Chapter 12
The
First Stages
of
Famine
“. . . And there shall be Famines . . .”
Matthew 24:7
“
And
when He had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, ‘Come
and see.’ And I beheld, and lo a Black Horse; and he that sat
on him had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard a voice in the
midst of the four living creatures saying, ‘A quart of wheat
for a denarius (margin: about one day’s wages for a
worker) and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not
harm the oil and the wine’” (Revelation 6:5-6).
T
he
Famine
of Elijah’s Time and Today
So far, this writing has been about the parallels between the time of the original Elijah and our time today. From these it should clearly be seen the House of Joseph is now on the very edge of the final fulfillment of the prophecies in our time.
L
ooming
ever closer is the prophesied dreaded famine
of the end-time that parallels with the famine
at the time of Elijah, as prophesied by the prophet Joel, and
also found in other prophecies of the holy Bible.
The news reports of this year alone, 2011, makes known that all-time records have been broken in the weather system: too much rain in some areas (east coast), severe drought in other places (Oklahoma, Kansas), along with terrible fires; fires burned in much of the state of Texas devouring over 1500 homes in one city alone.
“Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is at hand. It shall come as destruction from the Almighty. . . . O Lord, to You I cry out; for FIRE has devoured the open pastures (margin: pastures of the wilderness), and a FLAME has burned all the trees of the field. The beasts of the field also cry out to You, for the WATER BROOKS are dried up, and FIRE has devoured the open pastures” (Joel 1:15-20).
The beginning of the end began in a dramatic way in 9-11-2001 when the terrorists destroyed the twin towers in New York, then crashed a passenger place into the pentagon in Washington, D. C.
Problems have continued to build with little respite in between from that time. The disasters of this past year paved the way for the record-breakers of this present year. Prophecy makes known they are harbingers of the worst yet to come.
. . . the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: ‘And end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land (no states to be spared). Now the end has come upon you, and I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will repay you for all your abominations . . . then you shall [come to] know that I am the LORD. . . Disaster will come upon disaster . . .’” (Ezekiel 7:1-4, 26).
With what we have been witnessing in nature, and with these prophecies in mind, one cannot help but wonder— what will take place in 2012, 2013, 2014—?
The Famine Close at Hand
It is becoming very clear these record-breaking disasters in nature
and experienced in many states are setting this country up for the
ravenous severe famine for
this end-time.
Let us consider this as we again review some of the background to enable us to better understand the comparison.
This coming famine is intended by God to be a type of the severe famine experienced in Israel during the time of Elijah (I Kings 17:1). It was brought on the people of that time for the very same reason it is being brought on the peoples of Israel today.
Warning from Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong
Fifty-five years ago, Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong wrote the following in his booklet, 1975 in Prophecy, page 1, (revised edition 1956): “Today this world is changing—fast! Unprecedented events are shaking the world already. Yet what we have seen is mild compared to the catastrophic happenings that will rock the world.
Page 18, “IT’S LATER THAN YOU THINK! . . . Before we realize it, we’ll find ourselves in the throes of FAMINE, and uncontrollable epidemics of DISEASE . . . Along with the coming famine and disease epidemic will come an invasion of billions of crop-destroying bugs, insects, and locusts (grasshoppers) on a scale never before to devastate a land. You’ll read of this in the first chapter of Joel.”
Current News Articles Reveal the Setting for the Coming Famine
News articles are making known that officials are now expressing real concern due to shrinking water supplies! In some areas people have already experienced the rationing of water. In other areas there has been flooding due to too much rain.
Please consider the following recent News Articles:
Published by Tess Pennington on August 29th, 2011
Natural News: The Ripple Effect: Water Shortages Likely In Most Populated Cities
“The realization that our water is in fact a finite resource has become all the more clear over the last year where parts of the country have experienced the worst droughts in a century. The changes in global weather patterns and a rapidly growing population have also substantially affected the water supply.
In 2010, an article was written that examined the risk of water shortages across the country. The writers of the article looked at an October, 2010 report on water risk by environmental research and sustainability group, Ceres. They also considered a comprehensive July, 2010 report from the National Resources Defense Council which mapped areas at high risk of water shortage conflict. The analysis allowed officials to choose ten cities which are likely to face severe shortages in the relatively near-term future. The cities are:
10. Orlando, Florida, 9. Atlanta, Georgia, 8. Tucson, Arizona, 7. Las Vegas, Nevada, 6. Fort Worth, Texas, 5. San Francisco Bay Area, California, 4. San Antonio, Texas, 3. Phoenix, Arizona, 2. Houston, Texas, 1. Los Angeles, California
However, according to Natural News, these cities should not be the only ones concerned about future water shortages. According to U.S. government estimates, at least 36 states are expected to face water shortages within the next five years.
