The whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast. They worshiped the dragon, that is they worshiped Satan, because he gave his authority to the beast, to the antichrist. Saying, who is like the beast and who is able to wage war with him? There was given to him a mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies and authority to act for 42 months was given to him. That is 1260 days.

That's the last three and a half years of the great tribulation. See, everything has been appointed. Everyone has an appointed time to live and to die. You have an appointed way in which you're going to die. People that have died from this coronavirus, that is how they were appointed to die.

I don't know if you've considered that thought, but how we die is how it has been ordained before the foundation of the world we would die. I may die of another heart attack or I may not. I may die by getting run over by a car. I may die some other way. The point is that we all have an appointed time.

We have a number of days on this earth. Our life, as James calls it, like a vapor, like a mist. You see that little pot on the stove and it's pushing up steam from it and you see it one second, next minute that you don't? James uses that illustration to describe the brevity of life. It's here one minute, the next minute is gone.