Has The Rider On The Black Horse Been Loosed, Is Famine Coming To All The World?

Revelation 6:5-6

5. 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 balances in his hand.

6. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

I received this via e-mail this morning from A New Zealand Pastor Andrew Strom:

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"If you are wondering why your grocery bill keeps creeping up, the answer may have to do more with the weather than anything else. You see, drought conditions are now plaguing the globe.

China is experiencing its worst drought in 50 years and is stockpiling food, because the government knows it has to feed 20 percent of the world's populations with only 10 percent of the world's arable land.

In Australia things haven't been this bad in 117 years, as rainfall has been below normal since 2002.

In Africa, water scarcity has depleted soil moisture to the point that the continent has lost the nutrients needed to grow plants in half of its agricultural soil.

In South America, Argentina has not had significant rainfall since November.

Brazil's corn harvest is down 15.5 percent and Uruguay has declared an agricultural emergency.

In short, it's getting ugly.

What about here in the US?

It's a mixed bag. Drought is spreading through California, Washington, Montana, and Minnesota. Fifteen percent of Texas is in extreme drought, and the Carolinas and Georgia need rain desperately. The midwest is doing OK though. And while no one thinks that we're on the verge of mass starvation, depending on how severe this drought is, we could see crop yields world wide fall 20 percent this year.

We will see prices rise, and here is another reason why, governments know that when people get hungry, they often times get violent. You might remember the food riots in Mexico last year.

So it's not just China that is stockpiling food... of course hoarding takes more food off the open market, which pushes prices up.

The credit crunch is hurting farmers as well. Last year, a lack of credit impinged on farmers' ability to obtain seeds, equipment, and fertilizer." End Quote