In many parts of the country where severe droughts are present, the dry, hot ground is causing major water mains to break and essentially draining the city’s water. In the very near future, cities and towns could place more stringent water restrictions on its inhabitants, but how would these restrictions affect the city as a whole? Recently, in Houston, TX three firefighters were injured in a 4 alarm fire. The article indicates that the fire was difficult to put out partly due to issues with the water supply. This begs the question of how can a city not warn its inhabitants of a water shortage? If there is a water shortage in many areas of the states, are we all vulnerable to the water be turned off like in this North Texas town?
If we experience water shortages in much of the nation, then cities will have to look for alternate water sources. Water is already a scarce commodity, so there will be competition both locally and statewide for remaining water sources which could make life in these cities nearly unbearable for residents. With emotions running high, a ripple effect could sweep the nation and possibly fuel more aggressive behavior amongst those living in major cities.”
msnbc.com
updated 9/15/2011 1:01:10 PM ET2011-09-15T17:01:10
“The drought in Texas that has fueled wildfires, devastated agriculture and caused water shortages actually worsened in the past week while several other states also saw spreading drought, according to a weekly report issued Thursday. The forecast for three months out isn't any better: Texas was told to expect abnormally warm and dry conditions from October to December thanks to another La Nina weather cycle.
"Texas conditions continue to deteriorate what little they can from abysmal," the U.S. Drought Monitor stated. That was due to drought expanding into "the southeast, central, south-central, Big Bend region, and extreme south around Brownsville."
The lack of rain from Tropical Storm Nate last week "and better odds of a second consecutive La Nina winter only add fuel to this well-fed and entrenched drought," the report added.
La Nina conditions in the U.S. tend to mean warmer, drier weather in the south and the U.S. Climate Prediction Center said Thursday that over the next three months above normal temperatures are expected in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas — as well as parts of areas along the western Great Lakes.
Much of Texas and Oklahoma would need 9 to 23 inches of rain over the next month to emerge from drought.”
America's breadbasket aquifer running dry; massive agriculture collapse inevitable
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
“(NaturalNews) It's the largest underground freshwater supply
in the world, stretching from South Dakota all the way to Texas. It's
underneath most of Nebraska's farmlands, and it provides crucial
water resources for farming in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and even
New Mexico. It's called the Ogallala Aquifer, and it is being pumped
dry.
See the map of this aquifer here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/images/O...
Without the Ogallala Aquifer, America's heartland food production collapses. No water means no irrigation for the corn, wheat, alfalfa and other crops grown across these states to feed people and animals. And each year, the Ogallala Aquifer drops another few inches as it is literally being sucked dry by the tens of thousands of agricultural wells that tap into it across the heartland of America.
This problem with all this is that the Ogallala Aquifer isn't being recharged in any significant way from rainfall or rivers. This is so-called "fossil water" because once you use it, it's gone. And it's disappearing now faster than ever.
In some regions along the aquifer, the water level has dropped so far that it has effectively disappeared -- places like Happy, Texas, where a once-booming agricultural town has collapsed to a population of just 595. All the wells drilled there in the 1950's tapped into the Ogallala Aquifer and seemed to provide abundant water at the time. But today the wells have all run dry.
Happy, Texas has become a place of despair. Dead cattle. Wilted crops. Once-moist soils turned to dust. And Happy is just the beginning of this story because this same agricultural tragedy will be repeated across Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas and parts of Colorado in the next few decades. That's a hydrologic fact. Water doesn't magically reappear in the Ogallala. Once it's used up, it's gone.
"There used to be 50,000 head of cattle, now there's 1,000," says Kay Horner in a Telegraph report (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/83...). "Grazed them on wheat, but the feed lots took all the water so we can't grow wheat. Now the feed lots can't get local steers so they bring in cheap unwanted milking calves from California and turn them into burger if they can't make them veal. It doesn't make much sense. We're heading back to the Dust Bowl."
The Coming Starvation In America
By James P. Wickstrom
http://www.theantechamber.net
Antechamber. net
10-3-5
“The government of the
United States, by Law was to always maintain a three year mixed-
grain survival storage for every man, woman, and child in the United
States.
