'Mankind' in the Bible
‘And it shall be in the last days,’ says God,‘That I will pour out My Spirit upon all mankind;And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,And your young men shall see [divinely prompted] visions,And your old men shall dream [divinely prompted] dreams;
But the Scripture has imprisoned everyone [everything—the entire world] under sin, so that [the inheritance, the blessing of salvation] which was promised through faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe [in Him and acknowledge Him as God’s precious Son].
Among these [unbelievers] we all once lived in the passions of our flesh [our behavior governed by the sinful self], indulging the desires of human nature [without the Holy Spirit] and [the impulses] of the [sinful] mind. We were, by nature, children [under the sentence] of [God’s] wrath, just like the rest [of mankind].
For the [remarkable, undeserved] grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.
For,“All flesh is like grass,And all its glory like the flower of grass.The grass withersAnd the flower falls off,
So the four angels, who had been prepared for the [appointed] hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind.
A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues—by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone that came from the mouths of the horses.