Apocalypse (Almost) Now

Thinking about Rev 6.8 this morning: "I looked up and saw a horse whose color was pale green. Its rider was named Death and his companion was the Grave. These two were given authority over one-fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword and famine and disease and wild animals" (NLT). This is an astonishing number—roughly 1.5 billion people today. How it happens and the time frame is not clear, it is after all the book of Revelation. What is clear is that this is a true apocalypse, a shattering of the complacency of the earth and it's silly theories that there is no God, nor any purpose to life, nor any ultimate truth or reality.