Like most Laws of the land, the politicians never took
heed as to why our wise ancestors had this reserve requirement
established. It was to make sure, that, in the time of a National
Emergency, the people had the most important mainstay needed for
survival individually and as a Nation. Remember, the people make the
Nation, the Nation does not make the people.
In the 1960's and 1970's the different political administrations of Washington, D. C. walked away from sanity and started to give the surplus grains which where in elevator storage all over the country, to other nations, such as the Soviet Union, India, etc.. This continued over two decades, until the elevators were empty and the reserve of grains that were in reserve as per a national crisis.... were gone. Of course this was done as to enhance international "friendship" with other nations, even if those other nations were self-admitted enemies of the United States.
Remember, there was enough grain in storage, paid for by the American tax- payer, to last the masses inside the United States for three full years, if need be. But now it all is but gone!
By 1996, the United States Department of Agriculture (U. S. D. A.) claimed that there was enough food in ware-house storage to last every man, woman and child in the cities a 3 day supply and a 5 day supply for every man, woman, and child in the countryside, should a great national emergency occur. In other words, if food trucks stopped running, the food supplies for the masses would be 3 days in the cities and 5 days in the countryside. . . .
Mr. Guebert also stated, that one more disaster as the likes of the hurricanes Katrina or Rita against the United States, or anything to compare to such in whatever way, would create such a food panic, it would make the New Orleans rioting look like the Mardi Gras.
In
conclusion, I highly suggest that you pull your head out of the sand,
check your food supplies, and if you do not have 6 months to a years
food in reserve, then you had best sell something or do whatever you
have to do, to immediately prepare yourself and your loved ones for
safety. If you can store two years at this time: DO
IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!
Remember, the 15.7 pounds
of food in reserve is becoming less by the day, and at the present
rate of speed, the United States is heading to what is called....
meal to meal. One more major disaster will drive the United States to
its knees.
The
federal government, for itself, has millions of tons of preserved
foods stashed away in underground storages, but this food is not for
the masses, unless they surrender their firearms, and then they will
get a food coupon from the *feds* to buy out of the federal
government food warehouse wherever it is set up in your area.
.............
has always subjected and controlled the masses using FOOD. Remember,
FOOD CONTROL IS PEOPLE CONTROL. New Orleans was your cue: Now
prepare! You have been warned. Your blood is off my hands!
James
P. Wickstrom
Dave Schechter CNN Senior National Editor September 23rd, 2011 06:32 PM ET
Back in 1895, Katharine Lee Bates was teaching English at a college in Colorado when she wrote this first stanza of a poem that became the lyrics for the song “America the Beautiful”
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For
purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
Reading about global food issues, most notably rising prices paid by consumers around the world, prompts this probably overheated question: Might America wake one day and discover that those “amber waves of grain” and the bounty of its “fruited plain” no longer is enough to feed its citizens?
American farmers were forecast this spring to plant more than 92 million acres of corn, 75 million acres of soybeans and 58 million acres of wheat. Every bushel that survives to be harvested this fall will be coveted. The United States accounts for more than half of the world’s grain exports; by comparison, a higher percentage than Saudi Arabia’s share of global oil exports.
South Korea, which imports 70 percent of its grain supply, already buys large amounts of from the United States. A desire to ensure the imports it needs has moved the government in Seoul to create a mechanism that could bypass a competitive marketplace. By 2020, South Korea hopes to import 4 million metric tons of corn and wheat annually, some 30 percent of its import needs, contracting directly with the source.
Lester Brown, founder of the WorldWatch Institute, earlier this year wrote about this development, as part of a larger piece titled "The New Geopolitics of Food." “As the Koreans acquire their own grain elevators, they may well sign multiyear delivery contracts with farmers, agreeing to buy specified quantities of wheat, corn, or soybeans at a fixed price,” Brown wrote in Foreign Policy.
Surely, Brown observed, “Other importers will not stand idly by as South Korea tries to tie up a portion of the U.S. grain harvest even before it gets to market.” If the South Koreans do this, he said, the Chinese, the Indians and others will follow, paying top dollar and removing significant quantities of American grain from the marketplace. Brown also pointed out that such more affluent countries as Saudi Arabia, South Korea and China increasingly are leasing or buying land outside of their borders, notably in Africa, on which to grow food for their domestic consumption.
Brown previously had suggested that, given China's role as an engine in the world economy, the United States might find it difficult to restrict grain exports should the People’s Republic want to make particularly large purchases.
