No President Trump is not the Antichrist. Too often, people speak of this period as "the end of the world" or by some other similarly gloomy name. When the end is in sight, hoarders and corporate sellers will control with mercilessness the two commodities, which will be more in demand and priced so high that it makes the problem of wheat and barley look small in comparison. My guess is (based off of what Ive heard about Agenda 21) that the food shortage is going to be due to an intense passion for the environment by the anti-christ (as Agenda 21 is all about the environment). This means that a denarius can buy more than 3 choenixes of barley. It already is with evidence of people who have Morgellons and other contaminate, airborn diseases. Using this interpretation, you may wonder if the world is seeing or close to seeing the third seal famine. However, it wasnt just the bees that were on the decline, butterflies were also declining. How could this happen? The main stream news is finally admitting that global crops are under producing for many reasons. They are ravenous eaters who consume their own weight per day, targeting food crops and forage. I am returning to your web site for more soon. Another and more important point. All of these stories share a common feature: famine as an impetus for the movement of people. If no deal and 3rd temple announcement then we may have another year till we start the countdown. Israel occupied the rocky highlands of Canaan the area of present-day Jerusalem and the hills to the north of it rather than fertile coastal plains. Whitney, William Dwight and Benjamin Eli Smith. The Lion and the Lamb, which signifies Jesus, then open the first 4 seals of the scroll. No matter how much love or desire on their part, a parent can not live their childs life. But, be aware that things can change quickly if global conflict breaks out. So, if 1/10 of Troy ounce of silver is going to be worth a days wage of (lets use the least number) $100/day, we are being told that silver bullion will be going up in price to $1,000 a Troy ounce on the low side, and as much as $2,000/ounce on the high side. Start with establishing this point: 1 Cor 4:6 I have applied all this to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brethren, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another. Millions were at risk of starvation. WILLIE SCOTT: Phillipians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Your article is very interesting. 2007. Hmmmm May the Lord maje His face to shine upon thee, I did a little mathematics on your figures and came up with some interesting numbers. Leviticus 26:25, 33, 36-37, Deuteronomy 32:25, 41-42 I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. Look into the Holy Spirit because there is no limit to the power He can enable a believer to have. This translates to nearly 3.28 grams of silver or 0.1055 troy ounces of silver. More eruptions and New volcanoes coming online. The CDW will be less than 1 when the value of a denarius is greater than the price for a choenix of wheat. Soon coming events, that told of a God, who hears and watches His people below, and the deeds that they have done. I was losing my dad, but God knew exactly what was going on and loved me greatly-greater than my dad ever loved me (and my dad loved me dearly). The city of Flaviopolis used an alternative choenix measure. Maybe the 5 loaves and 2 fishes is about Christs love for his children .. the fact hell never leave nor forsaken us. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof (Matthew 6:33). However, if a nation's social fabric begins to unravel, larger problems can set in. With both nations being major breadbaskets & oil suppliers to the Middle East this is but a foreshadowing of things to come, specifically the 3rd seal in Rev. Moses and the Exodus another Cycle. God knows you cant overcome your struggles alone and He does not expect you to. Write an article and join a growing community of more than 160,500 academics and researchers from 4,573 institutions. If you multiply 3/32 by 16 you get 1.5 If you multiply 3/32 by 20 you get 1.875. U.S. dollars is something people can understand at the moment so thats why I used it. Other regions further north will be better, but growing vines and new trees will take decades, and its hard work just doing that much. As a result, you could use this study to argue that the opening of the third seal is not near. I dont think were going to see the start of the 7 year period this year or even next year. The authors of the Bible were not from Hollywood .. the Bible does not be unfold like the movie National Treasure, Lord, I pray for every person that visits this site, I lift them up to Lord. He wrote denari in greek. I believe we can measure if we are seeing or close to seeing third seal famine conditions. (43) And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes. While naturedrought, floods and insect infestationsis often the cause of famine, quite