The Size of the New City and the Savings Ratio

Why do you think Mount Olympus is shown here? Largest volcano or mountain in the solar

system: 3 times as tall as Everest and 342 miles wide. Hint: John in Revelation

Since the first Adamic man about 4000 BC there have been according to latest scientific findings about 88 billion souls (May 24, 2006). From Adam to Christ there were 76 generations, 53 years of age per generation presumably because they lived longer in the earliest centuries as the full effect of sin hadn't reached yet.

From Christ to today would be about 80 generations (2000 years/25=80) if a generation is 25 years. Since people live longer during the millennium, let's assume the average generation is 35 years, after all the average generation was over 50 years of age during the OT period. The generation is commensurate in part with average age. In the millennium we count 29 generations (1000 years/35). 5 billion souls seems like a decent population size for earth during the millennium. 5 billion x 29 generations = 145 billion souls born in the millennial kingdom.

The New City (Rev. 21) on the New Earth is about the size of India squared or a little more than half the size of United States, for which any more than 1.2 billion resurrected-saved becomes overcrowded. If we assume the savings ratio can not get worse in the millennium than previous dispensations, then the savings ratio for the 88 billion souls prior to the millennium can not be better than for the 145 billion souls in the millennium. 1.2=A*88 + A*145, where A is the savings ratio. A = 1/194 are saved across the OT period, the church age and millennial kingdom.

What happens when you add 100 years from now to the moment before Christ appears (Zech. 14.4)? There would be about 4 more generations at an average of 9 billion per generation which equals 36 billion souls. During the Great Tribulation, 1/3 of the people of the earth die (Rev. 9.18), so it would seem reasonable that there be at least 7.5 billion before the Great Tribulation starts. As the millennium progresses the population could balance out to average 5 billion. 1.2=B*(88+36) + B*145. B = 1/224 are saved across all dispensations.

If we assume the savings ratio remains fixed at 1/194 for the millennium, what then would be the ratio for previous dispensations in 100 years from now? The formula would be 1.2=C*(88+36) + 145/194. In 100 years from today, C=1/274 are saved from Adam to today.

Consider these observations today (2010) in light of the savings ratio:

1.      Nuclear holocaust on our doorstep (remember Lot's wife turned into salt and Rev. 9.18, one third of the people of earth die in the Great Tribulation);

2.      Hubert's curve peak reached in oil has been reached (half the world’s oil supplies have been used up), 50 years of oil supply left (by 2050) and the coming war over oil;

3.      Satan is Allah, wanting to conquer the world by first creating anarchy, Muslims are insanely jealous of the work ethic of the west the past 200 years (the meaning behind the terrorism), and before the 12th Iman there must be Armageddon;

4.      USA as falling Babylon (debt/equity ratio never seen before over 400% in 2010); derivative and off-balance sheet derivatives in the world estimated, nearing a quadriliion which is unprecedented on a per capita basis;

5.      Biggest stock market bubble in human history (price to earnings ratio of 250 years in the Nasdaq Stock Exchange back in 2000 and 800x in 2009 for the S&P 500);

6.      Workers taking over factories (e.g. Argentina), after politicians and owners of these factories bankrupt the country;

7.      Implanting people with GPS computer chips by companies such as Verichip (or the actual mark of the beast may be a signature in our DNA which is irremovable--that's too far fetched);

8.      We have entered into a major 15 year commodities cycle (margin of error +/- 5 years) that is quite consistent which began around the year 2000 and fueled by over 6 billion souls on the planet;

9.      For the first time in history an army of 200 million machines (including robots) can be amassed in the middle east (Rev. 9.16) to fight over oil;

10.  The computer technology is on the go to create a mind smarter than the smartest man that ever lived, which would be like the talking abomination of desolation erected by the False Prophet in worship of the Antichrist, who died as the forerunner, but miraculously comes back to life;

11.   The corporation, having been a great benefit to society, sadly, is also the true weapon of mass destruction as they lobby and tempt politicians for environmental destruction and further divide between the rich and the poor.

12.    Various strains of viruses seem to be picking up.

* Northern America indicates the northern countries and territories of North America: Canada, the United States, Greenland, Bermuda, and St. Pierre and Miquelon. This should not be confused with the term "North America" which typically includes Mexico. The United Nations data includes Mexico as part of Latin America.

** This figure is disputed.

1. ^ Humans lived in tiny, separate bands for 100,000 years
2. ^ ^{a b c} an average of figures from different sources as listed at the US Census Bureau's Historical Estimates of World Population; see also *Kremer, Michael. 1993. "Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990," The Quarterly Journal of Economics 108(3): 681-716.
3. ^ The range of figures from different sources as listed at the US Census Bureau's Historical Estimates of World Population put the population at 1 AD between 170 million to 400 million.