“If that’s not devilish, I don’t know what is.”
Claims of the apocalypse were also analysed by Elisha Jones, a youth director at a church in Southeast Texas.
He said Jesus predicted pestilence and calamities in the end days, and the Earth is witnessing the “birthing pains before Jesus’ second coming”.
He said: “I absolutely think it could be a direct sign of something God said would happen or even a precursor for things to come.”
Conspiracy theorists online have also linked the coronavirus to the Book of Revelation, which contains the last chapters of the Bible.