In his Foreign Policy article, Brown posited that Americans could wake up some day and discover that there no longer is enough grain available to meet the demand in this country for food, feed and fuel (such as corn used in the production of ethanol, by itself a major subject of debate in the world of global agriculture).
“This is happening just as China may be on the verge of entering the U.S. market as a potentially massive importer of grain. With China's 1.4 billion increasingly affluent consumers starting to compete with U.S. consumers for the U.S. grain harvest, cheap food, seen by many as an American birthright, may be coming to an end,” Brown wrote.
TIME magazine noted this trend in a piece outlooking “A Future of Price Spikes.” “With demand steadily rising, the world is closer to disaster because the food safety net has shrunk. In the late 1990s, we had enough corn stashed in reserve to meet world demand for about four months; now we have enough for only about 12/3. From more than four months' supply of wheat in storage, we have gone down to just over three (and in recent years, reserves have fallen even further),” TIME reported.
As to that comparison of U.S. grain exports with Saudi Arabian oil exports: Given the implications of demand outstripping supply, the question has been raised in recent years whether the U.S. government should maintain a strategic grain reserve, akin to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve used to cushion severe shocks to oil supplies.
Therein lies the Biblical story of Joseph, who interpreted the Pharoah’s dream about seven fat cows and seven lean cows to mean that seven years of plenty in Egypt would be followed by seven years of famine, for which Joseph recommended that the Pharoah save a portion of the harvest in the good years to feed the people in the years to follow.
At one time, the U.S. government did maintain physical reserves of grain, but today opts instead to hold cash reserves should it need to buy grain in the event of a crisis. Joseph W. Glauber, chief economist of the Agriculture Department, told CNN that removing grain from the marketplace for a strategic reserve or for other policy purposes raises issues of government intervention in the marketplace. As an example, Glauber cited a short-lived embargo on U.S. soybean exports in the early 1970s, one part of a larger Nixon administration anti-inflation strategy. The embargo’s “unintended consequences,” as Glauber termed them, included Brazil and Argentina expanding soybean production to take advantage of import demands the U.S. could not fill and the European Union “embarked on a ‘self-sufficiency’ policy for oilseed production.”
The National Family Farm Coalition, which bills itself as a “North American organization that serves as a national link for grassroots organizations working on family farm issues,” believes a strategic grain reserve is needed to prevent livestock feed costs from escalating beyond a reasonable price, “preserve our national security” by making sure there is sufficient grain for use by Americans and make sure farmers can cope with boom-and-bust cycles in the prices they receive.
China, the world’s most populous nation and the world’s largest wheat producer, maintains a national reserve, because “Food security is national security in China,” Jim Harkness wrote in a piece for the Institute for Policy Studies, the implication being that perhaps it is less of a national security priority in the United States. Harkness added, “Although China maintains vast reserves of grain, and other foods as well like pork and edible oils, the United States and most other countries have abandoned this wise approach,” Harkness, president of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, added.
In the years to come, the demands and diet of a growing global population – expected to reach 7 billion in late October – may well test the reassurance that Marri Carrow, communications manager for the U.S. Grains Council, offered CNN: “The U.S. farmer has an amazing ability to plant enough coarse grains to meet both domestic and international demand.”
Food Shortages from Threat of Warfare
It should also be realized that this nation could be in serious straits in regards to a real shortage of food occurring in other ways other than a lack of rain. One such way would be a real war scare that could throw this country into a critical food shortage almost overnight
T
o
use an example: During the Cuban Missile Crisis between Premier
Nikita Khruschev of Russia and President John Kennedy of the United
States, it looked very much like nuclear
war was about to occur due to Russia setting up
nuclear-tipped missiles in Cuba – less than 1000 miles from the
United States (late summer, 1962).
Due to the very possible outbreak of warfare at that time, it was reported in the local newspaper of San Diego, California that people were going into the grocery stores and filling large baskets with cans of food – pulling them off of the shelves with both arms! It did not matter what kind of food the cans contained!
A
fter
the scare was over people tried to return what they had taken from
the grocery shelves during that crisis.
If the threats of terrorism are carried out, and other wars besides Iraq begin with North Korea, Iran or Syria, then we could see the same thing take place as it did then!
However, it would be on a much larger scale this time. The government would have to step in and reinstate rationing as it did during WWII, and possibly martial law as well.
But this would only be temporary until the beginning of the real problems then millions of people would begin to be affected to the point of death!