often war and misrule, as well as malignant political or religious ideology, are prime factors. The choice of words conveys more than just scale. Cannibalism is mentioned in the Bible. Growing a garden seems like a very good idea if you can maintain it. The difference is big enough that I also looked at the CDW since 1960 using the Flaviopolis choenix instead of the Attic choenix like in the prior graph: The CDW was above 0.8 in 1973 amid a major global food crisis triggered by poor harvests (aided by bad weather) and growing food demand from developing countries. According to the biblical narrative, Zerubbabel was a governor of the Achaemenid Empire's province of Yehud and the grandson of Jeconiah, penultimate king of Judah.Zerubbabel led the first group of Jews, numbering 42,360, who returned from the Babylonian captivity in the first year of Cyrus the Great, the king of the Achaemenid Empire. Those horrors will only grow as mankind continues its self-destructive course of rejecting God. This is not to say. This is very much in keeping with a 1/10 of a Troy ounce. Be well. Choenix. Although there will be a famine for the Word of God at that time, Revelation 6:5-6 is describing a real famine. The cost of a choenix would be found by multiplying $0.07 by 1.843 which equals approximately $0.13. We are not yet near 3rd seal famine conditions. You could argue that John tried to convey the idea that an entire days wages would only be enough to buy a choenix of wheat. And they went their way. The Cycles are every 100 years or so and two hundred years and the big ones are about every 1000 years, Cycles of Cycles within and alongside. In 2005, televangelist Pat Robertson blamed abortion for Hurricane Katrina. . Chris. You can trace the fall of Empires and Dynasties during them. However, their plan to have the only seed that grows in toxic soils and so on (after they lay down the chemtrails and polute the world so badly that nothing else will grow) is going to backfire. I dont believe the USA is Mystery Babylon, but I also share your pessimism about the future of the USA. Amos predicted, "the days are coming when I will send a famine through the landnot a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord" (Amos 8:11-12). And some were very close or right. While naturedrought, floods and insect infestationsis often the cause of famine, quite often war and misrule, as well as malignant political or religious ideology, are prime factors. 6:8). pounds of them. I hear several types of insects and worms are nutritious, and even tasty. Abundant rains brought an earlier planting season at the beginning of 2020a good thingbut also bringing about flooding, mudslides, flash floods, and river overflows that have displaced many people, damaged infrastructure and destroyed some crops. I noticed that you based your line on the American economy what Im wondering is are there places in the world right now the people are paying a days wages for a pound of flour. , which was a coin that was used during the time of the Roman Empire. pre-1964 U.S. minted coins should work well. http://iceagefarmer.com/map/ I used the same dataset from the World Bank, which includes barley price data as far back as 1960. Youll also get my latest articles and updates delivered to your inbox. ( Woodcut by Albrecht Drer) Many modern scholars interpret Revelation from a preterist point of view, arguing that its prophecy and imagery apply only to the events of the first century of Christian history. (8) So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. Pasta dinners $35 or more! The end result is the same- suffering on the part of the parent and the child. Do you think the decline of the honey bees, or pollinators has anything to do with the food shortages to come, or maybe already here? Do you feel whats happening in Russia and the Ukraine is part of the prophecy and is being fulfilled now rather than in the future? The color black suggests starvation and death, and the scales suggest something was going to be weighed, judged, or measured. Bible verses related to Famine from the King James Version (KJV) by Relevance. The principle of hospitality, still common in the region, ensured that the displaced would be protected. Look back in History. The impact on food would be astronomical! And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. This is a really interesting discussion. And I beheld, and see a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. Underlying the texts about famine in the Hebrew Bible was the constant threat and recurring reality of famine in ancient Israel. A look at past famines gives us an idea of how devastating they can be. Border restrictions and lockdowns are, for example, slowing harvests in some parts of the world, leaving millions of seasonal workers without livelihoods, while also constraining transport of food to markets. And with that movement, in the ancient world as today, comes vulnerability. A dry quart of wheat