Third Horseman of the Apocalypse in Vasnetov’s 1887 painting (Wikipedia)

Many are struggling in the USA to pay for food:

Data: More families having a hard time affording food
November 15, 2023
Jussane Goodman with the Phoenix Rescue Mission says the high cost of living and soaring food prices have amplified the number of people coming to them for help, forcing families to make difficult choices.
“The choice of paying their rent, the choice of putting gas into their vehicles,” she said.
High inflation and expiring pandemic-related assistance have more people turning to food assistance, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Numbers show that 17 million households reported not being able to afford enough food last year. That’s a sharp increase from the year before and even 2020. …
Goodman says long gone are the days when food banks were solely helping families in emergency situations. Now, they’re sustaining them.
“There has definitely been an apparent increase in families who are coming to receive and uptick post-pandemic,” she said. https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/data-more-families-having-a-hard-time-affording-food

There have been reports that inflation is down. Earlier this week, however, I heard a piece on the radio stating that the problem for many to afford food is not the current official inflation rate, but the prices of the food. A reduction is the rate of inflation does not mean that prices drop–only that they are not rising as fast as they were.

There are also reasons to consider that prices will go up even faster in the future–and more than just those in the USA will be affected.

Michael Snyder had the following reports:

November 14, 2023
Conditions Are “Drier Than The Dust Bowl Years” In The Heartland Of America
The seemingly endless drought in the heartland of America is not going to be good for food production. For years, I have been relentlessly warning my readers that Dust Bowl conditions would return to the middle of the country. And now, Dust Bowl conditions have returned to the middle of the country.
According to drought. gov, half of the Midwest is experiencing drought right now, and things are particularly dire in the state of Iowa…
94% of Iowa is currently in drought, with 24% in extreme drought (D3). Despite decent improvement over the last month, drought is still impacting 68% of Wisconsin and 58% of Minnesota.
Needless to say, the heartland of America produces much of our food.
So it should deeply concern all of us that communities all over the Midwest are starting to run out of water…
Despite all of our advanced technology, we remain highly vulnerable to shifting weather patterns.
And at this moment we are being told that some parts of Iowa are literally “drier than the Dust Bowl years”…
Two counties in Iowa have had the driest three-year period on record, going back at least to the 1890s, he said.
“Drier than the Dust Bowl years,” he said.
Dozens of other communities are “carefully watching well levels and streams,” Hall said, “trying to make sure they don’t end up in the same situation as Belle Plaine or Osceola,” which are experiencing water shortages.
As a result of the extremely dry conditions, major dust storms are becoming increasingly common in the Midwest. …
The lack of precipitation is also causing enormous headaches all along the Mississippi River, and authorities are warning that this is not likely to change any time soon…
And considering the fact that so much of our food is transported on vessels that use the Mississippi River, this is a big problem for all of us.
Of course drought is just one of the factors that has been depressing food production in this nation. Overall, natural disasters “caused $21.5 billion in agricultural losses” in the United States last year…
Research from the American Farm Bureau Federation suggests that nationwide, natural disasters caused $21.5 billion in agricultural losses last year. Only about half of those were protected by insurance, the majority of which is sold through federally-backed programs. Their payouts to farmers have increased over 500 percent in the last two decades.
That number is almost certainly going to be even larger this year.
And this is one of the reasons why food prices are going to continue to go up no matter what our leaders choose to do. https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/conditions-are-drier-than-the-dust-bowl-years-in-the-heartland-of-america/
September 20, 2023
Hundreds of millions of people are desperately hungry all over the world, and by the time you are done reading this article more children will starve to death. Earlier this year, CNN actually admitted that we are in the midst of “the worst food crisis in modern history”, but because the mainstream media rarely features images of the tremendous suffering on the other side of the globe most Americans don’t even know that it is happening. Here in the western world, the primary way that the global food crisis is manifesting is through significantly higher prices at the grocery store. Those higher prices are certainly painful, but we can deal with that. But when you don’t have enough food to feed your family on a consistent basis, that really is a nightmare scenario. According to the official UN website, 735 million people were in a “state of chronic hunger” last year…
By 2022, approximately 735 million people – or 9.2% of the world’s population – found themselves in a state of chronic hunger – a staggering rise compared to 2019. This data underscores the severity of the situation, revealing a growing crisis.
In addition, an estimated 2.4 billion people faced moderate to severe food insecurity in 2022. This classification signifies their lack of access to sufficient nourishment. This number escalated by an alarming 391 million people compared to 2019.
The persistent surge in hunger and food insecurity, fueled by a complex interplay of factors, demands immediate attention and coordinated global efforts to alleviate this critical humanitarian challenge.
We have never seen numbers like this before.
And the final numbers for 2023 will inevitably be even higher, because crops are failing all over the planet. …
Unfortunately, we are still only in the very early stages of this new global food crisis.
Multiple long-term trends will combine to make it impossible for us to feed everyone on the planet in the years ahead.
Our politicians know this, but they are being very quiet about our rapidly growing food crisis because they don’t want to alarm the general population.
But there will be no escape. Hundreds of millions will not have enough food to eat tonight, and it won’t be too long before the number of people that are facing chronic hunger exceeds a billion. https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/this-is-the-worst-global-food-crisis-in-modern-history-and-it-is-about-to-go-to-an-entirely-new-level/