The Worst Part of the Famine
Famine
will hit the hardest during the last six months or so! However, prior
to this time God’s faithful and enduring people will have left
for the place of refuge a place God will have
prepared for them during this terrible coming time (Revelation
3:10; 12:14, plus other Scriptures).
There have been numerous reports from news sources making known the drought has been gripping this country for some few years. Of late farmers are experiencing it even more seriously due to continued drought and flooding.
It has recently been reported that if we experience another year of drought we can expect the price of food to spiral out of sight! The rapid increase of the cost of oil is another major factor that is also increasing the higher cost of food as well as gas and diesel fuel.
Though most people do not realize it, we live continually on the edge of critically hard and trying times that could go over the edge at any time!
The Storage of Food Products
Officials on the highest level have advised everyone to take precautions in the event that some form of terrorism or a possible bird flu pandemic occurs. They have also recommended having on hand enough cans of food and water to last for thirty days along with a battery-powered radio.
The problems affecting the already mentioned food chain, supply and storage, should make known that much more food and water should be on hand than just enough for thirty days even in normal times.
Consider the Ant
Even in normal times, Scripture counsels us to be like the ant and have extra food on hand (Proverbs 6:6-8; 30:25). There is a definite need to overcome the habit of going to the grocery store each and every day to fulfill our needs.
When I grew up in the 1930s our family (six children and three adults) only went to a nearby town to buy groceries once a month and the supply lasted for that whole time. This example is used to make known what can be done when the need arises.
One should realize there is soon coming a time when full-page food ads and coupons will be no more! Food is going to become very costly and scarce at the same time! In fact, it will become priceless!
During this extreme crisis no one will be able to find any food, let alone be able to purchase any for it will be unobtainable. The holders of gold and silver will find food cannot be bought anywhere; gold and silver will become worthless and thrown into the streets as worthless:
“They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be like refuse (worthless); their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD; they will NOT SATISFY their souls, NOR fill their stomachs . . . .” (Ezekiel 7:19).
Consider the following news articles that reveal the pantries are bare in America and Britain:
The U.S. Has No Remaining Grain Reserves
National News / National News Date: Jun 06, 2008 - 10:10 AM WASHINGTON - Larry Matlack, President of the American Agriculture Movement (AAM), has raised concerns over the issue of U.S. grain reserves. . . . Our concern is that the U.S. has nothing else in our emergency food pantry. There is no cheese, no butter, no dry milk powder, no grains or anything else left in reserve. The only thing left in the entire CCC inventory will be 2.7 million bushels of wheat which is about enough wheat to make ½ of a loaf of bread for each of the 300 million people in America.”
Though his Recorded Works are available for listening—very, very, few take advantage of them. Most want nothing to do with him in any manner.
Revealing News Articles
Floods an economic catastrophe for Midwest
Agriculture, transportation, small businesses could be crippled for long term
By Alex Johnson Reporter MSNBC updated 9:32 a.m. ET June 20, 2008
Long after the waters subside, the floods that submerged the Midwest this month turn out to be the region’s biggest economic disaster in decades, with ramifications that will be felt by consumers across the country. . . .
Crop damage in Iowa alone has already surpassed $2.7 billion, nearly half of it in just one town, Cedar Rapids. Corn prices hit an all-time high near $8 a bushel Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade, but many other important crops were also devastated, especially wheat in Missouri and Nebraska and soybeans in Indiana and Kentucky. . . .
“You need about 110 to 120 growing days to get your crop to harvest, and there are not that many days left in the season before a frost. What you see now is lost is lost” for good, Langan said.
The story is the same in Indiana, where State Agriculture Director Andy Miller said the floods were the greatest economic catastrophe in the state’s history. “We have roughly 9 percent of the state’s crops that is flooded, both corn and beans,” Miller said.
It’s not just the billions of dollars in lost crops. Some fields will take months or even years to recover from built-up debris or silt; others were eroded by the rushing floodwaters. “Livestock was affected. Farmhouses were affected,” Miller said. “Machinery was affected, and the land was affected.”
Australia is also experiencing some very ominous troubles: “The most severe drought for 100 years in Australia is getting worse. Farmers warn that this winter's wheat crop could be even smaller than last year's if rain does not come soon. Most Australian grain is exported and empty Outback grain silos have contributed to shortages and rising global prices. Australia is the third-biggest wheat exporter behind the U.S. and Canada. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports, 18 June 2008.
Bottom of Form
Due to the continuing disasters limiting the resources of needed food supplies, along with the continuing population explosion—this has come to be a Global Problem!
