24 Jun 2014. I dont believe the USA is Mystery Babylon, but I also share your pessimism about the future of the USA. We have an appalling murder rate in Chicago, that nobody seems to be able to handle.. We have immigrants that want to come to America, but now cant. Fractional silver thats easily recognized and trusted among the population. [8] And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. Not to hurt or harm YOU but to give YOU hope and a future. I am using your article as a reference in a bible study listserv that includes over 100 people from all walks of life. People areand have long beensuffering from famine in many parts of the world. Just comparing scripture to the events in Venezuela, where bread is currently costing more than a days wages. The ways that the Bible understood and addressed famine, in turn,. Famine = God's Arrow targeting Disobedience 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. This is great. What this would impact! Famine was a constant threat and a very real part of life for the ancient Israelite world that produced the Hebrew Bible. However, the ratio has approached 1 in times of major shortages: Nevertheless, the barley charts suggest we are not close to seeing the type of shortages and prices that will come during the third seal famine. Denari literally means 1/10th and a denarius is a 1/10th silver coin. Learn to grow your own foods. But I do what should always be done when discussing the bible with other saints. I believe we can measure if we are seeing or close to seeing third seal famine conditions. 8 Feb. 2011. Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her: death, mourning and famine. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. (42) And they did all eat, and were filled. 3) Flesh devoured Revelation 6 tells of a scroll in God's right hand that is secured with Seven Seals, which, when opened, summons four beings that ride out on white, black, red and pale horses to bring about . For a national catastrophe like famine, the sin had to lie either with the entire people, or with the monarchs who represented them. There are videos for both at this website. As for World Bank data, I am not endorsing the World Bank! And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? I could go on, but I do so in person with the people I disciple. The first step toward blessings is faithfulness in the worship of the true God. We can figure out how much a loaf of bread cost back in the time of Christ by examining Mark 6:35-6:44. John wrote what he heard in his vision/dream thing. I pray you give them eyes to see and ears to hear, give them strength. They are watching everything else. Where were our hearts? 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. Choenix. "You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you. Here is what Revelation says about the second seal: "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 6:4). To have been in their stead at that first poisonous offer. Constant prayer will keep you strong from temptation. Read what the 7-headed beast with 10 horns does to America: Rev 17:16 And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the harlot; they will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, 'A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.'" 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. So regarding the denarius that is written in the Revelation, you have had numerous people on here including yourself attempt to answer that question. I have no idea what relevance that has in your attack. The impact on food would be astronomical! Is it wrong to try to figure out if we are near those price points now or is it better to claim that the Third Seal famine is now underway without evidence? Well call this ratio the choenix/denarius ratio for barley or CDB. The storm is forming. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. Learn the startling truth about the end times so you will not be caught off guard! Pestilence incorporates any and all forms of public and mass destruction and often accompanies famine ( Ezekiel 7:15) or war ( Jeremiah 21:9 ). 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. In addition. A sign like this mentioned in Rev. The CDB will be greater than 1 when the value of a denarius is less than 3 times the price for a choenix of barley. Now it came about after this, that Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his army and went up and besieged Samaria. Its only been 3 1/2 years since you posted this and bread has gone up to $5 a loaf now. The choice of words conveys more than just scale. Residing in a foreign land meant abandoning social protections: land and kin, and perhaps even deity. Therefore, do not worry about the third seal being opened right now. At that point, it depicts believers being. 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. Of course, other crop prices will rise too There are several other things we need to look at to understand the times like the prevalence of False Christs, earthquakes, political instability, wars, rumors of wars, decay in morals and society, etc. Union workers make more, waitresses make good money today, the forced increase of minimum wage around the country, etc., makes those numbers acceptable. Revelation 18:8, NLT: Therefore, these plagues will overtake her in a single day--death and mourning and famine. Just a single square kilometer of swarm can contain up to 80 million adults, with the capacity to consume the same amount of food in one day as 35,000 people. Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following after him. Your email address will not be published. Nothing is more basic to human survival than food and water. No treaty, no cease-fire, no human being, will be able to stop this end-of-the-age cataclysm. 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. I took great comfort in those things in my dads dying days recently. Peace, material abundance, good health and the absence of disease would follow. 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. http://iceagefarmer.com/map/ Please think about just that- He is waiting on you to let Him help. Do not touch the oil and wine represents the spiritual safety guaranteed to those who will put their faith in Jesus during the Trib. It was a state-sponsored attempt at genocide. The wars after the opening of the second seal (Revelation 6:4-4) could lead to a significant decline in crops grown. Farmers have been burying perishable produce or dumping milk as a result of supply chain disruption and falling consumer demand. 1. yellowish green, light green of plants; and. the phrase, the land of milk and honey. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. The Apostle John recorded in his famous prophecy about the Four Horsemen that the times just before Christ's return would be marked by wars (a red horse) and widespread food shortages (a black horse), in addition to violence, hunger and disease that will claim the lives of one quarter of the world's population (Revelation 6:1-8). (REVELATION 6:9-11) The Bible divides the number seven into four plus three or three plus four. . I hear several types of insects and worms are nutritious, and even tasty. All the food stores would be forcibly taken. But consider the part about the wine and the oil. Amen. If you google Agenda 21, this prophecy as well as many others seem to become incredibly more feasible than they do now. As a scholar of the Hebrew Bible, I understand that famines in biblical times were interpreted as more than mere natural occurrences. It already is with evidence of people who have Morgellons and other contaminate, airborn diseases. Famine = "Curses"or "Plagues" for Disobedience! Just a bit of trivia. However, The Living Bible interprets the phrase in Revelation to mean that there is practically no oil and wine left. But they might recognize in famine the same opportunities to consider how we treat the displaced, and to imagine a better future. A choenix of wheat would cost $58 ($7.25 x 8) today if third seal conditions were prevalent in the world right now and we assume a days wages could only buy a choenix of wheat. (43) And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes. This free guide aims to provide you some useful tips to aid your efforts to study Bible prophecy: The Bible promises us that Christ will return. It would be nice if I had data that did. We can rearrange this equation to create a ratio between the price for a choenix of barley and the value of a denarius. Remember prophecy has an expiration date. [2] Conversely, if we divide 200 denarri by 5000 loaves of bread, well find that 0.04 denarius bought 1 loaf of bread. 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? These 4 horrible signs will be poured out on the earth in the last days. We come now to the third horseman's ride. He tells us he knew every hair on our head before we were born if so, he knows how much I dislike math .. he wouldnt leave the proof of an end time famine in a hidden math code. Growing a garden seems like a very good idea if you can maintain it. It is the Gods of our own making, in a form and type of Gladiator games. We can get some idea of the significance of Revelation 6:6s wheat price by examining how much bread a denarius could buy during Christs time. Bible verses related to Famine from the King James Version (KJV) by Relevance. In Revelation 13:5 the same period is mentioned: "He (the beast from the sea) was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months (forty-two months is also 3 years). The principle of hospitality, still common in the region, ensured that the displaced would be protected. Modern agricultural methods and generally stable weather patterns produce bumper crops in the developed world resulting in massive levels of food production, more than enough to feed the hungry of the world. Too often, people speak of this period as "the end of the world" or by some other similarly gloomy name. To be clear, its not the value of wheat going up, but the value of currency going down that might fulfill this prophecy. Is it conceivable famine could spread to impact the wealthy, food-rich countries of the world? This data allows me to create a graph tracking the CDB as far back as 1960. The Book of Revelation, the last book in the Christian Bible, is interpreted by many evangelical scholars as a description of Jesus returning to Earth. Since 2013, the hysteria seems to have quite down. Dominoes falling. Christ says in Matthew 24:7 that famines will be followed by pestilences [see also Luke 21:11] Anyway good research on this one.ThanksAnn, Your post was interesting and showed some excellent research. Your email address will not be published. We shouldnt be surprised then, when God shows up, writing on the roof of our skies, with something called a meteor. The baby formula is also being destroyed. Grain related food, noodles, cereals, animal food, poultry (some animals we eat require grains) would sky rocket! However, the food cost is not going to go up due to this. A Troy ounce of silver weighs 31.1 grams. 14:1-3; Lam. On the flip side, it could also represent luxuryolive oil and wine (rich people will not be affected by the price increases and famine PHYSICALLY). We have rouge nations, who appear to be waiting for any provocation, to start a nuclear war, with us or their neighbors. The Bible considers honey a symbol of goodness, a blessing, i.e. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord, but they shall not find it. I suspect the connection between Judaism and Communism is not one that you have yet made. The Bible prophesies a coming famine "of hearing the words of the LORD" ( Amos 8:11 ). The ATS is a funding partner of The Conversation US. But the large, worldwide economic interruption caused by covid-19 threatens to undo recent progress made and plunge more people on the brink deeper into a crisis of nutrition. In some countries, people made different wages but there was rationing for certain items due to shortages or the need to preserve supply of these items for the war effort. With the ice melt going on in Greenland and especially West Antarctica, we clearly see that temperatures are rising to obvious consequences. An Overview of the Four Horsemen in Revelation. In response to the third living creature's command to come, a rider on a black horse emerged. Periodically he has used his threats to gain aid, including food and oil, from the world community. America, we are going to have to deal with our lusts. John mentions nothing about a days wage nor anything about a penny. Willie- Im paraphrasing from memory so please take a look at the true text when you can. The great flood of Noah was likely the first Cycle we experienced. 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. Suffering opened the door for repentance and change. But, the Great Depression did not fulfill the prophecy of Revelation 6:6. 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. The weight of a denari is really close to 1/10 of an ounce of silver in this article. A few Bible versions and some commentators go as far as to say that a loaf of bread will cost a person an entire days worth of wages. Pasta dinners $35 or more! So I am curious now how all this plays in since the coronavirus has flipped everything. Im referring to wheat they both grow and the export of fertilizer by Russia. Its ok to let Him talk, lol. One was at the mercy of the local populace. Revelation 6:1-8 shows the opening of four seals and discusses the rides of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.