in a state of hysteria. Doctors found that he had lost all comprehension of French, but that he spoke English fluently, albeit in a regional dialect they didn’t recognize. The man, though physically unaffected by the gas, was beside himself. He claimed that he had come from the future.
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