How to Feed Growing Planet—800 million people suffer chronic shortages McClatchy Newspapers “. . . The problem is a global one, in which a breakdown anywhere in the food chain sets dire consequences in motion and in which the root causes range from rising consumption in Asia to growing biofuel production in the United States and in Europe in dwindling supplies of water in the Middle East. “The world is running now to keep up with demand,” said Abdolreza Abbassian, a grain analyst with the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. “Any interruption in the global picture affects supplies. . . . “Yet the problem is long-term, as the world’s food-production machine fails to keep up with rising demand. . . .”
A Possible Revolution
Another possible food crisis could come about due to what some are predicting a conceivable civil revolt of the people because of excessive taxation. There is also the possibility of racial riots.
What could possibly trigger racial riots on such a massive scale that could also lead to a food crisis in all of this country? Consider the following for a possible answer:
The Nation’s New President
Having entered the year of 2009, millions of people have said to each other, “Happy New Year,” fully confident that the new president of their choice would bring to an end the nation’s economic problems and the fallout from them as well as heal other rifts in this once great nation.
However the problems have only grown worse as the following letter to our local newspaper reflects the serious depressive thinking of many people:
The Record – Opinion – A12 – February 5, 2009 – Letters Signs of the times are all around us “Every time I read the newspaper or watch the news on television, it is always depressing. Thousands of people are losing their jobs every day. Businesses are closing down. People are losing their homes; people are being evicted because they cannot pay their rent.
It appears that more people are committing suicide, killing either themselves or the whole family.
Our educational system is in shambles, food prices are going up, and California is facing a drought. Children are going hungry; health insurance is in turmoil. Natural disasters are costing us millions. The war in Iraq has broken this country. We are definitely headed for a depression and getting deeper and deeper in debt.
The Bible speaks of signs of the times, which there are seven years of plenty and seven years without. Well, America is in the without.” Name withheld.
The new president was sworn into the highest office of America with the greatest expectancies’ believing miracles would begin taking place by those who had voted for him on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. After the ceremony had taken place inaugural balls were held in all of the states, seven in Washington, DC.
Is History Repeating Itself?
Is there a possible connection with Nimrod of ancient history, the king of Babylon (Genesis 10:8-11), to the newly elected President of the United States? Mr. Ellis Washington, a noted writer of the president’s own race believes this to be true:
T
HE
REPORT FROM WASHINGTON, WORLDNETDAILY EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY, headlines
his article that was posted: January 17, 2009, 1:00 pm Eastern; ‘Just
call him 'President Nimrod'
(His article can be
read on the internet by using the research name of Nimrod.)
N
imrod
was also worshiped by the peoples of that time (Satan’s
Great Deception, page 20, Dr. C.
Paul Meredith) just as many people today do President Obama. Consider
the following statements at his inauguration:
“You feel like God is speaking to you", said one attendee at the inauguration.
"“The apostle Paul, Moses, John the Baptist – (he is like) any one of them. Seriously, he is like one of those apostles for our day. He came to lead us to the original design of what we are supposed to do on this earth.”Denzel Washington said.
"I would say that he
would be like Joshua going across to the Promised Land" said Don
King.
The theme for the 2009 Inauguration of Barack Obama was "A New Birth of Freedom," which honors the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth. When we consider where we are in time and the many monumental problems in this country the theme would be more appropriate to say, the real beginning of the end!
A very dark and ominous cloud settled down on this once great country on that day for added to all of the other laws of God that are continually being broken another one was broken when he was sworn into that highest office that had been forbidden by God!
“When you come to the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and possess it, and live in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me (Israel) like all the nations around me,’ you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses, one from among your brethren you shall set a king over you; you MAY NOT set a foreigner over you, who is NOT your brother” (Deuteronomy 17:14-15).
God, as the sovereign ruler of this universe; He either directly chooses the leaders to rule over nations or gives the people their choice to fit the kind of people they have come to be in their decadence (Daniel 4:17, 25, 32).
From what is being said on FOX News, as well as from others of the News Media, the new president has already begun taking away whatever real values that remain in this once great country.
All indications are this year will have begun paving the way for the real beginning of Jacob’s trouble:
Now these are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah. For thus says the LORD: “We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask now, and see, whether a man is ever in labor with child? So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor, and all faces turned pale? Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it; and it is the time of Jacob’s trouble” (Jeremiah 30:4-7).