is approximately enough to make 1.5 to 1.875 loaves of one-pound bread or the average amount of bread a person living in the Roman Empire ate per day. [10] [11]. Jn. Famine has returned to Ethiopia where more than 7 million are in desperate need of emergency food supplies in order to avert starvation. Weather and disease could drasticaly reduce yields and raise prices where other grains might be more drought and disease resistant. The authors of the Hebrew Bible used famine as a mechanism of divine wrath and destruction but also as a storytelling device, a way to move the narrative forward. What does Revelation 6:5 mean? Tell me, how much can you carry? Do we have answers to this? The antichrist, after all, will cut off food supplies from those who do not have the Mark of the Beast ( Revelation 13:16-17 ), and he will kill and persecute many followers of Christ. Meanwhile the locust outbreak that began in 2019 continued into 2020, hitting Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia particularly hard. How much can you hide? To ancient Israelites there was no such thing as nature as we understand it today and no such thing as chance. Famine-induced cannibalism is the lowest depth of depravity to which a nation can sink. If its good for the Govt like, China, India, Russiadont you think theyre a bit more in the know than you or I. What we have now is merely smoke and mirrors. . I hope this provided you some insight. [6] http://watcherslamp.blogspot.com/2011/02/jerusalem-ufo-and-rider-on-white-horse.html, 2023 Prophecy Proof Insights Publications. Theres still more events that need to take place before that begins. We have had a new President in office, and He has been able to offend at least 6 major countries, in the time that he has been in office. It is commonly divided in half as 3 days/years, (Daniel 9:24-27; 12; Revelation 11-13). A days food for a days wages is during the height of the Great Tribulation. All part of a Grand Solar Minimum. Many times it is also made up of six . Heres why: Nonetheless, I calculated how much a choenix of wheat would likely cost at the minimum in the United States today if a days wages could only buy one choenix of wheat: We can confirm from all this that Revelation 6:5-6 does describe extreme famine conditions around the world after the third seal is open. This kind of faith isnt instantaneous but the joy and desire to find it is. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Michael Ray. Periodically he has used his threats to gain aid, including food and oil, from the world community. I expect a global currency like you do Im trying to provide a people an idea of how low prices are now relative to where they will be in the future and provide people an idea of how severe the food shortages of the future will be like. Wheat was ultimately measured in modii in the Roman Empire. They were given authority and power over a fourth part of the earth, to kill with the sword and with famine and with plague (pestilence, disease) and by the wild beasts of the earth. The date is generally thought to have been between 538 and . The Grand Solar Minimum is the Science behind the destruction in the tribulation. The story of Ruth depends on the initial famine; it ends with Ruth being the ancestor of King David. It is thus told by Jacques de Voragine, in his "Legenda Aurea:" This came true during the reign of king Jehoram, when Samaria is under siege. The cost of bread is NOT a $1.98 throughout the world though. 6. We shouldnt be surprised then, when God shows up, writing on the roof of our skies, with something called a meteor. You cant save enough, and Christ clearly warned against that.where moths and rust corrupt, and thieves can steal! This data allows me to create a graph tracking the CDB as far back as 1960. (4) And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. (Revelation 6:3-4). Its not time to be worried about the 3rd seal yet. In addition. The oil and wine discussed in the book of Revelation are food for the wealthy, also controlled by the Anti-Christ. A quart of wheat would supply an average person one day's sustenance. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth. While famines of varying severity have struck throughout history, it appears things will get much worse. However, price history shows us that food prices can increase quickly. [55] So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he has nothing left him in the siege, and in the narrow place, with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates. In this passage, the Apostle John is seeing a vision of events in heaven, including the unsealing of a scroll with seven seals. Im referring to wheat they both grow and the export of fertilizer by Russia. Thus the 1260 days of Revelation 12, when the "woman . Continuing, He says: "I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none will make you afraid; I will rid the land of evil beasts, and the sword will not go through your land For