Jesus warned:

6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. (Matthew 24:6-8)

Famines and food price inflation are consistent with Jesus’ words.

Notice that the ride of third horseman of the Apocalypse results in scarcity, inflation, and famine. Revelation 6:5-6 indicates that there will be food, but that it will be quite expensive (food-price inflation).

5 When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 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.” (Revelation 6:5-6)

Some will thus die as they will not be able to afford it, while others will survive but struggle.

What about the Anglo-American nations? The old Worldwide Church of God published the following:

The black horseman’s future ride will reduce the proud faces of white America, Europe, and the British Common wealth into the blackened skin of starvation such as now afflicts the vast majority of mankind. (Alexander G. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Ambassador College Press, Pasadena (CA), 1973, p. 31)

Expect more food inflation. And yes, there will be famines as well.

It is also wise to take physical steps:

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard!
Consider her ways and be wise,
7 Which, having no captain,
Overseer or ruler,
8 Provides her supplies in the summer,
And gathers her food in the harvest.
9 How long will you slumber, O sluggard?
When will you rise from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to sleep —
11 So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler,
And your need like an armed man. (Proverbs 6:6-11).

All who can afford it should, just for emergencies, have a week or two worth of food and water in case of emergencies and supply cutoffs. God’s statement about ants is intended to tell us to take proper physical steps.

However, do not deceive yourself that if you have several years supply of food, you will thrive while others starve.

Starving people will look for anything to eat–many will be willing to violently take food. Many, also, will be willing to actually eat other people as well.

As far as cannibalism goes, we put out the following video on our Bible News Prophecy YouTube channel:

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Cannibalism is prophesied!
Recently, various ones have been looking into encouraging cannibalism as a way to help reduce climate change? Is cannibalism safe for humans? What is Kuru? What about Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease? Is cannibalism ethical? Should Christians avoid uncleanness? What does the Bible teach about the consumption of flesh? How does the Bible teach Christians should be holy? What was Solyent Green? Is it being advocated now? Is human cannibalism prophesied in the Bible? Will famine hit the Anglo-American lands and peoples? What can you do to not have part in it? Is human cannibalism really prophesied? Dr. Thiel addresses these issues and more.

Here is a link to our video: Cannibalism is prophesied!

Related mainly to food issues, we also put together the following related video:

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3rd Horseman of the Apocalypse and Food
There are reports about food price inflation around the world. While it is worsening in many areas, some believe it will improve in 2023. Instead, could prices continue to rise in 2023 and get much worse in 2024 and thereafter? What are the causes of food price inflation? Is there any connection between weather, government policies, fertilizer prices, energy costs, economic sanctions and food price inflation? What are we seeing in reports from the United Kingdom, Hungary, and South Africa? What about impacts from Russia’s ‘special military operation’ into Ukraine? Could EU and/or USA policies be effecting any of this? Is the ‘black horse’ the one associated with famine, food shortages, and food price inflation in the Book of Revelation? Are there any physical lessons we can learn from ants according to the Book of Proverbs? What are some spiritual steps we should take according to Jesus? Dr. Thiel and Steve Dupuie address these matters and more.

Here is a link to our video: 3rd Horseman of the Apocalypse and Food.

We are getting to the end of the 6,000 years that God has allowed humans to rule themselves, which will soon be followed by the 1,000-year reign of Christ. Pray for Jesus to return and God’s Kingdom to come (Matthew 6:10).

Remember that Jesus said:

34 “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. 35 For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.” (Luke 21:34-36)

Do not be part of those who will not be ready. God, not humans, has a plan that will work.

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