For all of the same reasons we are now seeing calamity at the door! Jesus Christ spoke of the severity of it to His disciples: “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, NO FLESH would be saved; but for the ELECT’S SAKE those days will be shortened” (Matthew 24:21).
The previous few months of the year, 2008, foreshadowed what is now being seen in 2011! The ever increasing drought will bring this country and Britain into the beginning of the real gripping part of the famine and disease epidemics before much longer that have been prophesied to come down every hard on the House of Joseph.
The famine will also have an impact on the nations of the world, especially Europe. There is no question but that we are headed for rationing both in food and water.
As we consider the grave ongoing and progressing sins in this country, and the CURSE on us because of those sins, we should by way of analogy consider the fall of ancient Babylon—and realize we have entered the closing years—that are also tipping the scales to the fall of America with God’s handwriting on the wall: – ‘we have been weighed in the balances and found wanting’ (Daniel 5:1-30).
The real beginning of the end for America, Britain, and the other nations of Israel has begun, as God’s prophet makes know:
“. . . The end has come; it has DAWNED for you; behold it has come! . . . The time has come, the day draws near.” (Ezekiel 7:6, 12).
Like Babylon of old, the House of Israel will soon fall into the hands of the Beast Power in Europe, as did Babylon to the Medes and Persians.
T
rend
forecaster, renowned for being accurate in the past, says that
America will cease to be a developed nation within 4 years, crisis
will be “worse than the great depression”
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison
Planet.com
Thursday, November 13, 2008
The man who predicted the 1987 stock market crash and the fall of the Soviet Union is now forecasting revolution in America, food riots and tax rebellions – all within four years, while cautioning that putting food on the table will be a more pressing concern than buying Christmas gifts by 2012.
Gerald Celente, the CEO of Trends Research Institute, is renowned for his accuracy in predicting future world and economic events, which will send a chill down your spine considering what he told Fox News this week.
Celente says that by 2012 America will become an undeveloped nation, that there will be a revolution marked by food riots, squatter rebellions, tax revolts and job marches, and that holidays will be more about obtaining food, not gifts. . . .”
A previous writing of Mr. Celente: . . . “Now people are at the edge. They’re stressed out. Look, the Americans are the most depressed nation on the world already. They take more antidepressant drugs than anybody, plus the other kinds of drugs that they are taking. You’re going to see crime levels in America that are going to rival the third world. Welcome Mexico City. You’re going to start seeing people being kidnapped in this country like they do in other underdeveloped nations. So it’s going to be very violent in America.
It’s going to be a tax revolt. We’re going to start seeing a tax revolt in the United States. People are one job away from losing everything. We’re seeing more and more closures, people are being laid off. People are stretched to the limits. And what do they do in New York State? Some130 new taxes are being proposed, they’re raising sales taxes. There’s going to be a tax revolt in this country from property taxes first and school taxes second. That’s what we’re going to see start to happen . . .”
Martial Law
Due the lawless elements coming to be out of control and the collapse of society is close at hand, it is highly possible the president will declare a national emergency and bring about martial law.
I
n
that event elections would undoubtedly
be canceled and he would remain in office as well as all those in
Congress.
Recent news articles indicate there could also be racial riots that could tear the nation apart.
If this should occur—by observing what took place in previous years, the grocery stores would be looted along with the burning and destruction of many of the federal and state buildings. By looting and burning the grocery stores could put the people of this country into immediate need for food. This undoubtedly would result in Anarchy followed by the need for Martial Law!
Because of these and other grave problems, we are now seeing the prophesied calamity knocking at the door!
In view of these things, and in light of Bible prophecy—the end is almost here! What took place in the latter part of 2008, and worsened during the years of 2009 and 2010, paved the way for all of the final end-time events to begin falling into place that are now being seen! We are now seeing the fulfillment of Ezekiel 7 – “. . . disaster after disaster!”
And looming closely is the Great Tribulation and slavery for the peoples of Israel (Hosea 11:5-7; Joel 2:11).
Food Rationing
These predictions are based on the prevailing disastrous weather conditions that have paved the way to the record breakers of this year! With these accelerating problems in nature in evidence, and with end-time prophecy in mind, they undoubtedly will worsen with each year to follow until everything falls apart in this once great nation!
The real possibility of the reinstating of food rationing and other essential items could very well take place within the next two years just as it did during WWII.
Food
shortages will be much greater this time than in the1930s.
By reading the history of the 1930s and considering the pulse of society today, it can be easily seen there is a different spirit today than at that time. People would share with one another during those years and by doing so made it possible for the survival of virtually every one.
