
A deadly Ebola outbreak of a rare, vaccine-free variant has killed over 116 people across the DRC, Uganda, and potentially South Sudan, as the dismantling of USAID and mass CDC layoffs leave the world's most vulnerable populations without critical support. Jesus warned that pestilences would mark the final generation before His return, and the deliberate withdrawal of global health infrastructure — leaving outbreaks to spread unchecked across borders — fits the pattern of cascading crises Scripture describes as birth pangs of the end times. Luke 21:11 specifically warns of 'great pestilences in various places,' and the convergence of institutional collapse, border-crossing disease, and geopolitical indifference echoes the conditions Christ said would precede His coming.