I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant with you" (Leviticus 26:3-9 Leviticus 26:3-9 [3] If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; Its the root word for our modern word dime. As a result, many people in urban centers now struggle to access fresh fruits and vegetables, dairy, meat and fish.. The Book of Revelation (the Apocalypse) is the only canonical representative of a large genre of apocalyptic literature that appeared in the early Christian movement. The typical loaf of bread weighed 1 lbs during the Roman Empire, so well assume that these loaves of bread weighted 1 lbs each. This suggests we have not seen the famine that will occur after the third seal is open. And now in 2019 with more trade aars prices will climb even higher. Are Wheat Prices Near Third Seal Famine Levels? The Third Seal: Famine. If my thought is correct, then your subsequent math is wrong. the phrase, the land of milk and honey. I use this analogy because as His created we are like children in His eyes, adored beloved children that He must sorrowfully watch burn themselves on a hot stove every day or shoot up heroin. The tables below show how much higher wheat prices would be versus current prices if third seal conditions were here now.[12]. The writers of the Hebrew Bible used famine as the motivating factor for major changes in the lives of its characters undoubtedly reflecting the reality of famines impact in the ancient world. Be that it may, but the churches are not watching the skies or Israel. But until then, we will continue to see cyclical occurrence of famine, from all sorts of causes, resulting in millions of people dying when they could have lived. I hold an M.B.A. and degrees in Managerial Economics and Political Science. I did not work up the nerve to try any, but it doesnt seem to hurt those folks on reality shows. It was understood that famine, or plague, or war, was common enough that anyone might be forced to leave their land to seek refuge in another. We behave like it is a life or death circumstance, if we cannot watch each and every game, less we loose our identity without it. Scripture reveals that God sent plagues as a consequence of disobedience and idolatry. There is a spiritual famine going on and it will only get worse. It is the Gods of our own making, in a form and type of Gladiator games. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your privacy is valued. At other times the causes are all too humanwar, social unrest and breakdown, and inefficient or outright malevolent government policy. To analyze something objectively, data is required. For a national catastrophe like famine, the sin had to lie either with the entire people, or with the monarchs who represented them. To be honest, I really havent studied that topic yet. Famine will be global during 3rd seal conditions. A modii of wheat could produce between 16 and 20 one-pound loaves of bread. The data confirmed that one denarius bought 25 loaves of bread during the 1st century A.D. in the region where Christs ministry took place. In fact he is wholly all American. I looked, and behold, a black horse, and the one who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. Finally, the punishments will produce repentance, and people will turn to our Savior and King. Good thoughts & research Wayne. I believe Revelation 6:6 tells us that a denarius will only be worth enough to buy a choenix of wheat or three choenixes of barley during the third seal famine. More than two million people have died in the past decade in North Korea due to food shortages caused by a combination of flood, drought and bad government policy created by Kim Jong Il, the nation's dictatorial ruler, who currently threatens the use or sale of nuclear weapons. But at the moment of this writing, wheat prices would need to rise 400% to 600% more given a constant silver price to reach third seal famine levels. We are the only thing keeping the world alive. This prophecy has the ability to crush even the most robust economy! PLZ Google transhumanism and elite population reduction. What does this mean? We can rearrange this equation to create a ratio between the price for a choenix of wheat and the value of a denarius. The word penny is incorrect, altogether. In time, they also will receive these same promised benefits when they, too, learn to live the way God has revealed in His Word. Thought you would find it helpful. We see this numerous times in the book of Genesis. Some meals organizations have declared programs to increase costs so it might be sensible to buy a little bit more the very next time before the cost improves go into impact. (REVELATION 6:9-11) The Bible divides the number seven into four plus three or three plus four. In Deuteronomy 28 God details the horror of a people stricken with the curse of famine. And it was the task of prophets and oracles to determine the cause of the divine wrath. Not all famines are a result of God's direct judgment.