Not so today; people will use whatever means possible to obtain food at whatever the cost to his neighbor (Deuteronomy 28:53-57).
There seems to be no question but that martial law will have to be put in place and enforced as well.
The Rationing of Food Items
From the internet we find the items that were rationed during those war years:
“
Many
commodities,
such as meat, sugar, butter, coffee, gasoline, tires, shoes and
clothing were rationed. Local schools set up stations where people
could get their ration coupons (with teachers
handling the paperwork.) Each person
(regardless of age) received the same food
and clothing coupons. To purchase an item three things were needed:
the storekeeper had to have the item in the first place, the
purchaser had to have the cash, and had to have the coupons. With
half of all canned goods going to the military or to allies,
Americans turned to Victory Gardens, planting 20 million of them to
provide vegetables for their families.[3]
Most automobile drivers received coupons for 3 gallons per week;
those who could document special needs received extra gasoline
coupons. (There was plenty of gasoline; the rationing
was an efficient way to ration automobile tires, with rubber in very
short supply.) Bread, milk and beer were not rationed. People eating
in restaurants had to pay with cash and ration coupons.”
But rationing food this time would only be effective until the real severity of famine sets in. Then millions of people will really begin to be affected severely, especially so during the last six months. They will then seek any possible means to obtain it!
However,
just prior to this time God’s faithful people will leave for
the place of refuge a place He will have prepared
for them during this terrible coming time (Revelation 3:10; 12:14,
plus other Scriptures).
A Current Unfolding Problem
Of recent times the skyrocketing price of gasoline and diesel fuel seriously impacted the food chain, in particular, wheat. The exports of wheat to other countries, and corn being grown for ethanol placed a serious strain on the shopper. As the result, the price of food began to be felt by grocery shoppers.
Though the cost of fuel has dramatically dropped more recently the projections are that they will probably skyrocket in the very near future due to problems with major suppliers of oil such as Mexico.
Even though there yet remains a lower cost of fuels the cost of food continues to rise. The predictions are they will get worse as the following article makes known:
From The Sunday Times
February 24, 2008
A Prelude to Coming Times
“The scarcity of any and all foods could be felt within the next few months. In the meantime the cost of it has increased in the last few months and is being felt by the consumer.
Many are investing their money in gold, silver, and other areas to enable them to survive this coming time financially. However one cannot eat silver or gold. Food will come to be the most valuable possession one can possibly possess.
A
nd
starving people will pay any price for it as well as taking whatever
extreme measures that is felt to be necessary to obtain it.”
Though most people do not realize it, we live continually on the edge of critically hard and trying times!
With an ongoing close relationship with our Creator God there should also be absolute faith to believe our needs will be provided just as they have been in past ages with God’s true people.
Once our individual storage is exhausted then we can know God will be there for us. He will not forsake His true, loyal, and faithful people;
“Behold the eyes of the LORD is on those who fear Him, on those who hope in His mercy, to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine” (Psalm 33:18-19; Psalm 34:8-10;; 37:18-19; Matthew 28:20; Hebrews 13:5-6).
As
can be seen from these Scriptures, the real preparation that must be
made above all else is to have a much closer and ongoing relationship
with our God. If we have it then we can trust in Him to take care of
us in whatever way He chooses.
T
his
could even be the raining of manna from heaven above or having ravens
bring it to us, or a flour bin and an oil container that will never
fail, or whatever other source God will make available to us.
However before we reach the point of no food to be found anywhere and having trust in God to provide it, He expects us to be doing our part in whatever we can for ourselves now.
Sadly,
there are Church of God members in other places who are like the
proverbial ostrich. They are hiding their heads in the sand, thinking
there is no cause for concern!
A real Bible student should know that God through prophecy enables His true and loyal people to FORESEE THE EVIL, before it comes to pass, and then make known the need to take the necessary precautions, just as the government has been seriously advising the people to do.
A Real Pressing Need
If we really grasped how close this is to becoming reality, undoubtedly everyone would be preparing themselves more fully by drawing closer to God. For it is only through our Father and His beloved Son Jesus Christ that we will have our needs provided while witnessing the deaths of multiple millions of people all around us (Psalm 91:4-11)!
It is very sad to realize it is going to impact all people, including your families, as well as mine, but we must have faith that Jesus Christ will be merciful to them because of our faithfulness to Him.
To be continued—
Your servant and friend,
Don Billingsley
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