110    The Bible and the Future of the World 

    The three days of darkness which Moses brought upon the Egyptians was 

preceded by numerous punishments from God, but was followed by only 

one additional punishment, the death of all the first born of Egypt. 

Therefore, the Three Days of Darkness will also occur near the end of a 

series of supernatural punishments from God sent upon the wicked. These 

punishments occur at the very end of the Forty Years. Many evildoers will 

be killed during the Three Days of Darkness. And, just as in the time of 

Moses and the Egyptians, everyone must remain inside during those three 

days (Ex 10:23, 12:22). The wicked and unfaithful will not have light from 

any source during that time, but wherever God's servants dwell there will be 

light, just as there was light where the Israelites dwelt in Egypt (Ex 10:13). 

The First Passover (Ex 11:1 to 12:51) 

     At midnight the L

ORD

 smote all the first born in the land of Egypt, from 

the first born of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the first born of the 

captive who was in the dungeon, and all the first born of the cattle.   

(Ex 12:29). 

    This last of the plagues was the worst, the death of all the first born of 

Egypt. These deaths were not caused by some natural force (such as hail or 

disease), but by a supernatural force from God. 

    This plague foreshadows the time of the punishment of the wicked, when 

God will put great numbers of evildoers to death, during the Three Days of 

Darkness (Rev 9:13 19), and again after the Antichrist's reign (Rev 16:1). In 

other sufferings of those future times, many people will die from various 

afflictions which God sends, such as earthquakes, hail, and a flood. But with 

some of those last punishments, God will kill His enemies more directly, by 

supernatural means, not through acts of nature. 

    At the end of the Forty Years, during the Three Days of Darkness (late 

2039 or early 2040), many of the wicked and unfaithful shall be killed by 

God (Rev 9:13 19). This future plague will be like the last plague on the 

Egyptians, when many of the Egyptians were put to death by supernatural 

means, but the faithful children of God were spared. Again,  after the 

Church's great suffering (in the 25th century  A.D.), during the series of 

punishments of the wicked, the faithful will be spared but the wicked will 

finally be killed by God.  And the rest were slain by the sword of him who 

sits upon the horse, the sword that issues from his mouth; and all the birds 

were gorged with their flesh.  (Rev 19:21).